This month’s photos are a little more varied than last! First are some mushrooms. These first three are pictures Elijah took while he was on a search. He has a new phone and loves the good camera built in to it.
The girls found these mushrooms growing in the garden and took the pictures for Grandma (the ones above were taken with Grandma in mind, too!).
The next one is mushrooms growing on rotten balage!
Elijah loves taking night pictures with his new phone. This was the moon over the Tasman Sea one night when he was in Hokitika for a birthday party.
The same night; this is the boat playground at the mouth of the Hokitika River.
Little Miss is determined to get 1,000 hours of outside time this year, so even when it rains, she’s outside. And when she’s outside, chances are that Miss Joy is, too. One rainy day, this is what I saw!
The girls harvested the first half of the pumpkins by themselves.
When it’s cold, we do school like this. Miss Joy got the coveted position directly in front of the fire this time. The cat makes sure she gets her spot close to it, too.
After being in milk since September 2024, Bluebell isn’t giving much anymore, but there sure is a lot of cream! See the cream line? I’ve been able to freeze great quantities of butter for the winter shortage. Some days, there is even more cream than this. Sadly, after 15-20 years of service for us, this 5-liter jar got cracked a few days ago. I’ll have to buy another stainless steel one.
One morning, I was hanging laundry. I noticed something fuzzy in the basket of wet clothes. My eyes aren’t quite as good as they used to be, and I didn’t look closely, either. I thought, “That’s an odd bit of black yarn; it almost looks like a spider.” I kept picking things up and shaking them out and hanging them. As I got down through the basket, the bit of yarn fell to the bottom… and then the legs moved. It WAS a giant, fuzzy spider! It had gone through a wash cycle and was still slightly alive. Mr. Imagination took it to the greenhouse, but it didn’t live much longer. I think he still has it, though, to bring out when he wants to shock someone.
Mr. Imagination is majorly into weaponry. His latest craze is slingshots. He has created many, many slingshots in the last while, and built this target to practice shooting. The towel is to stop the balls, and they can be recovered in the barrel so he can reuse them.
The day we traveled to Timaru for Easter Conference, the sky was absolutely clear, and the view as we came over a hill and could see Lake Coleridge in the distance was stunning. The photo doesn’t come anywhere near doing it justice.
The view as we came down into the Rakaia Gorge was stunning, too.
Miss Joy with her domino string.
The ultimate pick up sticks game–arrows!
This was part of Joe’s engineering course; he had to design a suspension bridge and then weight it down.
She’s protecting the chicks that are hatching! (Or maybe coveting….)
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