rain rain go away

We're starting to grow gills here!

It seems we rarely have three days of pure sunshine. The sun makes brief appearances but rain is sure to pour at some time in the day.

Farmers can't get in the fields, baling the alfalfa is a challenge and the lawn is growing by leaps and bounds!

But Jose has had two soccer games!

At his team's first game, he scored several goals and had an assist as they won 4 to 1!

They just played Thief River Falls, an almost three hour drive one way, and he scored one goal and was a good defender, moving the ball and challenging the other team. The Fergus Falls Cyclones tied the score at 4 to 4. Good job, Jose!

Andy's summer is VERY busy. I was unsure how his summer would go now that he is too old for the youth rec league and he didn't sign up for any church league ball but he's earning money (yay) working at Take 5 and mowing lawn for our good friends, Brian and Elaine. Yep. The lawnmowing has kept him quite busy!

Jose is enjoying time with friends and will have to get our own lawn cut soon! Very soon!

All the kids were over on Sunday for dinner and painting. We got everything done except for a few touch ups. It sure makes the outside house appearance much more pleasing. Now we need to do some major yardwork, get the fence down and repositioned so the "girls" (the three dogs) can have some good play area. The fence all the way around the property is a bit forboding!

Then there are indoor painting projects, work indoors, etc. etc. etc. If it isn't one thing, it's the other, isn't it? Summer is such a busy time especially when we Minnesotans have about two months of it!

Doug is busy driving the Beetles baseball team around. The other night, Ottertail Coaches took as many employees as wanted to, to one of the Beetles home games. It was a fun time although it was a tad cool!

Doug and I also celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary at Bella's on Broadway. Wayne recommended the restaurant and it was great! Good food and good company...we were able to get away alone as a couple.

My summer is also busy with work. Lots of cattle shows to cover, dairy princesses to interview and fun rural places to visit. travel. travel. travel. And all of that with almost $4 gas! Yikes!