Alexander the Photographer

Alexander took some more pictures, so I thought I'd share. He has a unique perspective.

He asked to use my camera to take a picture of Glenn. What was Glenn doing? He was getting ready to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He loves to pose for pictures, so he put the bread over his shoulder. I think he may have already put the bread over his shoulder so that he could have a hand free to get the jelly.

Alexander and I went to the farmer's market at the town square. He took a picture of this horse that is on display. He loves to spot the horses all around town. I like his low to the ground perspective. :)

Boy Scouts

So, I'm not sure if I mentioned it in this blog, but Glenn started boy scouts this fall. Bob is his den leader (due to lack of interest from the rest of the parents). It is so cute to here him recite the cub scout's motto and cub scout promise. It took a few weeks' practice, but he can do it.

Last night, they got their popcorn sales information. Yay fundraising (she says weakly)! So, I am just going to put this out there for anyone that really wants what looks to be some tasty popcorn. Here is the link to his fundraising page: Glenn's Boy Scout Popcorn Page

As Bob said, we do not provide financing. :)

Next month, we are going camping as a family to the Cuboree. Should be interesting, but hopefully mostly fun. It tends to rain a lot in October, so hopefully that won't be the case for that weekend.

I ordered his cub scout uniform and patches over a week ago. Hopefully we'll get them soon and I'll take a picture of him in it. I'm assuming Bob will need a uniform, too. If so, I'll post a picture of him, too. :)

Resending this weekend's post

There was a problem with the pictures of the post I sent out this weekend. If you did not view it right away, then you were not able to see the pictures. So, I am trying again...

The boys are enjoying school. Alexander missed his second week because he was sick with a fever, but otherwise, they have been healthy. Alexander had a project to do, decorating a person to look like him. Then he put stickers of things he liked around it. It was fun to do together. Glenn just got a progess report and it said he is meeting grade level expectations in all his subjects. He is also getting E's in conduct, which is for excellent. His teachers said he's very cooperative and works hard.

I know you love the pictures, so here they are:

 

Bat Spider Man watching Daddy play Super Mario Brothers

Alexander is getting good at taking pictures. I decided to post this one because I just got new glasses. What do you think?

I planted my fall garden about two and a half weeks ago. I have never had a fall garden before, but I think it will be more productive than my spring garden.

In the square below, I have sage, parsley, speramint, and oregano growing (can't really see the oregano, yet). The celery I planted last spring is still trying to grow in the top right corner. The lower righ corner are golden beans (rather than green- gotta mix it up sometimes). And you might be able to make out the sweet pepper plants that have sprouted in the lower left corner. They are going to be different colors: purple, yellow, red, orange, and green. I have chives growing around the edge and also planted a few potatoes in the lower bottom. Any place I had a little room, I planted some garlic and ginger.

In the next square, running through the center are the banana pepper plants I planted in the spring. They have been producing like crazy this month. I just made some stuffed banana peppers at dinner last night- delicious! There is also some basil in with the banana pepper plant on the right. In the lower third are various lettuces, like you see the spring mix in the store. I should be able to start harvesting some of them in a couple more weeks. In the top right, you might see kind of a triangle of green; those plants are snow peas going around a trellis. I have green onion growing in the top left.

In the middle to the lower middle are eggplant plants that seemed to still be producing, but the one left on the plant hasn't grown much lately. I moved my strawberried to the lower left of this square because it gets a little shade from the crape merdle tree, which will mean they won't get quite so hot and hopefully produce more. The bottom right corner is spinach. The top right is kholrabi; I tried it in the spring, but it didn't grow well in the heat. Root vegetables like cooler weather, so I'm trying again. In the top middle I have rainbow colored Swiss chard. And in the top left are sweet onions.

Also, today is Bob and my 12th wedding anniversary. We went to a Brazilian Steakhouse on Saturday to celebrate. It was a very nice dinner. They had a great salad bar that was not your ordinary salad bar (shrimp, Brazilian salads, cheeses, meats). Then they brought different meats to the table. Delicious and too filling. We went home a bit bloated, but happy. :)

Painted a wall

This week, I painted a wall in our house... a very large wall. The main wall in our living room also extends to the dining room. It was a dingy blah color before with marks and holes (Bob had to get the wires through the wall somehow) and was not pretty. I had purchased a brown a blue area rug for the room last winter. We chose a blue from that rug for the wall. The actual color blue is lighter in the pictures than what it is in real life, but you get the idea.

I like how the living room wall goes with the painting.

We chose the paint color to go with the blue in the area rug.

Here's the dining room. I also painted the column you can see on the left side.