We have officially started summer

I know it has been a while since I have posted. We have been very busy after tennis season trying to get our schoolwork done. It is all complete and we have officially started our summer vacation. We have alot of tennis planned and a good bit of work to do on the house.

This week the girls are with their cousins and grandpa in Palatka. They are doing work on the lake house. My biggest fear is snakes. It has been a long time since I have been down there but what I remember the most are the water moccosins. Not only are there water moccasins, but there are copperheads and rattlesnakes. We won't even talk about the spiders and flying insects of the wasp family. Well.....I got a phone call yesterday. It wasn't about spiders or snakes but went something like this "Mom, I cut my foot". A little paniced they were but I got them settled down. It was all fine and dandy until grandpa woke up (he was taking a nap). He doesn't do well with these things. Cousin David was told not to go on the zip line into the lake and he did, the others followed with Andrea cutting her foot on something in the water. Now I am concerned about all the bacteria that can be found in the lake. Can you tell, I don't like the great outdoors much, well at least the great rural outdoors. The cousins endured their punishment and all was well, Andrea called and confirmed it.

I have been without children this week. It is nice to have quiet, but I am not quite sure of what to do with myself. Monday night we bought a window ac unit for our bedroom. It stays warmer than we want it at night. Maybe this will help our electric bill. Last night I went to our annual AWANA leader meeting and Jimmy and Ronnie installed the unit. It does keep the room cool.

Today we put the motor in Briana's car. It took some finesse but it is in there and before the rain came. If you can believe it, we got buckets of rain yesterday. It is very dark now and has been sprinkling for a little while, hopefully, after the motor is in we will have another deluge. We really need it.

I will mow the yard tomorrow. It is well overdue, but I ran over a root and tore the reinforcement bar off the front. Jimmy fixed it this morning. I also was pressure washing the house and burned a hole in the hose. That is replaced but it is at the lake with the kids so I can't finish that this week.

The girls had their first match with their USTA team las Friday. It was Krista's very first real match. She won, she was so excited. She was the only person on her team to win. Andrea won as well. Joanna played doubles with Krista, they did very well. Joanna has some great shots but needs to work on her consistency.

Briana returns home in 29 days. We have alot to do until then and hopefully there will be plenty to do after she gets here. I will keep all of you who read this posted.

God Bless