I didn’t really plan on hosting a bbq on the 4th of July. The lawn hasn’t been mowed, I didn’t have a much food in the fridge, bbq’s out of propane, no decorations or fun things planned. But when some friends were all excited about getting together to celebrate, we pulled it together and bbq’d [...]
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Third Summer for the Stock Tank Pool
The time has come again to prepare the stock tank pool for another summer. It will be our third year with it already! It’s weathered in nicely, I’ve made some adjustments to the connections, mixed up the ways I treated the water, thought about and against many further adjustments, and fielded a number of email [...]
Wet on Wet Watercolor
Most of the time, I avoid bringing out the paints. It’s one of those things the children get too excited about, and they want to paint all day every day and if I let them paint one time they freak out and can’t get enough painting omg more paint more painting. Even though it’s so [...]
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>Tightening Up the Pool
>The stock tank pool has served us well. It’s pretty much every day that the children spend time in the pool, just having it around cools us all off. Sticking my legs in usually is plenty for me, even when it’s really hot. But since we hooked it up, we’ve attached the pool to the [...]
>First of the Tomato Harvest
>The first little tomato was ceremoniously eaten by Bean this morning. The second tomato was eaten shortly thereafter, plucked right from the base of the plant. We only have four tomato plants so far this year, but there are a number of green ones growing. There is room for a couple more, but I’m out [...]
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>Birthday Cherries
>Z turns nine today, oh my baby is so grown up! One of her special treats today is harvesting the cherries off her cherry tree. For two weeks, she’s been asking when we can pick them. Nine cherries for the newly nine year old girl. On Z’s seventh birthday, we went to the tree farm [...]
>Impromtu Clothesline
>I was looking out the window this afternoon, thinking how nice it would be to have a clothesline in the backyard. Five minutes and a length of rope later, I’ve got a load of laundry worth of line between the apple tree and the crepe myrtle.I couldn’t find all my clothespins, so I had to [...]
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>Spring Harvest
>Dang! Look at that big cauliflower! I’ve been meaning to start planting, but I still haven’t got to it. Our old cauliflowers are still looking good and obviously producing, and the broccoli looks alright. It’s so neat to see what has established itself since last year, I figure anything that has come up this spring [...]
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