Danny helps carry chairs.
And slides down tent poles!
Sam pulls out stakes and sticks out his tongue.
Anna and Naomi French help unlace two of the three sections of ceiling tarp. Oops, this picture is out of order. This is after the tent came down.
I took a walk and found a lovely glade in which was flitting a hummingbird. It sat under a pine tree on a little twig, looking and looking at me. I thought, "There must be a nest in this tree!" And sure enough, there was! So I ran up for the family and a camera. Sorry it is a little difficult to see the two baby hummingbirds in this nest. Maybe I will add a second picture.
Jonathan thought there might be bats in these rocks, because of the droppings he found here. We were waiting for them to fly out in the evening when the rain chased us back to the trailer.
Talk about an action picture below!! Carrie is helping Hannah jump from the rock.
Timmy and Danny loved to help their Daddy turn the crank for the trailer jack. We are now getting ready to go home! Goodbye!
Then we camped about 5 miles out of Lake George. The camping area had just recently had a fire. But we found a spot near the edge of the burned area, by some pretty aspen and pines. If you looked down, you would see ugliness. If you looked up, you would see beauty. See a lesson in that? So we parked our trailer with the doors toward the beauty, and we looked up.
Until the boys discovered lots of empty bullet casings hiding on the ground all around. Then they spent most of their time looking down, with their eyes glued to the ground, seeing how many they could find. They literally found hundreds. We all joined in the search, since the boys were having so much fun. Some of them put their findings in sandwich bags. Not Danny. When I asked him if he wanted a baggie, he said, "I have pockets!" in no uncertain terms. His pockets sagged, clinked, and weighed him down, but the more the merrier! In the pictures above and below youi see Danny and Timmy with their "casing farms," as Jonathan called them.
The children getting ready for another bike ride down a mountain road after a picnic in an aspen glade.
On Saturday, for just a few dollars more than the very reasonable family rate of $18, you can take unlimited rides behind the steam engine. So here our family is, ready for a ride, while the kind man who helps people board is taking our photo for us. This first ride was in an open car. The next ride we took was in a passenger car on velvet seats!
Here is the engine starting off, spouting steam and chugging smoke!
In the middle of the second round around the property, the engine stopped to take on water from the water house.
Now that "Stevie Wonder" (corner) has laid blocks, Jon McVey starts plastering.
Jonathan up on the roof.
Jon plastering the windowsills.
Good action shot.
Daddy manages the biggest logs. Timmy wants you to know he took this picture. 
Danny helps Hannah carry a very little "log."
Mom is running out of energy, after helping get logs for two trailer loads. So she is kicking logs downhill instead of carrying them!
When we got home the first evening with our first load, the children rode on the load of wood on our dirt road the little way to our driveway.
Danny and Hannah let a puppy eat.
One of the less than ordinary days for Jonathan! At work, he stood up from working under a sink, and rammed his head into the sharp corner of a cupboard. Blood began streaming from under his hat. His electricians freaked out and wondered if they should call 911. Instead, Jonathan just had one of them take him to emergicare, where he got this interesting looking headdress. Here, he and I are looking at his hat.
Closer look. He got three stitches. We are thankful it wasn't worse.
With their permission, I am delighted to share a few pictures of Sam and Caitlyn's trip to Africa. Caitlyn's older sister has lived ...
