End of Summer Randoms

Summer at the lake!

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Slime has been banned from my house for a long time now, but I don't mind the girls making it and playing with it outside.

I'm not sure why Sam is wearing an actual garbage bag in this picture, but I suspect that it has something to do with just how messy slime can be!

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It's corn season in Michigan!

Also noteworthy is the nice pile of wood that Steve and the boys have been collecting, splitting and stacking for the upcoming winter.

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Jack has had a pretty lucrative lawn mowing business this summer with about 7 customers that he continued to regularly mowed their lawns for them.  A week ago, he let Jimmy try out the lawn mower in our front yard.  

He is a few years away from being able to operate it by himself, but he soon got the hang of it.

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A bonfire in the driveway with s'mores!

And more wood piled up, drying out, just waiting to be stacked out on the back patio.

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The end of an era ... after years of having the playscape in the back yard (inherited from neighbors across the street), it was time to take it apart and donate it to another neighbor.

It was a bit of work to dig it out, but the boys worked on it together and made great progress.

After they got it all dug out, they helped transport it down the road and then filled in the area with grass seed.  It seems to strange to me to look out the kitchen window and NOT see it anymore ...

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