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summer 2014 vital stats

September 24, 2014

Well, friends, like it or not (though judging from the overdose of pumpkin everything we are seeing, most people really REALLY like it) autumn has arrived. Summer 2014 has finally drawn to a close, and here we are. My husband is particularly inconsolable. Why God didn’t allow that man to be born on a beach I will never understand.

I thought to commemorate this calendar event we would record some vital statistics from one of the loveliest, though fastest moving, summers in recent history. It really has been magical in many ways.

  • Sunburns: 1 (I was outdoors all day every day but also really good about SPF this year so apparently I’m a grown up now)
  • Pounds of tomatoes harvested: one million (just trust me, ok?)
tart made with homemade crust and garden fresh tomatoes and herbs
tart made with homemade crust and garden fresh tomatoes and herbs
  • Pounds of zuchinni harvested: two million
  • Squash Bugs battled: 70 trillion (let’s revisit that one with a depressing photo, shall we?)
squash bugs
hell hath no fury like a gardener overrun with these monsters
  • Pumpkins grown here at the farm: 24 (but they were all destroyed in one weekend by squash bugs)
  • Watermelons grown here at the farm: 7 (and they were beauties)
fresh homegrown watermelon oklahoma
If 2013 was the Summer of Basil, then 2014 has been the Summer of Watermelon…xoxo
  • Total watermelons eaten by me, all by myself, often in one sitting: 16
  • Goose attacks by Johnny Cash against me: just one (but it was really terrifying)
goose bite
A goose attacked me and I almost died. “That’s gonna leave a mark!”
  • Goose attacks by Mia against Handsome: innumerable
  • Bonfires enjoyed here with friends & loved ones: 7 (more to come now that the weather is mellowing)
  • Number of times I cut my own hair: 3 (send professional help)
  • How many times I won a trophy at a car show with my super cute Jeep-Jeep: 1 (and on a dare I did a cartwheel to celebrate)
  • Total number of car shows Handsome & I attended: maybe 8 (they are bone-melting hot but SO FUN)
I love this man more and more every week, for ever-expanding reasons. He is enduring one of the hardest years in his entire life and we appreciate every prayer, every hug, every supportive thought that is sent his way! xoxo
I love this man more and more every day, for ever-expanding reasons. He is enduring one of the hardest years in his entire life and we appreciate every prayer, every hug, every supportive thought that is sent his way! xoxo
  • Icy-slushie Drinks consumed after long sweaty hours of yard work: 12 (Dr. Pepper flavor for Handsome, coconut for me)
  • Number of stings endured: 5 (one wasp, one bumblebee, three Lazy W Honeymaker stings)
  • Miles ran: 153 (weak season, but I kind of needed the break mentally and physically, now getting back at it slowly)
  • Times I bought new bed sheets and put them on our bed without washing them: 0 (because that’s gross)
  • Times I bought new bed sheets and washed them before putting them on our bed: 1 (because I am a normal person)
  • Amount of wild Canadian goslings we adopted: 1 (and we love him so much)
wild Canadian gosling adopted by South African gaggle
Duck Duck the goose
  • Total number of photos I snapped of my gardens: 857 (times a thousand)
  • Total number of photos I snapped of my bees: 438 (also times a thousand)
  • Total number of times my iPhone storage was used up as a result: 9
The Lazy W Honeymakers also love the color turquoise. They told me so.
The Lazy W Honeymakers also love the color turquoise. They told me so.
  • Prayers answered: More than I have slowed down to count. But to sit and gaze at them in my heart is overwhelming. God is good. Life is beautiful. None of these summertime memories and none of our pain will be wasted. I am filled with gratitude and hope! Ready for the next season, whatever it brings.

joc dusty

So… Happy end-of-summer-start-of-autumn, sweet friends. I would love to hear a few of your memorable statistics from the past few months. Thank you so much for stopping in and saying howdy!

Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change. Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.
-To Kill a Mockingbird

XOXOXOXO

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  1. Marci says

    September 24, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    You crack me up.

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  2. Christina Kamp says

    September 24, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. 🙂

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  3. Rose Marie B says

    September 25, 2014 at 6:46 pm

    Your summer rocked! I’m very proud of you for wearing sunscreen but if Johnny Cash attacks you again, I’m gonna have to visit for a little goose justice of my own. I wonder if a squirt bottle with a vinegar & water mixture would deter him? It’s more humane than the punch to the neck that I had in mind…how dare he!? Doesn’t he recognize that you’re Mother Earth? #stupidgoose

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