Showing posts with label floating down the river. Show all posts
Showing posts with label floating down the river. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Return of the River Rats!

This past weekend, the Red Sock River Rats were out in full force!

We haven't spent as much time there this year as we have in the past...

We had that huge tree fall and destroying much of our dock...

 
Requiring heavy equipment to remove...
 


And the flood this past winter/spring...




The boys' busy schedule...

Me getting to spend so much time with Locklan...

There is much work to be done, and to be honest, some of it will not happen this year,
we haven't even put the boat in the water yet.

But last weekend...we were ready to play!

Mr. K and I were the first to get there...

Well, not the very first, someone (who likes corn) got there first...


 
If you look carefully, you can see the handprint of the culprit!
 
 
Yes, someone with  thumbs!
 
Tony and Mindy came with their dogs...
 
 
 
Since we didn't have the boat in the water,
Tony and Mindy have been floating on rafts and kayaking.
 
I wanted to join in, so I ordered a raft of my own.
 
Mindy helped me

did all the work and got it blown up!


Of course, she had help...

 
It was pretty heavy...
 
And BIG!
 

As in VERY BIG!


I couldn't wait to try it out!
 
 
Yes, the river was ugly, the water was high...

But we still had a great time!

On Sunday, everyone headed back to the river, but Mr. K and I had tickets to see Mama Mia, and Ashley had to work.
 but Andy and Locklan, Tony and Mindy, and My brother-in-law, Mike and his son Tyler were there.

Locklan and Mindy enjoyed 'Grandma's Duck' ...

But he didn't last long...

 
Nap time!
 
But floating on the water does that to me too!
 
Tyler pitched in and cut the grass...
 

Which earned him the right to a float on the swan.

He declined, but did test it out on land...


He also brought his drone and took these dynamite photos of camp...
 
 
You can see that our dock (short dock in center of photo) isn't all done...

 
But we'll take what we can get!  I love our camp on the river!
 
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
 
 

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Another year older...

Yes!  I had another birthday!
 
 
 
I am now officially 66!
 
It was a good one, to be sure!
 
I slept in!
 
In my life, anything past 6:15 AM is sleeping in,
 
So by 8:30, my bladder was screaming for someone to call 911...
 
Seriously, I slept until 8:30! 
 
Is that an indication of old age?
 
I came downstairs and Mr K had my coffee ready...
 
He gave me a happy birthday kiss and a card...
 
And THREE presents!!!!
 
Of course, he's a guy and everyone knows guys don't give gifts that look this nice when they wrap them...
 
To be honest, his wrapping paper usually looks like this...
 
 
So the fact that he wrapped at all was exciting!
 
He told me to open them in a particular order...
 
Now, before I tell you the rest, let me say this...
 
I am EXTREMELY hard to buy for!
 
When the kids asked me what I would like,
I responded with a request for a family day at camp!
 
When Ron asked me,
I said I wanted a REAL trash bag for my car.
 
REAL, as in not looking like this:
 
(yes, like his version of wrapping paper)
 
My first gift was a REAL trash bag for my car!
 
No photo available, it's in use!
 
My second gift was this...
 
 
Yes!  Mr.K and I will finally figure out where I come from!
 
And last but not least...
 
TWO of these babies...
 
 
BOB SEGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
EEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I was so excited...
 
I cried!
 
Oh yes!
 
Of course,
 
we all went to the river
where we ate and ate and ate...
 
And floated on inflatable things...
 
NOT this...
 
or this...
 
 
Which would have been uber cool...
 
But suitably inflated things...
 
Ahhhhhhh
 
It wasn't a good day, it was a GREAT DAY!
 
So what's new with YOU?