What a weekend. I got home late Friday night from Austin TX. Waiting for me in my driveway were 14 yards of mulch. i could tell it was going to be a long weekend. Saturday morning Travis met Chelsea and me at the house at 8 AM and we spent four joyous hours spreading mulch. Despite the fact it was hard work it was fun. Scott got off the hock because he was scheduled to work. At least he said he was scheduled to work. After working on the mulch, Trav helped me with my computer. I’ve signed up for audible.com but wasn’t able to get the downloads working right. I think we’ve (read Travis) got it fixed. I won’t know for sure until I download another book. My first book to download _ “The Last of the Mohicans.” I’m not sure what else I will download this month – under the program i signed up with I get two downloads free the first month. I’m thinking about “1776.” I’ve just about finished reading the world is flat – great book – see my earlier post.
Saturday afternoon was party party time! First we went to Seth’s graduation party. It was a very nice time – I only wish we could have stayed longer. Besides the real graduation gift we gave him I gave him my copy of Abbot and Costello’s “Africa Screams.” I’m sure his experience in the Peace Corp will be a little different than what happens in the movie but it should get him ready for everything.
After that party we went to Papa’s 80th birthday party. He turned 80 a couple of weeks ago but this was the first weekend that Fred and Lu could get to town to celebrate. Unfortunately I forgot my camera so I don’t have any pictures to post of either party.
Sunday after church I mowed the lawn and put down some more mulch.
Sunday night we went to Bob Phillip’s house for dinner. We had a great steak dinner and took the walk around his property. He lives on 5 1/2 acres in Bonner Springs and he has a natural spring at the back of his lot. After dinner we sat around and visited and ate ice cream.
This is a photo of us starting our walk.
The holiday started with Scott, Chelsea and I finishing up the mulch. After which I power washed out the garage. The four of us than watched the movie “Against the Ropes” with Omar Epps and Meg Ryan. We really enjoyed it. Last night at Bob’s before we left he offered to loan us some movies from his DVD collection. He told us we needed to take five. His theory is that if we have five we will be sure to return them because we’d feel too guilty keeping that many. So this was the first of the five.
I really wrote this much boring stuff to make Jerry suffer to find out that he is now down by 10! No thanks to my Royals. I went to the game in Texas on Tuesday night to see the Ranger beat the Royals again. If it weren’t for how bad the Royals are Jerry would be in real trouble.
I went to my first two games of the season. On Saturday night June, Travis, Rachel, Scott, Chelsea and I went to the game to see the Cards beat our royals by one run. We had a lot of fun, although the girls took 3 innings to get the food and when they were in their seats they weren’t watching the game. Chelsea was reading a wedding magazine and discussing the finer points with Rachel and june.
