Late post

This post is very late. Just imagine that you are reading this last Wednsday and then things won't be so late. Last Tuesday, our friends the DeLaduranteys came to visit. Here are pictures of the visit. Corrine and Abigail were quickly best friends! She is enjoying the harmonica.

Corrine and her Dad Nathan.

Corrine, her brother Winston, her mom Jeanine, and our Mom.
That day the tempature soared to 100 degrees!! Thank goodness for A/C!

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'Round the fire: Nathan, Chris, Sam and Jack

What a blaze! It has been hot and dry for a fire, but we wanted to get rid of a brush pile that has been sitting for weeks.

Jesse and Daddy finished the pool deck by adding a railing and stairs.

This is Jesse slaving on the deck while an Unidentified Floating Human (far left) lazes in the pool!

Well, besides this, the only news is that we all have been (or still are) sick. Just a nasty little virus, but enough to keep us a little down. We celebrated Father's Day last night with fried chicken, mashed potatoes, butter beans and bread. We topped it off with peach cobbler and ice cream and not many of us were interested in eating much this morning!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!!!!

Mama's pond project pictures (ppp)!

The rubber liner was a tad too big!

So Mama had to trim it.

Half of the time she was in the water!

She laid the stones and surounded them with dirt and monkey grass.

Now it has fish and plants!

The lighting in this last picture is not very good, so we'll have more pics later!

Fish and boats!!

We got the first five fish today for Mama's pond in her garden. There is supposed to be eight and we are planning to get the last three on Monday.
Daddy, Jesse, Abigail and Samuel went to a course today about boating safety. The course was taught by three men from the Auxiliary Coast Guard and a Marine police officer. After the course was a test and they all passed it, earning their boaters' licenses!

Deck project pictures

Jesse and Daddy were literally hacking through rock every time they had to dig...

Which was often!

Scanning the plans.

The last step.

Sorry about this, the pictures uploaded onto the Blog in whatever order they please! This was supposed to be the first picture! Also, I can only fit five pictures per post so we will have more pics of the pool and deck in use, ASAP!

HAPPY SUMMER!!!

It's HOT!!

It is now eleven o'clock and 84 degrees outside! Jesse and Daddy are roasting outside as they build the deck for the pool. They hope to finish this afternoon, but it has been taking longer then they thought. Daddy found the plan on the internet and it claimed that you could "Build on Saturday, enjoy on Sunday". Of course, things changed a bit when it was discovered that to make a level deck in our back yard they would have to smash through the hill which is made of a foot of dirt and a mound of solid rock! No, really it's going very well and we are taking plenty of pictures to post when it's done!

Sixteen and seven, pictures at last!

A pile of gifts!

Happy Birthday!!

A big Lego boat!

Nathan's rocket cake. Keeping with tradition, he made it himself!

The Cakes!!

Cheers! No, it's just soda!!

Nathan building his rocket cake

Jesse is sixteen! He is driving!
The boy's birthday was great and we finally get the pictures up (the birthday was the 19th)! For dinner they had Bratwurst and macroni and cheese!