Spikes

After bath spikey hair!

New Trees

The boys helped me and a friend plant a few citrus trees.  Lebanon has tons of citrus.  We get 25 pounds of clementines for $4.  The tress themselves are inexpensive too at $10 a tree.

Collecting Water

Lebanon gets as much rain annually as London.  Our problem is that it all comes here in the period of four months. So we collect what we can in a cistern out back from part of our roof. This stored water will usually last us until June.  Because we get so little city water we then have to start buying tractor loads of water from private well owners.  This winter we have had less rain, so Bill and the boys worked to collect water from two additional sections of our roof.

Rail Road

Grandmom and Grandad gave the boys this train set for Christmas. Bill has built and the boys taken apart the set many times.  In the words of Jonas, " this s a really good train set."

Race track

Eating the house

Home building

I can't call it gingerbread house building, why?  Because I bought cookies instead of looking up some non molasses (none here) recipe mixing and baking gingerbread.  My boys were non the wiser!  And their whole incentive for making them was to eat them.  Their works of art were equipped with swimming pools, garages, snow covered grass, gummy alligators in the pool and cars in the garage.  Yaa for completing something crafty with minimal clean up!