All in a day's Work

Yesterday we went to the student center to finish out Jon's service hours for scouts. He, Jonathan, Rachel & I worked our little fingers off. We had so much fun though! We laughed, worked and enjoyed each others company, well except Rachel & Jon enjoying each other! Jonathan told them they deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize!! Jon only needed 2 hours but we worked 4 1/2. We painted the pillars on stage & at the back of the room. They were scuffed up pretty bad. Then painted by the stairs & the bottom of the View mailbox. Then we swept & mopped the stage,with sponges on our hands & knees! Then the worst part...we cleaned Josh's store room. What a MESS!! But you can actually walk back there now & find stuff. Then cleaned the cafe, music storage room & restrooms. We found the rug that used to be on stage & cleaned & vacuumed it, and put it back on stage. Jon seemed to be really proud of all the work. His best work, according to him, was finding the golden throne & rigging a light in it. Now the inside glows...he found that so amusing!! It was alot of work, but more fun! Posted by Picasa

Rachel has a new creature at our house. Seems some friends of ours dog killed a mother opossum the other night. When they turned on their flood lights, they saw little babies scrambling. They did not find anything the next morning. But the following day, they found this one. And how convenient, Gene is headed for a job in Houston & Pat is visiting their kids in Birmingham this week. So now, Rachel is the proud mother off a baby opossum, named PossMan. That's what she always called opossums when she was little...."Daddy, look, there's a Poss man"!!! 

This is the only covered bridge that I got to see this trip. I really wanted to be able to tour Putnam County this year on the way up to my hometown. It is probably only an hour & half away, but too far to drive when you have a ton of relatives to see. Anyway, Putnam county has 32 covered bridges, most in the late 1800's. Jon & I wanted to see about 3 that were so close together, but Rachel was SO burnt out on traveling, who can blame her....being 9 & driving 1000 miles. Anyway, this bridge was at Cataract Falls, I remember going to the falls as a kid & hope to return one day. We just went to the bridge & loved it!! 

Well, we are finally back from Indiana! What a quick visit. I really needed one more week at least. And as usual, I ran around like crazy visiting & left feeling guilty for not visiting everyone that I needed to see. Oh well, there's always next year.This is a picture of the drive in movie....that was David's favorite part of our trip. Jon's was white water rafting, outside of Chatanooga, and Rachel just wants to move to Indiana! She loves the small town where you have sidewalks where you can just walk to the park or to school. I like the idea that mom still doesn't lock her doors & life is just so simple. Think of all the crazy running around I have to do for the kids, and if we were there, Jon could actually walk to football practice, walk to scouts. But then again, our life and everything we are involved in is here....maybe all of my family would like the hot, humid weather here in baton rouge!! 

You never know what you will find!

Never ever leave your camera lying around at the View!