Potatoes from the garden.

I’d almost given up on getting any potatoes this year. I misread how to grow them. You’re not supposed to water them until they start to get leafy, and I had mistook that for don’t water at all. So we did lose a few plants with no potatoes. But I went out yesterday to check and there were lots! The big ones on top are Yukon Gold. The smaller ones are Russets. There were actually some nice big Russets too, but we ate those already. The Russets were a bit of an experiment. I put them in a spot that gets literally no sun and very little water. I didn’t think anything would grow, but we got a fair number of potatoes. I’m sad that I can’t use the same spot for potatoes again next year. Not sure what else will do so well. There are more potatoes to be harvested too, but the plants are still looking good so I didn’t want to pull them up until these ones are mostly gone.

These are paintings that Kris' grandmother (who recently passed away) painted. There are two or three in each package. I can't wait to get them open and find places to put them. Random toys in odd spots are just the story of my life right now.

It's a bit of an eyesore, but we got this pool for $3 last year at an end of season sale. It was regularly over $40. We kept forgetting to put it up while it was hot, so it might be too late this year but hopefully we'll get some use out of it. The hose hooks up to it and it sprays water in the middle.

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Here’s my Snapshot Sunday for the week:

I found these in the cupboard just like this lol. I'd been wondering where those toys were.

Tomato seedling repotted and hardening off outside

More gardening supplies, I'm trying to get everything done before we leave. I'm lucky to have a good friend willing to keep an eye on the garden while we're away.

Meredith's current favorite. We got it for $5 off Used Victoria.

Mother's Day chocolates already gone. In my defense, I got them a day early and I shared!

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Thought I’d try something new, so I’m debuting Snapshot Sunday. I’m not really creative with names. What I’ll do is walk through my life at the moment – wherever I am, whatever I’m doing and take five snapshots. No people, no arranging, no cleaning up. Sometimes captions, sometimes not. “This is my life. Right now.”

I think it’s a neat idea, but every Sunday I either forget, or just get really busy, and I haven’t managed to join in yet. But this week I managed to find the time and even got the pictures uploaded. So without further ado, here is my contribution.

One of Meredith’s favorite toys, out and ready to be played with. This toy is rarely put away, even when she’s not playing with it. If she sees us try, she will go and get it out again.

Meredith’s drawing corner

I bought an aloe vera because I wanted an easy to care for plant I couldn’t kill. And I got it! This thing is indestructible. The cat knocks it off the window ledge at least once a week and each time it loses a little more dirt. Eventually I feel sorry for it and fill it up with more again. It’s been a while, I can see it’s getting low. Meredith used to like to take dirt out too and wander around the house sprinkling dirt. I thought she was over that, but then I noticed in the art table picture there is dirt on the table…

Meredith’s friend Abhy was over the other day making pancakes (one of his favorite things). They’re still sitting on the oven where he left them.

I had to include a picture of our brand new oven we got yesterday. Yes, that is a Christmas dish towel. For some reason most of our dish towels are Christmas ones so we use them year round.

Hopefully I’ll be able to do this every week. It was kind of fun wandering around the house with a camera trying to decide what to snap pictures of.

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