So you probably won’t ever guess what I did tonight. I ended up watering the garden. Can you believe it? We went from having such a mud pile, to now having the plants (what actually are planted in the garden) too dry. So after I watered the flowers around the farm, I dug out the garden hose from the barn and hooked it up to the water hydrant by the chicken house. It doesn’t really reach all the way to the end of the garden, but it’s got a great end nozzle on it that makes it spray water pretty far! It was really getting dark when I was out doing this, so I’m not sure just exactly what got watered and what didn’t. But what I do know is that even with the lack of water that’s been in the garden, the weeds are going strong.
Other stuff that’s going on is that Daryl got the straw round bales moved yesterday into the shed. He didn’t get as many has he was hoping, but at least he was able to get some. Now we’re keeping our fingers crossed that our new seeding of hay will really take off and grow in nice and thick.
We were even able to get in a couple of bike rides this weekend. It’s really getting close to when we’ll be leaving for our week long ride, and after riding today I know that I’m really not ready at all for it! But I’m going to give it my best shot and have a good time! Our bike ride last night was the new bike trail in Decorah and it’s pretty nice. There wasn’t too many people on it when we were there and that was good. 
We also went to the Fish Hatchery because Daryl said that he never was there before. It’s always fun to go there with someone who hasn’t seen the fish jump when you walk by. I’ve been there a couple of times already, and I still love it when they do that.
Some really big fish at the Hatchery in Decorah
There is a spring that’s also at the Hatchery and it was really flowing when we were there.
Then today we went with my brother and another friend and rode on the back roads to Charles City with our bikes. I laughed when Daryl said a bird came down and was hitting his helmet when he was riding. Because that’s what happened to me once and it scares you to death. You just kind of look around and wonder just what in the world happened! You try to act cool, but when it happened to me I know I didn’t have the ‘cool’ part down. But we eventually made it to Charles City for dinner and we ere surprised that there was a car show going on. 
We heard that there was around 100 entries. They really had a nice turn out for it, but with the weather at 91 degrees and with a good wind, we just did a walk through and headed back home after dinner. We did take the time to stop and visit with a couple of people that we knew. It was a fun weekend, and we sure got a lot accomplished.