tricycle

This tricycle is going in the garage sale on Saturday. She has never really enjoyed riding it. It is really tough to pedal on our lopsided driveway. What she really wants is a scooter or roller skates. I am investigating the 3-wheeled scooters that don't tip over.

Zoe's photos

Here are a few of the photos from Zoe's camera.

I Think I Canned

I canned some fruit this week! Since Zoe is in school during the day I finally have time this summer to do things like this. So far I have made: strawberry jam, strawberry-jalapeno jam, strawberry-raspberry-jalapeno jam, blueberries in lavendar-honey syrup, peaches in vanilla bean-cinnamon-star anise syrup, raspberry-basil-balsamic jam, dill pickles, pickled peppers, & brandied bing cherries. That sounds like a lot of stuff. Some of the batches were only a few pints. I'm going to try to sell a few jars of jam at my garage sale in a couple of weeks. If I can find some good tomatoes I will make some salsa or pasta sauce. And I am excited for apple & squash season in a few months, too.

Train Drawing

I'm a good picture

Zoe took her camera outside to find some animals to take pictures of, but there weren't any... where was that old black cat hiding? So she found some other things that interested her. The house next door is vacant & for sale and the lawn is getting a little out of hand.... she is going over there to pick "flowers" for me. I haven't looked at the pictures that she took. I'll try to remember to get them off of her camera & post a few. So many SD cards in this house!

Scenes from the Market

Constance, Zoe & I went to the Edmonds Saturday market. I got some flowers, a zucchini, some lettuce, basil, kale... I also got a free book that is an encylopedia of the year 1975. A "vintage" shop had a box of free books sitting outside. And to make Edmonds even more awesome, a new frozen yogurt place opened! Have you been to one of these self-serve yogurt places? They are popping up all over the place. It seems to be a franchise-type kit that you name whatever you want. There is one in Greenlake called Zoe! You fill up your cup with whatever you want and there is a toppings bar with fresh cookies and cereals, candy, sauces, fruit, pretzels, etc and then they weigh it. It doesn't seem more expensive than 2 scoops at Baskin-Robbins, about $3 usually.

Zoe has been dressing herself, most days, for a couple of months now. She would wear this butterfly shirt every single day if I didn't tell her that it was "dirty". She is wearing it in a lot of the pictures I've posted lately. It will be sad when it stops fitting her. I got it at Kohl's for $4 and would have bought extra had I known it would be so popular. She still loves loves loves pink. Today she put on a pink dress and pink, velour pants. And pink socks. She has silver shoes that have rainbows on them and she tells EVERYBODY to look at her rainbow shoes. Aren't they beautiful? she asks. She has also started to say to people "Hi! What are you doing?" Oh, well, I'm putting your groceries in this bag. "this is a pineapple!" yes, thank you. "and these are my cookies! don't drop them. Don't break them. These are my cookies" ok, I won't drop them...

Tour de Terrace Carnival

It's the beginning of SeaFair in Seattle and our next-door neighborhood Mountlake Terrace had their annual Tour de Terrace over the weekend. We took Zoe to this last year and she loved the things that she was big enough to do. This summer she is about 34 inches tall and that qualifies her to do a bit more, like ride the dragon roller coaster and the crazy bus. Super fun! I'm glad she likes rides.