Garden Demise

Our beautiful garden had a major setback yesterday. The hail came and went in about 10 minutes but managed to do it's share of damage. I went over this morning to take a few pictures. It is really muddy and wasn't able to get many up-close shots and tried to zoom in on some of them. All in all, however, I thought things looked some better than right after the storm. So many of the plants had had blossoms on and so I'm not sure that the plants will recover enough to produce more in time to give us any kind of crop this year. Everything that I have read says that we need to give it a few days to recover before assessing damage and deciding whether to replant. So I guess that is where we are at. Maybe we will manage to get the follage back but who knows about the "fruits". The tomatoes look better but no longer have any blossoms. Their stems look pretty sturdy and unbroken so I guess that is good. We are thankful that we had put them in cages just 3 days before. I think that helped them to "weather the storm".
The peas also looked better today but are all layed over. I hope if we stake them up and mound them with dirt (when it dries out) that they will be able to still produce. I was so looking forward to new potatoes and peas.

The corn is a bit wilted but I hope it will survive, too. This is the first that we had planted. They still needed to be thinned and hopefully we can take out the worse of the seedlings and still have them make it ok. The later rows were just coming up so I think they will be fine.

The rest of the garden: cucumbers, zucchini, hubbard squash, cantaloupe, watermellon, etc., are pretty well beaten. Pictures below are of those vegetables but after taking the pictures I wasn't able to identify all of them. Kind of like a "vegie salad".

I think this is hubbard squash???

Cantaloupe maybe??

Zucchini?

Anyway, it gives you an idea of what is left. A little discouraging if you put them up to the pictures posted a week or so ago.

It would be easier if we knew what to do ...... replant or not to replant .... that is the question!

Garage Sale Weekend!

We all got together to have a "multi-family" garage sale on Friday and Saturday. It was a ton of work but it was also lots of fun to be together and to see how much "junk" we could sell!

We did pretty well! Kristen, Amanda and Niccole brought their "goods" and put them together. Kindra came from Pocatello to help and then there were all of the kids. Josh and Jenicca are always good help!

Jarom, Noah and Brigham had a refreshment table with lots of yummy things to sell. They had everything from cinnamon rolls, rice crispy treats and "Fruit by the Inch" to homemade lemonade and root beer.

AND THEN WE HAD OUR MODELS:

On the modeling runway we have Matt in very "classy Valentine" boxers along with a matching leather top (jacket)! The sunglasses are a great summer accessory!

Jarom chose the same boxers but accessorized them with glass heals and a sporty billed hat.

Next, we find Josh in his "super-hero", super-tight boxers and all ready to conquer the universe!

Kindra gets in the action by modeling one of Grandad's late 1960's, early 1970's stylish sweaters.

Matt returns in his very pink Grandad's sweater with his "Speedo" swim shorts! Very good with his coordination of colors!

The Fashion Show had all of us laughing and having a great time!

We even included some mighty "fine" demonstration of products from our sale.

Just demonstrating a workout on the cardio glide!

Brigham and Matt show how "cool" it is to ride on Grandpa's scooter .... which is also for sale.

The scooter is even more fun with Amanda.

Juliana does her part showing off the toys and stuffed animals. She wasn't so happy about letting her toy duck (which was placed in the garage sale) find a new home with another little girl, though. She ran to tell her mom, "That little girl is stealing my duck!"

Kristen and Jenicca work the checkout stand.

After two days all of us were pretty tired and a few of us even a bit silly. But we had a fun time and are already talking about the next family garage sale in the fall!!!

Even though it was a busy, busy weekend .... Grandma and "Hot Chocolate Buddy" managed to make it to Starbucks for the traditional hot chocolate treat. Hi-C managed to get most of it on his face and shirt! But that is what makes it SO good!! "Baboo" wanted to be in the picture, too. I have such cute grandkids .... all, soon to be 20, of them!!