Garden

I wasn't planning on starting a garden until fall, but, hey, I have plenty of time now. We stimulated our back yard with veggies and our front yard with a few flowers.

We have two garden beds and two dwarf fruit trees; a lemon tree and a tangerine tree.

I thought I got a good deal on these bamboo pots, until the day after I put in the the soil and watered. Almost all of them burst.

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Jigsaw Puzzles

I put together another 500 piece jigsaw puzzle.

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Horseshoes

We are getting better at Horseshoes. Frank even ringed it once.

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Daily Exercise

Almost every day we either go for a walk around our neighborhood or go to the local park. Sometimes we go for a walk out in the desert.

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Mother-Son time

Alex and I got take out from one of our favorite Mom and Pop restaurants. Then we drove to a local park to eat it in the car and walk around.  It was nice to get out, just the two of us.

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Game Night- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Game

Mr. Rogers is one of Sabrina's heroes, so I got her this card game for Christmas. It is now one of her favorite games.

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Baking Cookies

Sabrina baked Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. When classes finish up, both kids will make supper one night a week. I want to make sure they both know how to cook. I didn't learn to cook until I was an adult and Frank had roommates that didn't know how to cook. 

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Stay-at-Home Art

Sabrina has started to learn the art of Paper Quilling. She enjoys it so much that I ordered extra paper and tools for her. I also ordered, what I thought were beginner kits, but they are either too advanced or have very bad directions. 

I figured now was a good time to learn new embroidery stitches. I haven't really done it as much as I thought I would.  Sabrina said she was interested, so I ordered her thread and bobbins and got her her very own organizer. She hasn't touched it since we filled it. 

We can't deliver the Caring Cards we make, but we can still make them for when the Ronald McDonald House starts making deliveries again. Sabrina has also started writing to her pen-pals again and this time she includes envelope art. 

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Game Night

We played several rounds of Tsuro. It is a very fun tile laying; maze making game. The goal is to be the last player still on the board.

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Tennis Time

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UpDate: Tennis Courts were closed soon a couple of days after these pictures were taken.

Organizing her Stamp Collection

Sabrina got bored enough she actually organized her stamp collection. (Her sweater was mine when I was in my late teens.)

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Run/Walk at the Park

There are fewer and fewer people at the park every time we go.

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500 piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Sabrina and I worked on a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle for several days. It was her first time working on one bigger than 200 pieces.

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Church in our Living Room

We watched church being live streamed.

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Tennis Time

Frank and Alex met a friend and his son for tennis. Tennis is a sport where you can easily practice social distance.

Sabrina and I hung out at the park.

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Life Skills: Building a Book shelf

Sabrina built a cube shelf that has been sitting in the box for months. We are using it for our growing jigsaw puzzle collection. The ones on the bottom are mostly outgrown kid ones.

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