TWO for TUESDAY

by Robin

My chicks do everything together. Eating is a group event. This picture is a little bit older but it gets my point across.

And I caught this picture a little while ago, they were napping together. We moved out of the little box and put them into a wire dog kennel. I gave them a little loft. My leghorns can fly up there now. I'm training them to roost with that 1 x 4 wood at the bottom of the picture. Don't be fooled, they're not Angel Hair pasta.

My 1st cucumber is now 4"-ish. Boy, they sure do take off on you once they are pollinated.

No. 2 is right behind the other. Looks like some type of spikey hot pepper at this point.

Here, I don't have 2 pool pictures but have to shown it because I was given the news today that I have to drain and refill it again. I just did it last week!! I can't do that twice. My stabilizer #'s are too high. I couldn't drain it to the very bottom but I thought 2/3rds would do the trick. Can you hear my heart breaking? We're in the middle of a drought with 92 deg heat by the weekend. I DON'T want to empty my pool AGAIN. I feel like chlorinating it heavy and at least jumping in and vacuuming it out.

Here are my two fishermen. All grown up and look like they're going to school. Close.... We meet each year with a community of homeschoolers & certified teachers to take the IOWA Basic Skills test.

They're on day 2 of their testing. One more day to go. They were a bit nervous the first day, waking up at 6:40 without an alarm clock. This is just unheard of in homeschool-land. Today, nerves were replaced with excitement. They had buddies & knew their teachers.

I always look forward to seeing their scores in approx 6 wks and seeing how smart they are.

Tomorrow, we have friends coming over after testing to visit with the chicks. Should be a fun day.