A drawing of Bethany by NIkole
My daughters have been drawing fairies lately. They begged my wife to draw fairies with them. She pretended to draw a fairy, but the whole time she was sneaking peeks at Bethany and drawing her. It is used here without permission.
Portrait of a bean plant in my garden
Sunday was super busy. After church, my cousins, the Ilgens, from Milwaukee came to visit along with my Aunt Ursula, my Aunt Ruth and my parents. (By the way, Aunt Ursula, I tried to name Lydia after you and your mother Ursula, but I was shut down by my wife. Let’s be bitter together. But first, let’s get back to my busy day.) Later in the day, when our house was empty (except for the roaring hoard which lives there) and several family members were napping, I went to the garden to find something to draw. I sat on an upturned bucket and drew a bean plant climbing up the garden fence and onto my home-made trellis. It was very relaxing and theraputic, but I was tempted to worry… what do my industrious neighbors think about their goofy neighbor sitting for an hour on an upturned bucket in his garden?