It's July Already

The month of June totally got away from me. Sorry for no posts lately. We are headed up to Schweitzer Mt. for the 4th of July. They have fireworks on the mountain and over the lake. I am looking forward to that. I am also looking forward to swimming in the lake with the boys. Darius is hilarious, he runs forward into the water and just flops face first. He has no idea how to swim so we have to fish him out all the time.

On the gardening front: Most of the seeds I planted prior to June didn't make it. We replanted a couple of days ago, mainly because I wanted to give the ones I had planted the benefit of the doubt, but nope they had a big FAIL stamped on them. It sucks, because most likely we wont get any return from the plants until late Aug. What did make it you ask; lettuce, spinach, zucchini, corn (but once again it is not growing very well), tomatoes, cilantro, carrots, a couple of snow peas, and broccoli. What didn't make it; green beans, basil, squash, cucumbers, and pumpkins. I was really looking forward to the squash and pumpkins too! I replanted squash, peas, and green beans. We will see how they do. Hopefully, they will take off and start giving us some veggies in a month and a half.

I don't know what to do for next year. I am tossing around the idea of creating a shelter/green house over the garden beds. This would increase the temp of the soil and keep the cold spring winds off the starts and seedlings. The down side is that it would be harder to water while the shelter is in place, I might have to set up an elaborate drip irrigation system. Could be fun though once it is all working, HA!

We are going to Portland next week to visit Joline, Brenden and Lowic. We are going to visit the zoo and go to the coast. Brenden and Joline got a place for us to stay at on the beach! Fun, fun, I am looking forward to some good seafood.

Snow in June?

Yup, snow in June. It snowed the other day, for about 6 hours in the morning. I heard on the news that this was the latest snow fall recorded in Pullman history. I am a little worried about my garden, but I think it will be OK. The temp was actually well above freezing and the snow did not sick for long.

Crazy Pullman weather!

The Hawaii Weekend

I am back from Hawaii. I am not sunburned and I loved the place. I think just about everyone does. The big island has so much to do, I feel like I could have stayed another week and still missed out on something fun.

ViviAnne arrived on Thursday night and we spent the next day around the resort and town of Kona. We had lunch at the pool and did a little swimming before we headed into town for some shopping and food. We ended up eating at Bubba Gumps Shrimp Company, which was pretty fun. There are a ton of little shops and farmers markets to buy stuff at, so we got most of our gift for people that first day ViviAnne was there.

On Saturday we headed south to the City of Refuge. This is a native village that the royal family occupied a couple of hundred years ago. It was a place of refuge for warriors and law breakers. If you could make it to the city and jump over the big volcanic rock wall that surrounded it you would be safe and the priests there would purify you and you could then go back to your village. If you didn't make it over the wall they killed you.

After the City of Refuge we took a tour to the top of Mt. Mona Kea. It is almost 14000 feet high and is the best place on the planet to view the stars. There are 13 telescopes at the top of the mountain. We had dinner and watched the sun set. Then we did a little star gazing and had a little star talk. Not as good as Mike and Josh but with the 13 inch telescopes we could see a lot more.

On Sunday we hit the beach, Hapuna beach to be exact. One of the nicest beaches in the world and it was in a word perfect. Crystal clear aqua marine water, fine grain white sand, sunny and warm. After a couple of dips in the ocean and rests on the beach we drove east across the island to Watpio Valley and Akaka Falls. Two fantastic views.

Monday we lounged around to hotel until checkout and then went back to Kona to shop a little more and have dinner at sunset on the ocean. We flew out late Monday night and got home Tuesday around 3:00PM. It was a great weekend with ViviAnne.