Fall

I think I like fall the best. It's the start of the cooler season and it's just a happy time of the year. The first picture is of the front of the house, I know it's cheesey but I thought it was very tastful. #2 is a passion flower and man is it ever. #3 is how much of the house it has taken over. It was planted the end of June. #4 Is the mums in the backyard. #5 The deck is finally finished being stained, thanks to Ryan and Dad. They did a great job!!!

Kirk prayed for us all.

MORE PHOTO FROM THE ADVENTURE.

Jane's marvelous adventure

It all started on the Red Rooster 111 out of San Diego. She is a 105 foot fishing vessel built for long range fishing. Sixteen private air conditioned staterooms with hot and cold water wash basins. Each room is carpeted, storage space and twin bunk beds, which allows one to fall out during bad weather or if one sleeps. It sounds so romantic the gentle rocking of a boat but it's not that romantic believe me. There is a lounge with a large oval couch where you can sleep on or fall on. A wet bar with a built in ice maker,a satellite receiver and a flat panel TV with surround sound. Five heads and five fresh water hot showers, thank haven. There is also a sundeck which we did not use cause we were FISHING.

Bait

The first adventure is getting bait. A fishing boat, which goes out and nets fish, transfers the bait into a floating fishing bin, via the green tube. We come along and hand transfer the bait, mostly sardines, some mackerel, into our bins. Those bins hold a lot of fish.

Fishing poles

We each rented three fishing poles. All for different types of fishing.
We used them all. I must say I am not very good a fishing with an open face reel, to many bird nest.

Crew

These guys are truly amazing. Here they are adding line to reel for us, because we rented our equipment. They work all the time and seem to enjoy what they do, showing non fisherpersons how to fish.

Our First Fishing hole

Alijos Rocks is located 500 miles offshore.

Bill and me

Carol and Bill before the fish started to bite

Jeans catch

Bills catch

Carols catch

This is my catch

I caught this 41 plus pound Halibut. It was like pulling a wet carpet up from the bottom of the ocean. I didn't know how big it was until we got it aboard. I tryed to act humble.

We were after yellow fin tuna, the kind that weigh about 200 plus pounds. We didn't catch any that size,these are some of the men who caught the biggest yellow fins.

Some of the fish I caught

After we landed we collected all our fish and turned them over the a local charity. Yes I can see how teaching someone to fish would feed them for ever, but they are just happy to have someone fish for them. Me.

Do you remember these? Well they finally started to grow. No flowers yet.

This is my lone fox glove. Wish I had about 30 more.

Take a good look before the sun burns everything up

These are our craps, we are so glad they turned out to be red. For a long time we through they were white.

I was going to water some flowers and when I reached for the hose, He was there, scared the puttt our of me. I called How and we looked for him, but it was Gus who found it and chewed it up befor we knew it was just a garden snake, I guess I'll have more spiders and bugs around now. Let's see snake or bugs. It could be a toss up.

The SNAKE

The new plant I planted about 2 weeks ago. See my tomatoes in the back they are delicious.
This is called a pink bowervine. We planted it under our bedroom window.

This is our enty
Snapdragons, Marigolds, Petunias,Pansies, and ofcourse the Hibiscus that Ashely gave us.
This bush has maple shape leaves and has these neat looking flowers. It will get to be about 3 feet tall.
The bush will also get about 3 feet tall and has these cool butter cup flower that close up about 4 oclock in the afternoon but is a feel good plant first thing in the morning.

Everythings coming up roses sort a...

Lowes

The other day I was at Lowes, not really looking for anything, just killing time while my friend Eileen was going to get a pot, planter for her yard. When I noticed a rack of flowers, several of the flowers looked in pretty bad shape, they needed to be watered, cut back and talked to. I did noticed some columbine that looked pretty good, so I started pulling them off the rack, when a employee told me that the rack was $5.00. I thought she was saying each plant was $5.00. No the whole rack was being sold for $5.00. Eileen and I shared it and after checking out we ended up with over $800.00 worth of plants for $2.50. Isn't America great.

Ashley made me plant it. I have no idea what it is but it's cool. I think it's cool.

Must be some kind of lily. I love it.

Just look at how much this Iris is blooming.

Tomatoes with a bleeding heart.

Ashley's calla Lilys.

How does my garden grow?

It's been slow but a few things are stating to grow. Like this Iris, the fusshia was placed in this pot and I think will be o. k. as long as I remember to water it.

Look close,How, Quin, and Ash