Monday, July 9th, 2007

Just had to bring this picture up today, as a father, we love to see our children grow, and the same holds true with our grandchildren. It now seems like yesterday that our first grandchild was born, and now he will be a junior in college. Our youngest grandchild will enter kindergarten this fall.

Well, these wild strawberries are much like our children and grandchildren, they continue to grow and grow. Just yesterday, I took some of the many, many runners that these plants shoot out and replanted them in the trainyard.

Oh, so you didn't know we had a trainyard at our house? Well, years ago when I was 60, I got my first electric train. It was a HO gauge and I soon found out that I needed glasses on to put the train back on its track. So, I gave it to my son, and I went to O guage railroading, which my youngest grandson is right now playing with. He loves trains. But, the trainyard came about as I also had a "G" scale (Garden) in my back yard.

At first, I had this train running just below grade which was kind of awesome, except, you had to get down on your belly to work on the track, too much strain on the old body to do that too long. So, I decided to bring it above grade, and I built up the track about 8 inches above the lawn height. AND, before the transformation took place, I grew older too. When I saw that this was going to be more than I had bargained for, I gave the G scale train to my son too.

In the meantime, we have this wonderful big circle around the sumac tree just inside the back yard gate, and inside the circle are these wonderful growing strawberries. They do produce fruit but we have yet to tasted them, for whenever one gets almost ripe, they disapear. We believe that the opposums or raccoons are eating them, but of course they disapear in the middle of the night, so we never know who gets them.

Well, its almost breakfast time, so I close for this time. cheerio