Friday, July 21, 2006

Ready To Start Eating

Well, it's been a while but here's a photo update of the garden. Time to start eating some of ti I think.

Jo's potted herbs are doing well but the Aloe... not so well. Who would have guessed that cacti don't like rain?

Tiny Tim's not doing very well. I think he needed more water because he's in a pot. At least the tomatoes are still OK.

Here's how we're doing so far. Looks pretty good to me considering how little attention I've been giving it.

The cucumber and squash plants appear to be thriving. They both have a ton of flowers and there are a couple of cucumbers and one squash growing nicely. The cantaloupe looks healthy and is loaded with flowers but it doesn't look like it's as big as it should be. Could be that we don't have enough bees around to pollinate these plants. If each flower produced a fruit, I'd be swimming in these things.

Here are my peppers. They are producing although not that much and the plants are very small (as they always are in my garden). I'm not sure if it's the soil or sun or... I lost one Jalapeno to the f%#@ing groundhog, the enighbour fond it intact in her garden. 'Samatter mr. groundhog? Too spicy for you? Good.

Red and yellow cherry tomatoes are coming along nicely. I'll have to start sharing soon.

Looks like it's time to eat green beans. They're huge! the plants can't even stand up anymore.

The pea plants that made it are doing well but I killed half he plants accidentally by messing around with my netting after the plants had already started climbing it. Dumbass.

Carrots should be OK but it'll still be awhile before they're ready.

The lettuce looks good but there's not nearly as much as there should be because the groundhog has been keeping it neatly trimmed. I need to block the tunnels under the fence behind the shed.

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Clear Lake Bass Fishing - July 15, 2006

Rented an 18' fishing pontoon boat from Clear Lake Cottages on Clear Lake about an hour and a half southwest of Ottawa on Saturday. Clear Lake is part of the Rideau Canal system and is directly connected to Newboro, Indian, Bennett and Mosquito Lakes. We spent some time on Clear Lake and on Newboro Lake. The weather started out kinda grey (good for fishing) but ended up really hot and sunny (good for people). We didn't have great luck fishing but we didn't get skunked either. I didn't take any photos of myself but I caught a small Smalley and a nice sized Perch too.

The only decent fish all day. Way to go Pat! (Bastard almost always gets first, biggest and most, too bad we never pay up, eh Pat?)


Careful Louis, fish hooks are sharp.

Nice boat, nice lake, good day.

They don't look like much but these are actually pretty nice sized Perch.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Dragonfly Farm

Wednesday after fishing, we went over to Dragonfly Farm to see Pete, Lisa and the kids. I also got to see their new hay storage building and took a shower. When we got there, Lisa was feeding the kids so I wandered around and took some photos. The kids are:
-->Spirit - brown horse
-->Corey - white horse
-->Myst-R, Foxxy and Markus - the minis (sorry, I don't know who's who)
-->Damian - white dog
-->Roxy - brown dog
-->Nermal - cat (not shown)

I also took a couple of shots inside the GaBarn.

You can find a link to their site here.

Spent a Few Days at Ma & Pa's Cottage

Dad and I came back from fishing and I spent a few days at the cottage. It was a good time to relax and fish a bit more. We caught three nice Walleye on Tuesday and I caught one more even nicer on on wednesday, 2.5lbs.