I had a long, great day yesterday…Kick’n off the start of the season…
As we are getting the outside of the Lake house ready for Summer, we added in a little fun too! It doesn’t take much does it…I thoroughly enjoyed watching the kids play in between, cleaning lawn furniture, wiping down every surface, planting pots, hauling out all the seat cushions…watching Nick finish up his 32 yards of mulching…
Jake and his friend Tyler went on a kayak cruise…Tyler was also a football player if you couldn’t tell…so it was nice for Nick to see him again…and reminisce about the old days when Nick was coaching with Tyler’s Dad, Brad. (who was the head coach and is no longer with us) I can’t believe they can remember details of each play, each game and all that…it’s crazy.
This was hands down the funiest thing to watch yesterday…Little Man teaching O Bug how to play in the sprinkler…I could not pick only one photo for this…so suffer through them all for me please….
It was only about mid 60’s but…we have hot water in our garage…so warm sprinkler at Mimi & Papa’s!!!
After the kids all left, we cleaned up the dishes and off I went on a evening bike ride on my favorite trail…14 miles in less than an hour…not too bad, now if I could take the time to do that everyday!!! I wonder why I feel like I don’t deserve to do this everyday…hmm maybe I can do two things everyday…
Nick was waiting for me to come home…my new plants look great….and when those daffodils and tulips are gone, hopefully those hydrangeas, petunias, and alyssum will be much bigger! Nick’s mulch job makes my flowers look so much better!
It’s been a good weekend…and today I will spend time stitching while watching it slow rain all day…Glad I got those plants in! Take care of yourselves…Time to stitch.
We are working on the yard…and it is looking nice!!!
the baskets on each side of the stairs… Nick did a great job of keeping them alive…
Lance’s tree continues to do well…just when it is going to look amazing it will be time to dig it up and bring it in for the winter, it is the red-hibiscus (he gave me for Mother’s Day and we’ve kept it alive all these years, I say we because if it weren’t for AL this would not be here, and I am grateful it is)…..this bed is starting to fill in a little more…
Cukes from the garden for tonights baked pork chops with brown rice…
You had to take a pic with the pink hog…
Late in the day…the sun is in the west…
The water trampoline that never made it in the water…Jace and Aylee
The party…lots of food 
“little man” and his Momma…
WOW…the days go fast..I’m working on the new store and working on these posts…traveling to and from the store, eat dinner and a watch a movie maybe and then fall asleep…do it again the next day! Just trying to get the most done while I am here… I go back home tomorrow. I want to THANK everyone for the great comments yesterday…I actually read them all because they all get sent to my phone…and I have to delete them…but I read them first, so thanks again for making me feel good while I slave away painting and running around trying to get all the things done..painting 15 ft. walls…painting cabinets…locks changed, business license, utilities all lined up…signage…carpenter instructions for checkout and more shelving…I
‘m sure I forget half of what we all did…here is peek at the store BEFORE we did anything…I didn’t take quite the same view, but here is the what it looks like painted. I added this last picture because you can’t really tell the paint color in the second one…anyone guess the color? paperbag!
