By Jove, I think he's got it!

Testing 4-5-6

Testing, 1-2-3

I'd rather just post the pic, rather than the link. I need some instruction!!!

DAD

A good Saturday!

Mom was able to go to the General Women's meeting with her daughters that were able to make it up to Heber. Danny and Nate babysat!! Way to go gals and guys!

I was following a more selfish pursuit with Alex. We hunted Sage Grouse up in Randolph. We had fun and some success. Here's a pic, if I can post it correctly:

http://s180.photobucket.com/albums/x123/mtnvalleysetters/?action=view&current=DSCN0935.jpg

BTW, I loved your most recent post, Holly. You guys and your kids are awesome!!

Love you all,

DAD

How often do you guys check out blogs for new posts...or how often do you post??

Wow, you kids are better blog makers than we are. Cool blogs!! I like the music, the pics, the layout...everything. I need to learn how to add music and to post pics.

Anyway, Since I last posted, we have put up some frozen peaches. So, next family party we will have Pete's Peach Milk Shakes!!!

I also drove out to Nebraska with Nate and Dustin to get Gus, who was out there for summer bird dog training camp. We had a great time. If I knew how to post pics, I would do so. But for now, check out this link on the bird dog forum:

http://www.utahbirddogs.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2866

I think this will be a fun season.

We sure enjoyed our summer. It's only too short. Autumn is beautiful. We need to have some kind of family party to enjoy the wonderful outside weather before it's gone!

Love you all,

DAD

Last night we harvested our 3 rows of corn (we shared the 12 rows with 3 other families). We ended up freezing 11 very full quart bags of delicious sweet corn and put several more ears in the fridge to eat fresh. Mom, Sarah, and Hannah and I worked together in an assembly line...picking, husking, blanching, cooling, cutting, and bagging. Great fun. Great eats! It will be a nice complement to 60 quarts of green beans. Potatoes and beats are next. We've enjoyed a lot of zucchine and cucumbers to date...even a few pods of fresh okra! And wonderful herbs...sage, mint, basil, and oregano! And the lettuce has been especially good and productive this year. Alas, we have bushels of green tomatoes. I've got them caged in plastic and we cover them every night...so maybe we will get them ripe...only 2...yes that's 2, so far!

Happy gardening y'all!

So, Andy and Janna, I couldn't find where to make a comment on your blog??? Maybe you don't want comments....

OK, you children of mine, do I really need to "sign in" to your blogs if I want to post comments? Do I use the same username and password I use to sign in to our blog? If no one looks at this and comments, I guess I'll have to call one of you.

Thanks for helping an old fart!

So, I succeeded in posting the left third of the pic. How do I post the whole thing?

Well, here we go!

Mom and I have been threatening for several months to create our own blog. I just created this, so I'll go first and express my hopes and purpose for the blog. I'm sure Mom will add very important thoughts...and that as we use this new medium, and learn more about it, our hopes and purposes will evolve. But here are my current feelings:

We love the blogs you, our children, have already created. We want to put links to all of them on our blog...and hope we can work together to link them all into an extended family blogging network.

Mom and I want to publish information about our lives together...our plans and hope and dreams.

We want to publish photos of special events...some that only we are involved in and some that most or all of us are involved in. We are thrilled you are all doing the same. It's an amazing way to save and archive visual remembrances of events...while we also save and archive narrative descriptions of the events.

We are certainly open to your suggestions on how to do this, and what you would enjoy seeing/reading from us.

We really don't know much about how to do some of the technical stuff...like post pics. You are welcome to offer us a tutorial on these things too.