the promised pictures of Logan

Logan Craig Carney

My nephew made his arrival this morning!
7 lbs 5 oz 20 1/2 inches long

and is the spitting image of ANDREW!!!

I know that Matt won't post anything- so I will
I will be going down to see him tomorrow - so I'll have pictures then

Why I've been so Busy

And the scary thing is- we aren't done yet -
and we've frozen as much as we have canned!

I am helping Nathan with homework - and here is the project for his foods class for this quarter. He did 99.9% all of the work.

Sunday's Storm

So I've told a couple of you about this.... but here are the pictures. Dinner Sunday -as is typical - is at Nathan and Elaine's after church. We sent the kids out to play in the yard before it started raining. Since they saw the clouds building..... they decided to make a fort - to protect them from the rain. They lashed the tarp to the play structure pretty well. As it started to rain - we figured we should bring them in. That's when we saw this. Since it was barely spitting - we figured we'd let them play outside a bit longer. However, not long after - severe high winds kicked up and Rachael and I went out to bring them all in. She got hit in the face with a small branch - and I got hit in the back of the head with a larger one. The wind was blowing so hard - that the little kids we getting blown over. We managed to get them all in the house..... and then Rachael and I went back to untie the tarp. No more than 2 minutes after we came back in........ the tree snapped and broke - falling on the play structure. I've never seen a storm come up that fast in my entire life. It was quite an experience. We had to hook up the generator - the power was out there for the rest of the night. It was a good learning experience, for us and the kids. And now there is a good amount of firewood - set out to dry for next season.

For perspective - the tree lays across the entire width of the yard- it was between 40-50 ft tall.

there are 7 kids in there

trying to get it tied down

Nathan - jumping down to see what's going on -

















here is where is actually snapped off - you can see it at the base. if you look carefully - using the swing set in the back ground as an arrow - you can see the little play cube under the tree
the swing set is also over sized. the first horizontal bar that you see on the bottom is 4 ft off the ground. The swings in the forefront are on a large rotating clothes line

END of the Corn BBQ

Well, we are finally done..... at least with the corn. We decided to have and end of summer BBQ as well to celebrate. So we headed over to our place, and used the covered picnic area. It was great! Patti and Aaron provided steak for the adults....and Aaron (Patti's husband) is great on the grill.

Joseph brought out the Laser tag guns when the sun went down, and every one had a great time.

We took a lot of pictures, so I just added a slide show here, since I couldn't pick which ones to include.

We did have one surprise - there is an apricot tree in a vacant lot, across the street from Rachaels house. The owner is Rachael's visiting teacher, so we were able to havest those as well, so we were able to get quite a bit of Apricot Nector and Apricot Jam put up for this year.