Beach babies, Sister talk and raspberries to pick.

Poppie, the ladies and I went to the fishing access to take a swim yesterday afternoon.  The sandy beach had been pushed upon to the shore and that made for a very nice swimming area with relatively no current. The girls were playing in the water, Booboo still a little apprehensive of the beaver that might bite her bum, but they were getting more and more brave in the water.  We looked up and Little Sister and Freckles were walking down the boat ramp toward us.  They had come down from Zootown to ride horses at Freckles grandparents a short way from the fishing access.  The three girls had a blast with swimming races, who could stay under the water the longest contests and other water filled games.  Little Sister and I got to catch up as we hadn't seen each other in months.  Her husband is still commuting to the oil fields in North Dakota, three weeks there two weeks home but their routine is getting smoother and their lives are fun filled and happy.  We spent about 3 hours just chilling and enjoying each others company.  Such a nice surprise and rewarding to catch up with each other.  I did find it a little sad that with so many siblings that I rarely get to see them, we as a family love each other dearly but fate has made us less and less close as time goes along.  I sometimes sorrow for the loss of closeness but know that none of us would truly change our lives to make it any different.  So, I enjoy the time I get to spend with my different sibling when happenstance puts us together.

Poppie had to buy parts for his chainsaws.  Bug had borrowed two of them and damaged both of them using them for his work.  He had tried to increase the size of one of the chains and bar but had done it wrong and messed up that saw.  The other one the clutch went out from hard work on the saw.  Poppie called one of his friend who has just opened a saw shop to get him to order parts and surprise of surprises he accidentally had the parts for Poppies odd sized saw.  Since he had them on hand, as no one else has that odd size saw, Poppie got them at a sale price.  Poppie also stopped at his other friends and he had accidentally ordered the wrong parts for his saw and they fit Poppies saws too.  The Lord does provide. So Poppie has those parts and the parts Bug had put on his saw, that were wrong, which fit Poppie's third saw, so he only had to order one clutch to fix all three saws.  New bars and chains all around, one new clutch and one new clutching coming in.  What are the odds of all the parts being the ones he needed, God does work in mysterious ways. We will be forgoing the Farmer's Market next Saturday to go fire wooding.  We will have great fun.

We are going to go down to pick raspberries at Grandpa's this evening so we can make up some jellies. That should be a nice evening. I have to call the orthodontist this morning. Yogie's back brace support came off on Saturday,  I imagine I am going to have to make an unexpected trip to Zootown to have it fixed, possible this afternoon or tomorrow.....  not the way I wanted to spend one of the last two days of their summer break...... tomorrow.