Here's a picture summary of some of our doings this summer/early autumn.
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| The big news - visitors from South Africa. Welcome to America. |
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| Lookouts game (a losing proposition) |
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| Lunchtime with some of the family |
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| Lots of Scrabble with Mom (and sometimes Dad) |
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| Lots of gardening |
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| Almost 40 cantaloupe - I hate that the deer ate 8 - not so great! |
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| Violin lessons |
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| Canning - tomatoes, here. |
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| Working on puzzles |
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| Relaxing with friends - this is Rocky |
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| A nephew's birthday party at a local lake. |
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| Making peach jam - yes, it's delicious! And we didn't even have to use High Fructose Corn Syrup! |
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| A new haircut - bangs! |
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| Teaching Daisy to jump through the hoop |
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| Artwork |
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| Painting/Coloring |
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| This is what the deer did to ALL my watermelon! Does anyone have a shotgun? |
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| School starts |
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| More scrabble! |
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| Weddings |
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| A precious visitor from the west. My folk enjoyed their great grandson! (The rest of us enjoyed him too! - there'll be a whole blog post coming up on just his little precious self!) |
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| Four generations. |
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| Camping with the Pathfinders at Indian Boundary |
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| There are 32 Friends altogether. |
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| A family photo - always missing a few, though! |
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| Autumn is starting to show itself. |
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| Canoeing the Hiwassee - R, you just don't know how lucky you are to live by this river! Spoiled, that's what you are! |
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| Time to say good-byes :-( |
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| Another puzzle |
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| An edible plants seminar |
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| Pathfinder Induction night. |
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| A - ten- HUT!!!!! (or something like that!) |
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| You ARE a Friend, right? |
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| Did you say your eyes were running? We have a lovely crop of Goldenrod this year! |
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| Our spider lily shows itself yet again. We've only seen it three times in the last 7 years. |
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Can you grab that plane, little girl? (actually it bumped into her moments later)
Plane hits girl.
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| Hay, you! |
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| There's no shortage of pumpkins in TN this year. |
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| FOL fall banquet - the food was excellent, as usual! |
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| What happened to you, Sunny? It's very red due to Mecurachrome. (antiseptic) |
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| Apple Jelly made by yours truly. |
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| Some great clouds today. |
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| More clouds - storms coming, actually. |
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| Here is the Samaritan Center barrel which I decorated for our Sunday Fall Festival - on Oct 16. (I suppose more will be forthcoming about that later). |
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| Tomorrow is Nerd Day at school. I think this looks more like Hillbilly day, but that's just my opinion! :0 Hey, here in Tennessee, all nerds are already hillbillys anyway, ha ha! |
