Lil Johnny Sack

Since the same people who read this blog also read The Gold Element, I will spare you the story of the 4'11" Johnny Sack, but I will share some of my pictures from the trip to Big Springs since those are the only pictures I took this weekend on our excursion to the Gold family cabin.

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I took a bunch of Pictures of Buck & Vic that are more traditional, but this one was my favorite.


Don't look too close or you might see Little Johnny Crack. The boys were looking at the Ginormous Trout under the bridge.


I'm pretty sure those fish would put up a fight.


Me and my Boys enjoying the great outdoors together. They also got a dose of Yellowstone with Grandma Nay and Grandpa Randall Clause on this trip when they got to see..as John said "That squirty uppy thing...Old Yeller?"

The many faces of Big Springs

Look! Its a Beaver! Oh actually its a duck. We saw Osprey, Pelicans, Muskrats, Trout and a couple Ducks that were somehow mistaken for Beavers. Thanks again to Buck & Vic for having us up for the weekend. We all had a great time playing Ping Pong(losing to Vic), Went on a 2 mile hike where John and Weed set personal bests, learned a new game called Killer Bunnies and Buck got well practiced (addicted to) Guitar Hero.

Garden Time

I had forgotten how much work goes into a garden. About 2 months ago I bought a tray of peat moss pellets to start my seedlings. I figured that would only take a few minutes to put together...I mean...how hard can it be to put a few little seeds into some dirt? Well, that little project took like 3 hours cause I wanted it to be just perfect. After about a week or two I started seeing little miracles of life springing up from the peat moss pellets and I knew that my garden had a head start even though it was still snowing outside. I had the seed packets in the container that the seeds were from so that I would know what row had what growing in it. (dont do this...they grew in the packets). I watched and watched as some grew quickly while others took their own sweet time...but almost every pellet had some life in it. Now all I needed was to wait for the weather to be just right so I could plant the little fellas and let mother nature do the rest. Well...As you all know...It has been a frosty cold spring so no early planting this year. Ben and I tilled the garden area a few weeks ago and got any weeds or rocks from the area. We made the kids come help by hauling the weeds or rocks away from the area for us (cheap labor). Last weekend would have been perfect, only Mothers day didn't leave any extra time over the weekend to get that done. I did however get the tomatoes planted last week.
So...the time finally came for the seedlings to hit the soil. Here's where the not as easy as it looks part comes into play. I needed to re-till the area again since it had been so long since we first did it and that is quite the workout. It was hot...I am out of shape and luckily had Jasmines help transporting seedlings to me so I didn't have to make too many trips. I almost blacked out once when I stood up too fast. Jazz asked me why I was falling asleep standing. Its because I was about to collapse is all. We made it out alive and now its back to waiting and watching to see if the labors are rewarded with some salsa fixins (pretty much all I planted). I need to get some more seeds cause I have room for more and have thought of some other things I would like to grow. So far I have Jalapenos, Habanieros, Tomatoes, Onions, Garlic, Cilantro, Cucumbers and Lettuce. Kinda bleak. Oh well...All I wanted was some good Salsa from my garden and hopefully...that is what we will have.