End of Summer

Summer is almost over and I haven't done half the things I put on my list to complete before school starts again.

I did manage to make some soap the old fashioned, Granny Clampet way, using beef tallow and lye. I can't get over how easy it is and the fact that hardly anybody does it anymore. The biggest disadvantage I can see is that it takes weeks to cure and most of us don't plan that far ahead when it comes to soap. Next I think I'll try making cheese; and if I'm lucky the girl I'm going to buy the raw milk from might just let me milk the cow.

Rocky was gone tuna fishing a couple weeks ago so I had to water the garden where I found this not so little guy hanging out in the beans:

We also have a snake hanging out in the cucumbers, but I didn't think he was cute enough to take his picture.

Here is a shot of me and Carly on the Sea Doos. She absolutely loves them. She's been on them twice now and is difficult to keep off them when she sees them. She does wear a life jacket. We get going pretty fast, but not as fast as I can go without her. I have to slow down when it gets bumpy because she can't really hold on, she just presses harder against me.