After a few hours of hard work, our garden is finally planted. It’s not real big but you’d be surprised how much food you can get from a 6X4 foot bed. We planted tomato’s, cherry and 4th of July (these are called this because the first harvest is ready by the 4th of July), squash, zucchini and yellow, peppers, jalapeno and anaheim, a bunch of strawberries and 4 or 5 different herbs. The boys want to add watermelon and pumpkins today.
We have 2 soccer games today with the oldest boys being about an hour and 1/2 away. We’re going to try to carpool as it’ll cost $40, or more, in gas to take him. If we can’t find someone to go with, we might just not go as that’s just too much money these days. The littlest ones game is in the usual place about 5 minutes away. Both are at the same time so if we do go to both games, we’ll have to split up.
We had some friends over for an impromptu dinner last night which ended about 9pm. The boys who have been studying native americans in school wanted to shoot their bows and arrows last night, so we set up the targets in the backyard, got them all geared up and let them have at it. They’re both really good shots! They have traditional archery bows which are the kind you think of when you remember archery as a kid. There are new fancy bows with pullies and complicated sights but I opted to get the boys the old fashioned kind when they first discovered the sport last year. If they can shoot these, they can shoot anything. It’s also good exercise, mental and physical, as it takes concentration and strength to shoot their bows. The evening was then capped of with them wanting to watch Dancing With Wolves. This all started with the oldest being on a day long field trip at school called Day on the Prairie where he met an 80 year old native american who made the teepee’s in the movie Dancing With Wolves. We spoke with his teacher yesterday who said it was quite magical and very interesting. To get comfortable for the movie, the boys went down to the basement and dug out all our old animal hides. This included a 10 foot wide buffalo hide, mountain lion, 2 bear skins, wolf, coyote, raccoon, fox, beaver and various indian relics. When they get going on a theme or idea, they’re all in. I thinbk they get this from their mother!
Tomorrow’s Mothers Day, I’m still not sure what we’re doing but it’ll have to be late morning as we have football at 1pm. I think we’re going to my Mom’s but am personally out of the loop on this one. It was warm but a bit overcast yesterday with 80 degrees in the forecast for today. My little sister commented yesterday that she was recently diagnosed with skin cancer and reminded us all to wear our sunscreen! It seems a lot of people from our generation are now getting diagnosed with this. It’s not surprising as we all lathered ourselves up with baby oil or something when we were younger trying to get as dark as we could. I guess now it’s time to pay the piper for all that sun! Hopefully none of us will get the bad kind.
Lot’s of flooding in the midwest, I wonder if it’ll be raining for the Kentucky Derby today. We’re pretty blessed living in Colorado as were not really a tornado (at least in our part of the state), hurricane, earthquake or flood type of state. It seems like there’s more and more natural disasters these day but I’m sure things like this happened in the past as well.
Time to jump in the shower and see if we can hitch a ride to soccer or else we need to decide if we’re going to drive or not. I’d stay home but have a feeling other parents are skipping this game too and we don’t want to leave the team hanging or a man short.
We hope you all have a great day and enjoy your weekend, until tomorrow, God bless,