What’s bubbling up at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum this summer? Fresh thinking about people, plants and water! Waterosity: Go Green with a Splash, the 2009 summer exhibition, is running now and continues through October 4. 
My girlfriend recently moved into a new home and found out that her nearly new guest bed no longer fit into her spare bedroom which also doubles as her home office. That’s where I come in. For a while I had been thinking of replacing my youngest daughter’s twin bed with a full-sized one, but was in no real hurry. When my friend offered it at a price I couldn’t refuse, I jumped on it. My nine-year-old daughter was thrilled to have a new white four-poster bed (it sits so high off the ground that she has to take a running start and leap onto it!) and needless to say I was delighted by the price. 
Each night, for the last month or two, one of my three children has been keeping me current on the end-of-school count down. Little do they know, I’m keeping close track myself-I am as ready for them to be finished as they are. We ALL need a break. My oldest child will be an eighth-grader this fall, but lately I have been thinking about how quickly these 13 years have passed by-and how much faster the next five years will zoom before me. Nearly two months ago, towards the end of my children’s spring break, I decided that I wanted to plan one last free or cheap outing before school resumed. My friend suggested that I consider visiting Gale Woods Farm. She described it as a place where you can have a hands-on type of experience with animals and farm life. To be quite honest, I am not particularly fond of being around stinky farm animals, but I thought, “It’s not about me; this is for my kids, and I want to expose them to a variety of encounters.” And my next thought was, “plus the price is right-around $25 for the whole family.”
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