More Mountain State Fair Entries

 So I missed a few when I shared the kids projects the other day. Like Cale's completed sculpture.

And their baking. 15 total baked goods. Things like snickers fudge, cookie dough fudge, orange chocolate truffles, peanut butter truffles, sweet potato yeast bread, pesto rolls, chocolate crinkles, apple muffins, apple cinnamon oatmeal cookies....

And spaghetti and meatballs cupcakes, skeleton cupcakes, spider cupcakes and sheep cupcakes....

A metal craft robot, bottle cap wind chime and a recycled bottle ice cream truck.

Pottery Rylan and Cale made in a class they took this year, which they entered in the pottery category.

 Rylan's biggest watermelon entry. It was a big one!

13 art pieces (one not shown)...oil, chalk, watercolor, pen, collage, crayon...

8 photos in all...the top 2 are Cale's and Cohen's. The rest are Rylan's which I showed last time.

When we dropped off the big entries were weighed:

 And today we dropped off a few more entries. Rylan's herbs and flowers in the flower show for a grand total of 95 entries between the 4 boys!

Life and Garden via Instagram

From the top, L to R:

1. Produce basket from our nightly harvests 2. Making fresh rainbow salsa
3. Refrigerator pickles 4. Eggplant Crisp
5. Cohen's Red Mini Bell Pepper 6. Cale's huge pumpkins
7. Making garden veggie soup  8. Cale's favorite place to be

Wordless Wednesday: Mountain Tops

Pictures taken: June 30, 2013 from Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina

Linked to Wordless Wednesday on The Jenny Evolution, 5 Minutes for Mom, 

Motherhood and Then Some

Day 6 of Blogging Everyday in May. Topic: If you couldn't answer with  your job, how would you answer the question 'What do you do?'

I am not sure what my technical job title would be. When filling out paperwork I am forced to check the not employed or homemaker box (both of which I hate, by the way). So what do I do, exactly?

I am a wife. I am a parent. A mother.

I am a hairdresser. A mediator. A first-aid administer. 

I am an English teacher. A science teacher. A history teacher. 

An art teacher. A gym teacher. A music teacher.

I am a memory maker. A photographer.  A memory preserver.

I am a party planner. A travel agent. A maid. 

I am a baker. A decorator. A caterer.

I am a farmer. An animal caretaker. A animal midwife. 

I am a gardener. A cook. A food preserver. A seed saver.

 I am a writer. A blogger. And right this very moment, I will stop and be a story teller to a sleepy little girl with a Dora book in her hand. 

Finally....Spring

This winter wasn't particularly cold, but it was wet and gray....and long.

We didn't get any snow at all, until March. We had a dusting on the first day of Spring.  And various snow and ice days for a few weeks after.

 When I would look out the window and all I saw was brown and compare it to previous years when the same view was green and full of blossoms. And I honestly started to worry that spring wasn't going to come this year.....

But finally the switch was flicked....and finally Spring is here.

This post is linked to the Homestead Barn Hop, The HomeAcre Hop,