Father's Day Musings

Today is Father's Day, and most fathers will get phone calls expressing love, appreciation, etc. They will be taken to dinner, given gifts, and honored in a variety of ways. My home is no different.
But, I thought that I would express, here, in this blog, why I'm glad that I'm a father.
So, the TOP TEN reasons why I'm glad that I'm a father.

10

I got to hold three precious lives on their very first birthdays.

9

Helping them to take their very first steps.

8

 Seeing their excitement on their first day of school.

7

 Watching them get their first hit in softball or first basket in basketball.

6

Getting that drivers license.

5

  Watching them grow into beautiful, educated, independent young women.

4

Seeing them make good choices.

3

 Serving their Lord and Savior.

2

 Grandchildren.

1

I'm married to their mother.

7114 - What Mama Wants ...

You've all heard of the saying, what Mama wants, Mama gets. Well Mama wanted frost protection. The weather guessers (as a friend calls them) predicted frost tonight and tomorrow.  So, we covered a number of the plants. The first picture, Figure 1, shows some of the plants in our "bush" garden. We covered the tree peonies, a rhododendron, and two fig trees. (Mama loves figs.) The flowering plant in the middle is an azalea.

 Figure 1.

In figure 2,  you can see 5 of our 8 "new" blueberries covered with sheets. To the right is our strawberry bed - covered with a plastic drop cloth which we bought from LOWE'S just for this occasion.

 Figure 2.

Not everything got covered. In the last picture, Figure 3, is our two oldest (about 22 yrs.) blueberries. They'll have to tuff it out.

Figure 3.

I, also, put out my hi-low thermometer to see just how cold it will get.

Its always fun at 7114.

7114- garden helpers

Occasionally, the yard work gets overwhelming. Too much to do in a short time. When this happens, and it happens more and more these days, I get extra help.  Here are some before and after pictures of some of my helpers and their work.

 The border of vinca around the drive way.

 The new blueberry bed.

 

 One of the daylily beds.

 I get tired watching all that work. I think that I'll go take a nap. :)