We enjoyed some rain on Monday. I collected 20 gallons of water from the roof and used it to water plants. The children enjoyed floating a few corks (it wasn’t deep enough for their cork boats, so they took them apart and floated individual corks; I found the corks a few years back at a…
I cut cucumbers, red noodle beans, thyme, basil, and lavender from the garden. I downloaded 10 free geography worksheets from education.com. They have a limit of 10 free ones each month. I printed free penmanship worksheets, dot to dot worksheets, and math worksheets. I do these each week but I don’t usually list them; links…
I cut branches from the garden to decorate the house. Two of the boys’ posters showed up, and one was rolled in brown paper. I saved the brown paper for other projects/wrapping presents. The Amazon gift card that I ordered from Swagbucks came, and I was able to order one more poster for the boys’…
Armenian cucumber in the garden This post contains affiliate and referral links. I harvested a few more Armenian cucumbers. I gave two to a neighbor (they each weigh 4 to 5 pounds). I harvested a small handful of tomatoes and a small handful of red noodle beans. I cut large bunches of basil from the…
A friends asked me to take care of her garden while she was out of town, and to harvest from it while she was gone. I brought home a basket and a half of tomatoes, a handful of beans, a few small pickling cucumbers, and some small cabbages. I started a batch of sauerkraut with…
This post contains affiliate links. Last week Winter cut and brought in grapes from the garden. The Thompson’s seedless grapes in the basket above weighed 20 pounds! We have filled that basket more than once this year from the same grape vine. She also brought in some seeded grapes from the garden. A friend of…
We celebrated Cyrus’ birthday last week. There were a lot of fun details there, and it deserves its own post, but the simple things I did certainly should be part of this one. He wanted cheesecake, which I made for him. I made graham crackers and made a graham cracker crust for the cake as well. I…
Note: This post contains affiliate and referral links. The garden’s abundance this week was wonderful. I picked peaches and figs from the trees. I cut grapes and cucumbers from the vines, picked tomatoes, cut green onions, parsley, and basil. I also dug my garlic (later than I should have!). Being spring planted, the garlic is…
Last week’s plans were completely changed when a friend, whom I haven’t seen in almost 8 years, emailed on Monday to ask if she and her family could come to visit on Friday, join us in our Fourth of July plans, and sleep at our place. We said yes, and changed our plans slightly to…
This post contains referral links. We took a new family picture, using the remote for my camera. After explicit instructions from my husband to not make silly faces, the boys of course did make faces in most of the pictures. The picture I kept ended up being a conglomerate of 3 photos, something I’ve never…
We harvested red noodle beans, apricots, grapes, plums, green onions, tomatoes, apples and blackberries from the garden. I cut the last of the purple larkspur and brought it in to enjoy at the table. Swiss Chard Seeds I collected seeds from white and purple larkspur, Swiss chard, red leaf lettuce, and white and pink stock…
I did not go grocery shopping again this week (this makes 4 weeks now). Our freezers are now full with chicken (I cut up the rest of the birds this week and put them in the freezer. Many thanks to those of you who said to let the meat rest 3 days; we experimented with…