UGH!!

Yesterday when I wasn't in here doing Sparling paperwork - I was outside landscaping -
got a fair amount done - then last night we got torrential rains & this happened;

Thank goodness its not in an area that I had done a lot of work on yet -
Now that it has rained that means I will be working with the 8N today
raking - - Hopefully I can get most of that done this week so they can
come in with the stone for the walk ways and the gravel for the drive way -
We needed the rain desperately - I think this is the first time ever they predicted
the rain right - they said it would start at midnight & it did - right at 12pm!!

The Wedding Cake

I have to share with you this picture of Kristi and Ryans cake - -
It took 80 hours for Heather to make it

(Heather is Kristis best friend from high school & college)
Heather majored in Art and this is what she plans to do for a living!

Not only was the cake beautiful it tasted incredible!!

http://heatheranneleavitt.com/HeatherAnne/Heather%20Anne%20Leavitt.html

Presenting Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Youles

Ryan & Kristi
Ariana & Landon Ramage

Flower Girl & Ring Bearer
The look of love

Long Way Home

South Haven Light House
Point Betsy Light House
Sunset over Leland (Fishtown Harbor)

On our way home from South Haven we took the scenic route

good thing too as all the little towns helped keep us awake - -

Here are somethings we saw in South Haven -

and our travel north along 31 to 22 -

It was a beautiful day and we ended it with

Bruces Fathers Day Dinner at the Cove - in Leland(Fishtown)

Let the landscaping begin...

The trenches are filled back in but he buried all the top soil -

Now we have LOTS of clay and rocks to deal with -

We are hoping for rain to settle the trenches and the dust so we

can work on raking & back blading before we order a

gravel train of top soil -

Days in the Trenches

From out our back door
From the goat/chicken pen looking back

We are trenching water line from house -

to the orchard, to the field acrossed the seasonal road & to the back pasture by the goats - -

Its a "BIG MESS" right now but hopefully we can get the yard back together and grass

re-established by October!!

We will be VERY HAPPY next winter when we don't have to worry about hauling

5 gallon buckets to the cows,pigs, goats & chickens