Adios Culver

You've been good to us.  We'll miss you and your beautiful views, the lovely breezes off the lake, the parks we enjoyed, walking and biking around, the excellent restaurants, and the friendly people.

 a silly goodbye!

we have plenty to praise God for; 4 years of learning and growing in a beautiful place.

fun at the beach

Some friends came today with their kids and we beat the 100+ heat by hanging out at the beach.  I do believe I got a bit of sunburn despite putting sunscreen on multiple times, hopefully I am the only one!  The kids played well together, had fun, and were dog tired by the end of the day!

We have plenty to praise God for; friends to help us enjoy the beach as we escape from the hot weather.

snow in Culver

 yes, there are landscape lights somewhere under there!  So thankful for Eldon, who keeps our walks and drive clear!

 out the breezeway door, that will be as far as I shovel, since we won't be dining on our "patio" in this weather.

Are you sure there is a sidewalk under there?

Indeed, there is...30 minutes and a sore back later.
And we've gotten about 5 more inches today...okay, enough all ready.

The Friendly Beasts

Okay, I know Culver is small, but 8 deer in our yard at 10:30pm, seriously.  I was sitting on the couch and our the side window I kept seeing a shadow pass by the window.  I am sure that since we are on the edge of town, by the ball fields, which are the closest thing to the woods on this side of town makes the deer feel a bit safer.  But we did drive down our street the next morning and noticed deer tracks all across town toward the other set of woods.  I had fun watching them out the window, and couldn't believe when I finally counted that there were 8 of them.  They were eating what they could of the community garden corn stalks, a cauliflower plant in our garden and from the looks of their tracks some of our bushes, which shouldn't hurt them too much as they are in need of a good pruning anyway!  It was a nice treat, especially since I grew up in the country and never really saw many deer that close to our house(too far from the woods and too many dogs.)  The videos aren't great(and I wish I had a way to splice them, my software refuses to do that!)...I need a night vision camera or something, but when they went under the street light you can see them better.