Getting Caught Up

 

I think that is a misnomer. Does a person ever get caught up? It has been busy and busier. All nice except for having to replace the kitchen sink faucet. A two day, very hard project. I may write about it soon, but as of yet, I haven't started to laugh about it. The kitchen sink looks really good and it was a nice upgrade.

All of the kids and grand kids will be home around the 4th of July. Our oldest son Ben, wanted to have a trial run as he wants to cook on the Fourth. Every one who lives in town came over for a very fun afternoon on Sunday. The food was fantastic and the company top notch and the day was filled with laughs.

Ben made the barrel to cook on and I thought it was really nice. I enjoy watching him cook. Megan did the work too and I sat around and just enjoyed myself. We had home made ice cream for dessert.

I have a list a mile long of thing I would love for Ben to make out of metal. He is so handy to have around. I keep remembering though how hard he works for a living not to mention having four boys and a lovely wife to take care of and a house and yard.

 

He also made the wok that he is cooking the meat on, and the tools. That wok is a old disk from a tractor that he reused. I just think that is amazing. It cooks so fast too. He made street tacos, this is Carne Asada.. Nik made his guacamole. The tacos were just incredible. He cooked Jalapeno peppers on the wok until they were just toasted and then you would take the pepper and dip it in salt and take a bite and then take a bite of taco. It was so good, we needed ice cream as hot as those peppers were. But oh so good. 

 

It is just like in the kitchen, everyone wants to be where the food is being cooked. It was almost a 100 degrees that day, but everyone wanted to sit out here and talk. There was a water fight with squirt guns going on out in the yard. I don't know how I missed that picture.

This is Mr. Munchie. He was standing next to my chair and his Auntie Em was sitting next to me. She took a piece of ice and rubbed it on his bare back. He couldn't decide whether he liked it or not. he turned and got in his Mom's lap and looked at me with this grumpy look because he was mad at me for putting the ice on his back. He said, " Granny did it." I had to work to get that smile out of him. I should have pushed his Auntie Em's in the pool. He is the only one to call me Granny, it makes me laugh.

 

This is my jam stash I made this last week. All I have left to make now is Blueberry. I made lots of Boysenberry, Strawberry, Triple berry and I still had some apricot left from last year since I am the only person who eats it I didn't think I needed to make it.

Now that it is hot, the garden is really growing. So are the weeds. It will be a battle from here on out. I only have a couple rows of pumpkins to weed in the morning. There is that phrase, then I will be caught up in the garden. I know I will never be caught up out there.

I am playing house today, changing out my spring flowers for summer ones and hanging summer wreaths and all that fun stuff that I really do enjoy.
I hope you have a wonderful week.
~Kim~

" Going to Aunt Mirandy's is like going down cellar in the dark. There might be ogres and giants under the stairs,---but, as I tell Hannah, there might be elves and fairies and enchanted frogs!
---Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1903