Frugal Family Fun ~ Hot Days Here Today

I started the day off by watering our gardens and picking lettuce.  The lettuce will be made into salads for this very hot day today.  I'm so glad we plant a garden.  It saves us so much money, and provides a healthier meal as well.  We also picked some fresh home grown strawberries.

The weather today is up in the high 90's, but feels like 100°.  It is not even comfortable to sit in the porch either.  The kids found something fun to do.  I may have to join them.

They are painting pictures, while sprawled out on the cool kitchen floor.

I found another way to cut our costs down.  Without a pattern, I crocheted a two sided scrubber.  I bought the thin green scrubbers, and cut them in half.  I crocheted into the scrubber, then crocheted an all cotton side for the opposite side and stitched them together.  

We won't be wasting our money on sponge/scrubbers any more.  

I didn't have a pattern, but if this holds up during it's test run in the kitchen, I'll see about writing one out.

Which reminds me, I need to make more of these:

Our last one was just plain worn out already.  These make nice gifts also, so I better watch for store sales on the netting.