Our Greenhouse!

How do you like our greenhouse? It looks so nice!

Well...it is missing a few hoops, not to mention end walls, or even plastic, tables, heaters... But, it does have plenty of venilation and fresh air and you don't have to worry about opening the door to get in! Okay, we do have some work to do.

These pictures were taken last week when Jonathan and Ben were working on it. I walked out to take some pictures and saw Randy enjoying looking over his domain and royal subjects.

My brother, Tim, has had a couple greenhouses for several years and grew plants for a nursery down the road. We would start the greenhouse up usually by the first of April and would finish by the end of May. It was alot of work doing all the transplanting and watering, always thinking of the greenhouse when the sun came out and I had to go open the side vents to keep it from getting too warm inside. When Tim took his greenhouses after he got married I didn't think I would miss it. After I had thought about it for awhile though, I did. I would miss playing in the dirt, spending days out in the sunshine transplanting those tiny seedlings and the weeks of watching them grow. So when we found a greenhouse this fall, I was glad. : )

So, now we are getting it up and ready for the end of the month. Jonathan has been doing alot of work with it. Below he is putting up the purloins that hold the hoops together. Some of the hoops were leaning quite a bit.

Jonathan: "Oh, no. Not the camera!' : )

Ben getting ready on the ladder.




Yesterday, a tractor trailer backed up the driveway and dropped off the plastic and other supplies.





As soon as the calendar turned to March, the geese started to return. Somewhere between 6pm and 7pm, we'll be sitting down to dinner and all of a sudden we can hear the geese. We gather at the windows or door and watch them. It seems that all at once, the geese decide to go back to the swamp together. Everywhere you look there are thousands of geese flying north to the swamp. It is fun to go up on the hill out back as you can look all across the horizon and see geese. We never grow tired of it.

America's Eagles

It feels good to get back to blogging again. We have had a nasty flu go through our house so this post is rather late.

We got quite a snow storm last weekend with a foot of snow. Now it is in the 50's out and we are enjoying being able to go out in short sleeves. Ahh, wonderful spring air! This morning I saw a bluebird and two robins sweetly singing that it is now spring. There are thousands of geese that are honking that it's spring, too. : )

Almost two weeks ago we had a warm day and Daddy took Jonathan and I along with some of the Brocketts over to see the eagles nest. We set up the scope and focused in at the nest. There was one eagle sitting on a branch just above the nest and after looking for a bit we saw the second eagle sitting on the nest. I took a couple pictures of them by putting my little digital camera up to the scope. They didn't turn out too clear, but at least you can recognize the eagle a little. : )

Trying to get the camera in just the right place... : )

The lighting was not good so I had to lighten it on the picture program, but it didn't come out good. : ( Can you find the second eagle in this picture?

This is looking at where the nest is from the lookout point next to the road. The small white arrow is pointing to the nest.

This picture is one that my dad took a couple years ago of the young eagles in the nest. The tree it sits in is in the middle of a swamp so Dad, Mom, Jonathan, Ben, and I took the canoes and paddled out to the tree. That was alot of fun!