Summer @ FLW

Hey Blog Readers,

It's been a busy spring and summer @FLW - Bill and I have been doing a ton of projects and having some fun in the middle - here's what it looked like:

Barn Building 101:

 

 

The turtles came back for the garden again 

How many Turtles can you spot in this pic?

 The garden looks better with a barn don't you think?

 

 Cole turned 13!

Ty turned 2

Gramps turned 92

  Bill and I built a spearing platform for the boat - and managed to go spearing a few times

 There was a little canning

and some freezing

 

and a crazy puppy to help us along the way...

Hope you are having a great summer

love,

b&t

Asia Trip

Hey Blog readers, I wanted to share a few pics with you of my Asia travels - I am on a 2 week trip to Japan and Hong Kong for meetings - I didn't bring a proper camera which is a bummer but here are some iphone shots for you ....

My hotel room in Tokyo - inside and outside views

 It snowed in Tokyo for the first time in 48 years and I was there for it.....

My hotel room in Hong Kong

 View from the window....

The team having Dim Sum

 There's even McDonalds and KFC here...

 Took a Ferry to Macau - an island off of HK similar to Vegas

 The house always wins...

 A beach in HK

 Victoria Harbor

My Team @ HK Disney Land

 

Me @ The peak in HK

Merfyn @ Home wanting me to come back soon!

Merfyn

Here's the newest member of our family Merfyn the Welsh Terrier....  He's 18 weeks and flew here from Virginia - he has big paws to fill but he thinks he's up for it

Bill & Merf are hanging out while I travel Asia for 2 weeks...

Tutu Run

Lexi and I running the tutu 2.2 miles on 2/2 at 2

It was a little cold but we made it!!  Great job Lexi finishing her first run

Goodbye White Dog

It's a sad day at the Peck House, we lost our best friend today.  

  Trinity, Truman, White Dog 

11/24/2007 - 1/10/2014

Right now we cannot imagine life at FLW without her.

As you all know, White Dog loved life, we cannot even begin to list the stores of her adventures here, we can only say we were lucky to have the wonder dog, she was a part of our family and will leave a mark on our hearts forever.  

White dog with her litter-mates (she's on the right)

Here's some video's of white dog when she was a puppy - we used these to pick her out and she stayed true to them her whole life.

http://www.nancys-westies.com/images/dolly/dob20061124/videos/2006_12_30164.avi

http://www.nancys-westies.com/images/dolly/dob20061124/videos/2006_12_30163.avi

Tinsel Toe 5k

Kim, Jess and I thought it would be a great idea to run a 5k on the worst day if the year so far...  It was the tinsel toe 5k in battle creek - very cool nighttime race with all if the Christmas lights and snow it was great - there was judging for your costumes as well so we put on our crafting skills and made these beautiful Christmas sweaters ... Sadly we missed the judging but Phil's Christmas whale was a hit and Phil, Randy and John all finished in the top ten and came back to Finnish running with us!!

Summer @ FLW

Hey All,

It's summer and of course we have some projects going on - first off we needed a trailer so Craigs list here we come.... 

Before...

 After... :-)

 Trevor and Cindi and the kids grew sweet corn so one day we froze hundreds of ears of corn - here's dad and Ty hanging out

 Lexi labeling the bags

 Filling.... careful

 A short nap - dad and Ty were worn out from playing

 White dog is loving summer - here she is on my new chair (She thinks its her chair)

 Jodie, mom, Jess and I made peach salsa and tamales one day and didn't bother to take any pictures... (I blame Jodie for that)

 Christine and I spent her birthday canning - here's what we started with :-)

 Here's what we ended up with - a toast to the canninators...

With all this canning it was time to attack the pantry

Here's a before picture...

                             

 Jess offered to lend a hand...

 Closer.... 

 Even Closer...

 and a chalkboard door for the grocery list

 Whew now I can can more - I was running out of shelf room

 Final pantry...

 We found some time to catch a few fish with Mike and Tammy on the river

 Bill found this red tail hawk at our house - it has west nile but he found a place to take him and they were confident they could get him back to normal :-) 

 Took time for a little camping (note the cool new trailer in the picture with Trevor's 7 minute gate)

 

 Ty is loving it this year

Hope you all are having a great summer!

~B&T