My sister Deb brought these awesome Venus viewing glasses. We missed it as the sun went behind a cloud but we look all glowing and cool in the light of the sunset.
Ali has discovered the fun of the puppet show window in the basement. We had the performance of Jill and the Beanstalk tonight because she couldn't locate her boy doll. Max from the wild things was the stand-in giant. She did a great job and Carter made a fine director. He was in charge of introducing her to the audience.
Byron picked up this slack-line on the Internet somewhere. We are having way to much fun trying to learn how to balance on it.
I am all sorts of sore today but I am not sure if it is from the slack line or from adding my additional vegetable gardens that I put in yesterday.
I ended the night with the high score of 6 unassisted steps. I guess I will be joining the circus soon.
Carter ever so gently helping Ali across the line.
Ali and Ty have taken to sleeping in the hallway now that it is summer. I make them sleep in their real beds when they have school in the morning. Ali asked if it was time to sleep yesterday because she was excited to go to bed in her "summer bed."
They did manage to pick the absolute hottest place in our house to make their summer beds. The hallway upstairs gets about zero air conditioning. In the rooms you can close your door and trap the cool air inside but in the hallway it is just too hot for me.
I have once again encroached on my neighbors property. (I love my neighbors) I have added those two vegetable bed boxes and three rows of strawberries. They grew them in mounds like that on the strawberry farms in CA so I thought I would try it. We have had loads of strawberries this year and are loving them. I am hoping they like their new homes.
We have been watching this show about the homesteaders in Alaska who do everything for themselves and it got us to thinking...could we live a self sustained life? In an effort to learn more about putting up veggies and preparing for winter I have added more than just peas and tomatoes to my garden. I have in the past been a terrible harvester. It's the growing that I like the most....not so much the processing of what you have grown. But I am going to learn how to do it all just in case. I found onion seeds on the top of my onions from last year yesterday. That's because I left them in the ground all winter and they already flowered this spring. Oops. I dug out the old onions about a month ago and left them on a rock. Yesterday I found them all dried up and their flowers had seeds inside them. Now I know how to get onion seeds. Of course gardening works best when you use the produce you grow so I am going to research on how to store up the food I grow so we can use it throughout the year. Sounds like a good plan, right? I have a lot to learn. I would also like to know how to re-germinate everything from itself. Like those onions. How to harvest seeds that you can store for next year. Well, this is my goal for the summer anyhow. Grow my garden and replant seeds next year from this years garden. We will see if I can make it work or not.
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