Warm Days

 The traditional burning of homework and school stuff at the end of the school year:

The crumbling dock along Cedar River:

My cactus that I've had since 1995 bloomed! I think it has only bloomed once before:

I spent lots of time out on the water in my kayak:

End of August

August was a really busy month! I got to see my niece, we spent some time at the ocean, went on some long bike rides, the girls went back to school, we helped my parents get their house ready to sell, and we did lots of fun family stuff in between. It definitely feels like we got our money's worth out of August. 

Our favorite place to watch the sunset:

An evening at Lion Bridge:

Rose being spooky as we sat around the fire in the backyard:

This guy was keeping me company on the steps while I replaced a screen door at my parent's house. He seemed pretty chill:

The Five Seasons Ski Team is always entertaining. Unfortunately, we only got a chance to see them once this summer:

That was a lot of fun! Bring on September...

The Fourth

Something, Something in the Month of May

The garden is starting to go somewhere... strawberries, string beans, onions, carrots, no tomatoes, 

My girls:

The Maquoketa Caves!

Spooky...

Cold, wet, and claustrophobic... who doesn't want to crawl around in a cave?

The muddy explorers made it out alive!

Our 1967 water heater developed a slow leak, so we ended up replacing it with a lot of help from Curtis:

We've walked over 150 miles catching Pokemon downtown...

Cynthia's birthday! Thirtysomething, I think.

Rose helped me make a birthday cake using only fruit:

Happy Birthday, Cynthia!

I like riding my bike on the mountain bike trails at Beverly Park. Really difficult (and dangerous) to take pictures while riding, though: