This weekend daughter Rachel, her husband Dave, and their three children visited, camping in my backyard. This started with rain and lightening and ended with a cool drizzle.
I can’t keep them here all year, so I thought I’d capture a part to save.
This five second video is for me to use as a daily pick-me-up.
I will also take air-hugs any way I can get them.
This last video is a reminder to laugh as well as love.
Eli, Arianna, and Wyatt, thank you for making today fun and for letting me save a part for days when we can’t be together.
Friday afternoon, Rachel, Dave, Arianna, Eli, and Wyatt came to camp over night on the farm.
Sunny joined the twins for a good brushing, 1/2 filling the yellow bucket with fur.
After setting up their tent, Eli helped his dad get a campfire going. Over the two days, hotdogs were cooked over this fire, as were a few potatoes and marshmallows for s’mores.
The three youngsters retired to the tent late in the evening, while we three adults watched stars appear and the moon rise.
Even though we continue to distance visit, it was another good time with part of my family.
My August 17th blog began: On August 2, I ordered a folding picnic table (Store name withheld at this point). It was to be delivered on the 8th, and then the 12, and then 13th….. Finally, it was to come today, the 17th, between 10 and 12.
A huge box arrived that day, but it wasn’t my picnic table. It was a heavy table top.
I struggled to get that tabletop back in the box. The store arranged to have it picked up on August 24th.
Again I was told my ordered picnic table was on the way, to arrive on Thursday, August 27th, which it didn’t. Instead, my children gifted me a picnic table for my birthday on the 29th.
On Tuesday, September 1, my ordered folding picnic table arrived!
No assembly was required, only unfolding.
It is smaller than the gifted picnic table in the photo background, as I expected. When I am mowing lawn I’ll be able to easily move it–the gift table is easy to move, too, unlike both old wood tables we’ve been using for many, many years.
I can now relax and thank Lowes for fixing the situation with the wrong table and getting the correct picnic table to me before the snow flies. I will be using it all fall and then easily fold it away for winter.
