Spinach Salad and Creamy Asparagus Soup

You know that the winter weather is gone for good when you can eat home grown spinach salad and creamy asparagus soup out on the back deck.  Life is fun!!

 

 

Samuel is now 7 years old and is almost finishing up 1st grade.  He has been waiting and waiting for his first loose tooth!  He has watched his older siblings and classmates lose tooth after tooth wondering when his turn would come.  So today it finally happened.  While he was out playing baseball with his neighborhood friends he had to take a time out because he was holding his tooth in his hand. 

 

 

The 2013 Spring Program

Every year the kid's school puts on a Spring Program.  It lasts about 2 hours and is all singing.  It's really quite impressive.  Year after year, hearing all those children singing beautiful praises to God, I tear up.  

Jack is totally into the Program.  He sings very dramatically with every ounce of his being.  His goal is to someday start playing the piano for the program.

Emily has a beautiful voice and does a wonderful job singing, but doesn't LOVE it the way Jack does.  But she did LOVE her dress this year and that made it all worthwhile for her.

Sam is pretty much along for the ride at this point.  Last year he smiled the whole time, but I don't think he sang for more than 10 minutes of the whole thing.  This year he continued to smile, but sang every song. I was so proud!

As Bob and I sat listening, we were wondering how in the world Max is going to be able to participate in a few years.  He can't sit still for more than 30 seconds at this point.  They're going to have their hands full with that boy!!

My Clock

I don't normally put up pictures of things that I make because they're usually not worth sharing.  This one project came out quite well and I'm kind of proud of it!

Bob has been refinishing our basement for quite some time now and has asked me to get a clock for down there.  With the walls being made of rough cut pine, I didn't want just an ordinary clock, so I decided to try making one.

There's a store called Timeworn Treasures here in Danville that carries unique items and in it I found this old wheel.  I'm not sure what it was originally.  I'm guessing it was part a big spool used for wire or cable.  I sanded it down and this is what it came out to look like.

I found some metal numbers on Etsy and nailed them on.

Next I purchased the biggest clock kit I could find.  It still didn't fit through the 2 inch thick hole there in the middle so i had to route out some of the back.

And here is the finished product!  And it actually works!!