So here we are for the month of August.
First week in and VBS has begun.   It was decided to do Pilgrim's Progress.   I had no idea what crafts could be done with that.  So I did my own thing.
Tom cut 3/4" plywood rectangles for me and I had the kids nail a cross shape into them.  Then we took rubber bands and they made a Spirograph cross from them. Big hit!  Then another day we took baby food jars, glow in the dark paint and pipe cleaners to glue inside.  They were bent into crosses.  The kids made glow in the dark "lanterns".   We did a Popsicle craft and a banner.   Since next year is already decided as Camp Courageous, I picked out the crafts and will be done with it early.
It is so very dry this year that I can mow everywhere.  I have been in to mow the backyard at Dad and Mom's twice, and with it dry have even mowed over by the swamp here at home.  We have been fortunate so far with the well.
Despite lack of rain, I have been inundated with green beans.   Becky came to help me do a bushel one picking, but I have so many more I can't keep up.

They are huge!  That makes more work because I have to hull them or they will be bitter.  I put most in the freezer to can later.  Just to hot and dry to be canning. I am enjoying broccoli too.   We collected about 3 qts of blueberries this year too!  Pretty overgrown for slight of rain.

Tommy put himself in a help program and was out of the home for three weeks.  He now is back trying to get a job without luck.  Two weeks back and no job, but bills are due.  Back to square one.
Something should give soon because a lot of kids are going back to college.
Haven't seen the kids all summer, so when Ken and Sabrina went camping close by, we stopped by the campfire for a while.  

mmmmm smores!

My friend Helen invited me to Big Town one night when they were having the city's whoop-de-doo for the summer.   We went in to see a freebie concert.  I liked Tanya Tucker in the '80's.  She played a bunch of great songs.   I had a lot of fun!

Earlier in the month, Dusty must have done someting to her eye.  It swelled and then was runny.  I had some eye ointment here that after flushing it a few times a day we would put it on. I always turn her out with a mask on now to keep flies off or from poking it and irritating it more.  I think that she has lost some if not all vision out of her eye.  It has a blue haze to it.  She had run into the post in the corner of her stall once or twice, but now knows where it's at or maybe she can see shadows?  At least it isn't runny anymore  and the swelling has gone down. She doesn't let it bother her when she gets turned out, she still is full of it taking off down the pasture.