Two Hundred Posts!

According to the "dashboard" stats, this is my 200th post.

I'll try to catch up with the happenings around here since my last post back in May.
JUNE: School dismissed for the summer, to resume on August 23. I'm not sure, but I think it rained almost every day. We had record amounts on several occasions. I had two students in the summer school program at Mar's One Room Schoolhouse (MORS). We learned about the importance of character qualities such as self-control, patience, discretion, truthfulness, humility and tolerance. We enjoyed a number of field trips. We went on a tour of the Heartland Dairy, sampled the cheeses made there, ate lunch at the Solid Rock Cafe. We especially enjoyed seeing and petting the baby goats, even though they almost ate Wyatt's hat! We also visited Oakland Mills Nature Center. Zach and Wyatt entertained us with a puppet show. We hiked across the swinging bridge, saw a live bobcat, and especially liked the glass beehive. We enjoyed a Burlington Bees baseball game, swimming, exploring in Sugar Creek, and closed the summer school session with a bus trip to St. Louis for a Cardinals vs. Cubs game. We got to see Albert Pujols his his 2000th career hit. In addition to our summer school program, we attended many little league baseball games. Both Wyatt and Zach had very successful seasons with their respective teams. Zach went on to play with the "traveling" team, but missed two weeks due to a fractured finger. On June 27th, we were the winning bid on the former Sugar Valley Campground property. Closing was scheduled to be on or before August 1.
JULY: Much the same as June, but the rain stopped! Once it quit raining, we really dried up and got very hot and humid. Lots of baseball games and summer school classes. Mowing grass and spraying weeds took most of my "free" time. Our refrigerator quit, so we did a little shopping around and found our best deal to be right in downtown Keokuk. The closing on the new property was delayed. Since it wasn't happening as scheduled, I went to Wisconsin (Camp Forest Springs) for a few days.
AUGUST: We're still waiting to close and get possession of the new property...as of August 16. I'm still hopeful that we can close before school starts on the 23rd. It's so dry that we have no grass to mow and have been feeding the cows hay already because the pasture is burned up. The creek is just a trickle and the water is warm. I've noticed that the days are noticeably shorter, and have seen some leaves already turning color. Summer is winding down and it will soon be fall.
Some of the things I've forgotten to mention: So far, three parties at the Keokuk Aquatic Center, and still one to go. Our 40th anniversary. My 40th class reunion. Fine dining at the Hotel Nauvoo. Sweetcorn! I actually lost count of how much we put in the freezers, but I do know that we won't go hungry this winter. Family reunions....one with Dad's side, and one with Mom's. And much, much more!
Summer seems to have gone by pretty fast, but it's been a great summer. I love summer.

It's Been Forty Years!

Yes! Forty years since I graduated at Keokuk High School, and on Saturday, it will be forty years ago that Dennis and I were married. Wow! How can it be so? I attended my class reunion Friday evening and totally enjoyed seeing many people I'd not seen since high school. It was such a nice time, I've decided that I will plan to attend any and all future reunions.
Pictured below: Anita (Cannon) Hood, Gail (Galbreath) Lewis, me, Connie (Howes) Mann and Ruth Lawson.