Learning and Growing

Mat's been working on a couple of construction jobs and bringing home all sorts of cool costumes for the kids.

My first batch of home-start mushrooms.  Still trying to figure these out, but it's fun.

We officially started school last week, and Patrick is excited about writing 4 pages of "cursive" in his new notebook.

I'm quickly getting addicted to lacto-fermentation.  We made 2 1/2 gallons of pickles yesterday, and I started another batch of ginger ale, which is really yummy.  The worst part of the recipe (to my impatient soul) is "let it sit on the counter for 3 days."  The jar is an experiment in sprouting buckwheat.

It was finally warm enough yesterday to play in the mud, which then required a rinse in the sprinkler.