Sunflowers in the garden

Maggie and I went over to the Hudson garden the other day.  Our sunflowers are huge, both the plants and the flowers

I cut some and brought them home.  Sam said they are very Van Gogh-like.  I had forgotten how much I love them

Peach picking-round two

We went to Eckert's yesterday, they had Redhaven peaches ready for picking. The weather was absolutely perfect and we had a great time

The peaches are huge this year.  They are still pretty hard, but should be great once they have sat out for a while

Barbara took some rare photos of the three of us together!!!

We stopped for blackberries but there weren't any left by the time we were there.  We ate the few we could find....

Best Summer Camp EVER!!!!!

Ben and Maggie went to SLU Culinary Camp last week and they absolutely loved it. It's the first time that Ben has asked if he can do a camp again next year. Later, he even asked if he could do two weeks next year!!!!  The theme of the week was Eastern Asian cuisine, so they made a lot of Vietnamese and Thai food.  They cooked every day and there was a buffet for the parents on Friday afternoon-everything was fabulous.

Apparently, Maggie was an absolute star when it came to doing the dishes!!!!

Ben picks up a new girlfriend everywhere he goes, this was "girl of the week"

The program has a City Garden and the kids went there first thing every morning to plant and harvest vegetables

On Thursday, they had a disability awareness day and talked about how people with disabilities can grow and cook food.  They practiced planting when they couldn't see and they planted raised beds while in wheelchairs

Mum finally got something right!!!!

Camping trip photos from Jan

School garden 2013

Well, we don't have much in the garden at all this year, but these sunflowers are absolutely enormous!!! We did harvest a few things, but there really wasn't much at all!!! Nice to have a few fresh vegetables though.

Camping Weekend

Jan and Julie took Ben and Maggie camping this weekend, not together, of course!!! They went to Onandaga Cave State Park on Wednesday night with Maggie and then we took Ben down on Friday night for the child swap. Maggie was riding her bike when we got there

Ben immediately had to put his swim shorts on and go in the river, they had a camp site right by the Meramec river

We stayed with them for dinner, Jan and Julie are pretty good at camp cooking, we had hot dogs, corn and vegetables cooked on the fire

Ben loves to chop the wood for the fire

We left Ben there for a couple of days, they both had a great time.  The highlight of Ben's trip was finding this turtle!!!

Sam's last day at Enterprise

After 15 years at Enterprise, this is Sam's last day. He's moving to Emerson starting on Monday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson_Electric

Our life without Maggie

This post should really be entitled "Our life without Maggie and Ben", but we did see Ben for a brief while.  The house has been extremely quiet without the around!!!  Maggie went camping with Jan and Julie on Wednesday night and we are doing the child swap Friday night so Ben spends a couple of days with them too.  Ben had gymnastics on Wednesday evening and then went to the Webster Groves fair with his friends, so we barely saw him-we were in bed when he came home at 11:30!!!!

We got up early on Thursday morning and went downtown to do the Freedom 4 mile run.  The sun was still coming up over the arch

We took a picture before the run

It was a great route to run, completely different to any other run we have done there.  We ran past the arch at the beginning

We ran past Busch stadium

and past the City Garden

We were still smiling at the end.  We did the run in 42:38, not bad but I did walk some of it, just couldn't keep going

We went to pick peaches at Eckerts.  Was the easiest trip we have done out there, got straight on a wagon going out and coming back.  Was very strange to do it just on our own, but we had a very nice day together