Volleyball, anyone?

After a few games of volleyball at the church picnic today, in which I had one or two unsuccessful attempts at returning the ball, James Pray decided to make fun of my short tyrannosaurus arms. I am now known to him as Miss Rex.



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Popping over to Popham

Ahhhh. Blogging while watching Patriots Preseason.....football season is so close I can smell it.
There, now on with the rest of my post.

Jim left his phone on the bathroom sink this AM so I had a good excuse to take a beautiful drive down to Popham, where his current job site is.





The house has a direct view of Fort Popham at the mouth of the Kennebec River. I love the beauty of the Maine Coast.

Leaving Tugboat Lane, I continued down to take a look at Fort Baldwin. I'm scouting out a bunch of possible Maine History field trips for Atira and Tell for this year. In our area, there are so many great places to see and things to do but you have to squeeze a lot of them into the summer because when school starts after Labor Day, their doors are shut until Memorial Day. I see a lot of field trips in my near future.

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80's Television Flashback

Gloomy gray skies and the drizzle of rain on the rooftop made for a perfect movie day. I took the self-proclaimed 3 Musketeers (Tell, Ben and Zack) along with Atira to see Smurfs 2. It fulfilled the requirements for entertaining three young boys and therefore I consider it a watchable movie but I always wonder why people try to take a good thing and redo it. I enjoyed the Smurfs cartoons as a child but do we need two movies about them? Was there a need to redo Looney Tunes? They were funny, and clever enough to watch over and over. You could just say I'm nostalgic except for the fact that even 7 year old Tell agrees that the new ones are not worth watching. There not even remotely funny. It's the Classic ones for him. So, being in that 80's flashback frame of mind, when my phone rang this afternoon, blaring out the Magnum P.I. opening theme song, I knew it was time for a Magnum Marathon.






Can we get through all 8 seasons before Jubal up and moves away? We shall see. We watched the first two episodes tonight and the most striking thing that Jim and I noticed was how old all the cars looked to us. It will most certainly be an 80's education for the kids.





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Brunks and Birthdays

I love spending time with family so tonight was a blessing. Bryan, Bethany and the kids leave tomorrow to head back to PA so they joined the Buxton Brunks for supper, along with Uncle Frank, visiting from D.C., Aunt Suci and Mom and Dad. It was a house full and we made the most of it, celebrating Frank's upcoming birthday and Mom's recent 60th birthday. It is noteworthy to mention that Bryan did not eat any birthday candles this evening.















During this particular visit to Maine, Nolan and Bryan spent a bit of time together at camp and have discovered how very similar they are. This is a little scary.....





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Quotable Camping II

It was a full day at camp with the Foremans and Johnstons again.








There was swimming, outdoor cooking, chatting around the smoky fire, reading in the summer shade and really just too much for the blog so I think I'll resort to some quotes again.

Nolan: (talking about people personalities)
"Tell is a different one."

Roger:" That's irony."
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Nolan looking at directions on medication:
"Take one tablet by mouth daily.(laughs) How else would you consume it? Hmm. I'm going to stick a bit in my ear."

Roger talking with Jim and Jubal about the differences between anorexia and bulimia:
"I don't really know. The only eating disorder I'm really up on is gluttony."

A mini golf game this evening was the scene of several memorable moments, including Ben Foreman's hole in one and Nolan's constant good-natured disagreement with the scorekeeper.














When Atira missed the wide hole through the building at one point, Jubal was heard to say: "At least we know she can hit the broad side of a barn"

Near the end of the game, Zack lost his golf ball off the course. His father inquired at the next hole, "Did you find your ball, Zack? There's no rough for the ball to get lost on. It's mini golf......Honestly, it's like losing a checker."

We've had a full day and shall sleep well tonight.






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Quotable Camping

First evening camping with the Foremans and Johnstons at Flat Rock Bridge Campground, Lebanon, Maine:

Driving down:
Sandy: Maybe this will become a
tradition!
Roger: Let's just get through
tonight.

While setting up the tent:

Young Ben Foreman: OK, if we don't get this set up tonight, where are we gonna sleep?





After the tent is set up:
Roger (sitting in the chair):
I think Jubal and I are going to have a competition to see who can so the absolute least for the rest of the night.
















(12:15 am) Teenager at the next site over: Dad you made my waffles go bad.

The Mom: Do you want an English muffin?

(And now I hear bacon sizzling)

Seriously?

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Boxed In

While we were packing the truck up with camping equipment, with a bit of tape from Jim, Tell found ways to keep himself busy.






Tell's quote of the evening while boxed in:
"Wait! How am I supposed to go to the bathroom?!"

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