Grandparents Day

Helping get rocks

Day 17 (9/13/2015)

I hate to use the word fall or autumn yet so let’s just say, “It was a beautiful late summer day”. I would call it a perfect day, seventy degrees with slightly clouded skies and a light breeze. Our son and daughter-in-law had texted about going out on the bike trail and we were ready. We had gone out for quick ride on Thursday night so we knew everything was down on this end of the trail. Once school starts it is hard to find the time to keep everything standing. I suspect there had been forces involved that weren’t just natural. When everything in a specific area is completely annihilated there is a pretty good chance that somebody just decided that they needed to be unbuilt. As soon as we got to the “sculpture garden” area we started building. As I have said before, if nothing else is standing I like to make sure that “Tripod” is. I started rebuilding it while our son Nate started building one of his own. Eileen and Wade and our daughter-in-law Rita started making chalk drawings and photographing the proceedings. At first we were having trouble getting things to stay standing and both Nate and my first attempts ended up back on the ground. Persistence paid off and eventually we had a couple up and finished. In all we set up four of the original six sculptures in the area. We didn’t have a lot of time though so we had to get back on the trail. We then rode to the Prairie area where, although in need of repair, the sculptures were still standing. When we got there however the railroad was cutting brush with a large shredder mounted on a crane that rode the tracks. Wade enjoyed watching it but we didn’t get a chance to do any more building and soon it was time for Wades nap so we headed back home.

Getting Started

Making Drawerings

Circles

Love this picture 

Royal Enfield

Now we are finished

Cutting Brush