It's only rained 2 times this summer...

Our favorite server at the Red Door Restaurant informed us that it's been a great summer so far in that it has only rained two times - once for 45 days and the other for 36!

Young Dan paid us a visit before returning to Colorado to take a class and work. Both he and Karen are in Boulder this summer, and Joel recently made a brief trip home from his doctoral data collection in Paraguay!

 This is what we love about summer! Grilling up some of my parents' famous barbecue chicken!

Tom Terrific took me to Jonah's Seafood Restaurant for my birthday, they gave us a huge slice of chocolate cake for dessert.

 Chicago

I talked Tom into doing a 12 mile bicycle ride. What attracted him to the event was that it started and finished at a local winery. The only problem was the organizers required riders to wear a helmet...that was when the war started. Fortunately the Selkows made available 3 lid options for Tom.

Stacking the organic hay bales.

 It was quite an operation to say the least.

 And then along came the hail storm. It looks like it devastated our corn crop but, as you'll see in the next picture, it seems to have rebounded quite well!

 Damaged corn getting ready to tassel. It remains to be seen what the final yields will be.

Once again my dear friend Ann is always looking out for me. This time she and Mike got us some Wine To Go cups! These will be especially useful on the front porch against the bugs that like to sample your vino.