Family Fun!

Last night, we went over to the Bean Patch! Lima made DELISH cheesy potatoes and Eagle grilled and BBQ-ed some lovey, thick, tender pork chops. MMmmmmmmm.....!!! With ice-cream sundaes for dessert, with lots of toppings. The Beansprouts, Sweet Pea and Sugar Pea, were so much fun to read with and play with!


















Here's Sugar Pea reading to Mr. Handsome. Sugar is a reading machine!











Sweet Pea and Sugar Pea and I played Candyland. It was a VERY competitive game, with lots of back-and-forth. Eventually, Sugar won, Sweet Pea came in second and I was a distant third.

After the sprouts went to bed (I got to read Sweet a couple chapters from Junie B. Jones and the Stinky, Smelly Bus), we grown-ups enjoyed the nice autumnal night, with a fire in their chimneria and then played euchre. Eagle and I were teamed up and, oh YEAH, we smoked 'em! heh heh!

Lima took down a Play House to set up the card table - can you see her head poking up the top?







Eagle did most of the work in their house, including these gorgeous built-in bookcases. He laughed when told us about his learning curve for building a built-in, though: He forgot to allow extra space to lean the cases into their cubby, so they were too big! He had to cut off several inches to make them fit. Frustrating at the time, funny now!





















Mr Handsome and I were late last night because there was an unfortunate event with the dishwasher involving a leak that turned the basement into a rainforest. He thought he'd fixed it last night, but, lo and behold, the dam# thing isn't draining properly this morning. So, here he is, trying to figure out what the problem is.
Here's hoping he won't have to do any plumbing! It's his Absolutely Least Favorite Thing In The Whole Wide World.
















The kitties are unconcerned with any human drama going on in the kitchen.
Cleo just has her lunch and Bubba monitors the street.