Silver Moon Learning

Jun. 9, 2009

Getting our hands dirty.

In an effort to clean up the backyard, I'm paying kids for weeding. Very clear boundaries that even the 3yo can follow. Don't touch anything in Momma's flower bed, even if it is a weed. The rest of the yard is fair game If it's not a piece of grass, pull it. Put all the weeds you pulled into one pile. When you're done weeding for the day, show mom your pile. You'll get paid based on the size of your weed pile. After getting your pile evaluated by a parent, you have to take it to the huge weed pile before getting paid. If you pull three weeds, and your sibling pulls twenty-five weeds, don't act surprised/horrified/upset or otherwise throw yourself into a pity party when you aren't paid as handsomely as that sibling. Wash your hands when you come in, please. Three kids are having a weed pulling good time. I'm going to be less a few dollars by the end of the day, but my yard will be cleaner. In more dirt news, Joy and I found nearly three dozen mushrooms growing in our yard. Ew. We pulled every one we could find, then buried them in the weed pile so Faith wouldn't be tempted to sample them. She'll taste anything at least once. We found slugs in our yard this year too. I like them better than the mushrooms. Slugs and mushrooms are things I just didn't expect to see living in the desert. Allegedly the water table is very high in our neighborhood, but it's still a desert, yano?

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