July

Our summer has been unusually cool. Not that that's bad! Unless you are a tomato. I was so excited to get my first tomatoes I had to take a picture. Plus, if I told anyone how small my red ones were no one would believe it. So here you have it. I bought a variety called "Sweet Pea" and won't be doing it again. Picking tomatoes the size of peas is not satisfying. (Here is Aug I'm still waiting for my regular red tomatoes to turn red!)

We have some solid dirt. It's good dirt; we can grow things. But it's solid. Scott's dad came over to push down on the front end of the rototiller to get the soil turned for sod.Got the grass in! The yard is starting to look like a backyard!

In the back corner of the yard nothing would grow. The fence would cast constant shade. We sold the small toddler crab sandbox and Scott designed and built this box for the girls. It's full of 19 cubic feet of beach sand. Fun! Final touch with some pavers that look similar to the porch to edge the grass.
Continued Art Week with some tie dying. We did a bit of everything for the girls to dye for year-round color.

I even made some socks for Scott and myself.

The girls tried their hand at pointillism after learning about it from a children's classic art book.

Just before summer started we said good-by to our fish Jingle Bells. He had a good year with us. A couple months later we were ready for another fish. She's also a betta. Girls named her Goldie.

We remembered to hang the flag for 4th of July.We also had a sports week. There were times in my parents' kiddie pool. Did some bowling. (A local alley had a free kids club where the kids could have a free game and shoe rental every day. We went a lot.) And we took our first trip to Golfland.

Almost the same picture, but I love the look on the girls. Ready to go!