It's Been a YEAR!

The kids are adults and "D", and I are terribly boring. I thought the family blogging days were over.  But one of the "kids" requested that I keep going.  Also, I have a new phone coming and when I started saving photos, I discovered that we have done a few things over the last year.  I mean, my camera roll is 30% pictures of the pets, 30% screen shots I send to friends, and 25% photos of clothes I send to my daughter who replies, "that's nice but not for me thanks".  

My only pet well behaved enough to go out in public.

Old folks...we don' have much else going on so eating becomes very important.  I'm proud to present the first tomato sandwich of the year...y'all that's a BIG piece of bread and a monster tomato.

I'm still working to prefect my pizza game using last year's Christmas present. When It's a 30 min drive to a halfway decent restaurant...cooking becomes very important.

First tomato haul of the summer.

My daughters' flowers look better than mine, I need to up my game

These are ALL Brads Atomic Tomatoes.  I need a tomato geneticist to explain the difference to me.  Needless to say, I saved some seeds from these to see what those period variations will produce next summer. The ones on the left are the way they usually look.  One the right I have two variations that I've never seen before. 

If you aren't a day hiker, you may not know that it is common for folks to create a hiking stick and leave it at the trail head for others to use.  But dude...this pole is very tall.  Galdolf maybe?

This was our first bear encounter while hiking.  This trail is deep in the Cohutta Wilderness, so it makes sense.  Luckily, we are very loud hikers...he had plenty of warning to skedaddle.  Fall is the time when mama bear tells some of her kiddos to get lost.  Those juvenile males act not unlike teenage boys in the fall...they are always up to something and rarely where they should be.

These tropical beauties were quite a Suprise.  We rescued some flowers from the Walmart clearance area, and they did nothing all summer till September-then bam!  Tropics in Georgia

Food Truck Tuesday

Another pretty tomato haul.

Silly tomato

Pretty quiche but it wasn't good. 

This is a temperate hibiscus, and it comes back every year.

The blooms are the size of a dinner plate

Grew some heirloom polish garlic.  

That isn't a lot more than I started with ha-ha.  But I think I will grow some again.

Found my grandpas old pocketknives (I didn't even get the good ones)