Enjoying Our Time in Louisiana

First, I need to apologize for my last blog entry because I did not explain what a pin box is. So for our friends that wanted to know where the wren had built her nest. I decided to add a picture of our trailer's pin box.

Inside of that black thing is where the wren built her nest

Gina is continuing to work in her garden while I have been building a rack to carry our four wheeler on the back of our trailer. We do take breaks and admire the beautiful flowers as they bloom and watching the rabbits and squirrels play.

A beautiful 'Yellow King Humbert' canna flower


One of the many Tawny Daylilies blooming


A miniture Azalea bush in full bloom


This fellow was quite entertaining


One of many rabbits eating in our yard

On Friday we decided to stay inside since the weather wasn’t cooperating with us to work outside. The weatherman said we received approximately 6.2 inches of rain. It was a lot of rain. Saturday found us waking up early and getting outside. First to enjoy our coffee and Gina wanted to get started in her garden before it started raining.

Gina playing with her special rocks

While she got started in her garden I hooked up the trailer to the truck and moved it so my dad and I could mount the frame on the trailer and he could finish up the welding. Even though it rained on and off all day we continued to work. We added two additional receivers to the back of the trailer. This will allow the new rack to have three points to connect to for more strength and stability.

Dad tack welding the pieces together before we mount the rack


Dad finishing the welding while the rack is in place


The two additional receivers in place

We woke up Sunday morning to beautiful weather. At least it was nice weather for Louisiana in June. That means waking up to hot (83 degrees), humid (91 % humidity), clear skies, and the sun shining bright. I decided to have a relaxing day sitting inside while Gina worked in her garden in the afternoon. I did occasionally go outside and see Gina’s progress. Around six o’clock Shane and Nicole came over for dinner that consisted of steak and baked potato. For dessert Nicole made a pan of brownies that we enjoyed with vanilla ice cream. Dinner was great and we enjoyed visiting with them. After they left Parker came over around nine o'clock to let me play with his dad's new IPad since he's on vacation in Palm Springs, California. He also installed the new ILife software on Gina's Macbook. I can hardly wait for my IPad to arrive. Overall we had a wonderful weekend visiting with family and we were able to get a lot accomplished. We are both ready to get out this heat and move on up to South Dakota where Mom and Pop's (aka: Mike and Pat) are reporting to us some cooler weather. I don’t know how we have endured it this Louisiana heat for so long. It reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw in Arizona. "If you can't handle the summer you don't deserve the winters"

This is my favorite place in Gina's garden

I feel so at peace watching the fish in the pond. In the background is an angel with her finger over her mouth to be quiet. Hearing the water flowing through the stream and into the pond is so relaxing and peaceful.


Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.