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I am back! :)
Posted on Jul. 31, 2007 at 11:10 AM
in Rambling Thoughts
Hello. I am back. :) I decided to come back early from my blogging Summer Vacation. I have missed blogging, I have missed sharing pictures of my garden and things around my home. Since I kept having those … “ I should blog about this” thoughts I decided I would just come back and blog.
I can hardly believe that this is the last day of July. Summer is already half over. Amazing! I am trying to embrace Summer but find myself longing for Fall. We have had some cooler weather the last week or so that has only increased my desire for the end of Summer.
One of my goals for this Summer was to teach my daughters to swim. Not one of them could swim. I have wanted to teach them but never had the opportunity when I was able. Sooo, this Summer we bought an above ground pool. It is only 15 x 4 but it is big enough and deep enough to learn to swim. I now have three swimmers and my youngest has become very comfortable with the water and does swim with a floaty suit on. I hope to have her swimming without the floaty suit by the end of Summer.
Owning a pool, even a small one, comes with a big new chore … cleaning it! And this is the land of Monsoon season and that means dust storms. I do admit that we have not had a usual season, we have only had a few days with dust blowing. BUT those few days filled our pool with much dirt that I am still trying to get out! Temporary above ground pools come with these tiny little pumps and teeny little filters that fill up and need to be changed/rinsed very often when you are trying to remove lots of dirt from the pool! AND those little filters are very expensive considering what they are made of. We have been doing a lot of filter rinsing. :)
Our garden is still in pretty good shape this year. The red tomatoes stopped producing but the little yellow pear tomatoes are still growing. We have peppers on the Anaheim green chili plant while the jalepeno and bell pepper plants are taking a pepper producing rest. Our volunteer trees and palm trees are doing great. Big, beautiful and so very green! I will miss all that bushy greenness when we finally remove them. I had planned to take them out when they were still small and grow them in pots but time got away from us and now they are too big to transplant. Why do we have all these volunteer trees? I think it is because of the birds, especially the Grackles, bring the seeds to our garden when the bubblers are on to soak them in the water. They also bring dog food from the neighbors houses. Silly birds … or is that smart birds?! :)
I do appreciate the volunteer lantana plants that somehow got into my garden. They are a very pretty white variety that I really like. Other fun volunteers are the Tobacco Trees. They grow very tall and when they bloom they are covered with pretty yellow flowers. We have one growing in our dog’s potty yard right now. The poor thing is bending over terribly, it got knocked over in a dust storm.
Another volunteer …
We went to our state’s homeschool convention a couple weeks ago. I love the curriculum hall … so many wonderful books, curriculum and other fun things. We mostly bought fun things this year since we already have most of the curriculum we need for now. One of our favorite buys was several lamplighter books. My oldest loves those books, well, I think all my girls do but she gets such pleasure and joy from reading that a new stack books makes her very happy. We are planning to start American History in September and found a game that is a great accent for our studies, it is called Way Back When In History. Various books, cds and videos also somehow made it home with us from the convention.
We had a wonderful time eating lunch with several families from our church on the first day of the convention. We went to a Mexican food restaurant not far from the convention center. I am so blessed by my church family!
Well, this has gotten long so I will end it now. I have more to say but will save it for another post!
Have a blessed wonderful day!
Rachelle
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Posted by leemomofthree on Jul. 31, 2007 at 8:44 PM - Link
Great to have you back. Though I don't leave many comments, I am here reading your entries and so enjoy them. Welcome back. And.....happy August.
Oh my goodness!
Posted by Cornflower on Aug. 1, 2007 at 12:03 PM - Link
Those pictures are beautiful! is that really part of your garden? It looks opposite of ours :+) Your daughters have lovely blogs. I really enjoy visiting them. Thank you for being my friend. I highly enjoy your blog as well. I am sorry, for I do not believe I introduced myself. I just take great pleasure in visiting here. I hope you do not mind me commenting as I am only ten.
Thank you for taking time to listen (and read)
*God Bless You*
~Miss Corn~
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