Addie, Lee, June, Mason, & I headed out early this morning to spend the day at Clark’s Hill Lake with Sherri and Gary. What a great, great time we had. We ate and talked and some went kayaking and some went swimming.

And some went boat riding and tubing. Just such a fun time.

I got this picture yesterday of Jeff busy on his new project – leveling up the front yard. It gets so hot that he can only work on it very early in the morning or late in the evenings, so it’s so going – but it is coming along.

I had my camera outside today, & took a picture of our pot overflowing with hens and chicks. Not really a flower, but a healthy plant, for sure 🙂

At June’s birthday party over the weekend, they made tissue paper flowers as their craft. And she made one for me, which she gave me when we were over there visiting yesterday. Lovely!

Yesterday evening Jeff & I went to Addie’s house to take June her birthday present, and to meet her ferrets – her birthday present from her mom & dad. Unfortunately, not a single picture I took of June with them turned out, but here is Franklin, the larger one and the brother…

And Mason showing off Ollie, the little sister 🙂

Yesterday morning Lee and June stopped by to pick up the card table and chairs to use for June’s birthday party – yesterday she turned thirteen! I got my very first picture of her as a thirteen year old while she was here 🙂

The guys came and had a workday at Gran’s, so I went over to join them for a socially distanced lunch on her carport. The picture afterwards wasn’t great about that, but everyone tried to turn their heads while they were breathing so no germs would be spread. It was great to visit with everyone that was there.

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.