Summer vacation has officially began for us and the first week of NO SCHOOL is already behind us! Which reminds me to take each day as a gift because summer time always goes by so fast!
Ill give an update on what we all did since school is out and summer mode is on!
Matt and Lena are buying the home place and it needs much work. We went over on a Saturday to help and see what's happening. Mike drove the old car over and Zayla asked for a ride home. Two girls moved out of Mom's basement and they throw things in the dumpster that we ended up looking through. The kids had a blast with all the yarn they found.
We roasted hot dogs over there too.
Little Miss Zayla is just so cute!
We are in love with the summer foods!
We are plunging along with our first summer read! We try to read two chapters a day! The kids sit and listen while I read!
We got to the pool twice so far. The first time was only for a few minutes because it actually started to rain. Only a few rain drops but enough to send us to our cars. The second time, we arrived with the pool crew scrubbing the walks and everyone was out of the pool. They said someone pooped in the pool and they needed to clean up real well. We waited but soon realized that it was going to be over an hour before anyone was allowed to swim, so we left again. We are hoping for a full day pool side soon!
I cut the last of the peony's but this dahlia is making my day!
Last Tuesday, we got about 30 minutes of rain and it was so wonderful!!!! Any bit of rain is huge blessing right now! We are in a drought! We went over a month without a measurable amount of rain fall. May was the dries month since 1888. We are really close to six inches below average rainfall for the year and now being in June, we are praying for rain!!!! We need lots to make up for this loss! The farmers need rain to have a good, profitable crop harvest! This rain shower was a huge blessing!
The kids have done some paint projects!
The floors are extra dirty because I'm not the only one at home anymore. I love it when the kids are home with me but it does add extra cleanups!
We've been faithfully watering the garden and it's thriving! I just love to see the kids out picking the first raspberries! We picked four heads of broccoli and cauliflower!
So much lettuce and more celery soon to be harvested!
I planted a pack of poppies last year and they came up dancing in the garden breeze! The cucumbers are looking great! I love these!
We made a Fashion Cents stop and the kids love to shop here!
Mommy D. turned 87 in May and I promised her that we would go get banana splits together! The kids claimed they never had a banana split, so this was really fun to celebrate! White Horse Luncheonette served us two big banana splits! So yummy!
Walks in the park are still happening! The water level is low because of the lack of rain.
Strawberries are in season and I made sourdough bread once again and we love to spread cream cheese on a piece of bread, add strawberries and basil and drizzle on some balsamic vinegar! It's delicious!
Because we are in a drought, we also are in a burn ban. Instead of sitting around then campfire on Saturday night with the Lapps, we just talked together instead of roasting hot dogs. It was good company. On Sunday night, we made a s'mores dip to enjoy since no campfires are allowed right now. Austin and Adrian really wanted to shot a bird, so with the dads near by, they walked out to the fields in search of something to shot.
Matthew is back from Senior week and I am now packing a big boys lunch for his job! Matthew is ready to start his full time job and really is excited to start life outside of the classrooms!
Summer of 2023 is here and we are excited to make many memories!
