Day: September 1, 2012

July 2012

Herbs and salad from my garden



Cacao from Randy’s tree, but Andy prepared it. It was really good…

Leiani was very creative


It says: “Dear Remy (Lisa’s dog) I hope you stop chasing cats. I would rather have you eat sardines.” Then she made a paper sardine, I assume to send along.

She made instructions for origami, which really surprised Andy and me


She made little cute origamis and wrote inspirational messages on them to give to her friends. This one says: “You are as soft and as adorable as a kitten”

You are as gentle as a pony, but as fast as a dragonfly

If you use your imagination you will win the race of life

Handwriting practice

And the chickens were so cute




Even Terror and Teufel were cute once. Read their story at the bottom of this post


Leilani made herselves a crown from the older Moringa leaves, before we fed them to the chickens (we only eat the young leaves…)

New favorite thing: Sitting in bed, reading. Sometimes even in French (not).

Many beautiful sunrises…





The ants carried off catfood. (Not this one, I took it away after I filmed them carrying it)

We tried to raise this caterpilar of a sphinx moth, but it didn’t make it (the ruler shows inches, 2.54 cm)


July 4th






Sonja’s Old Art

I showed Leilani a few of my drawings and paintings I had made as a teenager… kind of sad that I gave up art…. maybe I’ll start again






At Home August 2012

Last week’s Papaya and citrus harvest. 25 pounds (That’s a lot of fruit and as much weight as I lost since January)

I’m pretty sad, Jojo is gone.

Leilani cried a lot and wrote a prayer. Dear God, please take good care of Jojo. If possible send her back to us in her current form. Love, Leilani

Neighbor’s House

Even though she was very tired, Leilani wanted to jump on the trampoline… she fell asleep

We made frozen chocolate bananas. We found 100% Ghiradelli chocolate bars, and mixed them with coconut oil brown sugar and vanilla extract…

I think it means Leilani does not Like chainsaws

But she does like garages

We still make a lot of sprouts…

All the front teeth have come out now.

One of my most elaborate salads…

Tilandsia blooming in our yard