Another Day

I bummed around today. Tracy had a violin lesson so I trampled through the teacher's mother's garden looking at different things and even took some rhubarb roots. You should see her pea pods!!! :) I've been told I can pick carrots, beans, and raspberries to my heart's content. I even got to pick a few strawberries that had their faces showing. Yummy!!! Tonight I took Emily and Melissa to VBS where they learned the story of Daniel, and the verse and lesson were on self-control. We also made a quick stop at the library to return some books, got gas for the car, and dropped off a rhubarb root for a friend. I forgot to stop at the bank to drop off our electric bill, but I'll be in town tomorrow and Thursday. I think our calendar is clear for Friday at the moment other than Mike working.

Garden

Look at the pea pods!!!!! I've been waiting and waiting for them, and they showed up when I quit looking. A watched pot never boils, I guess. :)











Here are the newest pictures of the garden. The peas, some of which are over my head now, and beans have lots of flowers. I have (only) 11 tomatoes as of last count, the peppers are flowering. I still have to take up an onion to see the progress, but they look strong and healthy from above the ground. The kids are anxious for the corn--the tallest one is waist-high. We've had lots and lots of lettuce to eat.

Fruit

We picked another four quarts of blueberries today.
I'm trying my hand at making some strawberry leather. I don't have a blender so chopped it as well as I could with my "onion chopper."

We didn't get any mowing done at the church building like I wanted to do today. :)

Tonight Emily and Melissa went to a VBS that did a lot of singing and had several puppets. They did the story of David and Goliath and based the lesson and Bible verse on "courage."

Birthday Bounty

We got Tracy picked up and made it home safely. She's tired but had a very fun time. I grilled my birthday steaks, made some potato fries, cheesy green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk for supper, and had strawberries over white cupcakes. I didn't realize Pamida's sales ended on Friday so missed out on my cheesecake. :) Laura and I picked the daisies.

Happy birthday to ME!

I have been saving our last package of steaks from our beef we got last year. I think this is a good time to use them. :)

Tomorrow we pick Tracy up from soccer camp so I'll get a couple cheesecakes at Pamida and see if I can con people into picking one more bucket of strawberries for me then have a supper for my birthday then.

Have a good day! We're planning to go blueberry picking later.

Sonlight Science

We've slowly been working our way through our science curriculum. This picture shows just some of the books we use. Today we did a bunch of experiments with water.

We learned about floating/sinking, underwater floating, pushing power, changing shapes, the way they load cargo ships, the Plimsoll line in fresh vs. salt water, and we made a submarine out of a bottle and a tube.

If you're interested: http://www.sonlight.com.

Soccer Camp

Well, we brought Tracy to soccer camp this afternoon. We were just about there when I heard "one of those groans" that a mom knows too well. So...I asked her what she forgot, and it was her sleeping bag! They did have an extra around she was able to use, otherwise I was going to leave her our beach towels. While I do keep a few things in the van, a sleeping bag is not one of them. :)

Here's a sneak preview of a new children's picture. I won't be sending this one out to people but thought it was a fun one to post. :)

The other day I looked out the window and found this rainbow; it hadn't even rained here so somewhere southwest of us was getting a shower.