SUMMER!!!! NO! IT'S TOO HOT!!

I just found this in the draft section so I'm posting it now, even though it was last spring.

O.K. now this is screwy, we went from snowing to 100 degrees in like 10 minutes,I'm ready for fall, you know cool temperatures and snow and rain,....... Wait, what am I saying? We just got rid of all that. I just dug my shorts out of the spider infested corner of my closet, and I'm not about to put them back!

I'm a mess, But isn't that the way we are? never happy with the weather, never happy with the yard, and never happy with the temerature of our milk. Everything always needs to be different for us to be happy. well, I personally would be super happy if my lawn mower would start everytime,and by itsself, then I would be content, maybe.

Track & Field

This is the BOY, in his Track uniform, lookong kinda KOOL.

Chris threw the Discus,and the Shotput in the field events,and did pretty good for his first time throwing, his best distances were 70.4 Feet for Discus and 29.5 Feet for the Shot.

Christopher had alot of fun on the track team, and is looking forward to next season.

The coach, who is also going to be the Basketball Coach, has given Chris a summer conditioning schedule, to help him get a little faster and stronger. (He wants to have Chris on the B.Ball team.

He's an awsome Coach and Teacher, The Students really love him.)
We are very happy with this School,( taylorscrossing.org ) the Harbor Method is very learning friendly, Charter Schools teaching this meathod are spreading around the country fast, I strongly recomment this type of learning for Any child. O.K. the Plug is in.

The New building for the school is under construction, and is scheduled to open in October.

The staff and students,are very excited to get out of the Modulars,( The schools nicname has become "Trailers Crossing", which is quite a joke with all involved) once the "Trailers" are done we can get to work on the soccer field and finish the Playground ,Etc... Here are a couple pics of the school. If you can't tell this was the very beginning, It is very exciting to be involved with the school( I never ever thought I would say that) Parental involvment is requested,and appreciated. MaryLyn is a Learning Aide in the Second grade class, and loves the kids.(They kinda like her too)

I'll add more pics later

Summer!!!!

Summer!! Where are You? Or How about Spring? Do you not exist anymore?
Today on JUNE 11th I woke up to 1/2 inch of snow. Yes you read it right SNOW!!
we really appreciate the moisture,but we would like to have some warm temperatures, so maybe we could at least go outside. This is definately a crazy year, Wet and cold in the West, Record high Temps. in the East, and the middle of the country is, well Under Water. I Feel for all the people who have lost everything, I can't Imagine what that is like...........
Maybe I should Patch the bottom of my boat tonight, or put some floatation devices on the Trailer, Yeah that would be better, then I'ld have a Pontoon Bed, but probably just a wet Trailer.
Soooooo...... Back to the original subject... I am anxious for Summer...... Oh Wait!!,
as long as it's snowing, I DON'T HAVE TO MOW!!!! KEEP SNOWING PLEASE!!

Lawn Mowing Season

I don't want to sound negative, but .....
Lawn Mowing season really sucks, Not Mowing itself,But the lawn mowers.
I Started out the season, Got the Mowers out of cold storage, now the riding mower was also used all winter plowing snow,so there wasn't much to do to it, I got everything operational, then we started mowing, first the hand mower started acting up,and then we lost the engine on the riding mower. so, I cleaned the carburator on the push mower, started mowing the front yard, got 3/4ths done and it quit alltogether, now i'm without a mower. The other night I was at the neighbors house, I noticed an old riding mower in the weeds, so I promptly went to look at it,Because if it's sitting in someones pasture, somehow it's a jewel. The engine looked the same, So I asked my neighbor about it. His reply, much to MaryLyns Horror, was, "I would love it if you hauled that thing off". well he didn't have to tell me twice, I went right home and got the 4wheeler and a rope,took Christopher with me, and we drug that old mower home.(the tires were all flat and only one would hold air)
The first thing we did was put gas in it, and tried to start it, Funny, It started right up, it didn't run great, but it ran, For about 2 minutes.
After cleanig out the whole fuel system, we got it running again, and thought it was going to run good, so we gave it a test. First we engaged the mower deck, that was a thumbs up, then we tried the drive system, seemed to work good too. so I couldn't help myself, I had to try mowing the grass,( remember the flat tires). I sat on the machine, kinda fwabbled across the driveway to the grass, and engaged the mower deck. I couldn't believe it, it was working too good, it was mowing nice and even, and that was with flat tires too! Too good to be true!!
on the second pass,('cause one wasn't enough) it quit. so I'm now back to the begining except I have another junker in the yard. It's a good thing scrap iron is at an all time high, I'ld have alot of "Lawn Ornaments" in the yard.