{p,h,f,r} Just Everyday Life

Linking up with Like Mother, Like Daughter today.

{pretty}

The kids have been working on their gardens, and I think they’re looking great.  Sim planted a watermelon start and some bean seeds.  His garden looks somewhat spare at the moment, but he’s very happy with it, and once the beans come up, it’ll fill out a bunch.

Hannah’s garlic has been going strong – planted last fall – and she’s already had a harvest of radishes go through the other half of her garden. 

Here she’s putting in the tomatoes, peppers, and ground cherries (maybe some basil, too?) she started from seed.

Naomi’s miniature garden continues to look fantastic, and she likes to add touches here and there.  But what she really wants is more mini trees. 

{happy}

Happy is a boy who is learning to throw and catch a frisbee with his dad.

 

And happy is also a dad who has a flame weeder.  One of Michael’s favorite tools.  We didn’t have as much use for it at our last house, and he’s more than happy to have things to use it on now.  You can’t see the flame in this picture, but one lights propane and goes about burning weeds into oblivion.

{funny}

Tess is very funny, lots of the time.  Here she’s discovered that she can make herself a little room with kitchen cabinet doors. 

“Take a picture of me!” she said, but she wouldn’t look at the camera.

And here I was trying to get a cute picture of her smiling with the sun shining through her hair, but all I got were pictures of her with her tongue out like this.  Very funny.  She has a small sprinkling of freckles on her nose and cheeks.

{real}

The ducks slept outside last night!  In their duck house, of course.  It was a bit…amusing for Michael and I to get them in there.  Michael got to help pick them up and put them in because:  they’re still terrified of me.  Of course, after having to work pretty hard to get them into the house last night, I then had to work hard to get them out of it this morning.  Soon enough they’ll learn.  I hope. 

Hannah can pick them up without panic – in the photo above she’s just setting someone down.

And Tess, the two-year-old, seems to pose NO threat at all.  Sim saw some of their bigger feathers coming in (the quills come in first, then the feathery bits) and was quite concerned that something was terribly wrong.  When I told him it was just their feathers coming in, he asked if he could touch them.  I skeptically told him it was fine with me, thinking they’d never stand for it.  Well, he walked up to them as they lay resting on the ground, squatted down, and began stroking their wings.  Yep.  No problem.  They didn’t even stand up.

But if I were to try walk up to them – without any intention of touching their feathers –they’d freak out and run.  Ah, well, I didn’t get them as lap ducks, I guess. 

Also {real} is my unsightly connestoga wagon of a tomato planting.  I’ve opened the top now, since some are blooming and need some pollinators.  But it’s not a pretty addition to the garden.  However, once the weather is nicer, I’ll take it all down and the tomato jungle will possibly be added to the {pretty} section.