Butterflies

 

Time for some hair cuts. Not sure why Eleanor is the only one who got the photos taken.

I made pickled jalapenos. Haven't tried them yet but they look good. 

The chicken house is coming along.

roosts made out of parts of an old bunk bed

Our washing machine died. It lasted 8 years with the amount of laundry we do. 2-3 loads a day. Our system is each bedroom has 1 day per week, then there are also uniforms, hand towels and other general use towels, cleaning rags, and other miscellaneous items. The idea is that each "room-of-the-day" cleans the laundry room. That's ideal. Reality isn't always ideal. But, this system avoids "Mount Neverest"

In with the new

A darkening chrysalis means a butterfly will soon emerge... and... voila!

meanwhile contrary to butterfly beauty, we have laundry room ugliness. Guess there had been a leak. Yuck.

When our first butterfly emerged, we did not know about finding the gender of a butterfly. We have since learned it is easy to tell. This one was a boy.

Sam is rebuilding our laundry room. New practicality is my favorite. 

Check out my giant green pepper from our garden! I made a delicious Pasta Primavera for dinner. 

I don't know, no reason, just thought all the multi-colored clothespins looked cute. Usually there is a plethora of swim suits on the clothesline.

Evening swims are glorious.

Meanwhile in the background the boys are building a fire for roasting s'mores.

And the girls are making a raft. Interesting.

Neat drawbridge on the chicken house. 

Peek-a-boo

When one misses out on the big fire, one makes due with inside fire for roasting marshmallows.

Butterfly #2 hatched.

It's a BOY! See the 2 dots on either side of the tail? Boy indicator. The females have thicker veins I'm told.

Adios!

Guinea sightings!

Massive lego robot man

Our 3rd butterfly emerged. 

It's a BOY. This makes our 3rd boy in a row.

This one was reluctant to fly so we brought it back in. And then it released into the house. It took a while to catch it again.

It was just too wet I guess.

Finally it bid us farewell.

Fresh home-made sweet pickle relish. Best ever. One batch makes 2 quarts. I don't even bother to seal it properly as we will just eat it quick enough.

We also picked grapes and I juiced them with a steam juicer.

Chocolate Boy.