Beachin'

The kids and I stayed at the beach yesterday much longer than we planned. It was the first truly nice day we've had in a while and I just couldn't bring myself to make them leave. Mary was swimming and hanging out with her friends, and even ate lunch with them. I had planned to leave by lunchtime, but I bought hot dogs for the boys in the snack bar and stayed until late afternoon. (The snack bar is just like it was when I was a kid. The swinging screen door brought back memories...)

From my chair on the beach, I decided to take a picture of Steve Tyler's (Aerosmith) house. It's not the most amazing house on the lake anymore, but it was pretty cool in the 70's when he built it:

One of the coolest things our town recreation department did this year was putting some great toy trucks out for all the kids to use. Bob loves "diggers":

And the cement mixer:

Raymond likes all of them, but spent a great deal of time filling this dump truck with mud:

Since we missed Bob's nap time, he had a little "quiet time" on the couch before dinner (this picture was taken 5 minutes after he laid down):

We'll be back there tomorrow. And the next day...