Week seven.
We finished our last week of schoolwork for the 2019-2020 school year! M was so ready to be done that he even requested to complete his standardized testing early. Rising eighth grader in the house! I can’t believe it.
I splurged on a new 1,000 piece puzzle that I knew one of my boys would love. It is a Thomas Kinkade painting of DC comic book characters and is beautiful, but SO hard as a puzzle. We can only figure out a handful of pieces at a time before giving up in frustration. This will take awhile.
Sourdough experiment of the week: Cheddar and Dill (minus the dill because I didn’t have any)
The garden centers local to us have been swarmed with business, which is great! Unfortunately for me, the waiting list is weeks long at this point, so I went looking online and was still successful: I found ferns and lemongrass (which gets me closer to completing 100LT #32 & #33), blueberry bushes, some tomato and pepper seedlings and even a few apple trees! This isn’t exactly how I pictured gathering the plants needed for my new garden, but I’m rolling with it.
On Thursday, we surprised the kids by going to get dinner at the Chickfila drive through. This was the first time the kids and I have left the property in 61 days! I can’t even believe it as I type that. They were thrilled to be in the car again, although some felt a bit of motion sickness. Even though it was just a quick trip to town, it was so surreal seeing most people in masks and gloves.
Biggest accomplishment: we started working on garden fence construction! The was our first time digging post holes and mixing concrete, which was nerve-wracking but exhilarating! I can’t explain how exciting it is to see my little pencil drawings come to life. I’m so thankful.
Your pictures here are gorgeous. I love the cut down tree especially.
We have a handful of dying/dead trees on our property and Mark's been slowly cutting them down. It's sad, but it's also been so neat to see "inside" them!
Holy family! Hopefully we'll get to see a lot of pcitures of your garden
I just purchased that print from Providential Co. (https://providential.co/)! Isn't it beautiful?