4th of July

For the 4th of we had a small gathering of friends and family
Steve, Kathy, Gramma Lueck, Mark & Nancy.
Mark was smoking the ribs, We ate out on the patio, it was a beautiful day. We also had our homemade Root Beer. It came out good. we were very happy with the results.

"The Bird Feeder"

Gramma Lueck and me... eating at the "Bird Feeder" in Twin Brooks, SD In the picture you can see behind us a evergreen tree decorated and shelves. They have new and used items and all sorts of decorations and everything for sale.

The ladies we went with are left Irene, from Manitoba,Canada and Tammy from church.
Tammy invited us to go with her and her friend and we are so glad we did.

Here is a picture of the food. (I know its too close but I posted it anyway.)
Everything you see on the plates are home made. My sandwich was made with cranberry bread, never had it but it was good. The chips were,a spinach they other corn. The Food was as good as it looks! The presentation beautiful! It was so fun a very slow paced lunch. This is definitely a place we will go again. You even got dessert which gramma loved, she had (home made) peach pie. I had the coconut cream yum,yum.

Gramma Lueck"s 87th Birthday

I know this looks like a pathetic Birthday Cake, but it is Carrot Cake which she wanted. We had a potluck so used half and made into bars for that (took care of two deserts at the same time). Beside we just don't eat a whole cake anymore. At least she got what she wanted, Right?

Making Root beer

As you can see I still can't put my pictures in order, But June 18th my friend Kathy and I made Root beer. we put it in bottles and tried a 2 liter method. All you do is buy the Root beer extract,yeast,sugar,water. and bottle. here we are filling, and putting the lids on. and oh ya Gramma sampling which she can't taste so she thinks its good. of course their is no carbination yet. hopefully in two weeks. I will let you know how it works hopefully it will be ready for the 4th of July.

Canning,new garden planted, kitchen

I just took a picture of the flowers we will be planting on Memorial Day. It has become the tradition to plant these flowers on both sides of the drive way. This year we decided to try all one color. (hot pink) There are many other other flowers shown that will be put into baskets and planters.

Our trees are now in the 3rd year of growth. I just love the flowers and colors it adds.

This is the Red Raspberries bushes we planted this year we have 30 bushes. There is 6 different varieties. I heard once you get these going there as bad as weeds. but oh how good they will be.

We added beams in the kitchen ceilings for accent

This is our Strawberry Garden... We planted 3 varieties of Strawberries, 25 plants each....we have an early,middle and late season. we will be eating strawberries all summer long. strawberry pie, strawberry jam. and frozen for the winter months. yum,yum.

This is my first attempt of canning asparagus. I think it turned out. we will see when we try some. We especially like to make Asparagus Soup.

This is our Asparagus Patch or row, I should say, right now your are looking at the 75 feet we planted 3 years ago. It is really starting to produce.

we have picked 3 times so far this year. the last two time have been about 4 lbs each picking. my last picking is what I canned. I realize it takes a lot of Asparagus to put into one quart jar. We also planted this year in the same row 25 more feet of Asparagus.

Todd graduating from the Police Academy

Todd officially sworn in and graduated. way to go Todd!!!

Todd getting his badge pinned on and a hand shake

This academy was one of the largest groups they have had so far. They are also the first group to have a 4 month training schedule.(which makes mom happy) and extra classes in commuinication skills and domestic abuse problems.

misc. pictures.

Ashley,Layla.Me and Kelli. The Girls rode down together to visit with mom. I sure enjoyed it.

Robbie is now manger at the Goo Goo Car Wash

Kingston and London came to see Gramma and Grampa at the Condo.