As the rush of family birthday's comes to an end and April nears its middle, we are still knee deep in activity. The back half of last week found on us several postparandial pedestrian strolls and even a couple of bike rides. We even sneaked in some time to paint up the birds that Grandpa Bob made a week or so back. They are now decorating the backyard trees. Merrick is getting used to his new and larger bike and Sophia is becoming more accustomed to watching her blind spots as they race along the bike trail leap frogging each other and hollering "passing on your left." Sophia played at a friends house on Friday night and Merrick and I putzed around the yard, pulling weeds and burning brush. Saturday we had to skip Merrick's soccer because he was puking. I suspect it was because he had refused to eat for about 18 hours and as a consequence his 'fast shrunking belly' didn't do well with pounding a glass of water in the morning. He rebounded quickly and we were able to raise the camper from its winter slumber. Everything looked great with no winter water damage. The three of us teamed up to ready the water system running several gallons of chlorinated water through the plumbing and replacing the faucet handles that had broke last summer. I was so happy with my ceiling repair and subsequent dryness that I was a little perplexed when Sophia said "ah, Dad I am standing in a lot of water." I had forgotten to reattach the pump line and the level of water in the intake had caused a substantial flow to fill the floor of the cabin and leak out the back corner of camper. It was readily cleaned up with the few remaining clean towels in the house (Merrick's puking used a substantial number in the morning). The camper set up to air out we headed out to a birthday party at a nearby park. It was a beautiful day under the slowly budding oaks and the playground equipment still had the new plastic smell, having just been installed. Sunday we awoke to rain but good health and good spirits. Breakfast was interrupted by an awareness that the squirrel that is now living in the birdhouse, was 'home.' Merrick felt this was a prime opportunity to strip off his shirt and run through the rain to have a discussion with the squirrel and his current living conditions. With the forecast for Sunday for continual rain and possible storms we planned a roadtrip to Appleton with some friends to play around in the Children's Museum. The kids wore themselves out on all the exhibits and then we wore them out a little more in the backyard. As the forecast severity decreased the need to grill increased and it was another wonderful way to end weekend and recharge for the week to come.
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