Dad and his wall to decorate the electrical services on our lawn
My wall might not look like much, but I got a health dose of much needed exercise putting it up. We cannot do much on the side of the services other than put some netting to prevent weeds and a layer of rock to spruce it up a little. We plan to backfill the side away from the services to form a fairly long slope where Lorena can plant her flowers, shrubs, special grasses, and that sort of thing. We were quite fortunate to get a strong rain last night with more on the way. It is not so fun for the kids to have that kind of weather during their summer vacation, but it will be great for our new trees.
The list of books from the previous post was an outgrowth of our effort to clean up and organize the books we read last year. I was amazed that we were only missing one book that I am confident will show up as soon as Lorena finishes her math class and has a little more time to organize her house again. We printed out a list of all the books and checked them off as we put them into two boxes, one for Christian’s third grade year and one for Kelly’s fifth grade year. Then we filed all their schoolwork that had not already been filed into the big filing cabinet in the bonus room. The kids need to take their State of Oregon test tomorrow and we will have completed everything.
Christian has been wanting to get something he can do on the airplane when Lorena, Kelly, and Christian travel to Mexico later this month, so we went to Trump’s Hobby store in Corvallis to pick him out a small airplane model. He picked out a model of the Wright Flyer. I talked to Kelly about what she might like to do and she thought that it might be nice to do a knitting project. I do not know whether I can get her up to speed by the time they fly out, but I will certainly do it when we get back home. I am going to try to get them set up to listen to Tolkien’s The Return of the King audio CD book and some drawing materials. That should keep them well occupied for the trips down and back.
Lorena is studying hard for her test tomorrow afternoon. I think she is just about ready. She can study today and then again for four hours while the kids are doing their testing tomorrow. It will be a great relief if she can get through this class successfully.