In The "Good Ol' Summertime"

This year marked a first: We had the heat on in the summertime. 62 degrees inside, with little hope of the sun shining, made us run for the heat. Sad. We've had so much rain that everything is green and lush. Much of it we've missed as we've been traveling for surgeries. We hope that we are finished with them, even though everyone was very nice. Still, Salt Lake City is a far cry from rural Oregon.

Yesterday we went fishing. Our daughter saved the 4 little blue gills we caught and put them in her personal pond. They are still live, mostly, this morning. She also has a catfish in her pond. She feeds them dog food every morning.

Our young son is busy making a "tree" house. We thought that it would be better being close to the trees rather than in them. The tree can grow without messing up the fort. He's thinking that pulling nails from boards isn't particularly exciting. Life is filled with the mundane so that the excitement is a flash of brilliance. We appreciate it all the more.