Well, It has started thawing in Cedar County!!! I know we got alot of snow this winter, but this is rediculous!!!! This is the scene down by the old barrel ditch where Wayne fell in trying to catch the frog when he was a kid...remember he had to strip most of his clothes off and ride on the Ford tractor back home..only to find that Anne and Charlie Kofron were over visiting....just plain humiliating!!

OK, I'm kidding..this is actually a picture of Rainbow Falls in Hilo Hawaii after a nice rain shower. Boyd Castro took us there last year during our visit, it was very impressive.
It has been nice to see, all jokes aside, that this year we do actually have lots of water running in the ditches as all of our winter snowfall melts. I can remember as a kid walking down in the fields and playing in them...funny we weren't swept away..I guess we were just too clever.
Well, I just cant get my mind off of gardening..I spent Wednesday afternoon in the greenhouse fighting every bit of common sense I have ..to not go ahead and start some seeds. That plan would work great while the sun is shining and its a nice 80-85 degrees in there, but come night fall, and lack of sunshine and it quickly becomes "cold as hell" in there again. So, for now I guess I need to be patient and wait...which is not something a Lynch is very good at. Last year at this time I had seeded brocolli, cabbage and leeks by now...and let me tell you, things are not looking good for planting potatoes on good friday! If by chance the snow is melted off the garden, it is a total mudhole! I took a walk around yesterday, things just look awful! But, being a true gardener, or maybe because I have no common sense, I remain optomistic! Mother nature usually knows what she is doing...and just because my nice new strawberry beds look like they took on a nuclear haulacaust..I'm holding steady to my vision of plump red berries about the second week in June!!
Now, just a note on my new orchard..... I came home from work Thursday, rounded the corner by the yard (the area that has been cleared for my new apple/fruit orchard) and counted 38 deer feeding on the freshly exposed grass. There were too many Turkeys and Pheasants to count..I had to slow down and "wait" for them to all clear the road so I could continue on and park in the lane. This just isn't good. Not one bit good. I have 28 trees on order which are due to begin arriving sometime mid April and will need to be planted immediately. Do you see my delimma? The deer have got to go!! And, like Forrest Gump would say....That is all I have to say about that!
So, that is about all I have for today. I will leave you with another picture from our Cruise. This is Kurtis and the "Yellow chicken girl" This picture was taken to show that I have just as good a sense of humor as anyone...Sure, I don't mind letting my husband take a picture with a young, shall we say "attractive" female, scantilly attired in yellow feathers.... I don't mind at all...and yes, I think it was funny he spent the rest of the evening picking yellow feathers out of his front teeth...haha!! So, until next time......Love MOM

I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START!!!!

I know it has been forever since I updated this blog.....and I'm afraid I don't have a really good excuse as to why that is except to say I have been just plain busy...but that is so lame!!! After all, what should take presidence, silly tasks such as cleaning house, doing wash, working and shoveling snow, and shoveling snow and shoveling snow...yeah, now you see why I haven't updated..everyday is shoveling snow day!! This winter has really been a pain in the "posterior", but it's Iowa and I still love Iowa.
So..Kurtis and I picked a good time to split from this climate for awhile and do some bopping around the southern hemisphere! We left on February 14th...first stop Ft. Meyers/Cape Coral to visit with Dale and Connie. The morning we left it was minus 15 in Cedar Rapids. The plane we were to leave on at 6 a.m. proved to not be air-worthy. We all loaded on, backed out on the runway...waited and waited, but no go! The pilot finally came on and told us the steering mechanism was out..and we weren't going anywhere...I totally agreed with him and was glad to get back off..gee, with no steering who knows where we would of ended up..we might of went North instead of south..and I didn't want to see anymore snow!! haha
We finally managed to get to Cape Coral and had a great visit with Brother Dale and Connie. There place is just magnificent (more pictures coming later) and we had lots of good visiting time. Dale and Connie are good tour guides and all too soon it was time to leave.
We caught the cruise ship out of Tampa on Sunday February 17th. Thanks again to Dale and Connie we were right on time, went through the check in process and headed out to sea. It was almost like when Andy, Opey and Bee went to Hollywood...we couldn't believe the sights and all the people. The ship had over 2300 passengers and there were 910 crew on board..Unbelievable! We had a wonderful time. The ports of call were just beautiful..We went to Grand Cayman, Cozemel, Belize and Isla Roatan. More pictures in the future!!
So, I will try to update this blog more often and show some of the great places we got to!! Like ole J.P. Murphy used to say.....I believe we saw the world!!!!
Until next time.....MOM





Here we are before we climbed into the speed boats in Cozemel..look just like a young couple on their honeymoon wouldn't you say......We just thought we were sooo cool!

This was the evening of the last night at sea..Kurtis was having prime Rib and I had the roasted Quail with Burgundy Wine sauce...What you just might call La Di Dah!!! We had 3 waiters at all times....

Now, just tell me...don't we look like the hottest thing going!!! I couldn't believe my little country boy from the farm could "go like hell!!" After I decided he somewhat knew what he was doing, we had a ball!! We were jumping 6-8 ft waves in the Carribean!! I was laughing so hard, my sides hurt the next day!! It doesn't get any better than this!

But, you know what?? It's always nice to get back home and enjoy the small things in life..Here is Grandpa Kurtis and little Ellie fresh out of bed and watching Sunday morning cartoons. We happily give up the sand and surf for this special time....