I think we moved back to Iowa

and nobody told me.  It has rained here almost every day for the last three weeks!!! Which is great for the lawn, good for keeping the house cool during the day, and interesting for the garden.  There are puddles. And they have been there for more than one day, at this point.  The humidity is not as bothersome as it could be, since it hovers around 60 degrees when it rains.  I noticed that my kids are getting little curls in their hair though.

There have been hikes, and adventures, and everyone is home and safe and back on a schedule again.  Hooray :)

The canoe is still in our garage.  All the staples and screws were removed, and Jared  & Walker sanded and re-sanded and smoothed out and patched holes and now they have a layer of epoxy, a layer of fiberglass, and another layer of epoxy drying on the outside of the canoe.  The coolest part (besides the whole CANOE IN THE GARAGE thing) is that the fiberglass came in a roll, similar to curtain fabric.  And it looked a lot like silvery burlap because of its color and large, open weave.  However, once they applied it and the epoxy, the fiberglass turned see-through!  So when you look at the canoe, it has a fringe around the bottom edge, and the rest of the canoe looks untouched.  so.weird.

This was my walk today:

Gorgeous greens, even though August is usually the time of dry grass and brown hills.  And more standing puddles. It is awesome and strange all at once.

Morgen and Hyrum went back to school yesterday.  Walker (and the other students in the upper 3 grades at the high school) went back today.  The district chooses to give the freshman a day to themselves at the high school to give them the chance to find everything without the halls being super-crowded.

And on that note, I will be taking a nap.  In order to fit our family prayer and scripture study in before school, we are reading at 5:30am.  Which, if you are good at math, means I am getting up about 5:10am.  Bah! is what I have to say about that. BAH.