The garden

 

Can you see the little bee on the top left, covered in pollen?

Husband and boy moving the latest load of woodchips.  Well, husband moving them and the boy catching a ride on the wheelbarrow.

One of the garden beds.  There are a couple spare honey topbars hanging for the bees to clean off.

A close up of ground cherries (left) and tomatillos (right).  Both are related to tomatoes, and have husks that grow first then the fruit fills in.  The ground cherries are surprisingly sweet and yummy raw.  The tomatillos are supposedly good raw but I only make enchilada sauce out of them.

new backpack

The boy needed a new backpack for school what with all the lunch, drink, snacks, changes of clothes and homework folders that have to go back and forth.  I found this one on FB marketplace.  The boy found a new use for it.

 

Kindergarten (gulp)

 

Doesn't he look so grown up?  He's showing off his strong muscles.

Playing a little tag while waiting for the doors to open.

Husband is part of a bowling league, and we went with him one night.  The boy wanted to be a part of it so much, he couldn't resist running up to the lane with his dad every turn.  He gets so excited when he sees other people play and have fun.

Happy 5th birthday!!!

 It was the boy's fifth birthday.  Incredible and surreal.  Even more crazy: he starts kindergarden this year.  He's growing up so fast, we threw a rocket birthday party.   A very tiny rocket party.

I made a cake.  Totally copied from a baker on youtube, but it came out okay.  The top is two giant cookies, one for the front and one for the back.  Held up by white chocolate covered skewers set into a lump of white chocolate.  Then the flames were made of crushed hard candies melted onto lollipop sticks.  Then the cake was a funfetti cake mix hollowed out and filled with frosting and strawberries.  The frosting, meant to look like rocket fumes, was vanilla 7 minute frosting.  Very light and meringue like.

I wonder if he's using the same wind we are using

life imitating art

Some how the boy has found out about minecraft.  We don't have the game ourselves, so he's made up his own version with legos.

And taking a turn on the xylophone at the new park.

The boy ransacked his wardrobe to come up with this outfit to wear while driving his jeep.  Not sure if he knows the implications of camo and tannish grays with the jeep, plus the floppy hat.

June fun (and a little July)

Many many years ago, I saved all the money I made one summer to buy the latest in word processing technology.  It came in useful, as I was in college, for writing papers, before such things as laptops and personal printers were a thing.  Believe it or not, it's still laying around the house.

Sometimes, when it's super cold or super hot outside, we have come out with games of our own.  Recently the boy has become interested in treasure maps, and treasure.  So, I oblige with a drawn map of the living room, complete with x-marks-the-spot treasures of m&ms.  Today, the boy made his own map for me to find toys.

At the bottom, you'll notice two figures: the boy holding his crayon and me, holding my phone.  In the center is the broom.  On the left, is the couch.  It's a guess that on the right is the rocking horse.  Cute, huh?

Look how excited the boy is about the fourth of July!