First of all, I'll apologize for the lack of posts recently. We're in a pretty normal routine now, Joel has been working some long hours, and it has been raining alot, which means there hasn't been lots of blog-worthy excitement here in Colorado Springs. We've mainly been watching movies in our nice and cool (temperature-wise) basement and taking neighborhood walks when the clouds clear.

Last Wednesday, we did make it out to America the Beautiful Park again for the weekly "Gettin' Down Downtown" concert. But, once again, the thunder and lightning cut it a bit short. We've seen a couple about our age sitting near us there both times we've been, so we've decided that if we see them again this week, we're going to introduce ourselves.
The ominous clouds heading our way at the concert.
Our picnic basket.


Also, our little squirrel friend was back this week. We've been hearing him off and on in the attic, and we've even seen him poke his evil little head out of a hole in our overhand, but this week...he as after brownies at our kitchen window:


I'm attempting a small garden in our backyard even though the Colorado Master Gardener representative told me the soil is awful here and I planted way too late...
You probably can't tell, but there are 2 squash plants here and some flowers. I also have 3 tiny green tomatoes on some plants I brought from Starkville, but I'm about to give up hope that they will ever turn red.

Joel had to work a full day on Saturday (Joel's boss...if you're reading this, remember that you told him y'all don't work Saturdays?), and afterwards we headed up to my aunt and uncle's to hear the Denver Symphony in their neighborhood park. We got there late since Joel got off work late, and by the time we finished supper, the bottom fell out and everyone was running up the street from the park in ponchos. So, instead of hearing the symphony, we sat on their front porch and watched people run up the street while rivers of water rushed down the hill. It was quite the storm.

Sunday morning, we woke up in time to drive back down to Sunday school in Colorado Springs. We met a few more people in the group that we had not met yet, and there will be a community supper this weekend that we'll be attending!

Well, I guess that is about it for now...I have a few clinic visits/interviews scheduled for this week, so you can pray that something will come up soon!