It's amazing how fast they show up with a half mowed back lawn. The grass got to over a foot tall in sections because I wasn't too excited to mow over toys left from Spring and anyone who knows anything about mosquitos knows what that means...a virtual Motel 6 for laying eggs. Andrew got a citronella candle to "protect" him while enjoying a cigar by the back door, but found it was pretty ineffective. We picked up some newfangled OFF! mosquito lamps with something else we're going to try. In any event, I finished mowing about 95% of the back lawn today, so hopefully that will help bring them under control. The nice thing is I can still count the number of bites with one hand and there's none on that counting hand.
We've settled into summer quite nicely here with the boys' first week off from school last week. That is, once I had corralled Aaron from going to his female classmate's house 4 blocks down across a busy street. I think most of you already know I met the local PD again when I got a ride home from them when looking for Aaron last week. Then a couple days later meeting the same officer again as he politely knocked on the door and advised that Daniel and his little friend Zack had climbed out the upstairs bathroom onto the back roof (lower roof). With their second week of summer, they've been on much better behavior, knock on wood.
We had Carol and Roger Delap deliver us a homecooked meal from church last Friday, a goulash with melted cheese and pepperoni, homemade whole wheat bread, watermelon, grapes, and freshly baked cookies. It was a special program our church does, bringing home-cooked meals to people they think could use and appreciate it. We all really did enjoy it immensely.
We headed to church this Sunday after I took a couple weeks off sick and had a substitute pastor, Frank Ehly. He was kind of funny in the beginning, saying most people at the early service were thanking him for "coming out of retirement" to help. He responded each time with, "I'm NOT coming out of retirement...I'm just helping! He also enjoyed the new microphone like telephone operators wear, stating he felt like Garth Brooks at a concert without the cowboy hat.
We went to Dee's afterwards for brunch and spotted Jerry and Marilyn Wigness a few tables down. We discovered the nonsmoking section this time, so it was a little more pleasant to eat in. Following that, we spent the afternoon relaxing and come evening, we met Scott Grochow and his boy, Dusty, at the Galaxy Twin Cinemas and watched the new Star Wars movie. Dusty left about midway in as he got a little scared and Daniel just went with him because he wanted to play at his house. Aaron made it through and enjoyed seeing the whole progression from Anakin to Darth Vader. I think Andrew liked it too. The casting was pretty accurate, I think, as I imagined the much older characters from the first three movies and could easiliy envision the younger versions as older. I'm looking forward to the DVD so I can catch more subtle nuances of the movie and see more of the "behind-the-scenes" footage and special effects.
Dusty spent the night last night, sleeping on the couch with Duchess. Above is a picture of the two of them. Quite comfy, I must say. He might end up spending another night as I haven't heard from Scott or Kristy yet if they're expecting him home tonight.
Today was the first day in over a week we've had nice sunny clear sky weather and it made for nice mowing weather. All last week it was like living in Seattle all over again with overcast cool days and a dreary feel. It's nice to get back to the dry stuff for a change.
Well... It's back to work for me and shortly to bed for the boys. Hope all of you out there are enjoying your collective summers, wherever you find yourself "at home."
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