Summer is all about spending time outside enjoying the amazing wonder that God has breathed into every living thing in nature. We try so hard to harness it, to garden it, to grow it. It brings such joy to our little family. This morning we watered the flowers at the neighbors' house. Katherine loves to wander around with a flowering can.
Then we moved what we think is a pumpkin plant away from the cucumber, for fear that all our cucumbers will smell like and taste like pumpkins. We lost one sunflower to the wind this morning, so we put in stakes and tied up the other sunflowers, hopefully they'll be beautiful this August. We put in a new trellis for the cucumbers, which seem to be doing quite well, with only one root. I'm afraid if we step wrong, we'll kill that huge plant.
We checked on our transplanted apple tree sprouts. They lost all their leaves, but seem to have just tiny little buds of new growth, so we watered them. Nannu brought over some leaves for our rabbits. They are hot in their fur coats, poor fellas. We lost a rabbit yesterday to the heat. Poor Lucky. We buried him in the back yard and Diana made a cross of twigs and placed it on his burial spot.
We haven't pulled out all the weeds in the garden, maybe we can do that tomorrow morning, really early, while the sun is still on the east side of the house. While digging around in the garden we found two really nifty caterpillars. I remember playing with a caterpillar like this when I was a kid. John and Diana let me take their picture while playing with them.
No bug is safe from these two young entomologists. My kids also caught dragonflies this morning with a big butterfly net they got from Nanna. They even played nicely with each other, which at age 10 and 8 isn't always easy. Such a joy to see. I can't believe it's only mid-day. What else will this amazing day have in store?!?
