The beans that we planted with Granny and Grandpa have been rocketing up! I'm kindof hoping that one day Noah will come home with gold, a hen, and a harp... perhaps I'd better leave an axe in the backyard ;)
Slugs are our biggest trouble with the beans. I think this is the first practical example of trying to teach Noah about our place in the created order (i.e. helping him to understand why I'll squash slugs, but care for worms and lizards).
It may be blurry, but this is our first tomato. Kate thinks our tomato plant is taking over, and she's sortof right - it's huge! With the onset of spring our herbs, especially, have really taken off. Our lettuce are big enought to harvest, too. Yippee!
In other news, all my written assessments have been handed in now. So it's just the count-down to exams. That means lots and lots of work to do, but lots of learning in the midst of it. For example, I came across this gem while reading Martin Luther's
Freedom of a Christian:
'He [the Christian] does not distinguish between friends and enemies or anticipate their thankfulness or unthankfulness, but he most freely and most willingly spends himself and all that he has, whether he wastes all on the thankless or whether he gains a reward. As his Father does, distributing all things to all men richly and freely.'
Gold stuff. Makes me really see the amount of work the gospel still has to do on my own motives and attitudes.
PS. Yesterday I got my hands on a book that I'm rather excited about reading (during Summer!). It's called
Intellectuals. It was recommended by Phillip Jensen in one of his machine-gun book reviews. Looking at characters like Rousseau, Marx, Bertrand Russell, Sartre, etc., it 'examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity' (from the back cover).
