Big blog #1

OK. so let's get started with part 1. Why part 1???? Because I have so many things to tell you that it must be done in 2 parts!!!

Lukas was here on Friday and that just happened to be his aunt Yaya's birthday. She got out of work a little early so she could spend some time with him. It was a beautiful day so they decided to decorate gpa's driveway with some chalk!!

She did draw him some flowers, trees, suns, and many other things, but the one I liked best was this one!!

Once gpa came home they played with some bubbles and then someone got sprayed with water while the other was washing the soap off the drive!!! You can't really tell but, he was WET!

Then he had some work to do so he was off!!

Then it was time for a little relaxation on the swings. They chatted about a lot of things, but especially about the owls. There just happened to be a owlets in the tree just above the swing set.

On to Saturday

Years ago and I do mean YEARS AGO, we bought a catamaran. We only used it a few times when the rudder broke, and quite honestly we had our 26 footer and soon after got into biking, so it has been stored in my parents barn. How long you ask? Well. the last time it was registered was in 1992!!
It may have been a little dirty!

Parts were brought out and cleaned. Here they are drying by the barn.

Jesse and Lukas were over to lend a hand. The hard part was getting the hulls out of the loft in the barn!!

That's 15 foot of boat to get around all those corners and down the steps!!

Everything looks good, a little soap and a wax and it should be good to go???


Next door to my mom and dad's they are raising some sheep so Sarah took Lukas to check them out!

She also wanted to pose in the barn....silly girl!!

Then it was time to get to work...Lukas was a really hard worker!!!

He LOVED it!!!!

He scrubbed and scrubbed!!! Hey it had 18 years of dirt on it!!

OK, once he had it all washed it was up to gpa and daddy to start to put things together!!

He thought that they could handle it themselves but they needed some coaching!!

A little time out to hang with Prince.

Time to lace up the trampoline....Lukas was there again to help out!

No dad.......wait it needs to be tighter!

He had all his tools , and was ready for anything!

Now to check out the lines...a little tangled but all in all in great shape.

Love this boy........just the CUTEST!!

After hours of hard work even he needed a little nap!

Then it was time to try the sails.........hoist that up gpa!!!

At some point some one got into something in the garden.....and didn't notice till a little later!!! haha

Amy came over after work to check out the progress and hang out on the tramp.

Jesse worked so hard he blew out his shorts!!!! Hey, a little duct tape will fix anything!!!

Lukas wanted to point out the big #'s on the sail.

Well it looks great for a 25 year old boat!!! A number of years ago when Dave didn't want to deal with the repair or the storage he gave the boat to Jesse. Out of sight out of mind!!! Now he wants to be a Indian giver!!!!

Let's go SAILING!!