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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>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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>Lemonade in the Garden
>After the children used all these lemons to make lemonade, there are still a bunch on our small tree. We’ve waited so long to harvest them, the lemons are sharing branches with new blossoms. I’ve never made lemonade from scratch before, but it actually turned out really well. Z, Bean, and a friend enthusiastically cut [...]
>Let’s Call This the Front Porch: Before
>Oh, my poor, neglected front porch. How nice of me to call this a porch, though, with just enough room for a ratty old pot and a mat. Over due for a paint job, spider webs abound, and a goner of rosemary plant. Not quite the welcoming vestibule front porches should be. First order of [...]
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>Distracting Me From Work
>I usually keep the shade down next to my desk because this view of the backyard is just too distracting. Today I know it’s too cold to go out and sit on those lounge chairs, but it’s nice and warm inside, with my elbow on my desk, gazing out on the cauliflower and lavender. The [...]
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