Fruits of Labor

I got a couple of buckets of Asian pears and a few buckets of peaches.  

I also got a lot of peppers this year!!! Im still waiting for my tomatoes to turn red.  I hope it happens soon.  

 

While Ive got the tools out....

I saved some left over stone from my pizza oven project.  I thought that after a few months of a break I would put some stone around the putting green so it tied into the rest of the patio.  I almost through out the stone a couple months ago because the thought of doing more stone work didn't excite me.  

Since I was rebuilding my wall out front I decided suck it up and do the stone work.  

Below is before and after photos.

Along with the stone I poured another 500 lbs of concrete to help block water from my neighbor

 

It happened again

For some reason we have a lot of wrecks in front of our house.  We had another wreck but this time it ended up in our front yard.  The van went through a power pole, hit a rock and got some air and then landed and came to a stop in our yard.  

It was a couple of latin construction workers.  The police were really thankful Adam was around to translate for them.  

They crashed through my brick wall that I built 2 years ago.  

I broke down and decided to do the work I should have done the first time around.  I poured footings (about 1000lbs of concrete) and secured a little stronger wall.  I also added a few layers to my wall because it is doing such a great job of keeping out water but if the water gets too high it does sneak over my wall.  Not anymore! 

 

Birthday month

Crystal has 3 birthdays in September and I have two so it's a busy month.  We celebrated Avram celebrated his 22 birthday!!! I can't believe he is 22! He is living in taylorsville in a condo with a couple of guys from his singles ward.  He is loving being on his own.  

We also celebrated Gabes 17th birthday.  I don't know how that is possible.  I went to the temple on sept 11 and then I went with Crystal, Q and Grandma to Gabes grave.  

Later on my crew went with me back to the cemetery to take a few minutes to remember Gabe.  

I hope Gabe is involved in our lives.  He has siblings that really need all the help and support they can get right now.  
 

Max's visit

 We were fortunate to have Max fly up and hang out with us for about a week and a half.  Im so happy that he enjoys spending time with us.  

We took him up to the cabin.  We really didn't spend any time in Island Park this year.  The cabin was rented most of the summer and it was a really busy summer.  We ended up going to the cabin for a couple of days with Pulham family and the Marchbanks family.  Max had a great time with their boys.  They were up all night talking one night.  

I turned a little too sharp and ended up rolling the razor.  No one got hurt other than a few bruises but I felt really bad.  I had 3 kids in the car with me.  

After a few days the Pulhams and Marchbanks left and then the Adams and Grandma Anthony came up.  

It was a really fast trip but we squeezed in a lot of fun into those couple of days.  

We took Max to go horse back riding for his first time.  Amy also went on a horse all by herself.  

Jake, Grandma, Q and I stayed back and waited for the horse back riders.  While we were waiting Q got to play with the animals and got to have a little ride on a horse.