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03/26/2004 Archived Entry: "lemons and sunflowers"

My friend that we saw yesterday gave us lemons from her lemon tree and also two kinds of sunflower seeds after I mentioned wanting to plant sunflowers. So today, we gardened, the kidlet and I :) We planted the tall sunflowers in Tabitha's patch of the planter. I have been wanting some there for the longest time and now that they are planted, I cannot wait for them to grow. I planted the other sunflower variety (and I haven't a clue what they are called but they are a reddish-orange color) in a nice spot in my planter that was just begging for some color.

We also made lemonade. Since I don't like this particular drink, it's not something I've ever made and I haven't a clue if it came out okay. Tabitha said it was good and drank it all, but I'm also going to get Chris's opinion if its too sweet or too sour or too watery or whatever.

Before we did all the planting and juicing, Tabitha and I walked to the park. I sat there trying to read my book in the sun because it's a very windy park and therefore chilly. A boy and his grandmother came there as well and the grandmother took my presence as an invitation to chat. The fact that I was reading apparantly meant nothing. But if she needed company badly enough to interrupt my much desired reading, then so be it, we talked. She asked *the* most common question "Is she in school?" Once she learned we were homeschooling she proceeded to give me false information. Because she used to be a teacher and she knows these things. In general, in our state, the people who are least knowledgeable on homeschooling are those who work within the public school system. I did set her straight on the way it actually works in what I hope was a polite manner. After she spent the next 20 minutes bashing all the schools around us, and quite a few in different cities, I at least understood why she never asked me *why* we are homeschooling. She also gave me her opinion on letting my child run barefoot at the park. I should have given her my opinion of her smoking around her 4 year old grandson, but I am far too nice for that to have ocurred.

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LOL And I'd like to know exactly HOW you keep shoes on a 4 year old at the park in the first place?

Posted by Mel @ 03/26/2004 09:39 PM PST

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