Well, after Aimee and I and six kids went on our 24 hour wet camping adventure, there was plenty to do today. I took Andrey and Sergey to football practice, then went by a tire place to get a price on tires. The slick front ones have to go, one leaking and one with a screw in it, which could fall out at any time. Went by the courthouse to pick up a document. Back at the house Alina and Elijah were up, fighting already. Made them some breakfast, unloaded some wet clothes from the van and the boys called to be picked up. Back to the high school again and home. The boys were sweaty and hungry, thank the Lord for leftover hamburgers from Hollywood Baptist VBS last week. They must have sent home 20 lbs. with us and the boys have actually not finished them off yet. Raymond came in from his 6-12 lifeguard shift, ate, and fell asleep on the couch. Andrey and Sergey took a shower and went to bed, I guess, I didn't see them again 'til late this afternoon.

I weighed and wormed the five kittens that we still haven't found a home for, actually i weighed them and Anya wormed. Then Anya and I hung the two wet tents and flies on the clothesline to dry.

Anya had an inspiration to move all the donkey fence so Dolly and friend could have more grass. All those corral panels and cattle panels...I almost had a heat stroke. Then I figured the barn needed shoveling out so Salvador and I removed about 6 wheelbarrow loads of manure. Alyona started mowing grass. By that time the tire place called and said they had two tires that would fit so went to town and had them put on. When I got back, the tents were dry so Anya, Alyona and I folded them up and packed them back in their bag. Why are tent bags so small? The boys appeared and wanted me to take them down to the lake to fish with the canoe. Drove them down in the pick up after they jumped it off. One of them left the key on after driving it around the yard. When I came back, Elijah wanted me to swim with him in the blobby pool. I went in with him and cleaned out leaves while he showed me how he could dive to the bottom, all 3 feet down , to pick up his spiderman, pretty good for a kid who won't wet his hair most of the time. Anya let the goats out to nibble for a while and Alyona worked with the weedeater. She is getting pretty good at it.

I cut up cantaloupe for supper and let everybody make a sandwich, except Andrey and Sergey who were still fishing, and Ray who took the motorcycle and went to play frisbee. Just got back with the fishermen. They caught 5 bass and kept one to eat. Sergey is cooking it outside on the grill. I am glad he didn't want to fry it. I just cleaned up a mountain of dirty dishes and got the kitchen..well, not clean but better.

Andrey has a football camp for the next three days and I have to take him at 6, meet Aimee to get Cameron at 7:15, Sergey to practice at 8:30..Renee's taxi service. Sometimes I think I don't do anything. It doesn't look like I do. Maybe I should write down what I do every day so I can look back and see that I wasn't sitting around watching t.v. anyway.