Thie time of year we spend a lot of time in the yard! I (Nana) head out to work in the yard
first thing every morning except Sunday. Papa and I go out there together every Saturday. His
specialty is the lawn and pruning the trees. (That can be dangerous.) I really love my time
outside every morning........it is my way of getting in touch with nature and doing a bit of quiet
thinking. I know that working in the yard is not everyone's favorite activity, but I am really

grateful that I am able to work still.

A big chunk of our summer went to our company from Germany. Marie Ebisch stayed with
us from July 17th to August 13th. Her parents and younger brother, Justin came the 13th of
August and stayed for three nights. It was a real learning experience and caused me to do some
personal stretching in terms of patience.........it was nice to get acquainted with more of the

Winkler's (our good friends from Berlin) family and we were happy to help them. Truly, I don't think we would sign-up for a whole month again. We will be seeing them again in October when we go to Freiberg.

One of dad's summer projects this year was to put the net up for paddle ball and paint the lines. It looks great!

Here is another view of our vegetable garden.......this is my specialty and it is so fun to harvest our produce. So far this year we have enjoyed home grown tomatoes, cabbage, green beans, peas, garlic, carrots and corn on the cob! Yummy!

We celebrated the 4th of July this year by welcoming 6 new puppies! Sadly 2 of the little males didn't make it.............Cairen and Seth will be taking 1 of the little females home soon. This leaves us with 2 females and 1 male to find homes for.....they will be going cheap. So, spread the word, because I am tired of cleaning up poop!