everyday happenings…

We are enjoying our new front yard with it’s gorgeous views… The little girls are enjoying having their biggest brother back to harass And I think that Greg is enjoying having them back too,

well, most of the time anyways…

at least maybe Molly, who has the common courtesy to pretend to be the slightest bit concerned for his safety. :)

I really need to go to storage. We have gone through the RV, and have a van full of stuff to go to Goodwill or our storage unit, and a list of stuff to get from storage. Like new reading books for Joel…

He zipped through all this past years reading books months ago, and while we did pick up a few new books on the road, he is hurting for reading material :) We have resorted to having him read the little girls books and counting it for schoolwork. I’m not quite ready for him to have a digital reader yet (tho I would love to get a Nook Color to download picture books on, and then I could pass my old one down to him… hmmm….), so we need a trip to storage to see if we can dig out some new reading fodder for him, and a couple of other bookworms. We seldom go to the library as ours is known for the prolific amount of trash they carry (and lack of decent titles), and I feel that if a book is worth reading, it’s worth owning. I love books and would just as soon buy them as not :) And I’m really excited as I just found out that I will get to run a Lamplighter Publishing booth (check out the link in the sidebar) at our state homeschool convention in August! I get the feeling that I will end up bringing a few (LOL!) new books home then!
For the last 2 days the weather has been beautiful! The lake is over 20 feet low, but water is water, and the kids thought that it was warm enough to get wet…
Yesterday was pushing 70, and while that isn’t quite swimming weather, even for us, it was warm enough to wet our toes…

On the way the kids were busy checking out shoreline that would usually be under feet and feet of water. Finding great treasures like dehydrated carp and dead crawdads…

I didn’t have any brothers, but over the years, I have slowly gotten over the ‘boys have to touch dead things’ issues I used to have. Just don’t touch me, or the babies, after you’ve touched your rotting treasures. And, it helps that I am a firm believer that you can be TOO clean! In justification, just the other day Greg found an article that touted the benefits of a few germs now and again – and said that those kids healthiest, were (because of the germ factor, I guess), kids from large families :), kids who have animals, and someone else that I can’t remember because it didn’t pertain to us. I’m quite sure that it was a very scientific study! 😉

The water rule yesterday was that you could go up to your knees, but not to get your clothes wet. You know how those kind of restrictions work around here.

They don’t.

Molly fell in first thing and had to be taken home and changed.

She came right back and decided that mud was safer.

I liked the wet clothes better than the dead-fish smelling slime.

Thank goodness for pink feed troughs that double as bathtubs!
The kids had fun… – and a few of us did get a bit deeper than our knees – but just a bit.
Since the lake is so low, fisherman have only 19 inches of water in which to get their boats out of the bay in, and that is if you know where the deepest spots are. Well, it was 19 inches last Friday, but it has since gone down even more. Most of the boats that are brave enough to put in get stuck on the sandbar. We can see the sandbar clearly from the vantage point of our host site, but if you are on or at the water’s edge, it is not visible. They all have to push themselves off using oars, fishing nets, or hopping out and pushing their boat through.

Jake and Thomas have donned shorts and water shoes and gone down several times to help older couples get through. Yesterday our ‘neighbors’ (campers in our loop) came in while we were down wading. Jake went out to help, but he wasn’t strong enough to do it himself, so Bethy and I went out and helped.

(thank goodness there are no pics of that!LOL!)
Later, as our neighbors were packing up to head home, he came over and gave Jake a tip (which try as Jake might, could not be refused), and said to buy himself and his sisterS (who helped) a treat. I LOVE that man! LOL! Unfortunately, I do think that at his age, it was not my youthful appearance that made him think that maybe I was Jake’s sis – it is surely his failing eyesight. I hope that his wife drove home! hehehe! 😉

Post edited due to poor reading comprehension on the part of touchy liberals who take offense to my being a (and I quote) ‘nut-job Obama hater’… :)
The kids have been playing baseball in the open field that is on the backside of our camper.

They can even play at night as there is a big area light.
Last night we had a campfire – our first in a long while…

The kids ate s’mores to their heart’s content, and came in smelling like campfire smoke (which, mind you, is hugely different than cigarette smoke). I love that smell!
We are loving being ‘home’ for a short season!
And while we know that we will be here for a bit longer than the 4 months that we are camp hosts (and I’ll share why soon), we know that the time will fly by and we are content with this chance to catch up with family, bond with the cousins (my kiddos are chomping at the bit for them to get out of school!), be able to pick up our mail (and therefor order online), get together with good friends, attend our ‘home’ church, and the kids have a chance to earn spending money for next year.

We have lots of projects planned for the summer, and the big kids are already busy with work. Eli works as the groundskeeper at the KOA 40 hours a week and started this past Wednesday, Beth has already put in a couple of days at the grill even though it hasn’t officially opened for the season, and Hannah is slated to being working at the store in the next week or two with 34 hours scheduled and she tends to be the fill-in person as she is on site.
The other kids stay busy too! I would like to do swimming lessons at the little town pool nearby (might be a good idea if we are going to live on a lake), and our schedules are already filling up with fun stuff like Trapping Camp, Fireworks stands, a Homeschool convention, Grant-Kohrs Ranch Days (we haven’t done their Jr. Rancher program yet!) and the like.
Promises to be a great summer.

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Lilla Rose

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