Homemade Lemonade

Here are a few pictures of what we've been up to this week:

Kate is probably the most responsible person in our family, and she's vying for position as best homemaker too. This week, she saw our lemon tree full of lemons waiting to be picked, so she picked them and decided to make lemonade. (Thanks for the new juicer, Grandma Barthule). She also announced she would take over all plant watering this week, after seeing our one houseplant was neglected and droopy. So far, she has done a good job.


We got a recorder concert this week, performed by the kids.

Danny is also trying to follow his sister's example and practice violin. He is always very serious when he plays:



Dad, here's a better close up of Coolie and Moolie, as you requested.


We had a big storm last weekend that left several of our friends without power for a couple days (which is tougher when you have a well). We kept power, but had a couple oaks break and fall. This one fell onto our fence. The fence shouldn't be too hard to fix (for Brent to fix that is), and luckily the cows didn't try to make an escape. It was funny to go out and see them in the storm. Rain was blowing sideways, trees were falling, the wind flipping things around, and they just stood there staring at me and chewing, just as happy as if it were a sunny day in the middle of May. The next morning I went running and saw all kinds of carnage, trees balancing on power lines, the entire top of a palm tree snapped off, it was nuts.