harvest, and bits

 Tink sitting on one of our six week old puppies who are ready to be given away.  He had been asleep there not long before that... but woke up when he heard a camera!

Harvest tonight, squash, a single ear of corn, cucumbers, radishes, green beans and sweet peas.  That one squash really surprised me!  And there are more coming...I think the corn should be ready by the fourth of July, maybe a bit after.

There just doesn't seem to be much time lately... with work every day this week and taking Esme out to the library on Thursday.  They had a Spanish lesson that day that we did not expect - and Esme did VERY well at it.. surprised me quite a bit!  She had been quite good this week, as well - but has gotten very muddy and picking up lots of scratches learning to climb trees.  I guess that is what summer is for?  We convinced her into a bath tonight before we sat down together to watch the first half of 'Prisoner of Azkaban.'  It was very sweet all three of us cuddled up watching the movie.   I'm reading that one now on my Kindle...

I still haven't gotten the two pairs of pants even started that I wanted to... just no time, or no 'loose' time.  I should be doing more out in the garden than I am, as well.. it will soon kick into a production that will swamp us... I think.

Brain nodes and rubber bands

Esme has discovered rubber bands... I need to get her a box.

This is the 'Mooer', it is like a telescope, but you moo into it.

The crayons are for extra super power.

I'm starting to get my 'brain nodes' open and flowing again.  I don't want to just fall into bed at night.  It must be getting towards Spring, and some of the worry channels I've kept the past years just *might* be reassigned...not sure about that one, but I think it might have some truth in it.  I feel I've always reserved a piece of my brain for 'when it hits the fan up North', and as that happened a week or so ago, and is winding down... still lost and angry a bit but also there is a relief at the same time.  I dreamt of seedlings the night before last, and that is a good dream.  I emptied all the trash out of the seed box... lovingly sorted things, planned what we have for making seedling trays, ordered a new package of a certain tomato.  I do need to buy some more zinnia seeds, for the butterflies.  I have a workshop project to finish tomorrow and mail off.  Tonight I have work and then a Common Core meeting at Esme's school I am planning to attend.

Christmas deer and a secret present in the making..

Mom and Dad are working on something big... it is a secret, for the big holiday coming up! 

Esme has seen this - but thinks it is an oven or a house.. she does not know yet. Do you remember what she asked for Santa for? She told the librarian he was bringing it when we were there today.. we went to story hour and to McDonalds afterwards. She was so good.. and Daddy had this great idea for making something 'substantial' with some items we already had in the house. I think it is sizing up great! 

Take me to your leader! That is a big clue, huh? We may have to tell Esme eventually that Santa sent us the plans but we had to make it oursekves.. that'll work, right?  I have to pick up more supplies tomorrow, and we will be further along! I have also been making these Christmas Deer for the KnitOwl shop. I have one up and another on the way... 

Available at the Shop 

Handmade from my own drafted pattern

//////////////////Language://///////////// Things I've heard lately:  'Yes, your highness', 'I'll be a Rapunzel and you'll be a Rapunzel, and we'll be two Rapunzels, and there is no witch, no witch like pretend to be a Mama, and this bed will be the tower and the prince will come (what is his name?  Prince boy.. but maybe Jamie) and he is here he says 'Rapunzel Rapunzel, let down your hair!' Are you there?  Are you gone at a Chuckie Cheese birthday party?  (quiet)  She's gone.  But, she is back now.'

''I didn't see it, I was sleeping or I was at school?' (when I told her Daddy told me something that she wasn't present for')  'Is it for me or is it for you? (about a toy I was making), 'But my Mama said, my Mama said!' (about Daddy saying it was too early to call Grandma and I told her we would try)  '

We live in the earth, and we are going to the Paris, to the library..' (I remind that Paris is still in the earth, too) 'I will have a little pet, and I have this kitten is a pet!  But, I'm gonna go, I'm going to take this to my room and play, just like that.' I'm going to grow up, and I'll be a Mama, I told you just like that, and I will drive, and go to work and do the work things, and I will come home.

On the computer game:  'Yes, I got it, I really really got it.  .... Yes, two points!'

(working on the computer) I am going to teach you, you go up there and you push ALT like that.',  'I am not shutting it down, it is coming up, it is waking up. (about the computer)', You just shoot the bad guys and then I will play like that, you better drive it (the car in the game), I will go to the drawbridge and you will fight the bad guys.  You will use the helicopter and you will float and go way high, and you will jump, and use the parachute and you will be alright.  You better do that.  Hey, I will play with this, and I will jump into the grass. (No - get those guys! - I was playing the grass running around the grass (as she makes Daddy fight the bad guys)...

I was a baby, and you were a mama, and I go waaa, and you give me the baby bottle and I grow up, and now I am a kid!  I have two kid dogs, a Loula and a Daphne, and they are kids.  I love my family, I really really love my family.  We will go in the store, they have it at the Walmart - you better buy it in the WalMart, with the toy cartoons and movies, I saw it.  (about a cartoon she had previously only seen at Grandma's house and I told her we did not have at our house).

This is for Santy, I make it for Santy, and he will see it.  (to the librarian) : I love Santa, he is going to bring me a spaceship!  'Can you bring me to the flowers?  And I will run with them and walk them around and hey - can I play with it?  You better get those bad guys!  Can't see it, where did it go?  Can't see the helicopter.  I was going to play with the grass and flowers. There he is, go get him, go get him, you big helicopter, go away you helicopter, BOOM.  You gotta shoot those bad guys and Ill play with the flowers, like that!  Oh.  wow.

Where's the flowers, on the mountain? Get the bad guys, but I can't, I'm too small. I was going to play and swing the trees, and just like that. I only shoot one bad guy, and I see the red thing, and I shoot he was really bad, like that... '  Don't run, dude.  Don't run.  I'm looking the people from their names and to... get those bad guys, I'm going to watch them go boom and I'll ride on the cars and I'll get off of them, like that - get me to the road and I'll get off those cars and I'll jump on them, like that.. I'm brave, really brave,  but I only shoot one bad guy, like that.   I can't look, I need help.  Can you get me to a beach?((Just Cause II Daddy's game))

The universe continues to surprise me...

A very unique piece of rock
(on a porch chair Ninja cat tore the upholstery off of)

I looked down on my walk with Esme and there it was - looking for all the world like a piece of circuitboard or other man-made item. The first thing I did was turn it over expecting it to be a piece of plastic - but it is chert rock from our driveway. Mark also turned it all over in his hands when I gave it to him - and said 'what in the world - that is worth a picture!' What would you call it, a naturally occurring piece of conundrum? *ducks down before the shoes start flying through the air*. I swear there is a near perfect question mark in there, to top it all off.


My partners in crime, in all their puppyness.

I feel like the day is very early outside - but there is not much I can get done with that time. There are things I can do, of course, but they are not 'big' things... I guess sometimes it is the little things that build together.

Things I would like to get done sometime soon:'
Decide where and plant some more flowers. I saw purple tulips today that spoke to me. Start the tomato seeds for the black prince - the only one we have to start. Make Grandma a simple plank bench in her back yard - hers has fallen to bits. -- I have not mentioned this to her, but consider this a reccommendation? :)

Things I will get done or close to done today:
Sew Esme's sweater together - if there is enough yarn (there was not :(
Wash the towels.
Pick up some toys off of my desk which is swamped in them.
Give Esme a bath. She is filthy from running around outside!

remember to do this...

more often: Pick up Esme first thing I get home and drive her up the road to see the beautiful pink sunset before it goes away :)

I want to call the speech lady tomorrow morning before I need to go to work, and find out if she has any results. On Tuesday after 11:30 one of the girls at work will call us to come play with her little ones.. we hope. I haven't told Esme about this yet because last time we set it up Esme got her last cold the day before and I had to withdraw. Wednesday, we go to Jackson with Grandma and Grandpa.

Happy New Year

Happy 2012, the new Year. Not much will change today itself, but there are large aspirations on the horizon to be planned and worked with over the course of the entire year. Projects in the garden and with the land we cleared last year. There are two new areas we hope to till and plant in besides the one we did this year. There will be a lot of fence to run at the shared garden for Grandma and us. Projects in the house as always, knitting and sewing and etc. We will do more with Esme's homeschool, and try to find out the rules of this better before August rolls about. I am also trying to maintain a healthy weight now after losing quite a bit last year. Mark, Grandma and Esme will take Grandpa to his doctor's appointment today in Jackson, and I have to go to work :( I wish them a good safe trip!