end of June - July

Grand Canyon trip was great it was a fun trip with beautiful sights to see, and a long road to travel.

It's a really big hole in the ground, but worth every mile of going out there to see it.

On July 4 we went over with Jon and Sonya to visit Steve's folks, Moe got to go too and he always enjoys running around out there.

Sonya is going to have a baby in February and Steve's mom is VERY excited. She'd bought it several outfits already and I'm sure has plans for more. We rode around and looked at drill sites for a while and had a wonderful fried fish dinner.

Baseball camp went alright this year, no real huge issues. Setting them up was a pita, but once that got done they did run alright.

Someone suggested an Animal Summer camp party earlier in the year, so I decided to take the inititive and plan somethi

ng. I found a location, picked a date and sent out information, but only 3 people said they were interested at all, so I cancelled it and planned a Canoe trip instead. We floated the Bogue Chitto with B&P, S&L, A&N, Trixie & Eric. It was a beautiful day!

The last weekend of July we were supposed to go Canoeing up in Tishamingo, but decided instead to go to Mobile and visit Steve's mom's family at her request. I impressed his Uncle Charlie by putting together little puzzles most of the day, and he brought out some of the "toys" he'd made to entertain the kids when Steve was little. Terribly clever mechanical creations with ball bearings and tracks all very "rube goldburg". Since we'd already taken off on Monday we went over to New Orleans and walked around the quarter ending the night with drinks at Pat-O's with Ricky.

Trey's 2nd daughter Sarah Rose was born July 29. Came fast and easy. Mom and Dad are still up in Evansville helping everyone adjust.

Caillin left July 31 going to Pennsic and should be home on Friday just in time for my Birthday. I went to the performing arts event in Jackson and stayed with Sam and Mike and the kids. They are cute and always on the move.

I've knitted a lot and read a lot in this month. That's what all this travel is good for.

right now I'm reading "Practical Demonkeeping" and knitting a baby blanket for Sarah.