Random reunion pic's

I decided to post some pictures of this years family reunion.
We have more than 200 pictures and I had a hard time just picking a few.
Here's my decision.

Work Bee

Grandma decided that the kids behave much better when they are busy so thought it would be fun to put them to work. They all got busy cleaning and when they were done the house looked much better and they all enjoyed working together.
Now she thinks she is Tom Sawyer!

OH OH!!!!!

My Bride fell and damaged her wrist again! Same one she broke 10 years ago.
The cast has been on for 2 days and is already itchy. I think thinking about it makes it worse.

SMOKE

I made a mistake last night and went to sleep with the bedroom window open. I must have thought we would get enough of a storm to clear the smoke out. It didn't happen.

Unfortunately by 1:00 a. m. I had eaten enough smoke to make me quite sick.

Not much sleep and just as much smoke as ever this morning.
Hope it clears soon.

Entertaining kids

All it took to entertain the kids on the past weekend was some cousins, a pond, a creek, some unsuspecting frogs, sunshine and lots of fresh air.

It's sad that more kids in the world are not able to experience what our family has.

It occurred to me as I was sorting through the pictures of the Reunion weekend that we had an extraordinary number of children at it this year. I don't recall seeing a single D S or other electronic or computerized toy.

There wasn't anyone that attended who didn't have a good time.

We have a wonderfull family for which I am eternally gratefull.

Happy Birthday

Mom has turned 90 and doesn't look a day over 70.
She seemed to enjoy having her Brothers come to the Family Reunion this year to help her celebrate.

All 8 of my siblings managed to get home as well.

With the offspring that managed to get here from near and far we had a total of 106 at the celebration and reunion.

Getting ready for company

Time for family reunion and the grass is cut, the horseshoe pits are dug out, everything is as neat and tidy as it's going to get. The sun will shine for the weekend and the people will come. Life is good.

Car show

The Kids came in from camping at Green Lake looking for showers and a visit to the car show. They allowed me to tag along with them so I did.
Birch ave was closed off for the show, the sun was shining Hot dogs and Hamburgers were the lunchtime fare and the local Idols were entertaining the throngs of showgoers.
The cars were really impressive, it's amazing how a sunny day and the opportunity to show off their pride and joy will bring them all out.
Dayton was surprised to see that someone named a tire after him.

Boys n Girls n Ice Cream

A beautiful summer day and wouldn't you know that Dayton likes hanging out with the girls
Logan likes hanging out with his Mother.



We all like Ice Cream and the smallest Boy gets the biggest cone. Dayton's cone is almost as big as he is.

A Frog's life

The thing about being a Frog in a Sheridan Lake campsite is that as soon as school is out the Kids come to the lake and the frogs become fair game to the kids.
Now the process of the frog hunt has to begin with a plan and the one with the brokenest arm should be the planner.
Obviously the plan worked because we have a number of frogs of various sizes.
The next need is to replicate the frog habitat, they must be made comfortable and given names.
At the end of the day the captured frogs are released and the process begins all over again the next day.

It's Summer yay!?!?!?!?!

Tracey was brave enough to drive her and her 3 kids here with their new RV. She did very well and the kids are really happy to be camping again. Deb & Gerry and Logan and Dayton surprised them by camping with them for the first night. The five kids including Sarah with her broken arm spent hours catching bugs and frogs and snails. Life is good.

Dogs and their Humans

It occurred to me as I was staying in the city and watching the hustle and bustle while having my morning coffee, that the Dogs have their humans very well trained.
Dogs of every size, shape and color attach a leash to their human and go for a walk or run every day, mostly in the morning. When the dog decides to have a poop the human, who has been given a plastic bag, cleans up after said dog. I have observed that some humans are better trained than others as once in awhile the human refuses to pick up the poop, leaving it for the homeowner where the dog pooped to do it.
Some dogs share their human's with other dogs I in fact once saw three dogs sharing one human, the poor woman was being pulled in three directions at once.
Some dogs encourage their humans to run while others feel a leisurely walk is preferable allowing them to stop and pee on every bush and hydrant they decide is appropriate.
Weather doesn't seem to deter these dogs as they are out there in the hot sunny weather as well as the days that have downpours.
I'm not advocating one way or another for or against dogs, I'm just stating my observations as they are.

Grandma's here

Grandma arrived on Thursday and we were all happy to see her. She wouldn't let me post the picture of her sliding down the slide.

The Boys got some play time in with her, Logan just loves to be tickled so tickletime was a must.

Deborah and the Boys took us to Boston Pizza for a lovely dinner.

Life is good.

Grandkids

I had the opportunity to spend a week with Deborah and the boys.

We started sunday morning with a wonderfull Father's day breakfast.

The week flew by with the school year winding down and a couple of high energy boys keeping me busy and completely entertained for the week.

Greenhouse update

After all the work that went into the greenhouse I thought I better post a picture of it in production. It works really well.

Another finished project

Allen seems to be relentless in his need to keep building so we added a storage roof onto the side of the shop. We managed to get it done through the rain storms and now it is finished so the weather will likely stay dry for awhile.
The landscaper has a little more work to do but we were cursing him so bad during the building he might be reluctant to come back and fix it up.