Lazy Summer

Hi all! I must apologize for not posting much these last few weeks. I've been having a rather lazy summer, so I've been a bit lax in things like blogging, music, and knitting. With school soon to resume, I'm beginning to work a bit harder in these areas. I keep telling myself that the reason I haven't been blogging is because I have nothing to blog about... but that's not true! I still have yet to post good pictures of my square foot garden, my knitting stash, and I hardly ever post about music! So, dear reader, I have my work cut out for me this week! I'll start with something easy however. Here's a Simple Woman's Daybook.




For Today: July 29th, 2009.

Outside my window: Hmm... I can't see outside... the blinds are closed! :) But I do know that it is all pretty and wet outside because it has just finished raining.

I am thinking: About how oatmeal is really hard to scrub off of things after it hardens. Yeah... don't ask. :)

I am thankful for: Rugs. :D

I am wearing: My pink and brown hat that says "Ireland", and my long-sleeved pink and brown bunny shirt (haha, yes I was trying to match!), and jeans.

I am reading: A fictional series by Karen Hancock called Legends of the Guardian King. The books are *hrm* a little more romantically inclined than I would like, but they are wonderful allegories.

I am hoping: That autumn will come soon.

I am creating: A baby blankey. :)

I am hearing: My brother Austin smacking while eating a PB&J while fiddling with his new Mac computer. (He's headed off to college in two weeks.)

Around the house: Mom's out counseling someone, daddy's at work, and Austin, as I just stated is eating a PB&J while on his Mac computer.

One of my favorite things: Rain... and being cold. :) I'm tired of summer and heat. I want fall to come so I can be chilly, and then go snuggle up in a blanket.

What I accomplished since last week: I finished a dragonfly dishcloth that I had been knitting, I started my Greek back, I've aaaalmost finished my biology study guide, and I tried out for my church's youth praise band. We actually have three youth bands, and I was chosen to play piano for the *worst* one. SIGH. I wanted them to use me as a fiddle player more than piano, and I DIDN'T want to be in the Sunday night band. But if that's where the Lord wants me... that's where I'll stay. *Lord, please give me patience and humility to bear being a band that I feel is a waste of my talent!!*

A few plans for the rest of the week: Our family is headed up to Athens and the mountains this weekend. Austin is going to UGA in two weeks, so we're going up there once again to check it out.

Here is the picture I am sharing with you:

This is my silly/handsome/gorgeous/nutty precious fluff named Jeremiah. I LOVES him to DEATH!!

Camp!

Hey all, Madison and I are back from camp! It was just as wonderful as I expected it to be, and we had lots of fun meeting new friends. Here are some pictures of camp! (My camera died half way through, and I had forgotten my charger...) :'(


Pretty mountains...


Rose and Jessica in friendship bracelet making.


Picture of me with a funny story... we were outside playing tether ball, and we were COMPLETELY covered in sweat, and I was all like "Nooo... don't take my picture!!" but Madison did anyways, and I ended up loving this picture! Yay!


Games in the Crows Nest


Beautiful camp flower... it was soooo tiny too! I had to use macro setting, and get really close. (It was for photography!)


Funny angle/great picture that Madison took of me in photography.


Ok, I'm posting 5 pictures starting with this one, showing JUST the path from the Planetarium down to the guys cabins that we had to walk up and down at LEAST twice a day.


1st flight of stairs...
Turn right, and you see -->

And from here you keeeep waaaalking....


Around this bend......


Over the concrete......


And down the second flight of steps!

Yay! Now try running up and down all that twice, and then walking twice that length at least 8 other times throughout the day. AND playing ultamite frisbee/vollyball/floor hockey/dodgeball AND having an active class like canoeing or obstical corse.

That IS camp. Walking. Sore musles. Being tired. PULLING musles. That's what camp is all about. And it was fun!

But I'm really, really glad to be back.

No, really.

Beds and long showers were sorely missed!

And I'm getting tired just thinking about bed.
Goooood night all.

Off to camp!

Yes, I'm off to camp today, with my good cousin Madison! I'm so excited!! We leave after church, and the car ride to camp shall be very interesting. :P I have a very fun car game called Rubberneckers. It is interesting. Camp is going to be fun as well. :~) I love the hymns and the swimming and the hiking and food and the camp store... it's all so wonderful! This is my second year, but Madison's first. Please pray that we'll have a safe drive up there, and that all the campers have a good time, and stay safe! I've been shopping and packing like a mad woman to get ready. I'm bringing my camera, so be sure to check my blog once I'm back. There will be pictures. Lots of pictures. TONS OF PICTURES!!*Slightly evil chuckle* Mwahahaaa. Tehee. *Giggle* :~)

On another note, here are some terrible pictures of my new Square Foot Garden! (Yes, I took them at night... and I hate using flash... and they are all really dark.)

Hey, I know! It can be a game! Try and guess what is in each picture.

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2.(This one might be hard)


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Now some pictures that you CAN see. :) (I grudgingly used the flash on these...)
(By the way, it wasn't THAT dark outside when I took these. I was still walking around barefoot. [something that I'm terrified of doing in the dark] My camera just makes everything look like it is 1 A.M.)



My WONDERFUL WATERMELON! I am so excited at how it's growing! Last year we planted a watermelon plant, and it grew a watermelon the size of a (rather small) fist. And then it stopped growing. This watermelon is already bigger, and growing, and grrrowing, and GROWING! Yay!

Wonderful random news!

I've been pretty busy lately with no time to post! Our family had a blast on the 4th, when we traveled out to my aunt's house to swim and eat good food. (As you've probably already read on my cousin Madison's blog.) Madison and I are headed to a camp soon, and that will be AWESOME! We are both really excited!! And still more exciting information, is that my father just read Mel Bartholomew's book Square Foot Gardening, and the very next day took me to Lowes to buy all the material's for building a square foot garden! He (my father) was raised a farm boy, son of a county extension officer (someone who helps farmers with bug/disease/varmint problems). He has tons of experience with gardening/farming. It's what he majored in at colledge. He read the book, and immeadiently wanted to try it out! There are so many benefits to square foot gardening! A sfg is easily protected from deer/other varmints, you don't have to walk on the soil that covers the plant's roots (that harms the root system), you don't have to plant or cull so much, it's a portable garden, there are virturally no weeds, and there are many, many other benefits. Check out Mel Bartholomew's website here. We've finished building the first frame, I can't wait to plant my seeds!