The Rezeks

Jon and Meghan stopped by for a quick visit on Friday.  They now live in North Carolina--are residents of New Bern, and their house was flooded last year during the big hurricane that struck.  They are just about done with their rebuilding.  They also have a condo in Orange Beach (reference the Dec 2018 blog post), which is about a two hour drive from our house.  We had a very nice visit--hung out, dinner, and some wave-running, which was cut short due to some weather coming in, but they did get to see some dolphins.

We went out for some yummy seafood for dinner, and then Bode was nice enough to take a picture.  It is hard to believe that I have known Jon for 30 years come November.

I have taken to bird-proofing some of the garden.  We will see how this goes.  I have some nice beans growing, some pumpkins starting to emerge, and I also planted some spinach and cilantro, but haven't yet seen their buds.

The okra has really been coming in; unfortunately, we haven't really done anything with it, other than look at it.

I wonder if the garden is attracting reptiles because yesterday, we had FOUR snakes in the yard; fortunately, Ashley was able to kill two of them.

The big project for the next couple of weeks will be more sod in the back yard and hopefully a flagstone walkway/stairs leading down to the dock.  I've dug out most things; below is the prep work.  First, where the sod will go.

Next shows the stairs.  I'm not exactly sure I will correctly build the stairs like a professional landscaper, but I think Ashley and I should be able to figure things out. 

Close to three tons of flagstone, two tons of gravel, and one ton of sod will arrive on Tuesday; hopefully Ashley can get everything to the back yard without too much trouble.

Bode starts the sixth grade tomorrow.  We picked up his class schedule, and he seems very excited.  He has band, world history, math, language arts, earth and space science, and gym class; that sounds like enough to keep him busy.  We'll see how everything goes tomorrow.  Pleasant Sunday.