*Really need to do a blame game post. Need to move this stack of books out of here.
*No way I'm going to make my current household goals by Sunday like I'd hoped. But progress is being made, so it's not all bad news.
*I am such a goshdarn wimp...I hate these 90 degree temps! As Rich proclaimed to the weather gods earlier, "We left the South for a reason, you know."
*Is it horrible that I'm so grateful that the family reunion is over for another year? Not that we didn't have a lot of fun, mixed in with the inevitable annoyances. ;)
*Our garden is finally starting to take off. :D We'll be harvesting the rest of the radishes in the next couple days. And eating lettuce on our sandwiches, too. And I don't think it will be long at all until we're munching on kohlrabi (one of my all-time favorite veggies!). We had an infestation of cabbage moth caterpillars munching on the kohlrabi leaves last week, but Rich picked them all off and moved them to the front yard. And Rich built some little supports for our beans to grow up this morning.
*The guys have been busy in the kitchen as of late...Max with his brownies, Gray with his blueberry smoothies, and Rich with his beer.
*Just a few more weeks of soccer. Not that I'm complaining, honest. I love going to their games...I just wish it didn't take up four nights a week.
*How on earth did I ever live without a bread machine for so long?!! Rich got me one last week, and I'm addicted! I just started a loaf of Italian Herb Bread...it's not even baking yet and it already smells incredible. (Bread machines, however, are not conducive to losing weight.)
*Our flower garden springs to life more and more each day it seems. I'm so in love with it, it even makes up for the rash I got on my arm weeding it this morning.
*When we out running errands yesterday, we hit one of the local thrift stores. Miss Annie made out like a bandit--a whole bunch of shirts/tanks, a few skirts, and her favorite thing of all...these boots! She's never really worn shoes with much of a heel before (these have about 3.5 inch ones), but I think halfway through the day here, she's finally got the hang of them. ;)
wow your garden sure has taken off!!! You guys have green thumbs thats for sure! love the pics of the books in the kitchen and Annie is growing way tooo fast!!! geez... i wish I could tell you there was a way to slow time down, but alas.. no way jose !
ReplyDeleteI've just spent a while reading this blog to catch up. I've missed reading about you and your family.
ReplyDeleteI keep talking about a garden, and in the mean time ignore tending the small flower garden that I have!
It sounds like everyone is doing well. What grade are the kids going into in the fall?
I loved looking at your flower photos. They are beautiful! You take great pictures.
As always your reading has put me to shame. So far I've read one book in the last couple of months and I'm trying to finish one I started quite a while ago. It's just so predictable I can tell after 50 pages how it is going to end.
Tim has two books to read this summer and one would think he was being punished by the way he is acting about it. I'm trying to ease the "pain" by reading it aloud with him. :)
It's so good to visit you again.
take care,
Dawn
I am in love with the boots!! She looks pretty awesome!! I love the photos of the flowers and the kids in the kitchen!! Yay for boys cooking!!
ReplyDeleteI love these kind of catch up posts from you. It almost makes me feel like I could walk right over and join in your day! Wish that were the case!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a fan of any temperature past the low 80's myself. Usually humidity is mixed in and it is just horrible. I was so glad for a reprieve last week and a nice cool 4th of July evening. Of course those will all just be distant memories when I am sweltering in the heat next week on my work conference trip to D.C. Yikes its been hot there!
ReplyDeleteOhh, you're inspiring me! Your garden looks so beautiful! Look at all those beans! I only grow bush beans because I'm not very good at putting in supports and always too lazy to go buy something substantial to do it for me at the garden center. It got wayy too hot here for lettuce recently. I grew radishes my first year, even saved seed from them (the flowers are pretty) but nobody in my family wanted to eat them! so I don't grow them anymore.
ReplyDeleteI love your flower garden! Are they perennials? I want to grow daisies and coneflowers next year, if they'll come back for me.