Monday DayLook – August 2, 2010

For Today:  August 2, 2010 … Happy August!

Looking out from my back porch... the weeds need a mowing … thank goodness Dash is home!

I am thinking about… an upcoming trip, meals for the trip, packing for the trip, school and related planning for the start of our school-year, football practice for Dash, dance registration for Angelina (do I really want to drive that far??!!??), the start of Women of Grace and my involvement (do I really want to drive that far??!!??), putting up garden veggies, peaches (YUM!), chicken ‘harvest’ … it’s Fall on the FARM!

I am thankful for... good weather and the fact that the latest storms have left without damaging our property, garden, yard and crop.

I am reading… “Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey” by Gregory and Martine Millman and “Boys Should be BOYS: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons” by Meg Meeker, M.D.

I am hoping... for a productive week.

I am hearing... kid music from upstairs in the kitchen where Angelina is baking & the youngest three boys are creating a circus-like atmosphere.

I am wearing… knit capris and a grey t-shirt, ponytail in hair and barefoot!

 From the sewing/craft room (aka. laundry room!)…I sure hope to get a bit of sewing done this week.  I’d like to make at least one more skirt, and I’d like to alter two tops and a pair of pants for Zeke.

 From the school room... organization is the goal.  I’ve finally, ‘really’, gotten through last years files and pared them down to the papers/workbooks I want/need to save.  All materials for the new year are laid out and I’m slowly organizing my digital lesson plans and putting books on the shelf.  I’m done with Zeke & Angelina, except for a bit of copying.  Dash’s digital lesson plans are the ‘biggie’ that I’ll be trying to finish up this week. 

 From the kitchen... plan to enlist Angelina and Dash to do some baking (cookies and bars).  Meals will be kept simple this week so I can sew, wash and organize.

From the garden… a handful of peas and beans.  The cukes will be in full production by mid-week ARE in full production (maybe enough to can a few jars of pickles) and the eggplants are coming right along, too.  I’m a little disappointed in the tomato plants.  The plants, at least a couple of them, are not as disease resistant as I’d hoped.  So, I’ve had to toss some of the fruit.

 State of the house… well, when we aren’t around the only thing that collects is dust! 

 A successful moment… we are fully unpacked from our trip to the fair and laundry is washed.  I spent a bit of time in the garden weeding out those weeds that could be pulled by hand.

 A few plans for the rest of the week…
Monday: Baking, gardening, hang around the farm.

 Tuesday: Haircuts for Angelina and me.

 Wednesday: Baking, gardening, hang around the farm.

 Thursday:   Baking, gardening, hang around the farm.

 Friday:   Baking, gardening, hang around the farm.   

Saturday/Sunday: We WeFest III – my nephew’s 3rd Birthday party on Saturday.

 A picture memory...

What BISON fan wouldn’t take a picture of grazing bison??  They were in the pasture right next to the Hjerdahl Lutheran Church near Bergen.

 

Eric, Angelina, Graham, Louis, and Zeke next to the cornerstone of the Hjerdahl Lutheran Church.  Eric’s parents were married in this country church and it’s still in use today.  I didn’t think to snap a picture of the church as a whole … sorry … and it wasn’t open, so no inside shots either.

  

Beside the church is the cemetery where Eric’s mom’s parents are buried.  On our last trip (to check out the grain truck) we drove by because we didn’t have time to stop; this time we took time to stop and find the grave site.  We were out this way to pick up a grain truck we purchased from relatives who live on a farm near Bergen/Voltaire.  Eric drove the truck (no air conditioning) home last Thursday on our way back from the ND State Fair.  I and the kids took the suburban … and made it home a little quicker and in the comfort of air conditioning!