Weekending

It has been a beautiful weekend here in New England. We've spent most of it outside!

Saturday morning was relaxing. That afternoon we went to pick up new sunglasses for me; to my parents where Ree played outside all afternoon; fish n chips for dinner; ice cream for dessert. Watching turkey vultures fly around a beautiful cloud & watching a wood pecker look for his dinner.

Sunday was spending time outside before Church; Ree noticing that she has SIX morning glories blooming this morning. The most she's gotten at once! She's a very proud little gardner! 

Now it's rest time for her & Momma. Later a trip to the nursery (seems to be a weekend tradition right now!) then visiting with the other side of the family.

How was your weekend?

Painting Rocks

A few weeks ago on one of our weekly nightly excursions to the beach I remembered the post Amy wrote at the beginning of summer about summertime art ideas.  One of them was to paint rocks. Since Ree is ALWAYS asking to paint I thought it would be a good idea. So the three of us spent quite a bit of time looking for some good rocks. (Note to self: next time bring a pail). We all would pick some up & examine them to see if they would be good for painting on. Even Ree had her opinion on which would be good & which wouldn't. Although we did have to talk her out of picking the biggest rocks we saw. After all we were about a mile from the car & again...no pail!

After collecting what I thought would be too many, we headed home. I then left the rocks in the trunk and forgot about them until the beginning of this week. One morning I took them out & had Ree rinse them in a bucket of water & place them on the deck to dry. She then, all on her own, decided to flip them over to dry on the other side too when the first side was dry.

I pulled Amy's rock painting post up to show Ree but I guess when you're told to paint rocks, you really don't need a point of reference. She said "Those are pretty. I know what to paint. Lets go." 

We spent quite some time outside painting. There aren't too many pictures because I joined in too. Although was only allowed two rocks to paint! She now has plans to paint the other side. Right now they are still outside as part of her fairy house. 

A very fun, very simple, very free art time that Ree loved & I loved too!!

Yarn Along

This little sweater is taking a lot longer to complete then the yellow sweater!

It also seemed a bit bigger then the last puerperium sweater I made this spring. But I kept going until the end when there were only 7 button holes. THEN I checked my Ravelry notes. Oh. I'm knitting this one on size 8 needles. The last one was done on size 5!! Oh well. That means Baby V will get to wear her pink sweater longer then a few weeks at most!

I finished the first sleeve the other night but haven't cast on for the second. Then there's the buttons to sew on. This might be a WIP for a little longer! Even though I could probably sit and have it done in an afternoon!

Last night I finished reading Orphan Train. It was good! Took me a few chapters to get into it but once I did I didn't want to put it down. It made me want to go out and adopt a child. It's also made me so thankful that I'm able to care for my children myself and provide them a loving home with what they need and for the most part want. So many things taken for granted today even though there are still so many children who go to bed at night wondering where they'll be sleeping the next night.

After I finished the book though I was lost. I didn't have any other book to read. I need to go to the library today! The Bell Jar was on hold on Monday so I had to return that without reading it! Thankfully it's already back on hold for me at the library so it's just going to pick it up!

Around the Yard::Vegetables

 

It's been about a month since I last showed you our vegetable garden. And WOW what a difference!

Everything is growing strong. We have many eggplant flowers; many many little tiny peppers, which I had thought I'd gotten a picture of but I guess I didn't! The cauliflower is taking off like crazy. We've never grown it so we didn't know what to expect. But we didn't think it would have such large leaves that over take EVERYTHING. The peppers were suffering a little bit because of it, so last night my husband pruned all the cauliflower leaves. I should take a picture of them now, they look funny! But I'd much rather have peppers & carrots then cauliflower so I'm really ok if they don't produce much.

It's time to harvest the lettuce so I'm thinking tonight we'll have a salad with our own lettuce! As I've said before we got everything in later then we wanted so we haven't been harvesting anything yet. As long as the frost holds off until November we should be good!

And thank you to Karen for pointing out that one of the pictures in yesterday's post wasn't coming up. I've fixed it now!

Around the Yard::Flowers

One of mine & Ree's favorite things to do is walk around the yard looking at all the flowers we have. It's hard work on my part to get her to NOT pick them all. I think we'll do some flower pressing this week!

We got a coneflower yesterday & I was taking some pictures of it. When I was finished I glanced down and screamed pretty loudly. My foot was touching the tail of the garter snake. I don't like snakes no matter how harmless this little guy is. Ree came running over to see what was wrong "It's just a snake Momma, no big deal."

We have no plans today so I'm thinking a morning outside with some sketch paper & pencils to see if we can draw the new cone flower!

Weekending

This weekend began Friday night with pizza & weeding the walkway & vegetable garden's. Just as we were getting ready to head inside we found a baby robin that was in the midst of fledging his nest. He ended up on our garage roof where he still was that evening at 11! 

Saturday morning the bird was gone so I hoped for the best. Ree & I spent the morning sewing some blocks for her quilt. When daddy got home from work we headed to the county Fair. Ree loved seeing all the farm animals, big tractors & the spinning wheels! She was tired out by the time we headed home! 

We ended the day by JUST catching the end of the beautiful sunset. Sunday morning was our usual with a stop at Home Depot. After we got home we headed outside to walk around & take some pictures (a flower & garden post coming this week!) Unfortunately we found the poor baby robin still on the roof but not in a good way. After lunch & Ree in for a rest I did the food shopping then dishes. A pretty laid back Sunday for the most part!

Joining Amanda

Scenes from the week

This week the weather has been beautiful and we've been able to get outside after dinner every night. 

Ree loves helping digging holes for our new gardens. I enjoy sitting in a chair knitting while they dig the holes. We usually stay out until just after sunset when all the bugs decide to come out.

I'm ready for Fall but I'll miss these beautiful late summer evening!