They've Arrived!

Looks like Erin and Alex are settling in! I'm so glad that the love to read! Their summer vacation has officially begun. The cousins were here to greet them when they arrived. Abigail had been anxiously waiting all afternoon inside our house...but the cousins who were outside saw them first! Erin and Alex had lots of help getting their things to their rooms. Goosey (Woody) put Alex to work pretty fast. We had some London broil that needed to be ground. Alex found out that it is hard work with our hand meat grinder...Woody was glad to hand that job over to someone else this time! Erin helped me get the rest of our supper ready while the boys were grinding. So the first meal of their Grammy and Goosey vacation is under their belts. The kitchen is cleaned up...both the supper dishes AND the meat grinding mess. Woody did the dishes and the preliminary clean up of the meat grinding mess...and, then, I did the mopping...second mopping of the day...I mopped the floor this afternoon just before they got here.

Graham came over this morning and was a great help...he vacuumed the stairs, went and got the steam mop (we share this item between our two houses), took batteries to his house to test to see if they were good or bad (we had all these loose batteries laying around that we didn't know if they still had any "juice" left in them and they have a tester next door). This afternoon Abigail came over and she helped me put away some dish towels and a few dishes and then swept the kitchen floor for me. After supper, Goosey took Erin and Alex to Geeks (a computer game store and a computer repair store). They had a game system that they wanted to know if Geeks could repair. They looked around and talked with someone about the repair and also traded in some of their old games for cash (to spend on more games...or the repair), while Goosey went to deliver a couple more graduation gifts. After they got back, they got Erin's computer hooked up and she is now in front of it and Alex is playing games on whatever electronic hand-held "game player" he now has (Grammy can't keep up with all the names of such items!). So they have arrived and are settling in quite well I would say. I'll bet that their mommy and daddy are frantically getting things ready for their Alaska trip! Things are more laid back here! Woody and Erin are going to prepare a marinade for some meat that we plan to have tomorrow. So far...no boredom...we're keeping them too busy for them to get bored! And, they know that if they say that they are bored...that Grammy or Goosey will fix that...always plenty to do to keep them from being bored...we will find something for them to do when and if they get bored...and they know it (I have reminded them many times over the years that they had best not tell me that they are bored!!!!!).

We had some pretty strong thunderstorms pass through in the night. Shortly after midnight the wind really picked up...enough that I woke Woody up and shortly after that the tornado storm warning siren went off. It went off again this morning. We got 1.13 inches of rain since midnight last night...so our plants should be happy. Melany did walk around the front flower gardens inspecting to see how the plants she and Wade helped us plant were doing...so far we have a thumbs up from her on how things are looking and growing.