At the Homeschool Post (previously named Home School Blog Awards), Jocelyn has started a meme called Homeschool Memoirs. Each Wednesday, she writes an assignment for us to post about. This week’s assignment is to post photos of your summer.

When we bought our first digtal camera, we began to take 2x more pictures than we had before with our film camera. Than we got another one – a better one – and took even more photos each week.

Now, we that we have a DSLR camera, we take even more than ever before. The nice thing about digital cameras – you can take as many as you want, and it doesn’t cost you anything. That’s the fun part. The un-fun part is when you have 500 pictures to go through every week and delete the ones you don’t need.

But it is all worth it to have all our pictures on the computer where they’re easy to find and look at.

So, below are some pictures from our summer with brief explanations beneath each one. Oh, and at top-right is a picture of a spider web with dew during a foggy morning.

Sewing . . . I began to sew a dress in the above material to make sure a pattern would work right before I used the actual material I wanted the dress made out of. I still have yet to finish the practice, let alone start the real one. Handiwork is very enjoyable to me, and it is nice to see the fruit of my labors.

Corn . . . we shucked corn. What a delightful grain it is! God is so good! He created so many delicious fruits and vegetables (though of the latter I do not enjoy very many)! We also brought in a small crop of strawberries from our strawberry patch.

Dirt . . . I gardened and took care of my sweet little chickens and hens. At this point they still need a lot of care, and I’ll have to weed them again sometime, because the babies are being overgrown with weeds. Hopefully I’ll get it done pretty soon when it gets a little cooler outside.

Mrs. Brown . . . I had the wonderful opportunity to meet the lovely Mrs. Brown at the UC&F conference in August. She was a great encouragement to me, and a godly lady. I would love to be just like her when I am her age, she is just so very sweet. Her love for her Savior and family was very apparent as we visited with her.

Crafts . . . made several. Since I did a weekly post at the HSB Backyard on crafts, I had to make one each week. Here are links to some of the crafts I made: Notebook (pictured above), Little Portrait Book, Whimsical Button Bouquet, and Memories.

Grape Jelly . . . momma made homemade grape jelly. I got to photograph the whole process. Hopefully in the upcoming week I will post about it with step-by-step instructions on how to make “vintage” style grape jelly (meaning, not FDA approved).

Bently . . . our newly acquired little furry friend. Bently Scribbles came to us in August and he is a very good little dog. He is fitting in very well now, though it was a bit difficult at first. You can read more about him here.

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And those are few of the things I have done this summer! Oh, I forgot one . . .

Church Picnics . . . and I leave you with this picture of a beautiful little sweetheart!

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