A Snipper and A Stripper!

There should be a story behind tonight's blog title...right? Well, this afternoon Graham and Abigail were given the job of harvesting some of our basil bed. Graham was "the snipper" and Abigail was "the stripper." Graham cut down and harvested the stalks of basil and Abigail stripped the leaves off the stalks. The laundry basket contains the stalks after the leaves had been stripped off. The ice cream tub has the basil leaves in it and the pile in front of Abigail was the task ahead of her. I think that she ended up getting some help from others in her family! They are going to use their dehydrator to dry the basil so both our households will have a fresh supply of dried basil. Woody and I have been using a lot of fresh basil lately in recipes. Basil is one thing that we seem to be able to grow. Later in the afternoon Graham came over to build with K'nex and when he came in the door he smelled like someone at his house had been cooking Italian! Joy also joined us for a while and she happily played with the dolls and did what she terms "a craft" (made pictures using various mediums she found in the school room) and then later joined her brother and built with K'nex bricks for a while. Esther and Abigail came over for a very short stay.

Woody got up early and took a walk. I got up ready to head down to sew, but I didn't get started right away. But I have managed to trace the pattern pieces for Joy's dress and have the dress pieces all cut out and ready to sew. I came up a little while ago and got my machines ready to sew...changed thread needles, etc. and cleared several things off the sewing cabinet. Not having sewn in a while, the process was rather tiring...so I laid down for a while to rest my back and took a short power nap. Woody did a little in the yard early this morning. We both walked around the yard to check out the various gardens. Woody fixed us chef salads for lunch...very good using some of yesterday's leftover chicken. All the grandchildren except for Elijah have come over for a visit today...they were away this past week doing a Vacation Bible School in GA. This week in the mornings the children are going to VBS here at our church. Woody has read and rested this afternoon. He has found that he takes a nap most days now that he is retired...he said that he just never knows when the nap/s will occur! I think that he is finding this a perk of retirement! Right now he is at Monday night prayer meeting at church.