Taking a break to stitch a few rows on Ayla's birthday project. Or will it be a post-birthday "just because" project? Or will it be a project I start and never finish?
Aiden moved back to camp about 2 weeks ago and we're missing him. He looks like he's having fun and we're happy he's surrounded by good people and lots of high energy, especially considering our house is pretty quiet and low-key. The house feels hushed and echo-y with both boys gone for a large portion of this summer so far and Amberly down the hill on her own farm. For the last two weeks, it's just been the little girls and I! What a strange phase this is.
GardeningO'clock = when the whole garden area is dappled in shade from the big oak tree, signaling it's time for us to come outside to weed and tinker
~front porch garden progress = intentionally slow and ponderous.
the sweetest package arrived in the mail and made me cry. thank you, Oma 🖤
My Big Wheeler Honeysuckles are taking off. The vines are twiddly, but they're about 4 feet long! They were 3 inches tall 7 weeks ago (whistle)
3 inches tall in the beginning of April. 4ft tall in mid-May!
Ayla = rock & fossil hunter
Pantano Romanesco Tomatoes ready for takeoff.
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photo bombs and motorcycle repairs
This winter/spring plantings near the house: apple & plum, yaupon, tomatoes, rat tail radishes and flowers. I removed a couple crepe myrtles and fire bushes that were making our house look even more asymmetrical than it already is, and planted all my own selections - lots of symmetry, everything edible. I'm enjoying tending what the girls and I have planted rather than managing random spatters of decorative shrubs. This is our garden this year. Going small and going home. I was disappointed about this at first, but it's been so much fun being able to actually manage what I've planted without feeling overwhelmed!
Asher's first (hopefully last!) experience with "laughing gas" and novacane. She was a trooper. Byebye stubborn baby tooth and extreme pain (an adult tooth was drilling itself into a nerve), hello relief and lots of soup.
Rat Tail Raddishes lookin' good! Another hydroponic transplant success, horray
Ayla filled out a sermon suggestion slip a couple weeks ago, just for fun, and it happened to be selected for this week's sermon! She just about fell over with excitement. Her cute writing was even featured on the 'big screen'. It was an excellent exegetical sermon on power hungry narcissists. Some of us know a Jezebel or two and were enraptured and encouraged by Elisha. I'm so glad I was there to hear Pastor Daniel walk this one through. We go to the biggest little church.
The cosmos and rat tail radishes Ayla is admiring in the hydroponic station are ready to be transplanted today. As soon as I'm finished cleaning the kitchen and processing 2 loads of laundry, I'm going to play outside.
making cookies for a visit with the Lauterwassers @ Matt&Ambs house.