We fed him an entire meal grown at the lake. Corn, Hard to believe you got your start from a paper bag. Carrots more zucchini Green Beans and Cantaloupe. (The seed packet said “cantaloupe” but we opened them, and they were green — but they tasted ripe, and did not taste like honeydew melons.) And, [...]
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When I woke and walked outside, I found two pairs of shoes neatly positioned along the edge of the dock. These were not ours. Around the fire pit, there were a couple of damp t-shirts stretched out over the logs. A couple of those might be ours – it was hard to tell from where [...]
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On our way to pick apples, I drove along country roads, with a sketch of a map in my head for navigation. For the most part, I just followed a square grid in my head to travel north east, toward the apple orchard. I thought, for a while, that I was lost. Time looked as [...]
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I’m so forgetful and I loose my lists. I find bits of scrap paper everywhere with lists I no longer need, and never the one I do need. I wanted a big place to record jobs, (water the Buckeye tree — it’s dying!) and lists (don’t forget laundry detergent) at the lake. A chalkboard, big [...]
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and all I got was an empty pail. Actually, we picked 15 pounds and locked them in our freezer for pancakes, muffins and yogurt. Strange, I think, that this is one of the hardest hit states in our economy’s downturn, and yet food is going to waste. Cheap, healthy food. As our own blueberry bushes [...]
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The boys took over 1,000 photos in less than an hour of each other on the wakeboard. Their challenge was to narrow their collection of wakeboard photos to these.
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The kids love to snack on sunflower seeds, and because seeds are cheap, I decided to plant, for the first time in my life, sunflowers. I was a bit unprepared for their showy, spectacular opening. Every morning for about a week, the boys would tug at my arm, and yell, “Grab your camera! Look at [...]
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As purely a pre-cautionary measure, all costume related apparel has been removed from his wardrobe, in preparation for his first day of kindergarten. And, that alone, is enough to break my heart. And I know that got a tear drop out of the eyes of his pre-school angels
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They spend days and days building their own life-size battle cruisers, complete with imaginary flame throwers that “destroy stuff.” They add steering wheels and controls for speed. It helps, a bit, that we don’t make them pick it all up each night — so they can build on the previous day’s progress… like REAL construction [...]
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