Thursday, June 12th

So, here are a few pictures from the past week or so...

Rhiannon has learned to make her own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (on the floor, of course). Eli's there, hanging out... It's been rainy again this week so I didn't get any pictures of them on the roof... next time, maybe...































































Last Wednesday we made potato noodle/dumplings... we can't decide if they're noodles in the European sense, or dumplings in the American South sense.

The kids love them and they're versatile once made, so I'm getting into the habit of making them in my free time. Stewed tomatoes and potato noodle/dumplings. That's our weekends!

Also that Wednesday, I'd gotten some fish at the traditional market... It was actually like buying a stolen watch. I asked some guy how much some fish were and before I knew it the fish were in the bag and I was paying a suspiciously reasonable price.

Of course, the fish were neither gutted nor scaled, so it became quite the morning. Both Eli and Rhiannon are very interested in anatomy and animals, so they had a great time. They had a little tupperware of hearts, gills and digestive tracts to analyze.

Also this week they made bagels, but, no, I have to put up pictures of us gutting fish.

It has been raining a lot here lately, which means it's snail season... No, they're not gutting those... but they do go out on rescue missions before bedtime, collecting snails off the path and putting them back in the grass so they won't get stepped on.

Yeah, so that's Eli and Rhiannon... a wide variety of interests.