Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 43 Entries. Saturday, February 9 View Page This storm was the worst I have seen in quite awhile. I sure wish Spring would hurry up and get here!! Saturday, February 9 View Page As you can see it was over the top of my snow blower! Thursday, March 7 View Page Snow is almost gone. Winter rye is looking good. Thursday, March 21 View Page Well, we got more snow. Winter just won't go away. Note: I created this diary entry via a test version of the new BigPumpkins app on my iPod. Saturday, June 1 View Page The buckwheat is filling in and getting tall. We are going to have to till it in soon. Sunday, June 2 View Page Decison time. These are both from Snowball. Sunday, June 2 View Page And then there was one. The plant that was on the left had a flat double vine going. Posting this right from the patch using the new app. Sunday, June 2 View Page It is really cool when a world-record holder like Ron one-ton Wallace reads your diary and sends some advice. Sunday, June 2 View Page Ron, the buckwheat has been tilled in. Thanks! Monday, June 3 View Page Looks like my remaining Snowball plant might be double-vining too. It is trying to take a right turn. Got some bamboo stakes in there to get it going in the right direction. Monday, June 3 View Page This is a Trinidad Scorpion hot pepper plant that I grew from seed. Thanks Marley. Tuesday, July 2 View Page I have not been able to get a pumpkin set on the main vine. They either shrivel up or die before they even open. Friday, July 5 View Page I finally got a chance to go fishing with Scott Marley! What an awesome day! Scott is great guide. These are just some of the fish we caught that day. I CANNOT WAIT to go bass fishing with him again! Thanks again Marley!! Tuesday, July 9 View Page Finally got one to open on the main! I hope the pollination takes. Wednesday, July 17 View Page The last pollination on the main aborted, probably due to the heat. Now I am seeing a yellowing of my leaves. Things are not looking good and I am running out of time. Wednesday, July 17 View Page Here is another picture of the leaves. Wednesday, July 24 View Page The disease continued to spread through my plant as seen here. This is the end of the line. I pulled the plant out shortly after the picture was taken. Friday, July 26 View Page Diseased plant pic 2 Monday, July 29 View Page Too much disease this year. Tuesday, July 30 View Page Starting to get some habaneros! Tuesday, July 30 View Page These are Serrano peppers. Friday, August 16 View Page Started my vacation by taking the kids fishing down at the CT River after dinner last night. We caught 3 little smallmouth bass. Friday, August 16 View Page Another CT River smallie. Tuesday, August 20 View Page Matt D. took me and my two sons out on the CT River to try and catch some channel catfish. We had a great time! Thanks Matt! Tuesday, August 20 View Page We went on a nice boat ride and Matt showed us this eagles nest. Turned out both the male and female were home, so we got to see two bald eagles! Tuesday, August 20 View Page Matt took us to a spot that produced his own PB channel catfish 10 years ago! We brought all kinds of bait including nightcrawlers, shrimp and mackerel. It was not long and the bite was on!! Tuesday, August 20 View Page Matt helping to remove the first catfish from Nicholas' line. Tuesday, August 20 View Page Nicholas with his first CT River channel catfish. Tuesday, August 20 View Page We caught a wide variety of fish even though we were targeting catfish. This is a small striper Nicholas caught. Notice the damage on the top of the fish. Apparently this fish is an honorary catfish as he appears to have nine lives. We released him so he could grow bigger. Tuesday, August 20 View Page Here is Christopher with a nice black crappie. Tuesday, August 20 View Page Christopher got his share of channel catfish too! Tuesday, August 20 View Page Another catfish caught by Nicholas. Tuesday, August 20 View Page It was strange but we were catching lots of smallmouth bass on shrimp too! Christopher caught this nice one. Tuesday, August 20 View Page I even caught one. All together we caught 12 catfish, 9 smallmouth bass, 1 striper, 1 black crappie and 1 rock bass. Thanks again Matt! We all had a great time. Thursday, August 22 View Page Thanks for the great day of fishing Scott! Sorry about messing up your boat. It seems to be what I am known for now. Friday, August 23 View Page I took the kids out on Candlewood Lake with Paul Mueller, a CT bass pro, and we caught the smallmouth bass of a lifetime! Monday, September 9 View Page The Trinidad Scorpions look ready. Who wants some!? Saturday, September 14 View Page My habanero peppers are looking good too. Saturday, September 14 View Page And these are my Serrano peppers. Saturday, September 14 View Page And these are my Serrano peppers. Saturday, November 9 View Page Team-Pumpkin meeting at Gene's place today. Thanks for hosting Gene! It was good to see everybody. Sunday, November 10 View Page The pumpkin growing season may be over, but the bass fishing season is not (if you can take the cold)! Sunday, November 10 View Page Another nice Candlewood Lake smallie! 4.5 pounds.