Local OC

We had our local Outdoor Challenge last month at Vernon's farm. The teams had to find/figure out riddles, NOT drink the "poison", target shoot, rescue a hostage and swim him across the pond, and eat some delectable food choices... : ) I got to join in the fun by taking pics. Isaac labled my shirt as the Press Corps.

 Your mission... should you choose to accept it...

 Sniper!

 They had to get him across the pond without getting his head wet.

CREW

Oh yummy!

 Just concentrate.... to get this stuff down.

We picked up this painted turtle in the middle of the road on the way home.

June Tid Bits

Mark came over one afternoon and helped me make jam. He helped in every part of the process except the hot pectin. He was as usual, a GREAT helper! : ) The jam turned out delicious. Jon invited us over to help him eat a bunch of crabs that him an some guys had gotten, oh goodness... I can almost still taste them. Yum! I got Jude to taste some after he amazingly enough didn't even want to taste them. Very odd coming from a guy who used to like to eat EVERYTHING he could put in his mouth.

 I made pulled pork in a crock pot from some pork shoulder I had. Cooked it in Root Beer believe it or not and twas good! : ) allrecipes.com

 Bet you don't miss these Teresa... : )

The Beach Belongs With Good Friends

Roshini and her boys, Randy and her kids, Maria S. & Debbie and I all piled in two mini vans and headed down to the beach last month. Well... we started out in two mini vans and ended up in my car then. Let's just say the beginning of our trip was more eventful than the end. Bob, Isaac, & James met us down at the beach then for supper then later. From all the pictures I took you would think there was almost nobody down there except Jude. Hehe, but everybody had lots of fun. I'll let the pictures tell the stories. I couldn't help but put lots of pics so keep scrolling... : )

 Shrieking "Come back Jude! Come back you little Judah Ben!"

I love this kid! : D

Debbie wrote Mark's name in the sand and I was going to take a pic of him next to it, but he didn't feel like it an began to run away. He then tripped an fell (he was ok) an I got this shot.

Aaahhh! I want...

Ah, now I have a fry. Life is all good now...

While Jude was mostly happy to stick to the sand and chase every single sea gull he could find, Mark Loved jumping in the water!

I found you!

Sand definitely does NOT taste good!

Black Is Back

I couldn't hack that flower back round anymore. It made the pics go off center. At least every time I looked at it. Did it do that for anyone else? I had to switch templates not just back rounds, an I found that I couldn't find anything else at the current time besides the black that I really liked for me. So... Black is back, and I like it. : ) More posts with pics later.

While "Mommy" Was Gone...

One evening while Roshini was in India, James, Mark, & Jude came over. We ended up taking a walk down our street to our pond to feed the ducks, and were very surprised to find thousands of craw fish! They were huge! After doing some research when we got back they are actually the Louisiana Craw fish and we plan to make a meal out of them sometime. The next several posts are going to be mostly picture blogs as it takes longer to write an LOTS has happened recently and I don't have the luxury of all that time to write 20 posts. Well.... maybe not 20, but anyways. Enjoy the pics. : ) P.S. We never did get to feed the ducks cause they all just swam away...

Pics of our pond. I think it is beeeeautiful!

Hi Mommy!