This week our fig tree began bearing figs.
I am so pleased about having fresh fruit so quickly after putting it in the ground.
The kids like picking them more than eating them.
Maybe next year I will make a fig tart, I have always wanted to try making on of those. I never like figs enough to buy a bunch but I am enjoying these. They are very light and sweet and honey like.
We have all been playing Rocksmith.
Kiernan says "You fret and I'll pick.".
hehe
David and I always joked (back in college) about forming a band and recording music. We have actually done tiny fun things together and even once preformed (Kathryns wedding). Our band name was going to be Tons of Ohm.
We have been playing so much Rocksmith that our semi-serious recording ambitions have been revived.
Watch this space for a hypothetical future home video of us playing as Tons of Ohm.
I shattered my phone.
On a tile floor.
I put tape over the screen and managed not to cut my fingers for the rest of the week.
I amd using kindle editions of my text books this semester. I killed my kindle in the rain and now my phone is less than easily readable.
Happily I have a husband who can do magical things with technology.
David ordered a screen replacement for me and let me just say:
He is so so so handy!
On Friday it was drizzly so we went to the Nature Center. We got thetre in time for snake feeding. The kids were mildly interested which I found comforting and not too morbid. They gave a huge Pine snake
snake picture from Va Herpetology
a dead chick (chicken) and she took a big bite, unhinged her jaw, and spit it right back out. We got to hear an entire nature center staff discussion about how she was continually uncooperative. It was a little gross and very interesting.
We also spent a good deal of time crawling through the cave. There were some really wild kids there. They were mostly playing monster int eh darkness of the cave and they kept scaring Kiernan and knocking over Megan.
I was torn between the desire to poke their moms (who were sitting on a bench chatting away) into controlling them and the drive to have my kids cope with others on their own.
I settled for the middle road and went into the cave myself to keep Megan from getting squashed. Fat lot of good that did. They ran right over her and stepped all over me for good measure.
So I scolded them a bit and they moved around me after that but didn't pay any mind to Kiernan or Megan or to another little boy that showed up.
They were probably about 6-10 years old and having a great time, not malicious. I got fed up with the noise and the terrifying of my kids and we took off pretty soon after that.
I used the whole thing as a chance to talk to Kiernan about consideration and fun and how the two must mix.
He, after that, kept asking me to tell him of the rude kids.
Then after naps we went for a walk to see the cows and jump in the puddles. These cows were scrawny calf things just a month or so ago.
If you have any doubt about the size of Mount Airy let me point out the cows again.
After church this weekend we blew of some wiggles at the playground before heading home.
Kiernan did fairly well at church but Megan was not in the mood. Al she wanted to do was run out of the room with the toddlers and explore the church.
On Sunday we went to Ledos to see Papa and Grandma Mary.
With bonus Tom (who in my head is always Tommy).
Nom Pizza
Yay family!
When the kids napped we did some major yard working.
I am trying so hard to get the lavender to work. I pulled out all the dead stuff and put in one new plant.
Cross your fingers.
There was mowing and edging and hauling and leaf blowing and even some planting.
Things looked pretty spiffy this morning . I stopped on my way to the car to just admire it and think about how lucky I am.
Have a great week.
Enjoy some of Toms music:
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