Summer2010

Glen's Birthday Jenny & David Wendy & Vanessa Sarah & Chris

Freys' visit Mother's visit Michigan Lisa's visit

Jenny spotted the deer crossing our yard shortly after she arrived on June 12th.

Campfire in the backyard.

First time at the Echo Hills beach this season.

We celebrated Father's Day at the Cottage.

Grandparents acquired and grilled delicious steaks. The boys did marshmallows afterwards.

Grandma's snapdragons -- they reseed each year.

Dungeons and Dragons night. Jenny and I made pies.

Strange fungus in the lower backyard.

Squirrels seem to have a nest in one of the backyard trees.

Croquet at the Blatniks on the 4th of July.

We watched fireworks from Laurie and Rudy's front yard.

Glen finishes putting gravel and bricks in the tread for each of the 72 steps into the ravine.

We finally decided on a grilling solution: this grill on the deck and a smoker farther from the windows. Glen converted the grill from propane to natural gas.

Glen assembles the smoker.

Our red bartlett pear produced 3 pears this year!

Raccoons like the birdseed on the neighbors' deck.

L.I.S.A. sent another box of books!

This chipmunk likes to sunbathe on the front step.

Picnic in the Brecksville Reservation with Tom and Dawn McGreevy.

After eating, we hiked around the Nature Center.

These flowers are abundant in the plot of prairie they've recreated.

We spotted these irridescent dragonflies by the creek.

We did a creek exploration with the Williams's.

Savannah holds up the crayfish we captured (and then released).