visitors

We had lots of visitors this weekend. Craig and Lennie came late on Thursday night and then Jeff decided to come over too. Beth was going home to Alliance this weekend to work a golf tournament, so on Friday Jeff rode to Rawlins with her and we all met him and took him home with us. Craig and Josh had been golfing in Rawlins and Lennie, Brecken and I went over to meet them for lunch, so it worked out perfect to get Jeff while we were there. While we were gone, I'm pretty sure we had a mini-tornado of sorts. When we got back to Saratoga we discovered a mess at our house. Brecken's slide was blown over, and the back yard was a disaster. Two of our heavy steel patio chairs were blown completely into the lawn, the sun sail was ripped off the house, and one of the big fat wooden posts that holds one of the ends of the sail in the yard was snapped off! Not taken out of the ground, it completely snapped the wood in half. And the grill was blown over into the yard on the back, too. And the dogs' swimming pool that we keep out there for them to drink out of and stay cool in was gone as well. Nowhere to be found. The strange thing is, the other two patio chairs were still where they were, as was the citronella candle, still sitting on the table where it was. It's the strangest thing. I'm super glad the metal ring attached to the sail that was ripped out of our house didn't go flying into the glass patio table. It would have shattered the glass and we would've been out a table!!

Saturday morning the boys went golfing and B, Lennie and I went downtown to Crazy Days. Not much out this year, so I didn't buy anything but a new swimming pool for the dogs.

Today we just took it easy and our company all left around 1:30, I think it was. Now we are trying to get B to go to bed. He's fighting it hard tonight. We're having to take turns getting him to sleep- while I was in there I laid him down from standing up 10 times. He's figured out this standing up thing and thinks he's pretty hot stuff. Now Josh is in there trying the same thing. I needed a break.

Josh starts football two-a-days tomorrow. The morning practices are in Encampment and the bus leaves at 5:30. Yikes.