Another week begins tomorrow and I feel like the last one never ended. We went to see Up! on Friday, to my dad's on Saturday, and today my DH and the older two kids went on a long bike ride, getting home in the late afternoon, which kind of shot the rest of the day. I just felt all blah today, not like doing much, and I feel like I didn't have much of a weekend. The movie was cute though, I recommend it, it has a plot that grown-ups can get into, at least I did.
We discovered yesterday that the gophers (my mortal enemies) are drinking out of the dog's water bowl at night. So, no more water bowl, we have a thingie on the hose that lets the dog use it as a drinking fountain, and I think that's better, now he'll have fresh water all the time, not just when the bowl gets filled in the morning.
Shortie and I were out in the garden yesterday and she was getting a big kick out of cutting asparagus for dinner. Nothing else in the garden is edible yet, but she is loving the Asparagus. She also keeps checking the apple tree, and gets very frustrated when I won't let her pick the green apples.

Summer Fun

Last night I spoke to a friend in California who is coming for a visit when her kids get out of school in a few weeks. We were trying to figure out what there is to do here besides hang out in the yard. We don't have a pool, so we planned on a visit to the public one in town and looked into a few things worth seeing, like a local zoo and museum, and finally we settled on going tubing down the Salt River. Between that and getting to play paintball (in our backyard) they should have a pretty good time.
While we talked the issues of schools and stuff came up. My friend doesn't want to send her sons to the local high school, they're too overcrowded, just for a start, and I know that when I lived there the thought of sending my kids to those schools bothered me, that's why we were homeschooling our as soon as they hit middle school, we just moved before anyone else got there and here we are fine about sending the kids to the public schools here.
But I digress, what else is there to do here in the summer? I guess we could go to Phoenix to Castles and Coasters, or to other places, like Sedona or Jerome. There's plenty to do if you just go do it. There's always some of the national parks, there are several around here where you can see how the Native Americans lived.
And then there's the fact that they can actually go for bike rides around here, or walk to the store for ice creams or candy, and play water pistols and hang in the tree house. It's just a little more old-fashioned fun, from before video games and movie channels.