August Already!

Where's Waldo (Doug)?

Life is just peachy for Julia. Sara said they have

picked 200 peaches so far!

Garden on August 11th

Second fruits of the harvest :-)

Blooming beds....

Too bad the theme for Thanksmas

isn't the letter "p"

Laura, Susie, Sara, Julia, RJ, and Johnny

The "gang" of family members at the Cleveland

Guardians baseball game. Donna treated everyone. 

Sister Judy is wearing an Indians shirt

with "Feller" on the back. Bob Feller pitched

for Cleveland from 1936 to 1956.

and even had Chris's birthday on the big screen!

There was lots of food, and, of course, cake.

After the game (Cleveland lost), 

the kids were allowed to run around the bases!

Julia's batting "lefty" here with RJ and Ian

She must be a switch-hitter--she's batting right-handed

in the family pic: Doug, Julia, RJ, and Sara

I asked Donna why there was no 

full-length mirror in the condo,

so, of course she had Doug put up

the mirror squares!

Back to school: Matthew, Junior; Luke, grade 5;

George, troublemaker; Grace, Freshman;

Mary Kate, preschool.

Selfie group at Iowa State. Tom, Annika,

Caiden, Jett (and friend), Trina 

Jett's dorm room looks bigger than his bedroom at home!

Caiden...looks like he's on a roof?..

Yes, Trina said. The roof of a parking 

garage taking Senior pictures!!!

He is our next high school graduate. :-)

Last Music in the Park...hamburger picnic

and "Simon and Garfunkel" singing

a variety of songs on Wednesday night.

On Saturday, the 23rd, Bob decided that we should

take our pickup camper to Jimmy who needed

an extra bed for another hired man.  So, we went

to church in Rugby on Saturday, then to

the Eagles for the Meatball Supper. We left 

at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, and I followed him, 

again, in another pickup. 

Bob had spent the last couple weeks working on our

old Fix Or Repair Daily pickup, so we could

put the camper on it to take to Jimmy's.

En route, he stopped to check for an oil leak.

Jimmy and Bob at Jim's Bin site, discussing

the condition of the old pickup (among other things).

Jimmy has all his machinery marked!

We stopped at Jimmy and Kelly's farm 

to see the kids, and then headed to Medora

for the pitchfork steak fondue and Musical.

When all the kids in the audience went 

on stage, the cast taught them to sing,

"This Little Light of Mine".

And of course, part of the show was,

"Coming Home to Medora".  A lot of new

songs for the 60th year anniversary,

and new dances, too.

After breakfast at the Cowboy Café on Sunday,

 we headed home but first stopped

at the Painted Canyon, a part of Theodore 

Roosevelt National Park. Then we drove to one 

of Jimmy's fields and helped move two semis

across a field. I drove the pickup and got stuck,

but put it in 4-wheel-drive and got out. 

From there we went to the DQ in Killdeer

for lunch and then went through 

the mountains to get to Highway 2.

En route to the farm, we stopped 

in Minot at Schatz's truck stop to eat.

Finally got home around 9 p.m.

Caiden and Annika are back to school

at Alburnett high school.

Ariana is a senior at Loras College.

She plans to graduate in December!

Saw this cloud en route to the lake on August 29th.

Thought it looked like George Washington with a beard.

Labor Day weekend at Lake Metigoshe.

The mini-golf course was new this year,

so we decided to try it on the 31st.

We weren't really seriously trying to make par

which is obvious by our scores.  A fun way,

however, to end the month of August. :-)