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...

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.

While I'm in the garden...

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

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!

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).

Thank you, Nina!

It goes so well with our Peonies and Daisies!

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...

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!

More from the garden

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

Kittens, by Number Five

Our new kittens are a major source of entertainment these days!

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!

Weather beauty

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