Pickling Cucumbers & Pickling Garlic

Duane & Melanie helping to slice the cucumbers for pickling. Duane helping to fill the jars with cucumbers, jalapenos, dill & garlic. Duane helping to peel the garlic. Beautiful garlic fresh from McKinney's local Farmer's Market. Yummy garlic filled with Apple Cider vinegar for a tasty treat in about 2 months! This garlic is being pickled in the sun for 4 weeks. Then I will drain a small amount of the juice & add honey. Let it sit for another 4 weeks and then we'll get to ENJOY! I'm so excited-I can not wait.

Cutting Cucumbers for Pickling

Sylvia enjoying Melanie helping in the slicing process. This is Melanie's first attempt at slicing in the kitchen. Paul & Sylvia showed us how to pickle cucumbers for pickles. They came out SUPER delicious. They were so good we ate them all! Just this past weekend Duane & I made another batch. We can't wait to try those.

Kitchen Chopper

Melanie is starting to become very interested in helping in the kitchen. I love how she listens to instruction & isn't afraid. Don't mind those dirty nails! HA! I promise, she DID wash her hands before cutting. She even does tastes tests-just like any good chef.

City of Rowlett: Touch A Truck

On Memorial weekend we went to the city of Rowlett for a free event called Touch a Truck. The city has all kinds of cars & trucks for children to climb all over & ask questions about. There was a school bus, a city bus, SWAT truck, police cruiser & motorcycle, trash truck, plumbing truck, water truck, a tractor, ambulance & fire truck. Melanie was not that impressed with going in & out of the vehicles. However, there was a hula hoop contest that Melanie participated in. That was AWESOME for her. She did GREAT! But, I think her most favorite time was going into the city of Rowlett's library for crafts. We also spent a good amount of time in there reading books from the shelves.

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Frisco Discovery Center

Melanie & I went to the Frisco Discovery center. What a COOL place! They had a theme of "Spring & Flowers". There was story time. They read The Boy Who Grew Flowers. Which was a terrific book. Then they had 3 stations; 1. Learning about wind and the children made a wind catcher. 2. Learning about the different parts of a plant & eating them: Melanie got to eat peas in a pod (seeds), carrots ( root), celery (stem), spinach (leaf), and broccoli (flower). 3. Making a sun catcher. After going to all the stations the children got to explore the science activities. There was a water table, levers, pulleys, balancing, germs, molecules, electricity & many more things. They had a giant nose there that would sneeze every few seconds which was very loud & drove Melanie crazy. At the end they gave the children a snack-chocolate pudding (dirt) with gummy worms (worms)! Yuck! But it was FUN! Melanie also received a small bottle of water decorated with flowers & a flowered pen. But her favorite parts were the story time & crafts. This place is really neat. We'll definitely be going back.

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