Doing some more catch up.....

Thing are going well around the Pennington Homestead. Jon has been a great help this summer. He has dug out for two retaining walls, painted the trim on the house and carport. Painted the chicken coop and has generally been keeping the yard mowed and the landscaping in shape. In his spare time he works about 30 hrs a week at the local store and has also cut and split two cords of wood to sell!

The garden is doing well (for the most part). We had a good crop of strawberries. The blueberries have been ripening and we have had a couple of bowlfuls! We have been eating cucumbers and lettuce. The beans produced a handful for salad yesterday with much more to come. The carrots and tomatoes are coming along.

A couple of weeks ago we made it over to the coast for a day of fun. We launched the boat on a very low tide and had to walk it part way out into the bay. Lorelei and Cody set up camp while Adam and I were preparing to set out our crab traps when another boat came motoring up. They had set their traps out in the ocean and had just gone out and picked them up. They had over 100 huge crab in the bottom of their boat! There were only three guys in the boat and you are allowed to keep 12 crab each. They said "hey do you want some crab, we are getting ready to toss a bunch back" We took as many as we thought we could keep alive in our ice chest. Along with a few we caught ourselves we wound up with enough to feed four families an awesome crab dinner!

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Glynn Jr.