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In the garden we husband and children, planted:
Three kinds of tomatoes
Two kinds of peppers
Cantaloupe
White onions
Collard Greens for the lizards
Yellow squash
Zucchini
Watermelon
 
From seeds which aren’t planted yet:
Radishes
Pole Beans
Lettuces (heat tolerant kind)
And this is what we didn’t plant.

A slug or something. Sir Husband found it and saved it in a jar because; “I knew you like to take [...]

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While we visited the farm on Tuesday, my friend let the girls collect eggs.

These are chickens.  They lay one egg a day. 

The girls collected three chicken eggs.  You do know what part of the chicken the egg comes from, right?
Two eggs went into brownies.  One had to be thrown out, because it was cracked.

This is the [...]

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While driving in the van through a speedbump infested parking lot, our youngest started talking…
Hey! the butt of the van just went up!
The butt went up again!
And again the butt goes up!
Husband says:  That is your daughter.
Mom (that’s me) is looking confused because there is no way that is my fault. 
Mom says, “Please stop saying butt.”
Ok, [...]

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There are no pictures of the young man because of this.

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I have this cute little girl statue that sits in my weed garden.  She stands about 15 inches high and she carries a basket.  I can put bird-seeds in the basket or water or something else.  My goal is to make the weed garden a butterfly garden. Then the little girl statue can hold pebbles [...]

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A little over a week ago, Sir Husband removed everything from The Peas’ (two youngest daughters) room.  That included the furniture, toys, clothes, and The Peas.  Sir Husband is painting the ceiling, walls, and putting down wood flooring.  The Peas are now sleeping on their mattresses on our bedroom floor.  That’s really a joke, because they [...]

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The girls have been learning to play the recorder since November.  They have done very well for their first year. Everyone else in their class had lessons last year, and my girls had just a month to catch up.  That they did.  :)   I love to hear them practice, but at the same time it [...]

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so, we can do our school work

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  Apparently so.  Just one bean, I tell her.  ONE BEAN, won’t kill you.  Yeah right!  She never did eat it. 
 

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