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Garden 2011

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Salsa ingredients from the garden - tomatoes and hot peppers

Salsa ingredients from the garden – tomatoes and hot peppers

Now that 2011 is over and the garden has been long gone, I am finally getting around to showing it off. This year I did a few things differently than in past years. Instead of using black plastic, I used weed block, with mulch on top of it. This seemed to work quite well in [...]

Train table

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

Spencer has recently gotten quite interested in trains. I had been thinking about getting him a train table for several months for Christmas, but hadn’t made up my mind. The last time we went to the railroad museum, he started talking about how Santa was going to bring him a train, so then I decided [...]

Lightning McQueen raking leaves

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Spencer raking

Sunday afternoon after nap Spencer helped me rake leaves. We had a pretty good time. He is getting more helpful all the time. Here is a short video of him scooping leaves into the wheelbarrow. We dumped all the leaves onto the garden to compost. (We went to the zoo for trick or treating in [...]

Pumpkins

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Clare recently bought a new onesie for Meg with some pumpkins on it, and the text “daddy’s little pumpkin”, which pleased me, since she has lots of “i love mommy” shirts, but not many shirts with “daddy” on them. Clare put that on Meg this morning, and I got the great idea of taking a [...]

Salsa 2011

Sunday, August 21st, 2011
13 pints of canned salsa

13 pints of canned salsa

Yesterday we canned salsa. It has been three years since the the last time I canned salsa. This year, I had the help of Nick and Karen, which was much appreciated. Clare helped out by taking Spencer and Meg to the zoo with Alisa and Tao, so they were out of our hair. I want [...]