July mashup

We had the $ girls at our. home for 3 days.. and I took them to see Tarzan at CPT.  They loved it!  We also had Grandkid game night while they were here.  All 8 of the grand nuggets came.  Grandkid game night was a riot– we did our normal Chicken nuggets for dinner then we played “quarters” where you have two teams across the table from each other and pass a coin under the table so the opposite team doesn’t know who has it, then you all slap your hands down on the table at the same time, and the opposite team tried to guess where the quarter is by having it be the last hand left on the table.  George was a hoot at this. If he did have the coin he was very serious and his hand was pressed down hard… if he didn’t have the coin, he would scratch his head, tent his hands, wiggled, and then couldn’t figure out why the other team told him to lift his hands up.   We laughed a lot.  Then we drove/ walked to Maverick and Arctic Circle for treats and playing on the playground.  It was super HOT.  We got home in time to divide into teams of 2 and prepare skits, or songs, to entertain each other.  We had so much fun, we did this twice.  And finally, the last 15 minutes of the night we played Dominoes.  I love my grands.

Wayne is loving his Bee hives.  He is very attentive and learning a lot this summer. 

We continue with our Sidetracked band performances. Tuesday we had a band day.-- clear out to Draper, but they loved us.  We do our patriotic program through July, and when we sang God Bless America at the end, the entire audience– those that could– were on their feet and many of the old veterans were saluting.  IT was very touching.  I cried….Then we all cheered for the good old US of A.  

We are doing upkeep on the cabin to make it through another winter.  We have painted the two sheds and helped with the shingles..  We still need to paint the back of the cabin and the deck.  Wayne got free paint and also large 5 gallon tubs of paint for a dollar a gallon.  When you don't caree about the color it's easy to find unwanted paint.

POPPY broke her arm on Monday– she stepped onto a swivel chari and slipped off and caught herself with her left arm and broke both bones right above her wrist.. Pushed the whole arm over to the side, so her arm look like an S curve. The x-ray is wild looking.  It was crazy.  Poppy was in shock and didn’t cry, but kept saying, “I wanna go back.  Can’t I go back and do that again. I didnt’ want this to happen”   ( wow there’s a lesson here – when we all do dumb stuff and want to go back… but life doesn’t work that way– it’s about choices and consequences and trying to do better next time, and the time after that.)  Addison rushed her to Instacare— where they said this break is so bad you will need to go to the ER.  So off to the ER, where they had to sedate Poppy and put her fingers in a finger trap, pulling them up and a weight on the muscle of her bicep to pull it down, so they could lengthen out the area and “push/pull" the two bones back over the wrist area where they belong… yikes.  But they did a good job.  They said if an adult did this, then surgery would be needed for sure, but kids' bones are pliable and easy-going, and 4 days later after all the swelling was down, she got a hard cast on and will be in that for a month– then a brace for 2 weeks and she should be good to go.  

Poppy and George out selling lemonade and cookies....Papa is a sucker for this...and they made $80.00 in one afternoon.