Monday, April 13, 2015

What would we do if our weekends weren't so busy? Softball, soccer, camping and the Fox all in one weekend. Actually, two softball games.

 Well, we missed softball practice on Friday, dad's fault, so daughter and I headed down to the cabin to spend the night.
Dusk was still bright enough to jump on the trampoline for a little while.
 Kung fu moves?
Why sleep in a perfectly good cabin when the trampoline works just as well.

Got down to about 42 degrees, but the stars were crazy!
Bright moon woke us up.
Next morning.
 43 degrees and all covered up.

Best way to get warmed up is to jump on your bed. . . er. . .  trampoline in the morning.

 Sat. afternoon down to the Fox to watch 'Stomp!'.

A very fun show.
We had two softball games this weekend.
One Sat. evening.
And another after soccer on Sunday.
These photos are from the Sunday game.

Third base. "Hi Dad!"
 A chance to play catcher.
 "How am I suppose to see to catch the ball in this?"
A natural.
Getting ready to score her first ever run!

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Now that's what a pilot should look like!

Last of the Few: One of the final surviving Battle of Britain pilots dies aged 98 – leaving incredible archive of aerial photographs


His story here.

And some more of his story here.

Monday, April 6, 2015

Easter week 2015

 Easter week was a busy week.

First we started with our schools Tech Fest!

The kids worked in teams and showed us parents all the modern tech. that they were learning to us.
 This way mom and dad!
 Next was Friday Easter Egg dyeing.
 Pretty colors.
 Saturday found us heading to first of the month building project at Home Depot.
And you just have to pose with a pretty truck.
 Finished project.
Teaching grandma how to use the IPAD while waiting for breakfast.
 Another pretty truck on the way out to the cabin.
 Getting dirt ready to do some planting.
 Elbow deep in dirt.
 Look how dirty I got mom!
 Grandma helping out.
 A little of this, a little of that.
 Finished project with plants.
 Time for a selfie.
 Time to do some sketching.
 Grandma enjoying the sun.
 How do I get back across!
Learning to tend the fire.














 Stylin' high time.
 and again.

 Wild flowers are starting to come up.

 Good form.
 Tending the smoke.
Waiting for the tube steaks.
 You can eat on the trampoline also.
 Photo bombing grandma.


 Easter morn.
 What can I say?

 Fun with cousins.
 Go-cart driving with ears . . .
 . . . without.
Even a little time left for a zip-line run.

Saturday, April 4, 2015

My Sepia Saturday Contribution for this week.

My Sepia Sat. contribution for this week.

Sepia Saturday blog

 This one would be from the late 1950's and is a picture of my brother pulling me around on an unusual 'trip'.
This one is from the early 1960's and is my brother again on a bigger bike and a different location. This would have been near our house on Circle Drive which we had left by 1963.
The houses are still there.

I do remember he took flight over those handle bars once when he had no shirt on resulting, I believe, in the reason he has very little hair on his chest to this day.

Boy I wish we still had both these bikes.