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I like this bread!
Ian enjoying some fresh bread for breakfast.
Fresh Bread
Ian was tickled pink when I said I was going to make “honey bread.” This turned out not to be because he wanted to help me measure and mix the honey-whole wheat dough but because he wanted some honey on a spoon. Of course I said yes.
Ian spent this entire (apparently quite boring) phase of the baking in his sandbox.
Punching down the dough, Ian style.
Playing “peek-a-boo” with the resting loaves before they went into pans…
He covered these up all by himself. “These bread gonna make MORE teeny bubbles.”
Maybe not so pretty, but oh so good. These didn’t finally come out of the oven until Ian went to bed, so we’re going to have to resist the temptation to eat them all before he wakes up in the morning.
"Daddy, it’s book time!"
Just another beautiful morning around here.
Seeds are really taking off!
We’ve now reached the point where we vent the top and wait for things to grow like gangbusters. I’m good at this part, which makes the mass slaughter at “hardening off” time all the harder to take…
Also, the grass seed Ian and his pals planted in the yard is just starting to sprout. It’s taking a little longer than what we planted last year, but I keep reminding myself that we planted in August, and it’s been a LOT colder than August around here lately!
Hi, Ho, the Derry-O
We had been unable to book a slot for a group tour for today’s visit to Oxon Hill Farm,but lucked out to be invited along on a previously scheduled tour with another group that happened to have room for us today. Ian got to see lambs, feed chickens and cows, and go on a hayride behind a genuine, bona-fide farm tractor. Throw in a dose of absolutely perfect weather, and you really couldn’t ask for more!
"Now seeds, start growing!"
The whole idea of seeds has got Ian super excited this year. He and his friends planted an entire bag of grass seed in the back yard as part of a lesson we did on seeds, and we are also starting some seeds indoors. Mostly tomatoes, but also some cilantro and yellow daisies.
Every day we check their progress and he tells me all about them. Today he observed, “thems got leaves!” Well, sort of, sweetie. But yes, they are growing.
The tomatoes are Burpee’s Steak Sandwich Hybrid. I’m hoping the seedlings survive the hardening off process and we’ll be enjoying abundant tomatoes this summer. I’ve never successfully hardened off any seedlings… oh, I’ve tried, but apparently it’s not a process that goes well with my usual policy of “benign neglect.”
That’s enough pictures, Mommy.
Stop gettin pictures of me. That’s enough pictures, Mommy. You get a picture of my eggs.
March for Babies Photo Essay
Ready to go
Quotable Moment: “No, Daddy, it’s not that kind of excavator.”
Ready to Party
The Wages of Flirting
Lunch!
Saddle up, cowboy! Goin’ home.
We did it!
Ian and I, as you can see, have completed our 100 mile pledge! He hasn’t been along for all of them, but he’s logged a lot! He’s quite a trooper.
Wish us good weather in the morning, although the actual three miles of the march itself are going to seem like an anticlimax to us!
I also want to take a moment to say THANK YOU, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! to my generous sponsors. You’ll find them in the sidebar. There is still time to be one of them! Just click on the badge below. Thanks to all of you, not only did I reach my personal fundraising goal, but my team is nearing their goal as well. The babies thank you too!
Love to all!