Route 127 sale and lost in Kentucky

I have heard of the longest yard sale a couple of times in the past year, but I kind of forgot about it. Then I spotted it on an e-mail I received last week. So, I decided to try it out. I left last Friday at about 10:30 in the morning and headed for Kentucky. It seemed to be the quickest place to catch route 127, and the most scenic. I took Anderson Ferry over to Kentucky and found 127 fairly easily and quickly. A lot of the route was commercial for a good bit at first. Then I found an estate sale and a couple of other sales along the way. The best spot was by Big Bone Park. It was interesting, and I met a lot of nice people. The main problem I had was getting home. I'm not a big highway person, so I try to find other roads to get places. I don't like fast highways, but I also like the side roads because of the scenery. The roads made all kinds of weird turns, some weren't marked. Needless to say, I took the long way around and it took me a couple of hours to get home. But I really enjoyed the scenery. The pictures are of one of the yard sales and some of the cars parked on lawns and along side the road. Some areas were really crowded with cars and people. Next year I need to get started early in the morning so I can cover more of the most populated areas.

The tomato offenders

There is also a picture of two of the tomato culprits sitting on our backyard fence. I couldn't resist snapping this pic, even though they are our backyard enemies at the present time. They sat lined up like this on the fence for quite a while. I thought it was hilarious.

How my garden grew this year

This is the first time in about 10 years that I have grown a vegetable garden. I had a lot of success with the tomatoes and eggplant. That is until the squirrels decided to browse the salad bar. I should be specific. They really only seem to like the tomatoes. I think they almost have had as many as we have. Almost daily we find a half eaten tomato in the backyard. They do seem to come back later to eat the rest of it, so we usually leave it for them so they won't pick another right away. I have tried putting Cayenne pepper on and around the plants with limited success. I think the next plan is to buy a motion detecting sprayer. It is hooked up to a hose and sprays water on the offending tomato thief. From what I have read this works pretty well, we will see. I have included a couple of pictures of some of my harvest and the veggie and herb garden, as well as a small one of the front flower bed.

I wanted to include a picture of my Crepe Myrtle bush. It seemed to take forever for it to get leaves on it. Finally it grew a nice bunch of leaves. Art was doing very well cutting around it when he did the grass. Until one fateful day, he mowed it right down to the ground. I wasn't sure it would come back, but it did start getting some new leaves. I went out and bought this metal flag to mark the spot so that wouldn't happen again. As you can see it is coming back good right now, hopefully to grow and bloom next season.

New Casey photos

Here is a picture of Casey relaxing in the recliner with the cow animals he likes. He came in the room and placed these in the chair and climbed in and sat down beside them. The other picture is of Casey sitting in his walker that he is obviously too big for. I haven't put it away yet and he still likes to play now and then with some of the toys. This day he wanted to get in, but I think once he tried it he realized it was too big.

For Katie

Katie this is for you. I know you rarely see Art in casual clothes that doesn't include a white t-shirt. So, I thought I'd include a picture of him when he was wearing a matching short set. Looks much better than his usual.

Casey's new water table

We bought Casey a new water table to use outside on hot days. He seemed to really enjoy playing with it, though his favorite thing to do seemed to be filling up his cup and dumping it down the front of himself. He also seemed to enjoy running around the patio table between douses. After coming in to dry off Casey found it funny to have the towel on his head. Cute Casey.

Pittsburgh pics

I couln't put these pics of the Pirate game on the last blog. I guess I used up my room. So, here they are. This is a really pretty city and a beautiful ballpark.