Recent happenings

Still trying to post photos from the summer holidays!  So here they are.  First off, finally caved in and bought a riding mower.  At first, the boys were talking about getting a push mower but with 1/3 acres, did we really want to spend the entire weekend mowing? There's still lots of weed-whacking to do too!

In the meantime, Charlie is trying to chase down the rabbits in the yard.  Good luck!

Pretty flowers in the yard!  I'll have to learn what grows and what dies out here for all the different seasons:

I'm glad this train track is elevated.  Otherwise, we will be stuck waiting for the train a lot as this road is sort of the main drag for anything and everything!

Aug 10 - our first home-cooked meal! It's been a long time since it's takeout pretty much every single night.  Phew!!

After buying a crowbar, we are finally able to break open the crate for the lawnmower.  There's still remnants of the crate on the garage floor.  But after filling up the mower with gas, we are good to go :-)

Bobby chasing Graham down with the mower.  Ha ha!

It will still be some time I think before Graham gets comfortable with the riding mower.  Plus, he needs enough weight to push the seat down which also acts as a mechanism to keep the mower engine going:

Charlie is still too small to use the riding mower but he gets a ride with daddy.  Reminds me of the days when Graham used to ride the mower with Bobby when we lived in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma:

OMG, here it is... I found it!  This is probably why I keep blogging so much.  It's like our personal diary :-D

And look at Graham now - just curious about how everything works.  He's straightening out the steering wheel here:

And yup, there goes Bobby on the mower.  Hopefully he's paying attention as there's quite a few trees in our yard ;-P

We bought a new hammock.  It's massive!  It can definitely fit 2 people:

I didn't want the hammock sitting out in the sun all day, so it can actually be converted into this seat/chair.  And this little corner by the top/upstairs door seem to work quite well for it.  

I actually fell asleep in it during the first day of school.  These early mornings are killing me.  Ha ha!

A Back-to-School event was organized by our neighborhood a week before school restarted:

Obviously Graham and Charlie enjoyed themselves:

We were invited to the beach area after that with some new friends.  This is definitely the boys' new happy place!

I'm just so glad Graham and Charlie found some new friends to play with.  We are so lucky to have found this little neighborhood, especially when we bought the house sight unseen!

One last photo - looks like this one corn didn't quite pollinate properly! So many gaps.  Ha ha!

A couple from the neighborhood actually drove to a town about an hour away to buy some corn.  It's called "Mirai" corn from the town of Capron.  Wow, talk about sweet!  You could actually eat it uncooked - tasted just like candy!  What's funny about this whole experience was I thought he said $4 per ear so we paid our neighbor over $90 for the dozen.  Talk about embarrassing! We definitely had a good laugh about it and thankfully, he did say that it wasn't the first time that this same incident had happened.  We are such city folks - willing to pay any amount for anything good. LOL!!!