Saturday, July 25, 2009

Our House

The garden we dug up and planted. It is looking much better these days, I pulled a zucchini and a cucumber out of it yesterday. But, we are realizing it would take a huge amount of ground to keep our growing family subsisting on home grown veggies for any length of time. For instance, the five cabbage plant we have will theoretically take us trough ten meals. I am guessing at that number. So, I look at my garden and consider my weekly grocery list and my garden is not looking like a viable alternative yet.

On the other hand, if we wanted to subsist on dandelions we might do OK. This is our yard in the back. For soccer playing, camping and fort building, horse racing, and picnicking. I took this before Nick mowed the lawn...of Dandelions.

Our back door and covered porch-y thing. I was really excited about this but alas, the rain gets in. Nick and Samuel are such a good "working guy" team. This is the long awaited bunk bed.

Our little living space. It is a nice space. We feel cozy in it.
When I started this post I had energy an it was a lovely day. I am now sitting in a 90 degree house, swollen feet propped up in front of a fan with a wet towel on them. So, my house is just a bit to cozy. Also, we have, for the last few nights been smelling fires (a bird sanctuary caught fire one night); sorta adds a special ambiance to the cooking feeling.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Real Quick

I will get back to pictures soon.
A funny little story:

Nick and Samuel were day dreaming about our farm. Nick says we will grow oats and hay and such for the animals.

"And milk", Samuel says.
"How will we get the milk", Nick asks curiously.
"From the trees" Samuel responds matter of factly.

"Well", Nick explains "milk actually comes from cows".

"YUCK!", is Samuel's response.

"But you drink it all the time. Are you going to quit drinking milk?"

"I am not drinking yuck milk from cows...it is FOR COWS"

I say, because at this point he might as well be informed, "Mama's make milk for their babies, you drank Mama's milk, Lillian did, and the new baby will also"

Samuel said "But cows milk is for baby cows and it is yuck and it comes from their teets!"

At this point Nick just about falls out of the bed and the farm talk is over for the night.

Honestly, I am not sure...I may have discussed the anatomy of a cow with him. How can a Mom remember all the strange subjects she may have to go over in a day?

Thursday, July 2, 2009






Introducing Redmond #3
"She" ...
Is kind of cute actually.




The video clips are so very short. They don't really need any explanation. #1 is our sweet "She" baby's profile and #2 is my favorite, her little hand and fingers moving. You may have to play them over and over just to get a good feel for the image. Seriously, they are maybe 2 seconds long.