Sunday, June 17, 2012

And Summer Begins

Forget the calendar and all the astronomy behind it. When you have kids in school, summer officially begins when the school year ends. For us, that's this weekend.

Yesterday Karen and the boys painted the ugly 1-foot fence around the raised garden in the front of the house. They made vertical stripes using paints that we had around the house, and paint samples that were returned to Lowes and placed on clearance for a buck or two. The end result had a lot of personality, added interest to the front of our boring house, and covered some truly awful carpentry by yours truly.

And we ended the day with one of our food experiments. This one was made from taco-seasoned meatballs wrapped in crescent rolls, served with salad, tortilla chips, and two kinds of dip. It was delicious.

Today, Father's Day, after a nice pancake brunch (and an afternoon snack of leftover meatballs), we went out to play miniature golf, contrived to built our own miniature miniature golf course in the back yard (which is not as hard as it sounds—I think), and stopped at one of the local ice cream take-out windows.

Tonight we're having fish tacos for dinner, another recent discovery. If the lead-in to summer vacation is any indication, we're going to be doing some good eating this season.

Which leads me to introduce, as you've noticed if you came here from our site, our new section, "Good Food," which will appear on the sidebar from now on and change whenever we try an interesting food experiment. To ensure you don't miss any, I'll be duplicating the picture and caption in an online gallery. How do you get there? Just click on the picture in the sidebar.

There will be two more sidebar features coming soon. One will be fun house projects, like painting and trimming out the hallway, or actually finishing part of the house, or interesting interior decoration. The other will be the latest craft and art projects from the family. Including tidbits from the books we're writing. That's right, books, plural. Each of us has a project we're working on, and the goal is to finish and go to press by the time the boys go back to school.

You'll learn more about those as the summer goes on. But for now it's off to more mundane things such as laundry and cleaning. And, of course, fish tacos.

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