Ryan caught it, Sean hawged it !!

Ryan caught a 5 lb./21.5 inch large mouth bass at the lake, THEN Sean got so excited he jumped in the water and hawged it out HAHAHA! They make one heckuva team. I'd have killed to be down there to see the two of them freaking out over this bass :-) Needless to say, we'll be having bass for dinner. The boyz crack me up..... they look and act like the 'Little Rascals' :-)

They've been fishing about every day this week and have only been catching the small fish. I finally told them to get up EARLY and go..... as usual, mom knows best !! Daddy said it's time to get this one mounted :-)

Tornado from the front porch....

I finally saw my first TORNADO......YIKES, hope I never see another one. We had no idea that anything was going on outside (the weather station is on all of the time and there were no warnings, either). Living in a log cabin, you don't hear SQUAT when the house is shut up.... nothing. A nuclear bomb could go off and we'd never know it. Our neighbors down the hill called to tell us we were about to get hit by a tornado!

We jammed the kids into the basement and went out on the porch just in time to see it form on the west side of our lake. We were so close that it was difficult to make out the tornado until the funnel dropped out of the sky and touched down. It moved completely around the perimeter of our property touching down a few times. After tearing up some trees, it moved up the road and took a big healthy bite out of someone's barn. It was really strange: The pieces of the structure seemed to be suspended high in the air for quite some time b4 flying out in all directions.

I don't think I'll be sleeping very soundly t'nite......

Shades of Purple

I think the Spring harvest is my favorite. After being 'screamed' at by the red color of cherries and early strawberries, the lavender calls softly from the distance. Harvesting the various shades of purple has a calming effect on all of us.... not sure if it's the scent or the color :-) Although we're not quite finished with the cherries, we needed to take a break and bury our faces in a more subtle scent.


I'm not quite sure what types of lavender we have... pink, bright purple, fuschia, on and on. They all smell wonderful and our clothing smells magnificent as we dry it in the laundry room. We were a little late with the dark purple, but the fuschia made up for it :-) Another week and we'll be blazing the trails to the mulberry trees!!