Early Summer 2011

Greetings, A lot has been going on around these parts. Not sure where to begin. A few things I wanted to blog about but haven't.

• Cooking in the solar oven. Goal is to cook in it once a week. The last thing we cooked was baked potates and chicken. It was good. We put it in prior to leaving for half the day. Children came home to a healthy home cooked meal without fuss.

young zucchini plant with blossom

future tomatoes

zucchini

• Progress that is occurring in the garden. The Boy picked a few tomatoes. A few zucchini are growing but not ready to be picked. And we have a few LONG green beans. We just got some in our food bag so we plan to use those once these are gone. Home-grown green beans are delicious. But then again, all home-grown veggies taste much better.

• Broody Chicken. This was interesting and kinda funny. Mothering instincts are amazing. For those that do not know a broody hen is simply a hen that is sitting on her eggs waiting for them to hatch. She will forgo her own needs (food, water, and exercise). You literally have to remove her from the nesting box. And not without a fight. I believe that episode is over. 

         Oh! We do not have a rooster so it is pointless to allow our hen to sit on unfertilized eggs. 

• Girls first swim meet. HHHmmm let me see if I remember the results. When girls wake up these stats may be corrected. Faith took first in her individual races (freestyle and back). And did a marvelous job in the team events. Well, we have to get that breaststroke a little faster but it wasn't horrible. Peace looked beautiful and took first in butterfly. And did all right in the IM. We have to work on a few strokes. She said she was tired. And she also did well in the team events. This should be a fun season. Once again, we are beyond grateful for those that sponsored the girls in this year's swim-a-thon. 
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• Thankful for Albany Bowl for participating in Kids Bowl Free Summer Program. (And Victoria for reminding me to sign-up). The children and I went about 2 weeks ago and had a great time.

• Today I went and worked on Soul Flower Farm. It was great. I learned a lot and got more experience which will be great for our next leg of this journey.

 Ideally I would like to post once a week but... .
May God Continue To Bless Us All,
Erika
p.s. thanks to all those that give me words of encouragement to post.