Bob's Army Boots

My good dad

Laura Dalton-DHHS 2011 graduate of the year

Laura Amy Dalton, 2011 USA high school graduate of the year!  She has it all going on.  Ready to take on the world, and paint the town red, blue and yellow. Mom and dad love you...............Now, get out there and make something of your life!

Bear Claw Poppy

   BEAR CLAW POPPY

This is the infamous bear claw poppy growing in the cryptobiotic soil south of St. George, Utah.

Beautiful little thing is a thorn in the side for many people.  It is a protected species and thrives where recreationalists like to ride off-road. This land area is now fenced off and access is suppose to be restricted. 

Laura's Graduation from LDS Seminary

violent alcholic family

Love at Home

The END

 Goooood Morning,

Yesterday I hitched the "car hauler" trailer on the truck ball and heeaded out to Provo to pick up the Camry that died on I15 freeway in Northern Utah.  The car engine is probably toast....but what the hay, the kids said it was an old grandma car.

It rained, slushed, and snowed all the way there and back to Black Rock Ridge.  It was a beautiful drive.  Talk about GREEN.  It has been one of the wettest winter/springs on record in the state.

                                                                                     A trucker wearing it out on the sleeve.    

                                                                                         A little hard to aim while driving, distracted? YES



End of the world shot?  Who knows!

the garden of earthly delights

Nice fertile, loamy, dark, topsoil, the type that you really like to work.  Before I broke the ground, the surface looked a little rocky but it turned into a gravel pit.  I used forklift tines to break the ground, roto tilled with my new Husquevarna tiller, then raked and shoveled like a madman.  I hauled 8 tons of mulch from the St. George recycling facility and 6 tons of sand from Sun Rock....its growing!

                                      Armenian climbing cucumbers, onion starts from Ron Larson down on 600 South.  Ron has a heck-of-a-garden behind his house which is fed by a well.  I got 300 onion starts, garlic starts, and  a few Jerusalem artichoke starts from him.  The artichokes are seen in the next image.  Ron has been gardening in the same area for 50 plus years, he knows what, where, and when to plant.                                  

Jerusalem Artichokes

 Sweet corn, 10 rows 30 feet long; 40 tomato plants, 3 varieties

Early girl, Celebrity, cherry



The Flying Turnip