Excitement

It got hot.  Evie broke out her pool!  She’s practicing for when Grammy gets her pool set up!   Our pool finally arrived.  It is just waiting for the pool guy to arrive and set us up!   

In the meantime, we have other projects going.  The kid’s 4-H goats are growing great!   Caramel tried to have a little snack in our zucchini patch. Luckily we got him stopped in time!  

The asparagus that Preston helped me plant is up!   I know we can’t touch it the first year, and let me just say as an asparagus lover, this is a difficult struggle!  

Our gardens are looking really good.  We seem to be getting rain at all the right times, and for the first time in 21 years, we are not spending our evenings at the ballpark, which leaves a lot of time for weeding!  Not to say that we don’t enjoy the ball park, or miss it, but it is a lot of time spent if you have multiple kids playing.  

Evie is learning to help with projects too!  Today she learned to sweep floors at my office.  

A friend was cleaning out her garage.  She posted that she had some bikes and a mower all free just come get them.  I sent Preston right over.  The kids got some really nice bikes.  They also delivered a bike to a friend from 4-H.  They told us that the mower ran last summer but they couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it.  They bought a bigger mower and just wanted it gone. My immediate thought was we will just run it over to Ronny, our long term amazing mechanic. But then I remembered that he passed away earlier this week.  I was overcome with sadness. Ronny has been my mechanic and a family friend for my whole life.  He will be deeply missed.  Preston and Quincy decided they would work on the mower themselves.  While they were figuring it all out, Saige decided to use her newly acquired baking skills to make them a snack.  She is getting to be pretty good in the kitchen. 

It took Preston and Quincy the majority of the afternoon, and they had to rob a couple of parts off our old mower, but they got it running!   Preston said he was so happy because it saved him hours and hours of push mowing this summer!