School is Out!!!

Well, school is out for public schools, but my sisters and I will all be finishing this year’s school through the summer. I have English, Biology, and Literature. It is actually my third literature this year, so I am doing it mostly because I like literature.
On Friday Clara led a badge for the Juniors in her Girl Scout troop at our house. And there was also a surprise. Girl Scout officials came, and brought balloons and cupcakes and congratulated all of them for selling the most cookies in the entire council. So that was pretty neat.

This is when the cookie sellers were posing for a picture.

The badge Clara led was called Art in 3-D. While they ate lunch, they made a list of 3-D art in the community. After lunch, they made origami cranes, then made abstract sculptures with legos. After building with the legos, they made a 3-D design with pipe cleaners by twisting, cutting, and coiling them. Following the activity with pipe cleaners, they made clay sculptures and did soap carvings. And all of the Juniors earned the Art in 3-D badge.

Making things with pipe cleaners.

In the fall Clara will be bridging to be a Cadette, to be in the next level up. But before doing that, she has been earning the Bronze Award. Her troop adopted an assisted living home, and they have been doing things with the residents. Clara has to do 15 hours of service to receive the award, so she can get those hours by spending time with the people at the home, or making things to give to them. So today she was doing that.

On Saturday several families came over to pick apples from our apple tree. It is an early apple tree, and it blooms and produces early, so that would explain why we are picking apples in May and June!

We had a nice time visiting with everyone, but one family stayed longer, and then their children stayed and watched a movie with us and ate popcorn for dinner. It was fun.

Picking apples from the alley way

Last night Dad and I cleaned the keyboard for our main computer. He had said that some of the keys were sticking. So I looked up how to clean a key board and printed off a whole bunch of stuff. We ended up popping of the keys, then vacuuming the inside, wiping down the keys and the inside, reassembling the keys on the counter using one of our other keyboards as a guide, then putting all the keys back on in hopefully the right places. Right now we are using an older keyboard so that we can make sure that the other one is dry.
Some of the search results that I came up with were pretty interesting. Some said to just vaccuum and wipedown the keys, and others said to stick the whole thing in the dishwasher. The balance we chose was to just take off the keys and clean it.





Our garden has really been growing well. I found the first morning glory today! It was beautiful and bright blue.


Here is another one next to it that was just starting to open.

When all the tendrils from the morning glories were short, they had nothing close enough to climb on so they were climbing on each other, then they grew long enough and could climb up the fence.

This is one of the first flowers on our bean plants. I hope they start producing soon.

We also have had some radishes. Here is Clara with one she picked.

On Thursday afternoon Clara and I babysat some kids while their mom worked at GFA. It was really fun. They are all really cute.

They all really like reading, so we read to them a lot. Clara is with Jenna and Rylee.

Asa is Jenna's twin. Here am I with him.