Friday, July 04, 2008

Feast of Saint Isabel of Portugal

Today is Number Five's Name Day!

I found a very nice summary of the queen-saint's life here...
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Garden thoughts on the Fourth

As I washed a mighty head of lettuce and looked at the freshly picked peas... I realize this is the very first I bring peas into the house. I have been gardening since Number Two was one year old, back in Kansas... but peas have always been a small crop-- just enough for outside eating. Not this time. They are the tallest thing in the garden, and covered in the little white blossoms.

I can see my garden in the dawn light from where I blog, and I hear the many birds. My heart is full of gratitude. God Bless America.
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

While I'm in the garden...

...Mrs. Body works on some homeschool planning for me.
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Mulberries!

Country neighbors Janel and Curt and their children came over and we learned how to gather ... mulberries! She loves making pies from these... mmm... otherwise ignored berries in our acreage!









Update:

Said neighbor brought a ... mulberry pie! We're saving it for the Fourth. Looks like it will go really well with the gift of coffee brought by blog reader and visitor from CA Kitty F. ... Thanks!

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

A new screen door!

Husband worked on it while I was in MN... it looks great! Thank you!

I have to admit... it is nice to live in a place where we don't need air conditioning in summer.
(Remind me please of this during next winter).
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Thank you, Nina!

It goes so well with our Peonies and Daisies!
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Monday, June 30, 2008

Monday chores


Planting Rosemary, gathering eggs, painting a newly repaired picnic table and installing a new cover on the playset are a few of our chores today...

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul


Numbers Six and Seven ready for Mass... to celebrate the great feast of Christendom and the beginning of the year of St. Paul as declared by our beloved Pope. Fr. C's sermon was a specially great one! Thanks, Father!
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More from the garden


Squash, tomato, potato and a pumpkin patch planted by Number Five.

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Kittens, by Number Five

Our new kittens are a major source of entertainment these days!
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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Our Garden Grows

We took pictures yesterday: 1. Number Seven shows the first snow pea; 2. lettuce and horseradish; 3. the new strawberry/garlic bed, rhubarb, green beans, cucumber and zucchini, and the newly constructed support structure for the green beans built buy Number Four; 4. some tomatoes and the amazing, healthy Jerusalem artichokes!


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Weather beauty

Last night the sun and the rain together painted a... rainbow! Isn't each new rainbow a miracle?
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