~Turns out the auto-focus on my camera is not broken is was just, uhm, turned off.  Really wish I had figured that out at the beginning of the week instead of the end!  Also a friendly reminder that I need to continue learning more about my camera.

~Our nuts.com order came today.  I think that for my kids it’s like what going to the candy store, with money saved up, used to be for generations past.  I was ordering flour in bulk (arrowroot and coconut), along with some dates and chocolate making supplies, but they each added in their own little orders.  Galen bought himself banana chips.  Iain and Elijah pooled their resources for dried mulberries, pineapple and crystallized ginger.  They all traded and shared their prizes, even with the Wee Girl who had nothing to share in exchange.

~I can’t believe it’s been a week since we visited the sheep.  The lambs grew a lot!

~It was windy today.  The sun came and went, but it snowed lightly the whole time we were out.

~Finally made it to the woods to identify wildflowers, among other things.

Iain, Irish dancing on a drainage pipe!

~On the way home we came across deer tracks, with tiny, tiny fawn tracks along side them.

~Steve’s car broke down between work and the grocery store, leaving him with a long tow truck ride home.

~We baked date bread and ate it for dinner with red raspberry leaf tea, just because we felt like it.

~We let Iain and Elijah watch the beginning of the Phillies game, instead of reading tonight.  I love that they bring their books in to read during the commercial breaks.