Garden Harvest

It's been hot and dry which has slowed down the garden harvest, but to date, we've harvested ...

• Summer Squash (3)
• Pickles and Cucumbers (8)
• Lemon Cucumbers (6)
  
• Tomatoes (2)
• Corn (4 ears)
• Green Beans (2 qrts)
• Peas (quart)
• Zucchini (more than we can count)

Still on tap to harvest includes:

• Cantaloupe (1)
• Watermelon (3)
• Miscellaneous/Mysterious Squashes
• Peppers and Jalapeños
• Carrots
  

The black berry harvest is all but over too ... hmm, with this kind of harvest, it sounds like it must be fair time!

White H20 in a Dry Heat

While Paige was home picking black berries off of our newly discovered black berry bushes, Cody was at a summer meeting at a resort in Midway, UT. When meetings weren't in order, he and some co-workers floated the Weber River on Saturday morning. What a fantastic way to beat the "dry heat" that filled the air. Nothing like the humidity back home that's for sure ... but at least we know that a couple dozen black berry bushes sure like it!

News From Around Town

Life in a small town is never boring ... sometimes you just have to read the weekly paper to see how exciting small town life is! We love life in Tonganoxie ... we are continually grateful for where we live and the community we decided to call home a couple of years ago. Here's a few interesting tidbits of information from around town:

• The Pleasant St. bridge has been deemed unsafe for large vehicles (buses, firetrucks, etc.) and will be demolished and rebuilt. Whew! Inadequate bridges scare us all!
• How rural are we? Rural enough to have a farmers market now every Saturday at 7 am. Vegies free from pesticides - how novel!
• Plans for the new Chief Tonganoxie Swimming Pool were unveiled! Construction should begin in August. The original pool was built in 1925 ... yup, time for a new one.
• How popular is Tongie? It was the 3rd fastest growing city in the state of Kansas last year, growing 9.19% to around 4,100 residents. Mike Yanez, city administrator put it this way, "People in the Kansas City market are looking for affordable housing and looking for a quieter atmosphere, looking for a better school system. Then people are coming to Tongie and realizing we have a pretty good package."

Yes, Tongie has the total package and is a great place to put down some roots and call home - a little patch of heaven in the Great Midwest.

4th of July Weekend

It was a weekend ... a long, six (6) day weekend at the Edwards' home. What do you do with so much time on your hands?

• Three rooms were painted "henna glow" ... namely the two bathrooms and study
• We safely blew up milk cartons and the like on the 4th ... after Mother Nature displayed hers (see our weather post here)
• Spent some time fishing at Leavenworth Lake where Tyson caught his first bass
• Endured the warm weather with a home made mister
• Enjoyed summer slushes at Sonic drive-in

See more entertaining weekend pictures by clicking here ...

A Phone with a Plan

He's had over a dozen of 'em since he was old enough to hold one. But Tyson's latest cell phone has something different ... service! He sold an old one on eBay for $20 and then bought his latest from Dollar General. It's a Motorola phone with Tracfone service ... which means that each month he needs to prepay for his minutes and phone number. So the other day when Tyson wanted to go to the library, Paige said yes ... and he hopped on his bike (with helmet) and rode a mile into town to the library and then sent a text message to Paige from his new phone letting her know he was safe. Ah ... the freedoms of being 10.