Hey Everybody,

I have been having a blast watching the baby hummingbirds on my feeder.  I see them dive bomboming each other and chasing each other around.  I think with the adults and babys there are about 5 or 6 hanging around.

I have gone out and stood by the sunflower and taken these pics.

I will have some video on You Tube sometime soon, our connection is so bad it is taking 765 minutes to load :((

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Later, Dean

Hey everybody, how are ya? 

Well, I went and did it :)  I put a table out by the road for my veggies.  My first roadside stand.  Hard to say what will develope from it but what the heck.

I actually made 5 dollars on onions, within the first 15 min. of setting up the table, even though it was Uncle Al :) they needed some to go with the pickles Aunt Barb was making.

After months of training the fast growing vines, the morning glorys, four o clocks and sweet peas are finally showing their glory :)

Thanks for stopping by my blog, at least I hope someone is reading them :)
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thanks for following, but why didn't you ever comment ?  brat !!

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Later, Dean

Hey believe it or not, we closed up for a couple days and got out of town!!!

My nephew Adam got married to Christa down in Frankenmuth Michigan.  Mom, Chrissy, me, Stelly and Mr. Pitman got in the car and headed down after work on friday.  It was awesome, the dogs were good in the room, the weather was hot and sunny and the beer was cold and fresh, because the reception was at the brewrey!!

The wedding and reception went without a glitch and everyone had a good time, good food and a great show, the way they did the ceremonys.

So here we are back at work and making more pickles, I have a batch of 21 day sweets going on thier 9th. day, yesterday I made a batch of sandwich dills.  Last week we made a batch of bread n butter pickles.
So, the corn is starting to take off and develope some ears, the brocolli is getting big, waiting on heads though.  I will have a ton of tomatoes before long too.

So, off to work :)

Dean

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July is beautiful in Bachelor Valley

We have been eating from the garden every day :)  Things are really starting to produce, and it is just going to get better !!!

This video is a little long, but I do end up getting some potatoes

Enjoy, Capt. Dean

Happy 4th. of July 2012

Let's take a stroll :)

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Dean

I took this from my office, through the window.

A few minutes later this guy was on the ground under the feeder.

This was on June 15th. 2012

And this is 10 days later on the 25th.

Just a short blog today, gotta get some batteries for the camera.

Enjoy, Capt. Dean

                            I decided to trailer it myself :)


Ha, not really, as I was walking down to take some pics of the boat with the windshield in place and the canvas installed when I saw the above photo op. :)

                             The windshield and canvas.

Finally and update for ya,  I got the bimini poles and canvas all sorted out.  I got some dock sections ready to install too.

My friend Mark loaned me a ship to shore radio, so I charged up a battery, hauled it up on deck, plugged it all in and YAY loud and clear.  I can hear boats and marinas from Boyne City, Charlevoix, Harbor Springs, Petoskey, and even all the way out to Beaver Island and Grays Reef Passage, all from 4 to 30 miles away!!

Petoskey at my finger and Beaver Isl. is about 30 miles to the north west.



We gave a few more tours and drank a few more beers aboard over the weekend.

The more I look at it, the more I like it.  I got to thinking about the detail they put into these boats, then I think of back in the sixties it was all about SPACE and SPACE TRAVEL this baby looks like a rocket ship to me. 

The cleats

The stantion bases are 7 sided.

The crown style tops with swept back cast fittings.

The engine air intake ram tubes and clearance light.
We are anxious to start checking out the systems onboard.  We have decided that I need to install a couple batteries and see if the toilets work, and see if I can adapt a sewer drain system.  If it doesn't have an overboard pump out, that would be the first thing I will install.  Not that I will pump out onto the ground, but maybe dig a whole, burry a barrol and run a piece of pipe out from there, just so we can pee onboard.

By installing the batteries and hooking up some shore power, I can start checking interior lights, horns, buttons, pumps and all the rest of the stuff.  I don't know if the stove is capable of shore power or not, probably it is but will have to ck it out.  Same with the fridge.

So, I am looking forward to getting the dock set up in a ramp type set up, for easy on and off for everyone.


Later, Capt. Dean

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