Lake Itasca Bluegrass Festival

Wonderful music + beautiful weather + old friends = A good day!

Memorial Day Picnic!

 Friends of ours have an annual Memorial Day picnic on their farm each spring. 

And they always come up with amazing group games! =D

 Stringing cheerios on a string with two members of the team blindfolded.

 The teams had to stand on one board and move the other in front, 

repeating this 5 times...without falling off...and they were timed! 

 Competition for who can start a fire and roast and eat a marshmallow the fastest! =D

True or False game! 

Taste Testing Tomatoes

A Storm...

Last week we had strong straight-line winds in the night, and then no electricity for 18 hours.

We lost the top of one of the Oak trees behind the house, and part of another one in the pasture.  Plus a LOT of leaves and smaller branches.  The yard was a mess!

Most of the plants in the garden were all leaning.  (They eventually straightened up though.)

Being without electricity makes it very obvious how dependent we are on it.  

We were very thankful when it came back on!

Robins...

 ..singing in the trees this evening!

Reading by Candlelight

The power went out the other night just as I finished making supper.  So we enjoyed a candlelight dinner and then I read while Amy played the piano. There is something fitting about reading an adventure story by candlelight. :-)