Jeff finally got some pictures yesterday of his next project – getting ready to bury the water drainage pipes in the front yard to get ready for the trucks to come and deliver rock and concrete for the basement patio.

While he was working on that, yesterday morning I was off to Rock Hill to run a couple of errands for Gran, and I stopped by to see Adam for the first time since his appendectomy. He was very proud showing off his incision sites, and especially to tell me all about how they pulled his appendix out of his belly button :-). He really was getting around good, and I had a fun time visiting with him and Charlie both.

Tuesday afternoon Amy & Liz brought lunch & came for a porch visit, which is always such a highlight for Jeff & me both. We spent a great couple of hours catching up before they headed out, and almost as soon as they left we remembered that they hadn’t gotten the ferns Jeff was going to dig up for them to transplant to their yard. I called & they came back & got a bucketful.

Liz is scheduled to leave on the 27th – in two weeks – for the cross-country drive as she moves back to the Seattle area, so we got a picture of us together before they left. We were both pretty sweaty after our porch visit, but we had to take what we could get 🙂

Yesterday we were at Spring Lake to watch Mallory play junior golf. She ended up having a really good match – 85 was her final score, I think she said – so we were proud.

Sunday we had church in person for the first time since March. We were outside, and we sat in our cars, but it was just so good to be back. I got this picture as things were getting underway.

Jeff & I went off on another adventure today – pretty nearby, to walk along the Broad River near the Ninety Nine Island Dam outside Gaffney. Beautiful sunny day, and we loved seeing the dam.

This morning Lee had a meeting for work, and Addie had an appointment to take June to the doctor to get her sports physical for school, so for the first time in four months, Mason came over & hung out with us for a few hours. It had been sooooo long since we got to cook together, so we had fun getting some gingerbread in the oven.

This afternoon, for one of the very few times in the past few months, I went to Addie’s to see their newly redone kitchen that they have been working on while quarantining. I am so proud of them – it is beautiful, complete with backsplash tiles that Addie stenciled. They are so smart.

June had worked up a Fourth of July routine on the trampoline, so she showed it to me – and I didn’t manage to get a single picture of all the back flips, roundoffs, etc. that she was doing. This is what I got. SMH. She did a really good job, though.

As I told some people, I think this was the most low-key Independence Day Jeff & I have ever had, but are so thankful for our little celebration we had here at the house with just the two of us. We are blessed.

Our hike this morning ended up at the waterfall. It wasn’t that big, but still beautiful and it felt so good standing next to it.

On the way home we stopped in Rock Hill to drop off Andrew’s birthday present, and Adam got to show us our new grandchickens 🙂