sunday

the u.s. could definitely use more little cars.  denmark could use more greens (of the dark, leafy variety).  they do kale here, but that's about it.  oh, and i suppose spinach.  but i thought more about those stalks of chard i cut down the other day and realized... there's potential in those stalks.  about a gazillion seeds.  

some (upper-left corner) even dried.  perhaps we could do a fall planting with those.  thank goodness i hadn't gotten around to cleaning up my clean-up-the-garden mess.  it just might work.  probably it won't, but at least we can give it a try.

 greg makes space as henry and i look on...

dried seeds go in the ground.  green seeds go in an envelope, and still plenty more of each sit on their stalks on the porch until i figure out what i want to do with them.

then henry and i go out back and pick more cherries...

there's a boy in that tree

and we harness the intense sunshine today to do at least some of the work of drying them...

william was at a birthday party for much of the afternoon.  tomorrow he goes off to school.  i made him stop on his way home from the party so i could take a picture of him before he ran off to find his neighborhood friends...

for dessert, the boys brought home little plums they found on the way home when greg and henry went to pick william up from the party...

small enough that you just pop them in your mouth and spit out the pit like you would a cherry

and a few flowers too...

right before bed the boys take us over to a playground across the street in another co-housing neighborhood (which we are surrounded by) to show us their tricks...

william showing me a big hole in the ground he helped dig sometime last year...

and because tomorrow is the first day of school, he took a shower and then i forced him to stand there and let me blow dry his hair, just to prove that it can, indeed, look unmessy if we go to extreme measures.  i promised him it could stick up every other day of school besides picture day.

before bed, looking in a book basket i put up in his bed, complete with reading light.  he has never been the kind of kid to pass out the second his head hits the pillow or the second you start reading to him.  i think things will get better (as they did last year) once school gets going, but for now (and literally, right now, at 9:55) he's awake, unable to fall asleep. the books are an attempt to keep him in his bed at least.

and that's the update!