1 hour, first-thing, reading in the stillness on the back deck
6 people milling around, fixing tea and coffee in the kitchen
1 son leaving for work
50 =AQI for today, so much better than 130 yesterday
2 small people coming to be babysat
5 hens scratching through yesterday’s watermelon rinds
4 eggs, triumph in the molting season
3 adolescent roosters sounding like squeaky hinges
6 pullets eating, eating, eating, while still not laying any eggs
15 chicks, Rita’s project, being fed Japanese beetles as we pick them off the plants
10 cucumbers swelled to pickling size overnight
1 escaped and recaptured rabbit with burrs all through its fur
2 girls tenderly washing and brushing the rabbit
1 broken mug fixed with epoxy glue
4 quarts of kefir starting second ferment with raspberries
1 refrigerator emptied of leftovers for lunch
3 cupcakes for
7 people
1 small girl licking her brother’s cupcake paper
45 minutes reading stories to Little Bee, fighting sleep at nap time
2 mango popsicles before their mom picked them up
90 minutes helping my husband clean up brush
1 shaky climb up a ladder to give him a different chainsaw
71 gnats intent on crawling somewhere on my face
2 trips to the mailbox, and still nothing
1 tiny yellow tomato, sweet as candy
8 batches of play dough for VBS craft tonight…
12 cups of flour, 4 cups of salt, 1 cup of oil, 8 T powdered alum, 12 cups of water
1 dismayingly messy kettle
4 beautiful quarts of red raspberries for the freezer
9 kale balls, flash frozen for soups
1 button missing on my shirt
2 cups of rice cooked in
4 cups of broth for our haystack supper with
1 pound of taco meat and
1 head of chopped lettuce, the very last before it turned bitter in the garden
7 miles to VBS
12 children, ages 5-6, kneading Koolaid powder into play dough
7 miles home again
29 poultries in various stages, shut away for safekeeping from raccoons and possums overnight
15 minutes of kitchen clean up before
8 hours to spend in blissful sleep
1 good day
wocket in my pocket 
Beautiful description of daily life 🌹 I enjoy your writing ☺️
I enjoyed this 😊
Explain the kale balls please.
Ha, I was waiting for someone to ask. My sister imagined something in the line of protein balls, with kale, but no… 😂
I wash and tear apart the kale Just as if I was going to put it into soup. Then I blanch it for about 1 minute, shock it in cold water, and take as much as I can hold in my hand. I squeeze as much of the water out as I can, and what’s left is a little ball of kale ready to be put into the freezer. Then in the winter time when I’m making soup, I just drop a frozen ball into the finished soup, and it opens up into little fresh kale leaves with their vitamins intact.
I love it!!!