Downtown the day after Christmas

This Labor Day weekend, Nancy and I camped near East Troy, WI at Camp Timber-lee.  We camped with 150-200 people from our church.  It's Saturday evening as I type this.  We've had a great time already.  Most everyone breaks camp and heads home Sunday after lunch.  We are staying until Monday.  Here's a few pictures…

Months ago, I committed to smoking ribs for an early arrivals dinner at the TN rally.  Yesterday, I made good on that promise.  I smoked 6 racks of ribs and a 10# Boston butt for pulled pork.  Both turned out great.

We have grass!  Finally, we have landscaping.  Pulte’s landscapers came this Thursday through Saturday and installed trees, shrubs, mulch and sod.  Looks so much nicer now and should really cut down on the dust. Now we get to water it steadily for weeks.  Hate to see what the water bill will be but we don’t…

We're in the Galena, IL area for a gathering of some of Nancy's school friends.  We got here a day early which gave us time to spend in Galena.  We spent the afternoon walking around downtown and poking around in the shops and such.  Then we went back in the evening for dinner at our…

Two days after we got home from Tennessee, I came down with what the Dr. thinks is Poison Ivy/Oak/Sumac. If it’s true, I surely got it when I was walking our land. Here’s a picture of my eye the first day of “the breakout/reaction” By day two, my eye was nearly swollen shut and I…