The Not So “Itsy Bitsy” Spider… And Other Random Photos

This post is really going to freak out Auntie Carissa!  I’m probably doing myself a great disservice because she’ll never come over after seeing the next photo… This is what I found hanging around the outside of our house in a giant web!  Okay, I’ll admit – that’s FREAKY GROSS!  At least it was outside, right?We also finished Bill’s cabinets and work bench in the garage.  He built the cabinet doors in the background which open up to TONS of storage (those are doors on the very top too!). 

He also bought the counter top for the workbench on sale because the very corner edge was damaged.  Then he built the base and hanging cabinets to match.  A few months later – okay, nearly a year - we pulled everything back apart and primed and painted it.  One more thing we don’t have hanging over our head!

We took an evening to go to Germanfest in Downtown Sioux Falls and they had these great cutouts.  The kids didn’t fully understand what we were asking them to do in putting their heads up against a wood board, but you get the gist. 

We also had some German food down there and, again, found stuff the kids could eat.  But the question was whether they would eat it.  Bill found them some sausage and vegetables.  And Tom and Rose found a table for us all to sit at with another family.  The mother of the two older kids looked at me, then at the kids and what they were eating and said “you’re really going to get them to eat that?” I explained to her that they love Kielbasa.  They proved me right and the lady’s jaw dropped!  They even tried the kraut, to which she was also amazed, but the kids weren’t fans. 

I have a feeling I’m going to have tomatoes coming out of my ears for some time.  This was one of the MANY baskets we pulled from the garden.  The plants are SO full, I set up a system of pulling the turning ones and putting them in the basement, in a crate, wrapped in newspaper, against the sliding glass door.  So, it was cool at night and got the warm sun during the day. 

I heard the newspaper helps keep certain ripening gases close to the fruit to help it turn even more (and that adding a banana with them can further speed the process).  It worked as far as I could tell.  Pulling some of the turning ones helped give moisture to the ones still on the vine to help them turn before the wildlife and bugs could get them. 

Got a few good pics of the kids goofin’ around on the stairs again.  I really thought they’d start to give it up as they got older, but nope!