Life Lately...

 Emily is scraping the house hoping to paint it this Fall.  She had a crew helping her for a few minutes a day.  She's almost got it done.

 Jordan was drying herbs one day when she was home.  She's been a nanny for the summer off and on and when she is home she is teaching music lessons, cleaning house with me for others or helping with market.

 It's been cool lately but the kids have had some fun in the pool.  Lena can touch the bottom now and loves to be in there with the kids.  She doesn't like to be splashed though so I try to convince her not to go in a swimming pool if you don't want to be splashed!!!!

 I think this was our first day of market in Wahpeton. We started the season off with three markets a week, Lisbon, Wahpeton and Fargo.  I soon found I couldn't keep up with anything at home so we quit the Fargo market.  The customers have been great in Wahpeton and even Lisbon.  The first week in Wahpeton I made 44 loaves of bread and we sold out in 45 minutes.  It took 1 1/2 hours to sell 55 loaves the next week and yesterday I was able to make 73 loaves and we brought only 5 home!!!  My kids love leftovers.  We rarely have leftovers so they were happy to have zucchini bread this morning!

 Lena got an umbrella this year but it's destroyed.  She was sure proud of it and had some fun with it.  For some reason the children thought you could go out on a very windy day with umbrellas!?!?

 A white boule I make for market now.  I made 9 loaves yesterday and it sells out fast.  It's all white flour and so simple to make.  It surprises me that it is so popular.

 My favorite bread; multi-seed whole wheat.  It has cracked wheat, flax seeds, ground flax, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds and fresh milled red wheat in it.  I flopped four of them yesterday so we have some of these to eat this week!  Yeah! 

 I was looking at my pictures and found about 100 pictures of legos. Isaac is so creative!

 We got a huge hail and wind storm on Tuesday.  Our yard is completly covered in branches and debris.  It will take awhile to clean it up.

 In less than three minutes most of our gardens were wiped out.  It's not a total loss.  Time will tell if the plants were shocked or not and the blossoms we see produce any fruit.  It's been hard to walk outside and see our whole summer's work gone.

We are not home very often and when we are we are taking care of animals, gardening, preparing for market, getting ready to go clean someone else's house or going somewhere.  We are home today and tomorrow and are loving it.  I was going to keep it low key (not much for projects) but it's so nice to finally be here so we've got a few things planned so we're hoping for no invites anywhere the next two days :) 

I just dumped out about 4 gallons of yogurt that I made that didn't get eaten for some reason, cleaned out the fridge, made new yogurt, making 3 gallons of kombucha, emptying the school room (ordered some books last night :), raking leaves, feeding tomatoes and pepper plants, dusting leaves with flour hoping to choke out the grasshoppers, cleaning and laundry just for starters.   I absolutely love being home though even if it is busy!!!!!  Last night we ordered something for Lena's birthday which is the 24th of Aug.  She'll be five.  I'll post pictures of her with it.  I'm so excited, everyone is hoping it'll be just the thing she'll want! (Keeping it a surprise from you though!)