We have a deck!

Deck view toward the living room

Beam installed

Measurements showed that we can have just one vac plug per floor. Upstairs plug would go here, on the wall going toward Connor's room

Main floor plug would go here, on the wall between the masonry heater walkway and the utility room

Downstairs one would go here, to the left of the door into the big storage closet

Partial coverage of the other deck

Beadboard

Connor found a dead butterfly. Jimmy held it up to have its pic taken with him

Decking with some of our leaves. They go well together!

Stopping on the way down the driveway for the first black raspberries of the season

June 14: Kailyn is home from camp, and here are the pics from camp! Opening ceremonies

Practicing for the flag ceremony

Playing "statues"

Simon says

All of the kids in the Magical Nights unit

Same group making silly faces

Kailyn and Raesta

Kailyn, Raesta, Caroline, and Maddie

Building a teepee shelter. Kailyn is wearing her umbrella hat just for fun -- it wasn't raining.

Snacktime

Kailyn and Raesta doing a skit about the Hercules constellation

June 14: Trip out to the house for a picnic with Amy and Tori. It was dark and cloudy when we arrived, but cleared up while we were there

We had to rescue this butterfly from inside the living room windows. Kailyn also rescued a trapped barn swallow just after we arrived, and later I herded another briefly-trapped barn swallow out.

Jimmy met us out there and brought along a sample of stain for the beadboard for the living room ceiling. Showing how it might look