forced update

the title of this blog is named such because of the one person who bugged me to update, and she knows who she is.....but ive been way to lax with this this year ...why have a blog if your not going to post...so here i am repenting....i think trying to write all that has happened since christmas would take me forever, so i wont......i shall insert the one big project i did for susan , our 30th anniversary was on april 6th and i wanted to make something that was for her, so i made her a very large jewlery case, and i will post its pictures today, so as to pick up where i can post a normal size post i will tell what is going on now. summer has arrived, its hot, i dont like it, and i want fall here.....we have expanded our garden this year, it has taxed my limits, and next year we will do square box gardening...as for now we have about 40 tomatoe plants, we have squash, cucumbers, bell peppers, eggplant, and corn...as for the corn i dont know if it will make it, it was doing great until we had a storm, it pretty much was laid out, so i went out and fixed 40 stalks of corn...then the next day...sunday...it happened again......haveing back problems and other problems with my arms and hands...this is not a good thing...so the corn might be on its own..i will not grow it again.....i learned that corn is grown in large fields for a reason...it helps protect one another...my sister grows hers in circles...and i guess it works for her...but i am a retired corn grower as of today...i will post some pictures of the growing crops in a few days. as for my family , they seem to be doing well, they just returned from a camping trip, where a hail storm was one of the events...they both were sporting new tents and they seemed to have survived, i am working on a few smaller projects, and until fall comes my wood working will be limited to either very early mornings or middle of the night..way to hot in the shop for day activities. So as for blogging...i am caught up and will do better to stay up to date...love and blessings to all. grizzman