Summer garden, summer stars
by HML
We hope Thing Two’s garden will produce a harvest, in spite of the late start of summer. Every day he enjoys watering and caring for his rapidly growing plants.
The spearmint and peppermint are doing great in their new home.
The basil and cucumbers make their debut. So many different shades of green!
Meanwhile, Thing Two has also become interested in astronomy, and on the few cloudless summer nights we’ve had, he’s been allowed to stay up and look at the stars. Thing One also liked planets and stars when he was about the same age, so the books, solar system mobile, and bed sheets we had bought about ten years ago are now being put to good use again by by a new little stargazer.
As with all of Thing Two’s interests, he is eager to talk to anybody and everybody about constellations and the planets. Much of the information is accurate, and some is his own invention. He especially likes to create his own constellations.
- All about Boötes, the herdsman or ploughman, and the first constellation Thing Two was able to see in the night sky. He was so excited to finally see a real constellation that he danced all around the deck.
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