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Jon finished building and insulating a wall dividing our furnace room.\u00a0 Behind this wall will go the produce which can keep over the winter:\u00a0 potatoes, squash, onions, garlic, carrots, turnips and parsnips.\u00a0 It will be our green grocer when the weather tips away from the summer solstice toward the winter one and beyond it.\u00a0 In addition we will have canned tomatoes and greens, pickles, canned gazpacho, dried beans and canned beans, grape jelly and maybe currant.<\/p>\n
Jon has done a lot of construction for us, utilizing skills he learned while working for a remodeler after he finished Augsburg.\u00a0 He built the garden shed near the house, put together the playhouse for grandkids, built the platform I work on in the computer room (where I am right now), a five stall dog enclosure in the garage as well as shelving on the walls.\u00a0 He’s a talented guy, an artist, a teacher, a father and an expert extreme skier.<\/p>\n
The visit has been filled with sweet moments, but tonight at the dinner table there was this exchange between Kate and Ruth (3):\u00a0 I love you Ruthie, you are in my heart.\u00a0 I love you, too, Grandma. You and Grandpop are in my heart.\u00a0 That stopped the conversation for a minute.<\/p>\n
They leave tomorrow morning for a drive across the Great Plains, one I’ve made many times since Jon first moved to Colorado.\u00a0 It is a long drive, but a good one.\u00a0 We’ll miss them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Summer Moon Jon finished building and insulating a wall dividing our furnace room.\u00a0 Behind this wall will go the produce which can keep over the winter:\u00a0 potatoes, squash, onions, garlic, carrots, turnips and parsnips.\u00a0 It will be our green grocer when the weather tips away from the summer solstice toward the winter one … Continue reading You And Grandpop Are In My Heart.<\/span>