Late Night Ponderings

This is the first time in a long time that I have been unable to sleep. Last year this was a regular occurance, but lately I have been able to get to sleep pretty easily. Not so tonight. So, since I haven't posted in a while, I thought I would post and see if anyone still reads this. If you do, I apologize for not posting for so long, and I will try to do better. :)

I have been so incredibly tired lately that just getting through the day has been a struggle, so posting on here was just not on my radar. The last month has gone by so quickly. I have my garden planted and it is growing nicely. We ate fresh picked broccoli at dinner tonight, and also had a salad with lettuce, and radishes from the garden in it. Ellie loves to pick radishes and I know she will also love to pick the carrots, beets and peas when they are ready. Both the kids are excited about growing things in the garden. I weeded and then fed it with Miricle Grow last week too.

I have flowers growing too. I planted two rose bushes a few months ago, right before it snowed in April. One is a yellow rose that will be really pretty when it matures. I already have had a couple of blooms from it. The other one, I thought was a red rose, but it tured out to look like this.

The fragrance is awesome too. I have been enjoying it for about a week now. I think this bush only blooms once, but with blooms like this, I can handle it. It had a nice long stem and was so awesome. I can't wait to see it in a few years when it is nicely established!

Our 4th of July was fun. We had a neighbor invite us to a block party and it was nice to get to meet some of our neighbors. Miles loved the fireworks. While Lynn was lighting then he would call out "Careful Daddy!", but after they went of he would say "Do it again!" They stayed up way too late last night and slept in this morning. Miles also wanted to do fireworks again tonight.

Lynn has been working a lot this week. He worked 6 days in a row, 12 hours each. He is exhausted, especially with the late night last night. We will enjoy his 4 day weekend. Then he will work next two weeks and take the last week of July off. We are looking foward to a little bit of a vacation, although we won't be going too far away from home with gas prices like they are.

Well, this has become a pretty long post, and I should close. I promise I will try to post more often too.