the end of a season

Seems I've been consumed by a new job (part time right now) and football. Season ended last Friday with a team win - - 3-6 overall and 1-5 in the league.

Enjoy Fall - -

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Homecoming and family 2009

...this past weekend - - unfortunately, another loss in the football arena...Ryan only got in for 3 plays...can't figure out the logic of it but he continues to keep his heart in the game. Also, caught up with sister Kim who was in town with her hub ... Sunday brunch. Homecoming Parade views of the Varsity boys......

...bit of reverse order - - here he is between school and game time in his 'formal dress'

Off to TC with the other sister this week...weather is certainly Fall like...

Toodle-loo

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Bzzzz

well - thank goodness - for once the weather today does not agree with the time of year -- warm and muggy.. perfect for picking raspberries and making pies and crostata's - -

Homecoming this week - - vs. Tecumseh. Pray for a win!
Team Meal on Thursday - Parade on Friday.

Toodle Loo - -

SUMMER ??? whateva....

MIA from the blog -- busy with football, job hunting (promising leads on the horizon); learning to fly fish - - - yes, finally!











Making some of these is on my list... so 'in-vogue' and 'so cool' - planning to use leftovers from canvas drop cloth I have left from Ryan's faux roman shades made earlier this summer. Canvas drop cloth is a cheap way to go for fabric.

Football has started - Ryan turned 16 - and Pete turned another year....went to TC with my mom, Aunt Jan; Cousin Julie - enjoyed the water, the wineries and the cherries....
Varsity OL this year....



















TC Cherries - ---

Sherry, Jan, Julie and Rita - Suttons Bay in July after we'd spent the morning waiting out the rain, then more rain, and even more rain!






Just turne 16 a few days ago and is holding his tickets to the U-M vs WMU game - - four of them to enjoy with friends.













Rachel graduated from HS - oops, she's not in the pic - just me and the sisters and mom...
Toodle loo - - enjoy what warmth may come our way in SE Michigan - - hard to comprehend that the high today was 64 and it's August 30th...we might have to dig out the gloves and mittens - ice skating on the horizon...
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Golden Bones

He's in the news...click on the link to read all about Pete as written by Eric Sharp of the Detroit Free Press...


http://www.freep.com/article/20090709/SPORTS10/907090423

Wandering over the weekend...

Headed to Spartan Stadium in East Lansing on Saturday morning to catch the East-West All Star High School football game.
WoW - I can't wait till football starts !! Varsity practices start August 3rd! First home game is on August 28th. But, as you know, football is a year round commitment - so he's been weighlifting and still doing PT 3x/week. We see the orthopedic surgeon on Friday of this week to get the final 'blessing' for full tilt on football. Appears that the bone has been healing and regenerating and that the surgery in February did 'it's thing'. . . .

Take a tour of my gardens around the house from the 'upside' of the camera....

Happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July....

Pic after Ryan and Pete went parasailing on East Bay this morning...

Getting ready to go up...

on the way up...
somewhere in between -- up or down -- 800 feet in the air...