First – there is the good, old HIS Sports.
Johanna, Katriel and Nigel are playing HIS Soccer on Saturday mornings again this year.
John is a substitute coach and will fill in weekly wherever he is needed.
Then there are my Scarlet Knight daughters. Marie is playing her first year of Varsity and Tabitha is playing her first year of Modified.
If you can’t find me… look for me at Bullis Park. Or Brockport. Or Binghamton. Or Hilton. Or….
Friends invited us to join them at the beach to celebrate “First Day of Not-School.”
We’d never been to a lake beach and I’d always wanted to give it a try. Although it poured buckets as we looked for the place, the skies cleared and we had a lovely time.
I’m shy on photos, but that’s because we were all having too good a time to take many.
I definitely want to do this again! Sadly, it will have to wait until next year at this point!
The waning days of summer found us taking some time to visit the zoo. We picked up our friend William to join us.
We got there for members opening time and the docents were already out and about. This one had a chinchilla for us to meet.
The alligators were in for the summer visit.
And we were super impressed with the snow leopards’ new digs.
The sea lions especially liked the kids.
And we left and ate a later lunch in the car on the drive home.
I’m not sure where the days have gone, but somehow, my little boy is 18 years old.
He started his day at a different church service than the one the family attended as he has been doing some video work for a pastor in Newark.
Dinner was something new; I tried to make steak fajitas. They were pretty good.
It was beautifully HOT outside, so we opted to open gifts in the crowded living room.
Johanna made him a penguin card.
The boy who made me a mommy, made her a grandma.
We tried EIGHT times to get a decent photo. Someone was always being silly.
There was nothing silly about lemon cake. From scratch. Oh snap.
Nan took the girls out for a treat while youth group met here.
They look quite pleased.
College Visit #1 was to Houghton a few weeks ago. We didn’t take any pictures. Today’s visit to Canisius got a photo, if only because it seemed noteworthy that we walked around Buffalo in the rain. It’s just funny to me. Because it is Buffalo, and it is raining.
It took almost an entire month.
Although their was nothing actually wrong with the laundry room the way it was, I wanted to spruce it up a bit. It was actually my second choice for a summer project, but it was likely to be cheaper and faster than redoing the powder room so John moved it to first place.
My friend Emily and I painted it > 11 years ago when we first bought the house. I picked the color Flan, and John put down new flooring and some wire racks. It has worked just fine for all these years.
I removed the doors and John helped me set them out around the basement.
I thought I had ordered the paint I needed and while I waited for it to be delivered, I painted the walls “Fencepost” white by Glidden.
I washed the doors with TSP substitute and on 7/12 realized the paint had not been ordered. I went to Woodcraft in Henrietta to buy what I needed.
I used General Finishes Gel Stain in Gray. It was a long process. Each side needed three coats, and three days to dry in between layers. Then we needed three layers of Seal Coat. It was a long process, but worth every moment.
Meanwhile, in the midst of this, John started working on the “ship lap” wall.
Yes… they sanded in the family room.
Cut outside.
It went up quickly.
Doors were finally finished and we ordered hardware from Amazon.
It’s beautiful!
And now that i spent that much time in the basement… I now have some ideas for updating that area. 🙂
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