Has it been two weeks!?!?

Where has the time gone?!?!? Some of it has been taken up with house projects and freelancing, and I was gone last week teaching the last week of my summer class at the University of Idaho. We stayed at my parents farm and enjoyed a wonderful 4th of July with my family. I did manage to take a few pictures...



It was hot, hot, hot while we were there, so we tried to do any walking in the early morning. But some mornings it was just too hot, so I stayed near the house and took pictures of the hummers...



Mom and Dad feed an army of about twenty hummingbirds. After the eggs hatch there will be closer to forty. They eat out of two feeders and consume a quart of sugar water a day. If it is really hot, Mom has to fill the feeders in the morning and again in the evening. You do have to be a little careful when standing under the feeders as you might get speared by a fiesty hummingbird zipping by.

Since our farm is close to a Reservation, there are many wonderful and illegal fireworks to choose from. The spouse loves this availability, so he and my sister drove down and bought $50 worth of exploding activities while I was working. We started off with the sparklers...



... and then had to move to an area away from the house and any fuel tanks for the big stuff. All the kids enjoyed it, but Mister Ewan was asleep after a few fountains so missed the aerial display... ah well... there's always next year. I posted the rest of my pictures on Flickr.