I can't keep up! Here this was the first day of summer and now it's practically the last! It's not exactly that I never have a free moment. It's just that when I have a free moment…I fall asleep. I'll sit down next to Clementine when she has her nap, thinking, "Ah, I have two hours of quiet and now I can get something done…" and then (IF no one needs a ride anywhere, and IF no one needs help with something, and IF no one needs to ask me 400 questions [once I set a timer for 20 minutes so I could take a short nap. And within that 20 minutes, before that timer rang,
four separate kids had come in to ask me a question! Four!!!])…I end up feeling so sleepy that even if I don't lie down, I can't think straight enough to do anything useful!
Well. At any rate, these things do want recording. We like reading about them and looking at the pictures later so much! So, here was our Longest Day Party. We had cucumber sandwiches (surprisingly good, those, boring as they sound) and little upside-down puff pastry tarts which I had seen a video for somewhere and was intrigued with. You just put a little olive oil or balsamic vinegar on a sheet pan, then a fruit or vegetable and maybe some cheese or herbs, and then lay a puff pastry square on top! The toppings bake and get crispy on the pan and the pastry puffs up to assimilate them. They are quite good! We made peach-honey-basil, salami and tomato, and shallot-cheese-thyme.
The entertainment at these little parties of ours consists of…putting up the hammocks, getting in and out of the hammocks, and taking the hammocks down. Oh, we also played frisbee a little, and horseshoes. Pretty exciting!
The girls amused themselves (and others) by posing like high-fashion models. (Or at least what we think high-fashion models pose like, which is incorrect, for all I know. Sorry if we offend any high-fashion-model readers of this blog.)
Some snuggling
Some silliness (what long legs you have, Gus!)
Malachi sighting!
More leg-silliness
More models
It was weird on this day, because we'd had SUCH a hot week previous, we weren't sure if it would even be fun to do an outdoor picnic, but then a cold front blew in and it was so mild and pleasant. In fact, as the sun got lower in the sky and the wind started getting stronger, it got downright chilly! We ended up going home before it was completely dark because we were just too cold! That's pretty rare for June 21st.
All the little moths in their cocoons.
