Snapshot Sunday

Anyone have any idea what is eating my broccoli?

And why do my melons have these yellow spots on them?


How it began

Snapshot Sunday

These tomatoes obviously didn't make it. I really need to get this stored for next season!



Garage saleing is addicting for me and I keep trying to use great finds like this as an excuse to keep going. lol

I have been forgetting to link this each time. So here it is :)
How it began.

Snapshot Sunday

Thank goodness for snapshot sundays - they keep me posting somewhat regularly! lol

I pulled this weed from a garden spot that I grew veggies in last year and am currently growing peas in. I have no idea how that enormous pod got in the garden without me noticing. But the constant rain for the past two days has made everything but my veggies sprout like mad! Weirdest weed I have ever pulled!

The people who have seen the before pic to this 'after' will appreciate my work! lol

Um - this pic is sideways and I just don't have the time to fix it right now. Oh well.

Check out the shorts with a jacket. Even though it's June we had some nice cool weather this weekend.

I have no idea what kind of dirt has accumulated in this bucket but a few volunteer seeds have sprouted and it sure looks like I'm growing something on purpose!

Snapshot Sunday

Sorry to have been so lax with these lately.

Snapshot Sunday

Are the egg hunts over at your house yet? lol

My love/hate relationship with perler beads is the subject of a whole other post.


Emma is really into board games now so I have been starting a collection of garage sale finds.


This is my personal favorite of the day.

"Scare City"

I get these posts every day and sometimes one of them really speaks to me. Today's really hit home.

When you buy into the *scarcity* principle, you live
in "Scare City": a place where you're always afraid of
coming up short.

In Scare City, you can't enjoy what you have -- you're
too busy worrying about what you *don't* have. All the
cups in Scare City are half empty.

Somehow, young children are largely immune to the
distressing effects of living in Scare City...

* They enjoy the abundant *now* while their
parents worry about the lack of time.

* They transform their homes into magical
worlds while their parents worry about the
lack of order.

* They give and receive love endlessly while
their parents carefully ration their limited
supply.

To live the Good Life, you have to leave Scare City
and go to a *dance* -- a joyful, magical, healing
dance where you release your fears and *shake your
booty* like nobody's watching: a-BUN-dance!

Are you willing to do A BUN DANCE with your child? :-)

http://dailygroove.net/scare-city

New swings!!

I had been thinking about how to get two swings on our set without buying the insanly expensive plastic buckets from the store. We had wooden ones growing up and I remember them being just fine. Well, we already had the wood and just needed the U-bolts and chains. Tuan took care of the measuring and drilling and I hung them up. Daniel thought it was new and fun but didn't really get into them for a few days. Emma however, LOVED them! She was so excited!

She swung,

and swung,

and swung!

A storm was coming in so it was getting colder and raining. She didn't seem to care.

nice weather

Heh - this never posted. Ah well. It was back when we had one of the first nice days of the spring. Jackets but warm enough to play outside. As you can see we hadn't but the swings up yet.



Although it is supposed to be getting cold again later this week, this is what we have for now.



Ahhhhh.

Snapshot Sunday

I tried to take each picture from Emma and Daniel's point of view.

Happy Holidays!

April is National Humor Month. I think the weather is playing along.

Yes this is what I saw when I opened our back door this morning.



Em really wanted it to snow a few days ago. Now we get to go sledding one last time before next winter!

Snapshot Sunday

I hate this door hanger. It was given as a gift (not white elephant I promise!) and I am just too cheap to go buy one that I like better. So I hung a Christmas wreath on it and then the wind blew the pretty wreath that I made away and all I have left is this ugly door hanger that I hate! lol And it is still there. In April! lol I should take it down.

Need a laugh?

Just to clarify - these pics have nothing to do with my personal life. They just make me laugh.

I must have laughed myself silly for 5 minutes straight. Emma and Daniel looked a bit worried after a while.

Ingenuity

Never let a little bit of rain get in the way of a good trike ride!

Spring harvest?

The weather is playing with us. Toying around like it might warm up for good. The anticipations was killing me so I decided to do some prep work on a small garden patch. And I found carrots! Oops - forgot to harvest those. Wasn't sure if they would taste bitter or sweet, but I called Em and D over to help me harvest them. And they had a blast!
Emma just wanted to get them all pulled out. As fast as she could. Before Daniel could! lol

Wait - you want to eat these??

All different sizes. This is what happenes when you do your best to plant the itty bitty carrot seeds w/ the help of your toddlers. And you are too much of a softy to kill, er thin the plants.

Not bad! This summer I am going to plant a lot more carrots so that I can harvest through the winter and early spring. It's only my second garden - I'm still learning.

Oh - and they were so sweet! Em tried a bite, D wasn't interested. I was the only one who ate them raw. Delicious!