>We had friends stay over friday night to saturday, and they had their 7 month old lab with them. Cho Cho and Teddy played non stop. They also had their two kids with them, with whom Bee and Frankie also played nonstop. This is what our household looked like yesterday afternoon…
>The girls had their lemonade and cookie stand on friday. They made sprinkle cookies and chocolate chip cookies. They made the cookies on thursday night and friday afternoon, and worked on the poster in the morning. We set up the stand at 4pm in hopes of catching the Collingwood rush hour traffic. (ha ha). At about 4:07, the girls started eating their profits. They kept the stand open till about 5.30 and sold two plates of cookies. Frankie would scream at the top of her lungs: Lemonade and Cookies by Frankie and Bee! Ive got to say they got college kids, some families in the neighborhood, and the crazy lady to stop on by. Uh, i guess you can see we didnt make the lemonade ourselves.
>Usually the garden is a bit browner, but the cold and wet summer has left the garden remarkably beautiful!! Bee loved the sheep, Frankie loved running around and the lily pads, and Cho Cho had total sensory overload. Of course, the children’s garden is near the MSU Dairy Store so we had delicious treats there. Frankie picked vanilla, Bee picked Blue Moon, and I picked Coconut Chocolate Almond. Cho Cho picked all three as she sampled from the three of us! Poor Scotty was at work!!! So close and yet so far away!
We baked a bunch of cookies today because Bee and Frankie want to have a “lemonade and cookie” stand. The girls made choco chip and sugar cookies with stars. They did a really nice job measuring the ingrediants, cracking eggs, mixing, tasting batter. We’ll try to catch rush hour down Collingwood. Im a bit nervous about it all. What if no one stops? What if someone finds a dog hair in the cookie. ha ha Just kidding on that one (I hope!). I think we will charge 10 cents because I cant imagine charging more. Seriously, what do people charge these days in lemonade stands? I saw one in NYC where kids were charging a dollar. That seemed a little stiff even by NYC standards.
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OK, she is actually easy to spot in this picture, but in real life she was sort of camaflaged by the orange flowers. We were walking to the children’s garden when Cho Cho found these!
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without training wheels! OK, not the best photo. That is Bee in case you can’t tell!
>This is a tough one, so you vote:
Jumping dog
Flying girl (as frankie called it)
Girl running with hula hoop
Cast your vote below!!!
>Hula Hoop lessons from the resident expert!
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>Im still waiting for el nino to show up. Here is our climate plot for July 2009 from the national weather service. Our July average temp is 65.3 putting us 4.8 below normal. Our high this month has been 82, which we hit a couple of times.
in any case, at least we are not alone. From weather underground…
Unusually cool July for Central Park in NYC…
For some perspective… here are the top ten coolest julys on record
since 1869 for Central Park in New York city:
coolest
avg. Temp. Year
70.7 1888
71.9 1884
72.1 1914
72.3 2000/1871
72.4 1891
72.6 1895
72.8 1902/1869
72.9 1956
73.1 1890
73.2 2001
Due to the unusually cool conditions thus far in July… here are
some interesting facts to note…
With an average daily temperature of 71.7… currently running 4.6
degrees below normal… this July is on track for the 2nd coolest
on record. Below average temperatures have occurred on 20 out of
22 days… with the other two days being normal. There have been
zero above normal days.
Central Park has only reached 85 degrees once this month… on the
17th… and has not yet reached 90 degrees this Summer. If this
continues through the end of the month… it will only be the
second time since 1869 that 90 degrees was not reached in June or
July. The only other time this occurred was 1996.
>Bee…. doing the YMCA dance while hula hooping. I hope you are not getting sick of Bee’s hula hooping… because we have a few more videos. Bee doing 2 hula hoops at once while walking and turning in circles on the deck. I just need to upload it!