Tessa's apron

Last winter when I started making aprons, I had pretty blue fabric for my friend Jody's apron and Tessa said she wanted one out of that. I had gotten the last on the bolt and it had to be for JodyBlue.
This spring I found some more of the blue fabric and was excited to surprise Tessa with an apron for her birthday. Now...the old lady had that fabric in a bag and put it where she knew she would remember. I still haven't found it!!!! So this is the one she got instead. Hopefuly I'll find the blue before the fabric rots.

Signs of my boys

I made this lovely rain guage for my small flower garden. Below the faucet and with the spectacular bead droplet is a rain guage tube. Upon closer inspection I saw damage. Even tho my youngest boy child is 19 and the other 2 don't live here, there it was---a bullet wound on my faucet. I long ago gave up on wondering, "What were you thinking!?"











When Tanner was little, he built me this birdhouse. It just hangs there year after year and makes me smile. I even asked him to make me a new one since it's not in very good shape anymore and now he's a carpenter. One day I saw movement and found that a family of little wrens were living there!
A new one wouldn't give me nearly the pleasure this one does!

Jami's birthday

Jami turned 21 in May. Tessa made her a dirt cake with crushed cookies,
pudding, and gummy worms.

I was glad little Puca got to come to the party. She is so cute with so much personality. Ready to go home in her
stylish carry bag.

Nursery Duty

Once a month we get to help in the nursery at church and John usually looks just like this.
Sometimes he gets a sleepy one and they both sleep during the hour.

I took a picture of this little girl because as soon as she walked in, I thot..
if my friend Rae had a little girl---she'd be dressed like this.

Camping

I've been missing blogging. I am so very tired of my slowwwww dial-up which disconnects about every 3 minutes. BUT, on the 10th I get sattelite!!!! This weekend we went camping with my sis and brother-in-law, Tessa and Matt and Oliver, and Mary. It was a lovely relaxing time. Went canoeing on the Root River and ate well.

Camping

Last weekend we went camping with my sister and her husband. It was the Haycreek Valley Campground near Red Wing. It was a lovely time....mostly. The first night the people camped across from us were getting loaded and many others from the place gathered at their site. They were permanent campers and basically informed us they would not be observing quiet at 11 as is expected at campgrounds. We crawled in at 11 and the partying continued til 2:30 with voices at their highest level and the language was enough to scortch your ears. Finally my brave sister yelled and asked them to please go to bed. We won't be returning because at 4:30 we were woke up by.....

Matt, Tessa, and Tyler came out and visited us. Look at this "like father, like daughter". Must be the camp chair pose :)

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Camping

This campground had everything! Included in the price were several roosters who wandered the campground crowing loudly--beginning about 4:30 am and continuing til noon. You would have loved this, Jody! He was mighty pretty, but it did remind me how obnoxious they are. When we had them, I can remember laying in bed envisioning ways to slaughter them.

The making of pudgy pies.

There was a big horseshoe......field? One game was enough for me. They were heavy and I had to get a 10 step ahead advantage to even get near the post