lately

here's whats been going on lately

We raised Chris's house we could redo the basement.  Dad dug it out and did the raising.

here it is.

I was really impressed.  some people thought it looked like a farmer did it, but it was solid.  the block layers wondered where we lived during the raising they were surprised to hear that we lived in it still.  sometimes on windy nights i could feel my bed shake.

i also went cadet camping.  i caught maybe four fish. this is one.  i was also really impressed with how dirty my shirt got.
 the kid in the black shirt caught a fish with his bare hands.

so, if you put rubber bands around a watermelon, it will explode.  i was disapointed that i was not more covered with watermelon.

nicole has never flown a kite before.
chris is showing off with his 2 mile string.
so i found an angry birds kite.  nicole chose transformers over princess and barbie  so my girl is cool.

thats chris's kite at the bottom, considerably higher with his string extension.

third annual rafting trip leg A.  a good crowd.  we tried a different stretch of river that went over smith falls for some excitement.  water levels were low so we ended up pushing a lot.  
so on one occasion a fish jumped out of the water and landed on the raft.  noone had the sense to grab it since everyone wanted a picture.  on another occasion a fish jumped on simone.two rafting veterens

 here we prepare for smith falls.

 i made some short shorts for the trip. so brad had a swarm of bees land on a tree near his house so he tried to get them to move the queen into a bee box.

se the stick that goes from the comb to the box?  that was not added by brad. the bees did that.

so we had to abandon the raft after it got dark so we had to retrieve it on the second leg of the third annual rafting trip.  with our supplies.

 we had some trouble finding the raft after all the high waters.  it took two hours to find for it had floated considerably far down the river, even though we had tied it among a downed tree.  

       here we are back on track.

 and we finally see the dock to lead us home.