Hot, hot, hot!

It is so HOT:

• Time and temp says, "100 degrees".


• Sam got a slip-n-slide for his birthday. (Oddly enough, my parents would not get me one of these but they got Sam one, and it clearly states on the box that I am too big.) Anyway, the kids had a blast, as you can see! A bonus is we have hydrants that use free pond water, so slide all day. (Note: cool water from bottom of pond, different than water mentioned below, though still somewhat nasty)

• The pond feels warmer than body temperature, and so it is temporarily closed. Plus the warm temp seems to have cause some sort of green grossness to float in the water that even we don't want to wade into, except the dog. We have taken in the clean city pool though.


• The puppy is too hot to tear things up, almost.


• Farmer David has lost 500 turkeys in the last 24 hours, and the count is sure to rise before the relief predicted for Friday. Bad week to be a turkey farmer, as over 10,000 have been reported dead in our area already.


• We eat no less that three freezer pops per day.


• David put up square bales of hay yesterday, which I generally like to help with (driving of course), but this time I wouldn't even let the kids go say hi to the guys. Gave Eli something to watch out the window though.

I try not to complain though, since summer is my favorite time of year. Plus I hear it is much hotter in the Middle East!

We got to enjoy some heat in Tennessee this past weekend at an All God's Children picnic. (Our adoption agency). There were families from all over, as far as Connecticut and Texas. We got to see one travel buddy (Hi Belks!) and lots of cyber buddies. Though Eli has no concept of the special relationship he shares with many of the other kids, one day he will and we want to continue communicating and meeting with other ET adoption families. For pictures of the picnic, visit http://weloveourlucy.blogspot.com/

We spent two nights with Aunt Karen and Uncle Scott in Tennessee and the kids had a blast. They also have a very clean pool, plus 4 dogs, 3 or so cats, and a lawn mower for Eli to sit on.