Fun Outdoors

This is Yulia (Master Gardener/Queen of Fixing Things/Aerospace Engineer) in her new greenhouse.

We spent the day at Yulia's community garden plot weeding and getting underfoot.

Riding bikes in the forest

What's Ziggy up to these days?

Playing the mandolin at his nanny's house and taking walks with Papa. Summertime is good!

Junkyard

Some people go to Six Flags. We go to Jaakko's junkyard.

More Texas Fun

We are ready to get back to Papa, but having lots of fun in the meanwhile. Zig and his cousins, Zig and the city of Huntsville workers who have been letting him hang out with them ALL DAY today, and finally, an arcade game at Walmart that is broken, thankfully.

Sam Houston Folklife Festival

Liked: pizza, lemonade
Didn't like: snowcone ("this is yucky")
Accomplishments: threw tomahawks at a wood block, fired a pistol and a rifle, sawed logs with a two-handled saw
Watched: glass blowing, woodworking, pottery, canon firing, bees making honey, sheep shearing, yarn dyeing
Saw: Granddaddy and Mummo, Father Jim from church

Good Times with Patrick

Zig met up with his buddy Patrick at the Lighthouse Park in Mukilteo. It was a really windy day, but they had a great time. I didn't get many pictures because I was so cold...

We hung out with a bunch of other buddies, too, and Zig and I are holding out hope that we'll be back someday in the not-too-distant future.

Good Times with Uncle Eddie

Fixing the little truck

Boy with hammer

Fixing the big truck

Uncle Eddie's core values