Memorial Day 2010

For Memorial Day we headed out Iowa to visit the farm. As always with these trips, we had the best of intentions for getting out immediately after work but hectic last minute to do lists inevitable lead to leaving a little later than is ideal for a six hour drive; at least this timing allows for us to catch the brilliant sunset over the hills in Galena... and then debate about the positioning of the big dipper and Venus.

Saturday was filled with late afternoon naps, those warmed-by-the-sun, several hours long kind of naps.  And a mother daughter walk along the river trail.

While there may not have been a kitchen sink, there was grilled pork burgers, watermelon, potato salad, and a Klondike bar or two. And as the new sink was set to be delivered on Tuesday, I bet my mom is doing a little dance to have a fully functioning kitchen after the many weeks without due to an unexpected backorder.

Dan played chaffeuer for my afternoon photo quest- we drove around in search of interesting material for me to practice photography.  Of course, a little brother with the inside scope lead to the most interesting spots... a house with a tree growing out the middle!? Yes, please.  Thanks, Ray!

The dogs might have had the most fun of all of us.  They had a weekend of being tethered-free... and they soaked it up big time.

 We even got to see a couple little baby calves...

And of course, it was pretty awesome to get to spend time with three of our nephews, it is always fun to see how much they change between the visits.