4th of July at the farm

07/01/07 9:20PM - Fourth of July week up here at the farm. Arrived yesterday at 2 pm. Saw a deer in the field and a bull moose in the river. Alex is eating Grandmom out of house and home. Happy as ever, I took some video footage of him laughing away. Grandmom and Granddad have a new electric four wheeler. I thought Aaron would be too young to ride it very well at just shy of 3 yrs old, but had very few troubles. I also have some video footage of him hitting a rock at about .001 mph.


Didn't really get much work done today, weather was crazy, rain clouds kept rolling in and in between beautiful sunshine. When it rained it rained sheets, Aaron and I were trapped in the barn as bee-bee sized hail came down.


We had Grandmom's famous Masardis ribs for dinner, hmmm good. Put the kids to bed, watched law and order and now I'm blogging in bed as Amy tries to catch some sleep early in hopes to get enough sleep to compensate for the cats keeping her up again tonight....Lucy is scrathing at the door right now...Amy has her ear plugs in, hopefully they do not give out before Lucy does. I'll be asleep in 5 minutes, barring any earthquakes that might make me stir.


07/04/07 - Weather turned out to be great. Better than yesterday which was supposed to be the better day. Speaking of yesterday, yesterday we took a picnic lunch up to the north branch forks. Aaron caught his first fish. It was all fun until the 5 inch "chub" came within 3 feet of the shore and Aaron started screaming. He declared he doesn't like fishing and wanted to throw rocks into the water instead. Anyway, we ate lunch with a nice man we met at the forks named "Peter". It started to down pour on my last few bites of steak and so the s'mores would have to wait until another day.


next day; today; the fourth of july. Lazy morning, then we headed up to a "fair grounds" in Portage. It was 4 creepy guys and a young kid running dinky little rides. I thought rather pricey, but Aaron only made it thru 3 rides so we bailed out of there rather fast. Went to portage lake and played on the playground, met a nice set of kids there, then came back here for lunch. Worked on ripping the old wall down on the hen house then relaxed with momma and a beer until Aaron got up. We went for a truck ride to fish in the river. Caught 4 chub and a pumpkinseed. Aaron seemed to like fishing much better. The whole time I was watching a moose was bathing 1000 yards down the stream.


Came back for burgers, dogs, fire and s'mores. Bath time and off to bed with the kids.

07/08/07 - Back home in Tewksbury. Weather is good, although momma is feeling under it. Yesterday (07/07/07) we went to the Ashland parade. Aaron rode with granddad on his old John Deer "L". It has a crank start and is really old. I took lot's of pictures, it was pretty cute. I had to walk alongside in case Aaron didn't last entire parade and sure enough, at two thirds of the way thru he wanted to get off and stay with mommy.