Summer

This picture makes me feel that summer is really, truly here. Homegrown organic vegetables that I personally tended are pictured to the left. Yum.

The garden is really beginning to be productive. I'm already wondering how to use up all of the zucchini. This is a good problem to have.

M's cast has come off. He is extremely happy, because now he can scratch. Poor kid had a heat rash underneath the cast. This is not a surprise, as we have had an extremely hot summer. He is now in a splint to protect the bone (4 weeks cast, 2 weeks, splint), but it is an improvement. Showers (not that he cares) and swimming are now completely allowed, as the splint can come off.

However, that is not what made him happiest. He went to camp right after the cast came off. He knows half of the counselors already, all of the summer staff, and a good part of the other boys. Bouncing does not begin to describe his happiness at being cast-free. We managed to get him to camp just before dinner, so the rest of us also stayed to eat. L is disappointed that he isn't allowed to stay. He knows everyone, too, after all. L's the darling of the counselors and the staff, too. He was almost ready to take some of the staff's offers to let him stay with them. He decided that he probably should come back home with us, finally.

Somehow I am going to ride my bike tomorrow. It will be beastly hot, but I'll figure out something.

Oh--the consecration of the church went extremely well. It's beautiful, and it already feels like God lives there. Good things can come to those who wait and hope. It may take awhile, but it does happen, eventually.