This morning we visited with mom for awhile before her lunch. Our visit was delayed this week because I have been down with the flu or food poisoning. It really wiped me out so I was slept for about three days. Also we did not want to visit mom if I had something contagious.We found her in the hall way and took her to the table at the South end of the hall to show her some pictures we had from Levi's first birthday.
Mom was asking about all for her ggchildren. She had a little difficulty figuring our exactly how old Hunter and Austin are and how far they were in school. Amanda, if you will email me a few pictures from your families life, we will include these in the picture shows.
On the way to mom's we stopped at several farm stands to pick up watermelon, peaches, pluots and strawberries. We were going to have a small fresh fruit picnic in the gazebo. Unfortunately today was the day they mowed the lawn and were blowing all the clipping and dust into the air so we could not go out there.
We have found a very interesting farm stand on LacJac and Manning. The farmer Dr. Art Lange has over 200 varieties of stone fruit. He has timed them to be ripe from the first of May to the end of September.
At another farm stand they have strawberrys, squash and onions. They have new variety of strawberry that takes the heat of the valley so will have strawberries most of the year.
The watermelon farm has the sweetest, ripest and freshest watermelon around. The Willems who own the farm became notorious when the local paper did an article about the person who identified the fruit that was sweet and ready to eat. Clarence was a 84 year old black man who could pick them. He would just cut them loose and roll them in the furrow and younger men would pick them up. We have never had a bad watermelon from there.
Today we are supposed to reach a 100 again. It has been in the mid 90 for a few days and that is such a nice relief than the 112 we had last week.
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