Fencing around my garden is nearly complete – remember I told you we were building a fence from previous porch planks that were under our back porch.  I got three fence portions made so far.  Then the twin headboard and footboard my husband found in someones trash got pounded into the grown on side of the corn.  He was going to build me a ‘flower bed’ from the frame and plant a bunch of flowers in it but we didn’t have the resources this year and it’s falling apart now so I decided instead of just throwing it away, it would make two great sections of fencing, although it won’t really match the current look… I don’t care at this point.  The dogs have run through my garden so much they killed all of my garlic, some of my tomatoes, a lot of carrots, and a bunch of my corn.  My garden is planted against a fence line, and the neighbors next door have a dog so our three dogs always run through my garden to greet that dog, then run the fenceline a few times……  Luckily now most of my vegetables are grown large enough to keep the dogs out (sometimes) or are staked so they dogs can’t trample them but then there are things like my beets, lettuce, spinach, corn, etc. that isn’t staked or large enough to prevent the dogs from running through.  Oh – to top it off, i’m picking up some fencing tomorrow from a freecycler who is getting rid of her garden fencing.  I don’t know if it’ll finish the rest of my garden or not, but every section of fence helps!!  It’ll be nice to not have to spend a dime building the fence.

Yesterday I made bagels (yum) and attempted to make rye bread for my husband. This was my second attempt and it flopped just like my first attempt.  It doesn’t rise (my yeast is fine, water wasn’t too hot, etc, etc.) and just sits like a brick while it’s supposed to be rising.  I threw it out and just told my dear husband to buy the rye himself like he wants (he was going to humor me by letting me make it to see if he’d like it) I don’t have enough bread flour to keep wasting to figure out what i’m doing wrong!  lol.

Today we went out on the boat for a few hours.  It was soooo nice.  For my high school graduation my father bought me a 14 ft. Lund Sea Nymph.  For a few years I kept the boat at my dads and this is the first year it’s been with us (we’ve space to store it now!).  It doesn’t use a lot of gas and we were going to a little beach about 15-20 minutes out on Lake Erie, and it was free to launch so we went out there. The kids had an absolute blast running in the sand, we took my Vizsla who loved the freedom to run and play and finally get into water (he’s a hunting dog but he was afraid of water his entire life… We took him with us and forced him into the water, he figured out how to swim and had a blast!), Kaitlyn figured out how her feet are supposed to work to get her to walk (supported… she really wanted to get into that water! LOL).  Alexis was collecting shells and at the end of the summer we’ll make a necklace with all the shells she’s collected, and on a small peice of drift wood I’ll woodburn ‘Summer ‘08′ and attach that to the necklace also.  We’ve decided that a weekly trip should be planned through the summer, providing fuel doesn’t rise too high. 

My husband is taking a nap, the kids are coloring, the big dog is snoozing on our bed (yes, the one who came out to swim with us today), and I’m going to figure out something quick for dinner, then head off to bible study tonight with everyone.