Summer rolls on....

It's been awhile since we posted anything and I'm sorry. Things are really, really busy here right now. Both kids are home from camp and had fun playing with our nephew Patrick from Tennessee. Patrick flew home on Saturday so the kids are really bummed out. Jacob also just found out that his best friend is moving away in 2 weeks and he is really having a hard time with it.
Our cat "Stinky Pete" is trying to teach our puppy how to hunt. I say puppy, but you have to remember that he weighs at least 80 lbs. She has twice now brought him a live mouse to chase and when he cannot keep track of it and it runs away.... she catches it for him again. It is really funny to watch this huge dog run it circles trying to keep his eyes on this tiny little mouse and all the while the spotted cat is sitting there watching and punting the mouse back into play. I am going to try to catch it on video so that we can send it in to America's Funniest Home Videos. This would probably be more funny than me ripping my jeans from top to bottom on the car door, but maybe not. That was pretty funny ( at least it was a couple of weeks after it happened.)
The biggest news in our lives is that Jessalyn came down with Lymes disease. She brought home a tick under her arm from camp. We have been watching it and sure enough one morning she broke out in this huge "bullseye" rash. A quick trip to the Dr. and she is now on enough antibiotics to cure a horse. She is feeling better already.
We are really starting to work on Cranfest now. Our hope is to have everything ready to go as much as possible to keep the last minute details down to a few. I have met with an electrician to have him rewire our agriculture building. Lots of work and of course I had to take Will with me, because he was speaking a foreign language "electrical". I think we know what we want so now I have to tell the rest of the board.
It has really been a strange feeling working on this year's Cranfest and next year's Cranfest at the same time. Since next year is the salute to the military we are having special displays including the Moving Vietnam Wall, which we had to order 7 years in advance. We are working on many other such exhibits and you have to order them all in advance too, which makes it really confusing some times on what year you are working on. BUT I LOVE IT!!!!!
My Mom and Dad are in Rockford for Mom's class reunion. I hope they have a good time. It made me think a little about my classmates and wonder what they are all doing. I cannot believe it has been almost 25 years since I left in the middle of my Senior year and went to college. It was the right thing for me to do, but I would not recommend it for everyone. I missed out on lots of things my senior year while going to college and then went back and graduated from High School. Looking back it was very strange but I'm glad that I did it.
The weather here is horribly hot, but we have the hope of better things to come starting Tuesday night. Today the heat index is supposed to be around 110. Yuck. This is one of the reasons that we left Florida. My lungs do not do well in this high humidity. We hardly ever have weather like this here, so it is very strange. I guess the corn likes it though. We finally got some rain and now the heat is helping the field corn to recover and grow. I'm glad. To me it is one of the saddest looking things there is to have dried up corn in the fields.
Well, I need to get busy and get to church. Jacob is going to stay home with Jessa. She does not feel up to coming. I think the antibiotic bothers her as much or more than the disease.
God bless.