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Catch up: Mon & Tues 1-2 June!

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1 Jun 2026

Monday was a busy day, and I didn’t get a post out. Let’s catch up!

Monday is typically our ‘worst’ day of the week, as it has the most activities on it.

We started of with swim team practice in the morning after animal chores.

Then, after swim team, it was back home and after a short break for lunch, and swim lessons for the littles, it was off to music lessons for the kids.

I checked on our pool, it is doing much better now!

I checked in on the pool – looking great1

Meagan captured this interesting creature, which, according to search seems to be some sort of case bearing moth larva.

Randal shows off his house that he built to Momma. He is very excited about it!

After music lessons, everyone went to the library!

While all of this was going on, I was working with our neighbor who is going to help us teach the kids history. I was also working on some more sourdough bread experimentation.

Randal helped give some treats to the goats while Jarek, Arya and Alan were at Scouts.

Bread, home school stuss

Tuesday, 2 June 2026

The kids all lined up at swim practice!

While they were out, I baked my Cheddar & Jalapeno loaf. I put it aside to cool and would try it later in the afternoon. I had several errands to run, followed by a Costco trip!

Garrett: “Randal and I are playing cook. I cook the food and he serves it to you!”

The chef and his waiter!

Randal helping clean up his play food!

Arya and her friend play “college.” This is one of their favorite games to play.

Here is the cross section of the sourdough loaf. The crumb was pretty good, but either I forgot the salt or it needed more with the addition of the jalapeno and cheddar. We all decided that it needed more of both jalapenos and cheddar.

I went out to check on the baby chicks and found they had run out of food, so I topped them up for dinner time!

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Swim meet, birthday party!

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30 May 2026

Today started early. We were up around 0530 to get the big three ready for a swim meet. I took the kids and dropped them off. I went back home to help with the animal chores and take over for the littles. Meagan had finished up with the goats at that point, and left to go watch the events.

The kids did well and had fun. It was a good experience for them!

Meagan got some photos of them on the big camera. I will have to get those and process them later.

Arya and Evan wait for their events.

Meagan got a nice video of the boy goats.

Randal was helping out, but had a little trouble with the hose.

We got some rain overnight. The goats were not amused.

Here I’m moving the small chickens to a new spot.

After the animal chores, I had a couple kitchen/baking chores to attend to.

I had started some sourdough the night prior and had it in the fridge overnight, so I got it into the oven.

The near loves are the new recipe I’m testing. The far loves are my usual recipe, but with a different technique. I had adjusted the baking times on this trial, but they need to be adjusted again as well. These got a little more done than I like.

New loaf crumb. Needed some more fermentation time.

Usual recipe. Came out just about perfect!

I also processed the four trays of beef stew that I was freeze drying for camp. One of the trays unfortunately was not fully dry, so I ended up just reconstituting it and having it for lunch!

I packed up the freeze dried stew into individual mylar bags for upcoming camping trips. Next, I need to make a batch of spaghetti and meat sauce.

Shortly after I finished up with all that, Meagan and the big three got back from the swim meet. Then, it was time for me to take Randal and Garrett to a birthday party for a friend’s daughter. They had a large water slide there where the boys had a great time playing in and on it!

Randal playing in the pool.

Garrett comes down the slide!

Much fun was had by all!

Randal demonstrates the proper way to eat a birthday cupcake!

After the party, it was back home for our D&D evening and movie night with Grandma!

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