A brave visitor

 Our niece Sarah was here for a few days.  Since Overbrook lacks any real entertainment, we forced her to pick peaches and make jelly.  She never complained.

 Picking peaches with little kids goes something like this - do not pick them unless they are ripe.  So they pick them and then bring them to you and say "is this ripe?"  about 50 times.  Luckily, most of the peaches on this tree were ripe to overripe.  They were also some of the best peaches I ever had!

 Not only did we make jelly and put peaches in the freezer, but Sarah shared her delicious peach crumble recipe with us.  It is definitely a keeper!

 Trying to be cultural this summer, at least for a brief minute, we also drug poor Sarah to an art museum in Topeka.  It was not what she is used to in an art museum, being from near Washington DC, where they have actual art museums, but when dragging along small children, this was about our speed!  There were 4 rooms - 3 were all about tools, one was all masks.  The whole place looking at every single piece of art literally was about 20 minutes!  OK, so people who really love art might have been able to stretch that out a bit, but remember, we are non-cultured rednecks.

 The museum had an art lab.  The internet made it seem like they had all sorts of areas dedicated to all ages, and that they could choose to sculpt, create water color paintings and many other such artist type things were listed.  I would say this art lab is completely awesome if you are under 8 years of age.  The kids had a blast.  The older ones, well they did not complain (mostly because I promised to buy them lunch).  

 We did really like the masks, but decided we don't need anything like it on display in our own living room....although Colin may have pointed out that with little security, it would be easy to grab one and run.

 We also had a picnic in the park for Grandpa Ken's birthday.  The kids enjoyed fishing and playing at the park.

 Since we had visited an art museum, Mallory decided that taking a picture of Aunt Pam taking a picture is art.  Sorry Pam, this must be displayed - its art!  :)

I might add that staying at our house is a visit to the chaotic redneck backwoods of America.  Sarah, you are a very brave young woman.  We enjoyed visiting with you!