Meena's Journal--A plant is like a pet.

This is a plant in our garden. The pot that is under the leaves has no plant in it. The pot above is the one that has been growing these long vines. The green leaves are quite dusty some mornings, so Mama uses the hose to not only water the plant but also to clean its leaves!
I think that from one point of view, plants are pets. They are like animals. Because they are alive they need water. The ones in the rainforests are not tended by a human so those are wild. They are alive, so they could be a kind of pet. And a little care will make them happy.
They need water
And they like being washed
And they are alive—
That is wondrous, isn’t it?

(Meena took the photo.)

Meena's Journal--Salt Clay Day

9th June, 2010

Last Friday morning, I woke up. That was the day we make Salt Dough clay!
Mama had found a recipe in a book, so we all could make things with air-dry-clay!

This day was also the day we had Anjuli and her brother Sean to our house for a sleepover.
That day Hannah Beth came too.

We all played till Mama called us to the dining room for snacks--mainly popcorn and apple juice with cookies on the side.

Soon after that we started making things out of salt dough clay. I made…
a lot of snails
a pizza
a cat and her bed with fish.
Sean made a praying mantis and a man,
Sawyer made Twinkies and Toshi made a stubby man with glasses and a stubby onion.
And a stubby owl.
The dough is still drying out before we can paint it.

This was the day before Anjuli went to the USA for one month--so tragic because she is a good friend!