The Rockin G and B

Sunday, June 3, 2012

What? Two Posts in One Day?

Yep, too many photos to put all in one post. You know how I like to tell our stories with lots of photos!

So, remember we told you about these great guard dogs for keeping away deer, rabbits, armadillos, raccoons, etc. from our garden?
Hmmm, not so great after all...

...we had put up our first batch of refrigerator pickles...

...when we noticed about a week later we weren't producing anymore cucumbers...so we thought...it turns out our guard dogs a.k.a. "Scruffy and Buddy" were helping themselves to the cucumbers.

I caught them red handed the other day,
this is how the conversation went:

Me: "Hey guys, what are you doing? Is that a cucumber you have there!!!?"

Guard Dogs: "Cucumber? What cucumber?"

Me: "THIS cucumber, with the bite marks in it!"

Scruffy (turns to Buddy): "Hey Buddy, do you know
anything about a cucumber?"

Buddy: "Hmm, umm, well, (clears throat) I dooooon't know"

Me: "You better tell me the truth or else!"

Buddy: "Sorry mom, we won't do it again"

Scruffy: "Yea, sorry mom. Buddy made me do it!"

Me: "Wait until your father gets home!"

AND THEN last night something broke into the yard and mowed down

the first two rows of our potted tomato plants!

Where were the guard dogs? Sleeping on the job, thats where!

No more leaves

So now what do we do about the guard dogs eating all our cucumbers and sleeping on the job!?

Who is going to guard them?

These guys?

We think not, too lazy...

...these guys?

Ahh yes, no one dare get by them!

Just joking Scruffy and Buddy, you can have the cucumbers.

As the plants grow up the trellis you won't be able to reach them anyway!

Speaking of pickling, we also tried pickling radishes. They were not bad.

My flower garden continues to do well.

I really enjoy having fresh cut flowers!

And finally, we will be hosting an "Outdoor Movie Night" for the Junction boys on Friday. This will be their end of school year party. I have wanted to do an outdoor movie night for several years now and we are finally going to it! Yesterday we bought a nice projector and Gerald figured out the set up. We hung Tevek paper we had left over to serve as a screen. It worked out great! The two of us sat out on the lawn last night and watched a movie. It was awesome! We are going to transform our backyard into a sort of drive-in movie atmosphere including a concession stand. I can't wait! We look forward to hosting outdoor movie nights through the summer and into the fall for our friends and family!

Here is a sneak peak, I took these pictures this morning. Since we brought in all the equipment last night I will have to post pictures of the full set up next week.

This is where we sat last night watching our movie

Thanks for Rockin with us!

Downed Tree Part Three and a Bride To Be

Two weekends ago while away in Albuquerque attending my niece Cassondra's bridal shower, Gerald was busy turning the downed tree trunk into benches. He has one finished, two to go.

Speaking of Cassondra's bridal shower here is the beautiful bride to be with her future mother in-law Connie and her momma Jan (my little sis)

Connie, Cassondra, Jan

Here she is with her Auntie's

Auntie Joie, Cassondra, Auntie Brenda

Cassondra with her Auntie Linda (her dad Ted's sister)

Connie and her daughter Rebecca (Cassondra's future sister in-law) did an awesome job with all the food! Our Rebecca, (Cassondra's little sis) was co-hostess with Pete's (groom) sister Rebecca. Did you get all that? So, Rebecca and Rebecca were the co-hostesses of the bridal shower.

They did an awesome job!

Rebecca, Cassondra, Rebecca

Here are a few more photos of the fun filled event!

Monday, May 14, 2012

Join Us on the Porch

Pull up a chair and rock with us a spell. Here is what has been happening at the Rockin G and B:

Recent thunderstorms finished off the other half of our downed tree (see our last entry). Luckily it just "rested" on the roof and did not do any damage. Gerald had to cut most of the limbs off standing on the roof which made me VERY nervous. Once he got most of the weight off the roof he was able to pull the rest of the tree down with the tractor.

Tree resting on the roof

Lumberjack

I was not liking this...too close to the edge!

Throwing limbs off the roof

Help from tractor to get it down

The same storm damaged another large oak on the other side of the house. Sadly this tree has been dying a slow death. We have been losing large limbs from this tree over the past year. Gerald cut it down as much as he could. He will have to rent a lift to reach the rest of it.

If there is a good side to losing these beautiful trees it is all the oak wood

we have for our future pizza oven!

Buuuunnnnnkkkkkkooooo!

I hosted our end of year Bunko night this past Thursday. I planned a picnic theme but it rained so I had to move the picnic inside. We played out on the porch and it turned out to be a lovely evening.

Gerald was a big help as was Harley (in red shirt) our "Bunko Mascot".