Projects and Prize Winning Photos

We went camping this weekend, and on our way (you might want to sit down for this)-we had a blowout.

First of all, we had quite the load.

Me:  David, this feels like it is all a bit much.

David:  What?

Oh, the flatbed was full and the skidsteer was loaded and the cab of the skidsteer was full of bags and such.

Anyways.  The trailer towing the skidsteer had a blowout.

See?

Convenient.

Alright!  We still made it to camp and we had some projects to do and we had some fun to have.

One crew was on dirt moving and leveling and flattening and such and one crew was on painting and staining and such.  I was on the painting and staining crew.

When we built this shed last year, we had mismatched metal and accidentally kind of stained the wood orange.  And no one wanted orange.

So we fixed that up and painted the metal to match the metal on our new structure and tried to cover up the orange.

I can still kind of see orange.  Such is life.

Then we had to work on staining the structure.

Reader, may I be frank?  I found staining wood to be loathesome.

Stain is very drippy and non-compliant.  Paint is much more agreeable.  We were all covered in stain, including my father.  In fact, when we were finished, father’s shirt looked like he had just finished committing a murder.  I have stain in my hair.  David’s sister, Lisa, was atop a high ladder, dropped a can of stain, which for some miraculous reason landed right side up.

We finished.

And we would all like to be finished with projects for awhile.

We managed to squeeze in some fun here and there.

I woke up Sunday morning and snapped this photo of my niece.

She got up before everyone else to have some painting time.  Her dog is by her side.

I found it to be quite a lovely picture.

We went on a walk and discovered a new creek.

LD and his cousins.

Lily and Hadley.  Kate is behind them and you can see HD with his dog, Norman, sitting up high in the rocks.

Kate and Niko.

It was a very hot weekend and everyone was wanting to go in the river.  But the river is not user friendly yet, so we had to settle for sitting by it and visiting.

Look at this photo I snapped of Norman.

I am thinking I should win a prize for that photo or something.

When I got home, I read through some of my blog comments, became paranoid, and fed Hazel a bottle.  Her first one in 10 days.  I don’t know.  I am all sorts of confused.

She gulped it down.

Alright.  I am convered in bug bites.  Tomorrow is June 1st.

Later, Dudes.