Sights and sounds of a country back yard :)

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I love the olde town Ohio courthouses.

I want to post every one I see, some probably twice. ;)

Johnny’s working on a dear out of Bionicles

They still have fun with them!

Random, cool rain clouds from a couple nights ago...!

Andy helping Johnny study for Johnny’s sandwich making test

Johnny passed it with flying "colors". Haha.

New shoes for my horse and she’s not even a year old yet!

Still haven't had the first issue with these cars. I'm praying I found one with continued reliability. I'm gonna need it with 36,000 miles logged already!

I enjoy watching Isaac experiment with photography and creative editing.

Are you tired of our windmill yet?! ;)

Obviously, you can see that I'm not...  The perfect addition to our back yard.

Emily’s work, this time.

An ordinary scene captured beautifully. :)

I caught John working when I went to pick him up. ;)

You can't see him very well, but he's there, changing out the floor mats. I'm proud of him and his work.

A spider 🕷 that Julie let live!

She has a long history of hating spiders and waging war against them. But this one was so cool she let it live and EVEN took a picture of it!

I was out enjoying the view of the fields and the end of the day.

Wait for it...!

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Kitty mommy

One of Shadow's relatives (across the street) is being a good kitty mommy. More kittens on the way, from one of the other residents, too...

Crazy storm clouds Friday evening.

Isaac and my mom have been sorting through some of my dad’s things.

I guess you can say he had a pencil for every occasion! ;) That's what you need when you're drafting. Looks like quite a haul!

We enjoyed a graduation party last night.

We have all enjoyed getting to know Mitch, and his family, this year. He is on the boy's shooting team. Everyone enjoyed cake, water games, board games, and video games.

Yes, ammo was involved. That's my kind of party! ;)

Wet day, yesterday!

I drove through some really crazy down-pours.  Kept alternating between sunglasses and water-skis...

Trying a new way to post LivePhotos

I guess I like our windmill...!? :)

I just liked something about this scene.

The colors, the light?

I could sit and enjoy this view all day… :)

Isaac, at it again!

A little family get together with Julie’s dad. :)

Another Father’s Day weekend project

Oh no, Andy's started adding shelves for his cube collection...! :) He and I worked together to build and mount this one.

Isaac out capturing some wildlife...

I decided to do a fun little project for Father’s Day.

The boys and I assembled and planted the windmill my mom gave me for my birthday. It was a gift for my Mom and Dad's 40th anniversary, from my dad's family. After I planted it and send her a picture, my mom told me that my dad always wanted to put it over the well... Great minds think alike. :)

Happy Father's Day. I miss you, dad.

Daddy: my favorite role and pastime!

Andy snapped this pic, of me, while we ate our weekly after-church lunch together, for Father's Day. I got to pick where we ate. They knew the answer before they asked... MEXICAN! ;)

Father’s Day fun, coming up...!

Johnny finally got his state champ medal... 🏅

...I got a little too much sun. The kids like the tan line I've got going, especially the necklace line! Haha.

You can get a little feel for our steel shooting, here

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Hanging out, at Cowboy Town, yesterday.

Another day of steel challenge.

Julie’s snail, Jar Jar, has a baby jar jar on it!

We’re pretending to be your friend in hopes you’ll drop some food!

Nice way to start a Saturday!

You can't go wrong with Waffle House and Homemade mulberry syrup! The boys and I loved it!

Andy and I are on the same wavelength.

It makes us good at remote control Lego building games. He came and got me, to give this display a try, at COSI. Regardless of who was giving the instructions, we didn't have any trouble. :)

Second tradeshow, this week!

Such cool photo subjects in our neighborhood. :)

A nice way to end a long day, yesterday.

Thankfully, Andy hung out, and helped the whole time. He made it enjoyable.

I took a little time, to do some flying, before bed.

This is the show booth, that Andy helped me set up, for our show yesterday.

He earned a free day of exploring COSI, out of the deal. :)

I think I won the pillow fight!?

I kept ducking his swings and then hitting him no-stop with a pillow in each hand, back to back to back until I was laughing so hard I had to stop. Then he'd recover enough to take another swing, I'd duck and the whole thing started over again. Until he collapsed on the floor, under a heap of pillows. :) hahahahaha

The German village are of Columbus.

Nice dinner!

We ate at Schmidt's, for dinner. Awesome food. Sausage, sauerkraut, and awesome cream puffs! Even their apple sauce was good!

Andy and my work day...

Andy decided to tag along on my trade show, at COSI, this week. He helped me set our table all up. He even made a custom arrangement of my business cards. :)

Shadow has managed to cover two-thirds of Julie’s folding piles!

Another year of VBS in process. Large crowd.

Praying the kids will come to know, and grow closer to Jesus.

Julie’s Fan Boys...

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Is garlic but a good thing, or a bad thing? ;)

A peaceful scene, from my walk, last week

The neighbors are getting closer to being done.

They painted the house brown. Looks nice with the white trim. They also redid the front doors and frames keeping the originals.

John, and his friends, mugging for the flying camera, while hanging out at the park.

Fitting spot for our friend.

When life gives you lemons, chase a squirrel!

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Sometimes you just need a cuddle buddy

Brutus, always wanting love...

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Brutus always came to my chair to ask for a pet.

Brutie once stood there for an entire football quarter, before he decided I'd petted him enough.

Sometimes, when you’re feeling glum, God gives you a squirrel to chase!

Lower left, on the run. Haha. And yeah, that's a bag of Shredded Mini-Wheats...