Family Reunion by the Locks & Dam

My Family Reunion on my dad's side was on last Saturday. Took some pictures and thought I'd post a few of them on my blog. It was held at the park by the Greenup, Ky locks and dam. I took some pictures of the locks and dam near by and a boat on the Ohio river. The last picture is my aunt and her daughters that live in Ohio. We had fun.

Swap Update: My Halloween/Fall swap buddy got my box I sent out on Monday. She really liked what I sent her. Her nick-name on OLS was Knitu1 and here is what she had to say about what I sent her:

Pair of Halloween Socks: LOVE EM!! (one daughter tried to lay claim to them already!! tee hee)Gel/Sparkly Lights Ink Pens -- gonna rock my snail mails with these!!! Jar Candle -- YUMMMY SCENT so PERFECTLY ME!!! A Gourd from his personal garden - It's going to be part of my dining table decorations! A Variety Box of Teas I'm going to have some wonderful relaxing moments with a nice hot cup of tea and a book or some knitting - PERFECT PERFECT!!!Dove Milk Chocolate Promises -- a girl's idea of a slice of heaven!!HUGE Hershey Chocolate Bar -- gonna have to share this with my gluten free son - only chocolate he can eat! He's gonna be over the moon!!!!Reese's Halloween Peanut Butter Pumpkins -- MY FAVORITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gotta hide these babies! Their MINE I tell ya - all MINE!!

My dad just had knee replacement surgery Tuesday and he's in a lot of pain. Please keep him in your prayers for a fast recovery. Thanks...Matt

Halloween - Fall Swap Update - 01

Yea!!, Got my OLS swap buddy name and mailing info yesterday. Got a lady from New York. I'm not going to post anymore info on her in case she reads my blog. It's a secret swap and I don't want her to fine out who I am until she get my stuff I going to send her. I plan on getting stuff this weekend before my dad goes for knee replacement surgery next week.

Going to keep updating my blog about this swap. Hope to get my box of goodies soon...Matt

Peaches, Blackberries and a Happy Hen

Thought I post some pictures of some more stuff growing and living around my house.

I posted a few months ago a picture of my dad's peaches growing but they where mostly green then. Here is new pictures of them, bigger and starting to ripening. There is also some blackberry bushes close to our garden that has berries on them. I took a few pictures of some of the berries for you to see.

Also there's a small gray chicken in our yard. It's one of my brother's chickens. It decided to come from next door at his house to live down here with us. My mom feeds it bird seed from time to time and it's seems to be a very nice and happy little hen. I usually name the chickens that hang out in my yard. I need to think of a name for her. I named the last two hens "Thelma & Louise" from the movie with the same name, that use to come by here to hang out.

-Matt-

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Goldfish Rescue

About a month ago I was outside walking around enjoying the weather when I walked toward our storage building. I seen my dad packing around a white bucket. I asked him what he had in the bucket and he said nothing yet but I'm going to put a fish in it that I found while I was headed toward the garden. I went with him and sure enough there was a big goldfish flopping in a small puddle.

It rained hard a few hours before that and my brother has a pond on the other side of a big hill next door to me and my brother stocks the pond with baby goldfish every few years. This goldfish must of washed down the creek that runs from the pond when it was raining heavy and when the rain stopped it must of got stuck in this puddle. I picked in up and put it in the bucket. I was surprised it was still alive because it probably wouldn't of lasted much longer in this tiny puddle. You can see that in some of the pictures that it was losing some of it's scales. If one of our cats would of seen it first it would of made a big meal for them.

I showed it to my mom and brother and he took a picture of it in the bucket. It was getting late in the evening and I needed to find a place to put it before it got dark so I set up an aquarium outside and took pictures of it. The next day I packed the bucket up the hill and to the pond with my dad and released it.

I was happy to help it and was glad I had the chance to take pictures of it to share with you.

Growing Peaches

Here's a picture of some branches in one of my dad's peach trees. As you can see the peaches are starting to grow. I love peaches and hope this trees have many ripe peaches soon. I got try to remember to post another picture of them on my blog when they do ripe.