Aubrey's

Went up to Louisville to visit Aubrey today. Only stalled on the highway once :)

Boat Kitty!

We have the boat sitting in the driveway right now because they are mowing and spraying over at Cindy's where it normally sits. So curious cat Magic decided to see what was up.

Here I tried to zoom out to get the whole boat.
As I walked forward she followed me, reached the top where the windshield is, and slid....
But then realized, hey this is a nice little hammock they set up for me.

Look at me, I'm the queen of the boat!

Wedding Dishes

Matt and I cooked up a nice dinner and got out our wedding dishes to use.

We also had our dessert wine, ice wine, from Susan.

Iowa 80

Andrea and I, along with Magic and Peanut, drove from Indian River to Larkspur over the past two days. We survived. Andrea had never stopped at Iowa 80, so I decided to enlighten her.

I really wanted to look for Harry Potter Book on Tape, but they only had murder stories, which isn't what I wanted to listen to before staying at some shady hotel, so we continued listening to the radio instead. 21 hours driving time from IR-Larkspur.

Baby Snapping Turtles

If you remember earlier pictures, there was a mama snapping turtle up north making her way from the hot tub area back down to the lake earlier this year. Well the Drost landscapers were planting some flowers and found a bunch of (about 40) baby turtle eggs in the garden. They were about the size of small golf balls. Because we didn't want 40 snapping turtles appearing in our garden, the eggs were transplanted down to the lake.

This past week up north, baby snappers were found by the sailboat. We aren't sure if they are "our" eggs, or eggs from somewhere by the sailboat, but regardless.

They had such long tails! Their shells were also very soft.

Also a baby boxer turtle, much cuter and a nice smooth, hard shell. I guess Snappers can't bring their heads into their shells as protection and that's why they are so evil and ugly. The boxer turtles are much nicer, but can hole up inside their shells.

The turtles were put back where they came from. Part of me wishes that they survive the many predators of baby turtles, but the other part doesn't really want more snapping turtles swimming around where I am swimming around.

Renaissance Festival

Matt and I went to the last day of the Colorado Renaissance Festival here in Larkspur. I have lived here 9 years and had never been, so we decided to go. It was a hot day.

Matt tried his hand at throwing knives and did fairly well.

We went to a lot of the shows, enjoyed most of them, ate some food, and came home. We were there about 3 hours. Glad we went, but don't think we will go again. Some weird people there.