Summer arrived as did extra busy days of work and play. We are mostly finished with school...we got a little bit of this and that to complete, but should be able to get it in here and there...and ready for summer fun!
The kids have all taken turns working at Oma's when she needs them for spring clean up, in and outside her house. They enjoy having the extra money to save and she gets more work done! Grandma also wants them to come do some work around her place soon. I think we must not pay enough since they would rather go work for grandparents!
This week is planting week and the four older kids get their chance to work with Steve on the job. They love planting week and working for Dutch Boy! They are getting so fast at planting that the week of planting is getting shorter and shorter. Homer sure does look beautiful when they are finished!
Last week Steve and the kids put in our large garden. We have always had a good size garden, but this year it seems to have grown! Last year Steve did an experiment with remay (garden fabric) by covering some of the plants for part of the summer. The plants that he covered grew well and produced great, but the plants that he left uncovered didn't produce much and were so late. We did have a very cold growing season last summer so that may have contributed to the problem. But he decided we needed to cover the entire garden in remay, so hopefully we will grow a bumper crop of potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, carrots, lettuce, zucchini, onions, beets, swiss chard, kale, and cabbage. We also have yellow squash in the green house, tomatoes, and several herbs. There are several more tomato plants in the house as they seem to grow better indoors and also more herbs and a jalapeno plant. We may have more vegetables than we know what to do with this year!
Once planting season is over then we can hopefully get in a few camping trips and other summer fun! We have started our Sunday evening BBQ which is the highlight of our week! We all look forward to spending time with family and friends!
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- Steve and Stacey Veldstra
- We are an international family of eight! God has most certainly brought our family together. We are a homeschool family and love the challenges and adventures each day brings. We have been working in landscaping/agriculture for the past 20 years in Homer, Alaska. The Lord is directing us to take our work to the Philippines! We are so excited about the direction He is taking us!
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I~
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
by Robert Frost
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I~
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
by Robert Frost
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