We had a really nice time at our get together last night! Jason, Ashley, and Madison didn't end up coming. Ashley is pregnant and her doctors advised her not to join us. As she's over 35 and diabetic, she's already a high risk pregnancy. I completely understand them staying home. One dinner isn't worth risking your baby's life. It was good to meet Kelvin and his wife Jen! They seem like really great people and people I'm interested in hanging out with more over the years. Jen is a math intervention coach in Derby. They brought a delicious Japanese potato salad as well as flan! Yum! Our food was wonderful! Michael got lots of complements on his Kippy Burgers! Uncle Ed and Cathy made a cheese board, which they always do well. I even found out that Cathy has started ordering cheese from Jason Wiebe, who's a farmer we loved when we were going to the farmer's market regularly! Apparently he'll ship his cheeses right to your house now! How cool is that?!?! I miss the farmer's market! Everyone seemed to like my garden, the boxes, the fence, the chandeliers, and the plants! It was fun showing them off. The kids were happy to see Unle Ed and Aunt Cathy. It's obviously, been a while since we'd seen them. I think it was good for everyone's soul to get together and share a meal and be face to face with one another again. It was also really nice to spend time with Kelvin and Jen and get to know them a little. I don't think Kelvin worked in the office for 2 weeks before everyone began working from home, so this was a good, informal time to spend together. AeTR has been such a good company to us, and, in my opinion, is very family friendly. It certainly felt very family oriented having that small group of engineers together with our families, watching the kids play and show their rooms to people. I hope that we gave Kelvin and Jen a nice impression of the people behind the company. :)
I swear, my garden is growing more every day! I've had 3 new asparagus pop out of the soil in the last 2 days. There still isn't much asparagus, but I'm well over a dozen spears now, so that seems good! Some bug is eating my broccoli and cauliflower leaves already! Grr!! I was hoping that they'd have some more time before the bugs noticed them, but I was wrong, apparently. I have an organic insecticide that I got from the farmer's market last summer (Have I mentioned that I miss the farmer's market?) that I'm going to try spraying on those plants. They are the only ones I've noticed damage to, so they're the only ones I'll spray for now. I have some of the Seven insecticide stuff, but it just seems so bad and full of chemicals, I'd really like to avoid it if I can. Getting crunchier and crunchier by the day, I know, I'm a hippy. What can I say? :-D
We've been having some issues with ants around the house and a few inside the house lately. Grandma Counterman told me about a Borax/Sugar mixture that she used to help kill ants. So I made some of that and sprinkled it around in a few places. Michael, my less crunchy counterpart, spayed around the outside and inside of the house really well the other day with all the chemicals. Lol! So hopefully between the two of us, we can get those darn ants under control. I'm not sure what's gotten into them this year, but there sure seems to be a lot of them.
The kids want to go to the pool. I haven't heard from our HOA on whether it's open now or will be this summer or not. They are working on completing their lists, then we're going to drive over there and check things out. I'm sure, even if it is open, that the water is freezing! The kids will love it though! I'm slightly apprehensive since they haven't been swimming in quite a while. I intended to have them take swimming lessons again before the summer got here, but the COVID made that not happen. I only remember taking swimming lessons one summer when I was growing up, so hopefully it all comes back to them fairly quickly. We shall see.
Alright, well, that's all I've got for the moment. Hope this blog was a little more of an upper. Talk again soon.
Be good to one another. <3
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