I think I finally got all of the green snot off of the kitchen cabinets... maybe.

I have spent most of this summer with my neighbor's 10 year old daughter.  She's a great kid and this summer has been incredibly fun!  It's been tiring too - I'd forgotten how much energy ten year olds have!  We've been hanging out at the zoo, reading a few books, going to various parks, went to a movie, some museums, even made it to a mall once (I'm so NOT fond of malls).  But mostly we've stayed home gardening and baking.  She has dug too many rocks out of my yard to count, learned how to use a power drill, picked and ate her first zucchini, and has been getting a whole lot more confident with fractions (it's all the baking).  

If y'all know anything about zucchini, you know that it's the gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving and...  So, we had more of the stuff that one could ever want.  In situations like this, my great-grandma used to make us Zucchini Bread.  After getting the recipe from Mom, I put my young protegee to work grating zucchini with instructions not to shred her fingers off.  Then I left the kitchen for a while, the child happily shredding away.   

OOPS!  

When I came back, the child had a huge grin on her zucchini covered face and declared, "I've been having fun!"  Well, I'm no expert, but one must definitely be having a good time in order to cover oneself and the ENTIRE kitchen in shredded zucchini.  It took almost ten minutes to get it out of her hair!  It was all over the counters, floor, cabinets, dishwasher, oven... basically anything under six feet high looked like it had been covered in green snot.  Yuck!  I thought I got it all cleaned up.  Then the next day I found some more.  Two days after that I found some stuck to the cabinets above the microwave (which is above the stove & I had to stand on tiptoe to get it wiped off).  I haven't found any more for a few days, so I think I might have actually gotten it all.  But she didn't shred her fingers off, got to practice fractions some more while mixing the ingredients, it was very good zucchini bread, and most important of all she had a great time!

I am still clueless as to how she managed to get zucchini everywhere!