JUNE 7, 2003

TEEPEE

I finished this tent for Violet about a week and a half ago. I used outdoor canvas material that comes on the 60" bolt. The material is supposed to be fade and mildew resistant. I don't plan on it getting wet but it's nice to know it won't fade. The 6 poles are 1"pvc pipes. They are 7" tall. The tent itself is 5ft tall. The pipes are held together with nylon rope.

I decided to put windows in it so it wouldn't get stuffy inside. There are two windows that have a roll down shade.

I didn't use a pattern. I looked on line at lots of tutorials on how to construct one and didn't find exactly what I was looking for so I kind of made it up as I went. I took elements from a lot of the ones I saw online. I put the pvc pipes together, spread out each leg with even spacing between, and used that measurement to cut my triangles. Total cost of materials $65.

DOWNTOWN DAYS

We went to Lee's Summit Downtown Days this morning before it got to hot and crowded. Well it wasn't crowded but it was still hot. The humidity is unbearable.

Violet won a beach ball.

Why are all carnival rides creepy. Love it!

Road the carousel twice.

Then cried and yelled "my horsey, my horsey". She was quickly distracted with popcorn and forgot all about it.

Too hot. Time to go home.

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

Grandma Young to Violet

GROUP PICTURE

I just got an email of the group picture that was taken friday at the pancake breakfast. These are all the elementary school kids, minus the six little ones up front that aren't in school yet.

NEW LIGHTS

This past weekend we got all new landscape lights and spot lights. When we ordered new counter tops they were offering a rebate in the form of a giftcard to Lowes.These are much brighter than our old ones. We have 10 new landscape lights and 3 new spot lights. I didn't get a full shot of the front of the house, but there are lights on the other side of the garage too.
I took some of the old lights and moved them to the backyard and added one of our old spot lights to the front yard tree. It now has 3 spot lights on it.