Monday: garden

My potted garden is not doing well.  I enjoyed the lettuce, but it is not the season for it as much (from what I'm told).  I saw a large bean so I went to pick them, only to find that the plant had withered and I could only find three beans of a decent size.

And they didn't taste good.

So I'm trying to decide what to do: we haven't had rain in about a month (and then it was about a ten minute rain).  We're about to go on vacation.  Most of the other bean plants are looking ok, but there are only a few beans on them.  Do I keep them alive?

I'll probably keep watering the lettuce to get it back in the fall.  I really enjoyed that.

Sunday: guess what's still funny

Ben throwing cloth into the air and clapping.  I tried it and got a few smiles, but it wasn't nearly as funny.

Saturday: what's so funny?

Ben throwing Isaac's swimsuit into the air, clapping, and catching it.  Simply hilarious.

It's probably the hardest we've seen him laugh.

Friday: 28 weeks

Well, it's that day of the week again!  Isaac is a week older.

Besides that, it was a pretty low-key day.  I wasn't really as productive as I was hoping, but I wasn't unproductive either.  I got two rows quilted with my quilter without any problems, so that is super exciting.

Thursday: productive

I woke up this morning in a productive mood.  It's a mood I find easy to start in, but hard to stay in.  So I decided to define productive as getting anything done, no matter it's importance.  Therefore, I had a very productive day!

*I emptied some boxes in the basement.  Several boxes where just emptied into another box, since there were a ton of barely full boxes.  But it gives us more room and a few things were put all the way away.

*I kept the kitchen clean.

*I finished my mending.

*I started to load an actual quilt on the frame.  (I finished loading it tonight.  I tried to start quilting it, but was having some thread issues.  I'll reevaluate tomorrow; I might just end up with different thread.)

*I took care of Isaac.

*Isaac and I went swimming.  We learned that sand isn't good to eat.  (Luckily, he hasn't quite learned that you open your hand when trying to put things in your mouth, so it wasn't too bad over all.  But he can get sand in his hand so quickly!)  I also pulled some seaweed out of the water at the same time.  Oh, and the fish!  They were being super friendly and coming in close.  I think I even got nibbled when we were in the deeper water.

*I took a nap.

*I collected trash from the various trash cans in the house.

So as you can see, very productive!  Maybe we can have another productive day tomorrow.

Wednesday: pears

Today Isaac got pears for the first time.  I figured they'd be easy enough to make myself, so I thought I'd do so and see if it was more economical than buying baby food pears.

I decided that I needed about 6 ice cubes worth of pears to make them come out evenly.  Two trays of ice cubes (about 24 ice cubes) later, I decided two things: 1) I put in too much water but 2) even with less water it would have still been worth the money.

Sure, it's a little bit more of a hassle, but pears were pretty easy.  Once they're ripe enough they get soft and very easy to cut and peel.  I'm planning on doing apples too, because I know they will be easy.  I might try green beans, but am not sure I'll be able to puree those smooth enough. We'll see how ambitious I feel.

We went out to eat with Dad and Pat tonight.  Pat came over a little early and helped with Isaac and it was awesome.  The kitchen was a mess and I really needed about 30 minutes and both hands to get it all finished.    I usually don't mind a messy kitchen (although I much prefer a clean one) but for some reason it was getting on my nerves.  Since I was able to get it clean, I'm hoping to do some non-repeating chores tomorrow.  Maybe empty some boxes.  At the rate we're going, I'll be finished in about two years and that isn't really acceptable.  Wish me luck.

Tuesday: polls

Once again, I find myself in the minority on one of my polls.  Most people (78%) cut their meat parallel to the fork tines.  I tried looking on-line to see if there is a "correct" way of doing it and couldn't find any info; everything talked about in which hand you're supposed to hold the knife and fork.

Since I like polls, I thought I'd start another one.  Do you sleep with your hands above your head?  It doesn't have to be all the time.  I find that I often sleep that way when I'm on my back.  Isaac often does it.