Making Pencil Cookies

Kaley completes her two week Handwriting course tomorrow and to celebrate, she asked if we could make cookies for the group.  I've have this recipe for a long time,  and it came in handy today.  Kaley made these cookies all on her own.  She has seven classmates, with whom she will share them, tomorrow.

Andy, Yessi, Diego and the girls

Our CA neighbors, Andy, Yessi and their son, Diego came to visit last week.  Andy has relatives not far from here and he is very kind in blocking out time to see us.  The girls were very fond of Diego.

Making Fairy Gardens

Last summer, we made sock monkeys and this summer we thought it would be fun to make Fairy Gardens.    Here is Kaley making hers

Sprinkling of the fairy dust

placing the final touches

all done

Ainsley meticulously planting her plants

all done! 

Camping Fathe'rs Day Weekend

Kiss from Coco-  before we left

Happy dog, going for a ride

Maddie, our camping buddy!

Everyone is smiles

Roosevelt Lake.  Too dirty for the Worthley girls to swim in

so we took a paddle boat instead

Hummm, maybe this is why the Lake had high levels of bacteria.....

Oh Look, Tracy Shoe Co. in Portsmouth OH

Flood Wall Murals

http://www.portsmouthohiomurals.com/

We saw this great bridge, circled around and it took us into Kentucky.... a little town named Maysville

Russell Theatre in Maysville, where Rosemary Clooney got her start. 

Lots of quilts painted on the side of buildings

Very clean little town, Maysville, was.

Back in OH-  stopped in Ripley at the John Rankin House.

John Rankin, an abolishionist, helped 2000 slaves escape across the OH river from KY to the free state of OH, as they journeyed onto Canada.

You can see 7 bends of the OH river on a clear day from the Rankin House.

Retracing the 100 steps that the slaves took going up the hill to the Rankin House

Watching a barge go through the locks on the OH River.

Flying Kites in Winton Woods

The other day, it was windy and we thought it would be the perfect day to fly kites.  We had a really good time and it was fun to see the kites in the air.