Oh baby, it's cold outside...

NOT! (how's that for a 90's flashback).

It has been soo hot here. 90's plus every day and no rain. Kal and I transplanted two smallish trees a month ago that are barely hanging on. I've been watering them every day. Yesterday, a few wrens played in the little puddle left under one. It was picture perfect - you'll have to imagine it because I sat there and watched them without a camera.

We have been doing a lot of swimming - more like lounging in our backyard pool. And I've been doing karate like crazy. This past week I went to 8 classes. Why??? I don't know. I do know I need to move more and I am enjoying this right now ( but my buttocks really hurt).

Here are some swimming pic's to cool you off.

My tomato plants don't seem to mind the dry, hot weather. I'm waiting patiently for a BLT - NOT - i can't wait to eat a warm tomato right from the garden!

So....

The boys watched Nick Walenda walk across Niagara Falls last week. They have been busy in the backyard creating tight rope riggings and zip lines. I suppose I should have stopped them for "safety reasons" but they weren't arguing and no body got hurt.

I have been doing a lot of creating/crafting. Just need to take pictures of all of it.

 He finally did it. Last weekend, Kal received his master's in bio tech. I think were were all happy for him to be done!

He asked me to make him a quilt, so we googled dna quilt and up popped a pattern by Jay Bird Quilts called Fast Forward. The pattern was so well written. I had it machine quilted by Gael Boyd of Stitch Lilly here in Madison. She did a great job.

Cowboy Camp out

Every year the music teacher at the boys' school picks a day toward the end of the year to have a cowboy camp out. Each class has a designated day so cowboy gear lasts over a week. It's fun to see all of the kids at their school decked out in cowboy gear. It's also funny because we live in a little town close to big university city where there are very few cowboys....

I love that they come home singing cowboy songs from the trail. Humming Red River Valley and that one about the drifting tumble weed. Makes me want to get out my Michael Martin Murphey cowboy songs c.d.

some days are better than others - today was not one of those days

This morning was another morning when the boys just wouldn't go. If I could be late for work - today would have been one of those days. They just screwed around. AND I needed to get gas in my car.

Then I had a major anxiety attack about Kal's job search. He's applying all over the place, but hasn't heard back from ANY of them. My work contract comes in a couple of weeks and I talked to the business manager today to "inform them of my situation". Which is???

Ian is having friend issues - same old thing. It makes me sad. He thinks that he needs to brag to a friend (not in my opinion) in order to keep him as a friend. What a friend!!

While I was boiling water for supper, I melted the above pan to the burner. That's what I get for walking away to help. I turned on the wrong burner. I have to admit it was pretty cool. I think I got it all off the burner. Now I have to see if the burner still works.

Mother's Day

It has been a pretty good day... breakfast in bed, lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings 

some quilting

The boys thought it was warm enough to run through the sprinkler... We don't have a sprinkler, so they used the gutter cleaner... ingenuity

A little while longer and it became some sort of weapon.

Then they moved on to the garden.

I know I probably should have told them to stop. Actually, I did - they didn't listen and I really wasn't committed to getting them to stop. I liked listening to them and the stories that were going along with the "lava field".

Hope you  had a good weekend and a wonderful Mother's Day!

Science Fair

The science fair is tonight. We are almost ready for it....The pictures have to be glued onto the poster board and I have to convince Simon to put on a short sleeve shirt with his camo shorts. As opposed to the sleeveless one, he went to school in this morning. Can you believe that the kid is going to school in sleeveless shirts in March?? It was close to 80 yesterday... He wanted to be prepared for today.

The terrariums turned out great and they do show the water cycle (I'm back on the science fair projects, if you were concerned about the shift in content). The boys like them and understand how the water cycle works so I guess that is all that really matters.

Enjoy.