The girls grew these carrots in their garden!
Can you see the cocoon hanging from the yellow lid? Timmy brought home a monarch caterpillar, and it promptly spun its cocoon. He had just learned about this in science!
The girls help slice cucumbers I got at the farm market, along with home grown yellow squash to make some "bread-and-butter" pickles, my favorite.
Colorful slices ready for pickling.
Rose follows instructions carefully as she knits a yellow dishcloth with a heart pattern inside for Priscilla Lefever's wedding shower.
Carrie with an armload of beets from the children's raised beds.
Everyone gathers curiously to see what Daddy brought home from someone he had worked for one day.
It is a Russian instrument, and it had music paper with notes to go with it. There were hymns, patriotic songs, familiar tunes and nursery songs. What fun! Here Mom is showing the children how to play it. You put the paper music guide under the strings and then pluck whichever notes the guide shows.
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