April 20-23 2018 Taylor Gathering

Since its almost impossible to get a date where everyone can get together at Christmas , we finally arrived at one on April 21. Kevin couldn't make it as he was working out of state. Mike Z and Sammi missed also as Sammie had a softball tournament.  We went up Friday and I came home Monday, Susan stayed as she has another quilt retreat all week. We were very lucky  as the bad weather held off on Saturday.  We all had a good time and the kids had a blast. Somehow we managed not to have any one fall into the water. If we could have had warm weather the kids would have had even more fun playing in the water. No doubt this has been a cool April.

March 29-April1, 2018 Easter Weekend

We went to Kristis/Mike lake house for Easter. Actually Susan was already up there because she had a quilt retreat all week there. I left on Thursday and went up.. I got a late start due to the storms the previous night. Our electricity went out about 4:00 am and didn"t get restored untill till 2:00 pm. I had planned on getting a lot of things done early but that didn't happen. I hooked my little generator up so I could make coffee, run the fridge and watch tv. I didn't want to leave until power came back on for sure because of freezers. Susan called and said the river had really come up overnight and the water was barely over the road on the causeway. All the rain upstream had put the Trinity river in flood stage. It had pretty much crested by the time I got to the lake house that evening. The weather had turned gorgeous .  There was not a lot of yard for the kids to play but they still had a good time. With the high water there was no boating swimming nor jet skiing going on. There were a lots of folks there for the weekend .All the kids had fun dying eggs and playing games.

The water is way over the boat dock

Sunrise

Moon rising

Susan and Susan

Early morning relaxation