Ambush, Parker's shop, river, cards and fish

The girls ambushing Papa with the hoses, they hid behind the lawnmower till he came outside. 

He couldn't get mad, it was so warm out the water felt good.

Saturday Parker was out spreading the gravel for his shop. 

He's a little frustrated and tired of waiting for the permit to go through.

Rielee taught me how to play Rummy Saturday night when she came over.

Now, every time I see her we have to play a couple of hands.  She is, of course, competitive and hates to lose.

Monday was so hazy with all the smoke it didn't feel warm enough to go to the river until 3.

Surprisingly, we had the swimming hole all to ourselves.  They had fun going down the rapids and had a

water fight.

Tuesday we went back but Rielee couldn't go because she had some

ASB work to do at school.  A few other kids came and the girls played and shared

their tubes with them

Harper forgot her mask so they had to share Ava's, they said there were

lots of huge fish in the river.

Fish Fiasco: Last week Papa got an aquarium so we could save some of the fish out of the pond when

we filled it in (plus he knew the girls would love it).  Catching the pond fish was such a pain we thought we'd postpone it, so we took the girls to the Pet Store and they picked out 3 little gold fish.  When we got back, Harper and Papa figured out how to catch all the pond fish and we decided to keep the biggest one, and wow, he looked really giant in the tank.

The next morning Ava was so upset-her baby fish had disappeared. 

We finally had to tell her the big pond fish must have gotten hungry in the night.

Wednesday-Parker and Maddie painted the woodshed and Parker cleared off and sprayed the bank.

He was proud of the light he installed.  He found it and several others in the trash at a job site, he'll use the others in his shop.