Slackness

Honestly, what is there to write about? We haven't moved. None of us have changed jobs. I'm not pregnant, though we are trying. We're all still doing pretty much the same thing we were doing the last time I posted here.

I've been reading a few books - which I have updated on the sidebar there, so you can peruse them. I highly recommend 'Occupied Voices' and 'The Things They Carried'.

Our garden is productive this year. Yay! We've got a boatload of tomatoes which I have to make into salsa and freeze or they will rot. Ditto the California chiles. Jalapenos not quite ready yet, but I hope we'll have enough the whole year like we did last year. We still have some of last year's peppers in the freezer that we can grab whenever we need. The kiddo planted a few kernels of corn just to see what they'd do, and lo and behold we've got three stalks back there now. Got some watermelon vines with a few good-looking ones, and some onions still in the ground. Some folks at church have been generous with their farm produce too - one guy brings eggs from his hens almost every Sunday (SO GOOD), and we've gotten squash, onions, zucchini, and sweet corn from one family that essentially feeds themselves from what they grow, and they are blessed with a bounty!

Kiddo has been hanging out with some of the older kids (9-12yo) at church this past week, being that it was VBS, and it's funny the things he's picked up from them. Probably the funniest thing he's picked up is the concept of being "punk'd" - appropriate usage and all. But the one he's gotten the most mileage out of is the word "teenagers". Most of the older kids are not quite teens yet and think the 'teenagers' are up to no good. So Kiddo has picked this up and it's really funny. "Mom, when we get to church, I'm going to solve the mystery of which one of those teenagers did [insert mischievous thing here]." He says 'teenagers' with the same tone of voice I'd use to say 'cockroaches.' It's hysterical. Just to see if he knows what he's talking about, I asked him, "What is a teenager?" Him: "Someone who's sixteen. Or fifteen."