Benjamin is registered for his high school classes....what, how did that happen!!! I can't remember what he plans on taking in the fall, but should be great semester. The school has said 8th graders can go to the high school gym and start working out for fall sports. He is considering heading there at 6:15 in the mornings. I think it would be great for him. The football coaches told him he has a great build for lineman, if he put on some muscle. Hopefully the encouragement will spark some motivation. (I am just so ready to see him throw himself towards something other than video games!)
JR and Jacob made it to Texas in his 1985 Toyota pickup. He loves that truck and has put a lot of work/money into it. They will head to a ranch south of San Antonio to hunt hogs for the week.
You know you are a budget nerd, when the high light of your day is figuring out how to print these!
This morning we woke up and saw this outside the bedroom window. So cool and there was also a second one. Usually they fly east, but for some reason they were over us.
All last summer we had a kiddie pool out in the backyard for Bree, but she never used it. We filled it up for the first time today. We had been in the back field, in the sun, throwing the ball. She was so hot and tired, she immediately got in the pool. I think she is hooked now. It will be one of her favorite places to hang. The downside, then she is wet and that does not go well when she wants to come in.....hum!
She gets cooled off and then runs into the field and feverishly digs for gophers.
The other day I took Bree running with the car. At one point the river ran close to the side of the road. She took off for it and I knew trouble was coming. She obviously cannot determine depth or swiftness of the river so she ran in, thinking it was shallow. She was trying so hard to get back out and could not. Her tail end had gotten downstream and she was doing all she could to stay afloat. I jumped out of the car and ran to river's edge. It was not rapids, but moving quickly. Since we were in the country and not a lot of houses around, I had decided running to her that I would not go into the water to get her. (I was not concerned about going under, but more about ending up wet and cold in the middle of nowhere when I finally got to the bank). I ran through the thorns. The back of her head was pushed against a branch, otherwise she would have quickly floated downriver. I had to grab her collar and literally lift her out. She was really scared. Hopefully she won't be so quick to run into moving water. We certainly have to watch her this time of year with all the snow melt.
Here is progress behind our house :-(. That fire hydrant is shoulder height and the hydrant that is just behind where I was standing is waist high. I am assuming the road will have a slight incline to it??
Literally ground moving equipment. It is cool though to be so close to construction that you can see all the steps involved!!
We took Bree out back this evening, with the chuck it and the ball.
It was comical, Ben had the camera. He was acting like paparazzi with Kristine (my niece). He was continuously taking pictures and rotating the camera for all kinds of weird angles. This was one of her "stop it now" pictures. When she saw this picture, she said it summed up her time staying with us. (She sadly moves into her new place this week)
Ben is currently taking a Family Consumer Science class, where he is learning to sew, etc. He made a really, really cool pencil pouch, that honestly, looks better than anything I could sew. In his woodworking class he made this really nice box, with a tight fitting lid!
