A Typical Summer's Day

One day during the summer I started snapping pictures with the idea that I'd do a post about an average day.  Well, I got about halfway through the day and had too many pictures to post, and I'd missed a few things, such as Caleb mowing some of the lawns he cuts (along with loading and unloading the mower, which seems to be something I do a lot in the summer),  Corbin going to the neighbor's house, the disastrous kitchen at lunchtime, and Kenna sprawled out on the couch watching PBS cooking shows all afternoon (when she can get away with it).  So, while these pictures aren't reflective of an entire day, they do show some of what we do.

 

Seeing Corbin in a tree was a pretty normal occurrance this summer. This was the first time Caleb had really paid much attention to it, and he was worried about Corbin and helped him down.  I'll have to post the third photo showing where Corbin was when Caleb found him.

"Bros"

Corbin and Isaac call one another "bro" (when they are happy together).  Here they are making something like a fire circle--with a pumpkin blossom inside!

Corbin does some interesting things.

This is a photo of some of our neighborfs, the Atkins and the McDaniels.  Kirby and Lisa Atkins have kids our age; Lisa home-schools and her girls have been phenomenal babysitters. My older kids enjoyed playing there a lot when they were young. Peter Wolfley also worked for the Atkins for a couple of months.  Dick and Gay McDaniel are older than our parents, but they're great.  Gay served many years as Haxtun's mayor. She and Dick were both teachers; she contintues to sub and teach piano and he farms with his sons.  On this particuar day Kirby stopped in the road with a pickup load of sweet corn. We all joined in shucking it.  Definitely the most fun I've had doing corn!