A new favorite activity for these hooligans is to make horse food for their hobby horses. They get chalk and grate it on a tennis racket, collect the chalk dust, put it in a bucket, and feed it to their horses. It can keep them entertained for a good long while.
Work has been great for me lately, and the girls are really good about me working. I work like 80% of my hours at home, and about once a week I have a meeting (lots of times it's at my house with the girls) and I occasionally have to stop by the office. The office is a small little room with a file cabinet, desk, and printer in the industrial part of town. I only go there to file or print stuff out. The girls are troopers when we go to the office and they both plop down on the floor and draw some pictures.
I have a sad story. So, last fall my landlord said he wanted to paint the back of the house, so I didn't plant a fall garden since it's right up against the back of the house (we can plant all year long here in CA) so that he could take care of the painting. I followed up with him a few times about when he was going to get it done, but he just kept putting it off. So, after the new year, I decided if I just sat around and waited for him, I would be missing out on another great planting season, so I just went ahead and prepped and planted my veggies. Onions, arugula, spinach, radishes, kale, and potatoes. About 2 weeks after my veggies sprouted, my landlord decided it was now time to paint the back of the house. I was not a happy camper. He said he would be careful, but there's only so much you can do. Anyways, there was a full day of them being covered/smashed by a tarp so he could power wash the back of the house and then 2 days later another full day of painting. His team of painters were not so careful. I actually went out and tried to explain to them about how they need to be careful, etc.... but there's only so much I could do not able to speak their language, not owning the house, and not being their boss. So I just went inside and cried because I knew they were stepping all over my precious little veggies. It was a sad day.
But, believe it or not, most of them seem to have recovered pretty well! My onions popped back up along with my potatoes and the leafy greens aren't doing too shabby either, considering. I thought I was going to have to scrap the whole thing. Thank goodness not! They're all doing great now. It's incredible because they were in quite a sad state for a while.
This is what it's looking like now! The arugula got hit the hardest, but everything else is doing great!
Reading together
Meal Prep
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