I can’t believe it is July! I say this every month, “I can’t believe it is (fill in the month).” Time flies. Happy Fourth of July! We don’t have any big plans. Scott has been pressure washing the house yesterday and today and also applying sealer to the porch. The top picture shows Thing1 paining sealer around the wooden posts. It looks great.
Tonight we are going to park down by the Cowlitz River and walk the path and enjoy everyone else’s fireworks show. Dinner tonight is going to be taco soup with cheese and crumbled tortilla chips. Yum. I made up a big batch this morning and it is simmering in the crockpot as I type.
For dessert, I am going to mix strawberries, blueberries, and service berries together with some cool whip. Scott and I will also add raspberries, but as the girls are allergic they won’t get any. We got the berries at the farmer’s market this morning. The girls and I went to pick up our CSA share.
I ended up with quite a few “interesting” photos taken by the girls of course. Thing1 had been saving her chore money for weeks and today was the day she got to buy a little plant she had been admiring. She was sure to pick just the right one.
Thing2 took these last two pictures. It took me a few seconds to figure out what the orange picture was…it is a photo of a traffic cone, taken with the camera lens pointing at the inside of the point. She’s quite the photographer 
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I should be going…I just heard Thing2 call Thing1 a “big naughty doo doo!” Sounds serious.
Sara, I ran across a post you had in the Manic Purl group on Ravelry, and as I usually do I looked at you bio. As soon as I saw Castle Rock WA I had to look at you blog. My grandparents lived just down the winding road from you in Ryderwood. And until 10 years ago our family still lived there. Now the only property we own is in the Little Falls Cemetery. I loved spending summers in that part of God’s world, especially as my Gran was a great gardener and their small yard was full of all types to fruits and vegetables.
I glanced through your blog and noticed that you were wondering how to remember the final rinse so you could add the vinegar. If you can find one use the Downy rinse ball. You just fill it and toss it in at the start of the wash.