Summer is over, Fall is around the corner

@ I start back to 8 hour days on Monday...I have been going to school almost every week this summer in getting my room ready and shadowing my Assist. Principal during summer school to gain admin experience...but I have been able to go home as soon as I became tired, that will end starting tomorrow.

@ the school supplies had been purchased

@ the garden is maybe half done for processing

@ I am feeling much stronger, yet get tired quicker than I'd like

@ and hopefully Mim and I have a better understanding of each other


this Fall season will be quiet in comparison to other Fall seasons.

Mim is not participating in cross country running or basketball (as of now anyway) to take a break and to see if the past sports is what she really wants to do, so she will be more involved with our church's youth group in hopes she will find a better friendship circle than she had last year and maybe a non-sporting extracurricular or two at school.

Ve and Tuki will be skating again starting in September as well, so besides work everyday (of which I will be exhausted for a while due to healing from the surgeries), taking one administration class and continue preserving the produce from our garden, I think we will have a relatively quiet fall....I hope!!!!!!

July was a blur, August is a little clearer

Due to my surgeries (late June, early July) July was a foggy fatigue induced blur, but due to the help of my lovely daughters, friends and family we are doing pretty well. The girls activities were many this summer,

Tuki:
home school summer school
2 months of softball
Youth in College
Camp Invention
One month of swimming lessons
Ve:
home school summer school
2 months of softball
Camp Invention
one month of swimming lessons
Mim;
home school summer school
2 months of softball
One month swimming lessons
babysitting and lawn cutting jobs for the neighbors

Since August we have attended a Victoria Justice Concert, camping nearby the last few days and maybe visit a local large zoo next week. We have been taking weekly visits to my doctors for check-ups thus we have been trying to make each visit a little fun too.

 Victoria Justice concert

 Her opening act was Max Schneider from the movie "Rags"

 The happy girls (we attended one of the few days it actually rained this summer)...go figure :)

 Tomatoes galore, we need to pick just as they are turning red since the chipmunks also love tomatoes. We have been able to keep the deer out, but lost our corn to the raccoons and the cucumbers really had a bad year...all around it seems . Everyone around here says cucumbers didn't fair well, otherwise our garden has been and still is going strong.

 little canning going on every day...I actually am using a pressure cooker this year for the beans..something new for me.

 this is what our counter looks like daily, the chickens never did slow down in egg production....

 the garden...right side of photo is where the cucumbers are still holding on, but no real show

 other parts of the garden...we water two hours nightly due to the drought we are in.

 the wee ones at camp invention

 Ve's  balloon popping invention

Tuki's balloon pumping invention