Ian...

Ian's visit has come and gone, it went by quickly while at the same time it ticked by rather slowly.
I love Ian and I wish could be more of a dad to him, but the circumstances make it a bit of a challenge.
During his time here, we went to the Utah Art's Festival, where the above photograph was made, with a film camera of all things! He's 14 now. We did a few things with my family and Mirinda's as well.
We also got a Wii, which Ian and I, and Mirinda too, played a lot. Ian beat me at a lot of the games, but that's OK. We worked outside in the yard more than Ian would care to, but it was a good family thing.
Where ever you are Ian, I am always thinking about you, I love you and so do a lot of other people here in Utah.
It will be almost another year until we see him again.
Brian

Mid Summer Garden Update

Our garden is growing! Its not like we could eat out of our yard, but we are doing so much better then last year

Check out the corn in the back box! We should have tassels soon! The lettuce is looking good and I think we need a salad soon. We have a small handful of beans, with more on the way. We are even still getting a few peas. The zucchini and Summer squash are starting to flower, so we should be eating those soon. Our blue potato is starting to flower, but the others are still growing as much as the bugs will let them. We also have the beginnings of tomatoes.

The carrots, especially the purple variety doesn't seem to want to grow so much.

We are also making great progress on the flag corner project. The first half is more or less done and the strawberrys and wildflowers are growing.

We are finaly ready to start putting the second half together. We have removed all the weeds and tilled in some "Church Mix" This is puffed shell with compost mixed in. It is supposed to be great for our clay soil. It is called Church Mix becouse this is what the plants on the top of the LDS church conference center are growing in.

I plan to put in two more path sections, some more wildflowers, strawberrys and some desert stuff like banana yucca and red hot poker.

Yes our park stirps look horrible, we know. That is a project for another year.

Chickens again

Yesterday I went to a chicken meeting to talk about allowing chickens in the West Valley City. We talked about no roosters, how to make anti chicken people comfortable and how to deal with the city's large minority population that let the chickens roam the neighborhood and butcher them on the lawn. It is far from a done deal, but I am thinking this is going to happen. Stay tuned for updates.

Here is some chicken fun while we wait. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq0zwf3aOGs

Does anyone know how to save U-tube videos or post them on the blog? Anyway, check out the latest ad campaign from our church. We cant donate to the fund to help get it on the air, but we can share it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boyo8uK7G8Y