These pictures were supposed to be posted on the previous post, but for some reason my blog wouldn't accept anymore photos. So you'll need to mentally attach these to the previous one. What a great day to be outside with friends! Andy putting a lot of muscle into his bocce ball toss. Can't remember how well he did on this toss, but one can see his concentration.



Lisa and Andy. It was great meeting Andy and getting to know these two....a lot of fun!!



Hilary. This girl knows EVERYBODY! In our dinner conversation, Andy figured out she actually used to be his babysitter!!! And everyone we brought up in conversation, Hilary knew!!! She's Kevin Bacon all over.

A great Memorial Day weekend so far. Today we had some friends over for a cookout and Bocce Ball. Kevin's student teacher from this last semester, Lisa and her husband, Andy, and Hilary, another teacher from Kevin's building. (Hilary was the Spanish student teacher when Jesse was taking Spanish in high school several years ago.) It was a great afternoon of fun.


l-r: Lisa, Andy, Hilary



Ok...who's closer? blue or red?



Kevin and his throwing style. Hilary strategizing.



And...just where is the ball???



Ok, now...I think this one may actually be mine!



We're trespassing in our neighbors' yard, but what an interesting view of our place. We never saw it from up the hill.



Kevin installing the bead board in the bathroom.



Deb gave me this start last summer. (Deb, what is this flower?) It's perfect in this spot where we planted it.


Same flower close up.

Finally....great weather after 2 wks of rain. We went to the Marion Art Festival this morning to drop off Kevin's students' work to sell, and then took a look around. Then upon returning home Kevin donned his new Discovery jersey for the first time.

Kevin in full kit


...with his Trek


And me getting ready to mow lawn. That's how I got my excercise in today...even if the mower is self-propelled.

We're painting in the basement :o) I went to my friend, Belinda's house today and saw what she did to her dining room walls. I absolutely loved it and asked Kevin to go look at it....because now I want to do that to some of our walls. She used tissue paper (ahhhhh, Julie...not what you're thinking). Belinda is so talented with decorating and she's not afraid to try new and unique ideas. (Thanks for sharing, Belinda)

The bathroom is Merlot (a deep red wine color). There will be white beaded board below the paint.


Below is the hallway (color: Martha Stewart's Pinion Seed) is kind of a coffee color and the bar sink area color on the left is called Submarine..it's kind of a forest green with a bit of blue.


The bar sink area

Kevin graciously offered to take me mushrooming one more time. Mushrooming season is pretty much over but we went anyway. We found maybe 3 that were too mushy to keep as they just fell apart and didn't look very good. But then we found 3 decent ones...2 of them were really nice.



Kevin found this 9 inch morel. (See below for proof!!) I've never seen one this long. Was pretty exciting for this New York native.




A bird's-eye view of a fern in the timber.