more pictures from last weekend

These are the flowers from John and Dannell's anniversary, very nice.

And here is Tim taking apart the old, cracked bed frame we replaced.   Well, we rotated beds. Dan and Alicia bought one at a garage sale, so we put that in the cabin, and moved a bed, and then discarded this old broken one.

He got it all apart and then reattached the wheels to the footboard to make one of those things like mechanics use to roll under cars. Except the wheels were too tiny and it didn't roll all that well. 

But still, nice try.

Then, madman he is, he raked leaves.  I helped him, but good gosh, he works.  Work was one of his first words and nothing has changed.  He rakes like an adult would.

These girls are working on collages, the last ones of the summer.

Here's Julia's creation.  James pronouced it a collage of randomness.  Sponge Bob and Usher.  President Obama and Dora side by side in the corner.  I have no comment, speechless.

Not content with jumping in the leaf piles, they biked through them.

Working on the deck-- after this Jay had an inventory of what he needed, so we all went to Menards.

Yes, Men's Nards.  I've heard ALL the jokes.  Anyway, this Menard's was a fair bit amazing.  It even had a grocery section with varieties of Doritos and turkey jerky, and Peachy-Os, and every kind of mixed nuts. 

What in the heck?

Not gonna lie, I liked it.  It was impressive.

Oh,and they had pre-made deck railing for $33 a section and posts for less than ten dollars.  It was all so convenient that in the morning Jay had that deck railing done before breakfast.

Oh yeah, here we are with the mechanic roller thing, wondering why it doesn't work better. TOO SMALL OF WHEELS, Buddy. That's all.

He also forgot to pack a jacket, but was willing to wear mine.  That's a warm jacket from Gap that I got at a garage sale.  I'm glad he didn't reject it as a girl's jacket.     How can anyone even tell? The lake is not a beauty contest, believe me.
 

Oh, and here's the best part of the whole weekend, kicked back in the living room, DVD playing at the end of the day, warm and quiet and lovely.  Sigh. Was this really only a week ago?  love, Val