Just found out I am related to one of the knights of the first crusade~ Henri (Ohn-ree) de Juatt (serving from 1096-1099)
~~ Mary read that our Jewetts originated from France, before settling in England. The first record we have of our Jewetts is in the late 1400's in England. King Henry VII granted to Henry Jewett the office of Forrestor of Windsor Forest and another office. Cool.
The Family Motto is Toujours le même - “Always the same”
Pulled through the dots…..
Cooking for 15 minutes….
She thought she looked like the Albino from “The Princess Bride.”
Nice…
Hollywood picking Sugar Snap Peas
FINALLY able to get into the garden to till. We’ve had rains close together and with the ground here staying wet for an extended period, we can’t even get into the garden to do anything. Today we fertilized and tilled. The early morning sun makes everything look very yellow, I know.
Master Flamethrower
A “volunteer” Pumpkin growing in the cornfield….works for me….
There’s a melon in here..somewhere ….I just know it….
Time to pick the beans….
Golden Zucchini coming in….
This is a Jumbo Pink Banana Squash plant. Isn’t it pretty? It’s foliage is like big umbrellas,
And here is a Jumbo Pink Banana Squash coming in. It’s not pink yet. The last time I grew these my dog , Blackberry, thought it was a stick and snapped it right off……LOL…We’ll see what happens this year.
Tomatoes turning….
Lemon cucumbers coming in…..My favorite
Mom in her favorite Shirt
Support the Wildlife ~ Have a Party
Buddy wanted to go blond, so we settled for a little less drama and went for highlights.
Looks Great!!
I insisted he shave, too. The unshaven pictures made him look like a thug… He is really pleased.
Patrick wanted highlights also…
and being the conscientious mom I am,
I got pictures…
Pulling the hair through the cap…
He didn’t like it when I accidentally poked his scalp occasionally, but I told him that was the price we have to pay for beauty ……
he laughed.
Letting it cook a while
Nice….
Patrick lettered again this year in Seminary. He is so proud of his pin, which is a set of Gold Plates. He likes how it glows in the pictures.
These little beauties are a Golden Zucchini (foreground) and a Poona Keera cucumber
Katie, our resident artist, created another masterpiece d’ rock.
A mouse
And the underbelly
I realized today why it takes us so long to play a board game….This is our family, playing Harry Potter Clue. Today, I was Ron, Katie was Ginny, Mary was Neville, Patrick was Harry, and Buddy was Hermione. Luna Lovegood was taken prisoner by the Death Eaters.
Patrick balancing his pencil which reads, Barium Colbalt Einstein Koolaid.
Our task was to find out who took Luna ( was it Draco, Peter Pettigrew, Belitrix, etc),
where they did it (Potions room, or the Great Hall, or the Room of Requirement….etc,) and with what (Vanishing Cabinet, Impedimenta, Mandrake…etc,)
How are we doing?
Buddy’s first suspicion was the Butler (aka Peter Pettigrew), in the Bird House (Owlery)with the broken Shoe Phone (the Portkey). Right about here, I think, Buddy asked about Autism and how I think he and Katie got it. (he has started to ask questions about it) Looking back, Buddy is inoculation induced, becoming more so evident as time went on, with the 5-year shots taking him over the edge completely. Katie was born with it. The older Buddy gets, the more social, and “normal” he becomes. I am considering this from the perspective of the more he ages beyond his shots, the more “normal” he becomes. I talked about a revelation I received about the two of them and their DIFFabilities.
Oh, here we are actually playing the game and….
…Waiting for the cat to finish her turn….
Patrick considered Lucius Malfoy in the Great Hall with the Mandrake.
How we ended up here, I will never know….I think it was my turn on the board.
Oh, good heavens!
Katie spent most of the time laughing her head off.
We spent most of the time laughing, telling jokes, talking about the future, Autism, missions, and played a little of the game. We lost. Luna was toast.
The garden is just growing and growing. Here is just a sampling of what is going on.
Here’s a sampler of the samplings
Sugar Snap Peas, just before Patrick ate them
The first Poona Keera cucumber
Tomatoes of some kind.
Crawl dad holes <ick>
There will be beans! <and bean bugs>
The first of the White Dragon’s Egg cucumbers developing
The first of the Golden Zucchini
16 rows of corn
The back quarter
Sometimes I feel like I’m failing miserably at this widowhood parenting, but then I am shown how my kids are turning out.
All 4 of my kids were with me in the temple for Stake Family Temple day last August. Someone told that that was an amazing thing. I just took it for granted, but I guess it’s not that way for everyone.
Mary is busy being a live in care taker for an elderly couple in my Branch. She’s done this before, as she helped me with her father when he was an invalid.
And here is Katie, weeding in the garden without complaining.
Here are Buddy and Patrick, cutting the grass, without a fuss or complaining.
And here are my…. my boys…um…Patrick is ramming a shovel through Buddy’s head….. Um…
Actually, I broke it this morning digging a hole. For a tomato plant, okay?
What do you do with a broken Pink Shovel? This one was the first of the Pink garden tools.
Buddy shows us what you do…
