What Luke Has Been Up To

Back in August (or was it September? Huh.  I forget.) I bought a couple of mangoes. Luke

1. did a little research, and

2. dried out the thing in the center that makes mangoes so tricky to cut up. Then

3. he and I cracked those things (we will call it a husk because I can't think of anything better) open, and

4. took the soft seeds out of the dried husk.  Then

5. Luke planted one of the mango seeds. Now

6. he has a wee mango tree. 

It was recently transplanted from the garden to a pot (because it was getting a little chilly for a mango tree) and it now lives in the house.

When we lived in Portland we bought a super-cool kite with the intent to take it to the coast and fly it.  Well, that didn't happen.  Poor kite was neglected until one very windy day about two weeks ago.  

Luke was bored and decided that I wasn't cool enough to hang out with, (Aslynn is napping, of course.  Aslynn would have not let Luke be bored in the first place.) so he went to play with his "toys" in the garage. 

Next thing I know, I see him outside trying to fly our super-cool kite!

It is probably a good thing that he could never get the kite to fly very high; there are power lines on each side of our house. 

I was watching him struggle with the wind and the kite (from inside the house, where it was warm and dust free) and all of the sudden I hear a girly "AHH!"  The wind had gotten too strong and broken the kite string.  Luke went running pell-mell down the street chasing after the kite. 

He finally caught it and brought it back home where he doctored it up. It now resides by our front door, all put together and ready to go, just in case Luke feels the need to try super-cool kite flying again.


Another thing we collected in Portland was a rocking chair. 

My mom had a rocking chair JUST like this one but it was destroyed by four kids. 

Luke rescued this one for me and even though the seat was torn out, he promised he would fix it for me!  He made it AWESOME!  He even made me a comfy padded seat.  The chair still needs to be painted but right now, it is prefect on the back patio.  I can sit, rock and read a book while supervising Z as she plays outside.  THANK YOU, Luke!