There are fields of green grass and ponds and flowers all over the place here in NC

July is the deep of the heat of summer. The past summers that we've been here, there had been a drought. The drought affected the landscape and made the world here look like a red desert. The ground was compacted and solid and nothing seemed to grow. Now, there are blooms and green grass adorning the place; since we had a full season of torrential downpours. Last night Ben and I enjoyed watching the cows grazing in the evening and the cool of the day. He mentioned that we never see that many cows out in the middle of the day. That is true they are usually hiding from the sun, so if you have to go out in the daytime around here you would think that these farmers have only a few cows and alot of land. This time, we were wondering if he had enough grass for them to graze on, there were so many.
I am, by no means a farmgirl, but I do love seeing the farms and the cows and the other animals that are our neighbors.
Elyse is planning a mission trip and her ambition is to start a farm somewhere and grow things. Right now, she is saving her money and collecting her information so that she can accomplish this goal. .Elyse's favorite dream, Mary Jane's Farm She is a doll maker and a crafty woman who contributes so well to our family. She works, caring for a little fellow as a mother's helper.
The children tease her that she wants to be a slave master and have a slave plantation, because she wants to incorporate her ministry with her farm. We know that is not what she means, but it makes for family humor. The church blessed 3 of the children with scholarships to the summer camp away somewhere. They are preparing and excited. This will be Emily's last hurrah as a child. Enoch and Evvy and she will be enjoying the fun at the church, for a week or so. What a blessing!
At the moment, we are enjoying the fact that we are blessed to have central A/c, in all this heat and a pool in the community. Of course the working hours of the pool are my working hours, so I am unable to enjoy the fun, but the children are very happy to stay inside and play WII and gameboy and all of the other pleasures that relax them and rejuvenate them for summer.
I'm bored! is always the complaint, even in all of this luxury. Imagine that. I always say that if we had wii and game boy and all of these other things we never would have been so close as we are. We had Michael Jackson and the reel to reel tape recorder. I guess we were equivolent to them.
Last night Evvy and I played "plus 11" where we took my chart and called out numbers to eachother and had to keep time and add eleven to the numbers randomly. This is a drill to speed up our mental math ability. I can't get the others to play it yet, but we will. Today is "plus 12" day.Mary Jane's Farm Organic gardening?