
We praise God for the safe and healthy birth of
Henry Lamberton Thoms
The adventures of an Australian family in American southern culture where the vowels are long and the food is deep fried.
Did you have a good fourth? That's the question everyone asks around here and yes we did have a good fourth even if Baby Thoms didn't make an appearance. Our good friends Alexis & Tim invited us to a cookout on Saturday. Lucy spent about 2 hours in the pool swimming by herself(!) with the appropriate swimming vest on. We ate cheeseburgers and hot dogs and tried to stay cool. Then we headed downtown to enjoy the fireworks from the riverfront boardwalk in front of the Tea Room. We had an awesome time and Lucy couldn't stop saying 'whoa' at all the different fireworks which lasted for 20 minutes. We ate chocolate desserts, the kids waved red white and blue glow sticks and the adults chatted. It was such a fun time! The rest of the weekend was spent watching Wimbledon, working on the pizza oven and just waiting...
We started avoiding commitments from last Thursday so we only tentatively said yes to two events this weekend.
A couple of months ago we had 4 cubic yards of topsoil dumped on our lawn near the pizza oven. Part of it was to even out the slope near the concrete floor and part was used to create a new garden bed now affectionately known as the 'pizza oven garden'. At the time I planted a whole lot of bulbs along the border but thaey didn't show much action for a while and a few were trodden on by visiting toddlers. But I'm happy to say that they are now bursting into flower and making a brilliant addition to our entertaining area. We are still yet to put down weed mat and mulch but that will come in time!