Keeping it simple, for cousin camp

post #394
    Around here, in eastern Kentucky, it has been that time of year again when we gather up whatever cousins we can find for a week of hanging out together. Though there were just three this year, it took all three adults to keep up. A great week. Here are a few photos, some made by me and some by my daughter, Rebecca.  Enjoy!

             THE KITCHEN COUNTER

HOME HONEY IN A JAR, AND THREE HONEYS, BY R

             THE COUCH IN THE KITCHEN  

BY R

           


 THE DECK OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN

 

BY R

               THE POND

RAIN WITHOUT THUNDER!!  BY R

FISHING LINE REPAIR, PATIENCE ALL AROUND

            THE BUILDINGS ON THE FARM
   
 

BY R

 

PROVIDING HANGING CAT TOYS FOR THE 4 CATS IN THE BARN, BY R

CHICKEN HOUSE, THREE REALLY BIG HAPPY CHICKENS AND, CLOSE BY, 10 HENS

    

            ALWAYS A VISIT WITH JUNIE AND SANDY AND THEIR CHICKENS, GOATS, RABBITS AND PONY

            THE WEEK ENDS, AND THERE'S THE RETURN TO A BUSIER PLACE

           

A LAST SHOT WITH THE BELOVED BOW, AND THE VIEW FROM WITHIN THE TRUCK, BY R

ONE SAD COUSIN LEFT BEHIND, FOR NOW, THE GIVING OF GOODBY HUGS, BY R

A FAVORITE PHOTO OF MINE, BY R, LIFE AFTER CHAOS AND LAUGHTER

Cousin Camp, 2017, part 2 of 2

post #346
          July, northeastern Kentucky, we get together so the kids can get to know each other, with not much scheduled except for daily late afternoon swims in the pond (weather permitting) and meals and lawn darts (this year-- thank you, George Ella) and walks to the waterfalls and in the creek on the way and make believe and board games and books and playing with the kittens, the cat, the two dogs, and getting eggs from the five chickens, and catching lightning bugs of an evening and maybe a fish in the pond. Somehow it all works.

 One of the three kittens:

 The pond after some rain! Luckily, for most of the time, the pond was clear.

At the pond, all three in pjs!

Practicing for the upcoming group photo (see last week's post). Nothing as wonderful as Christmas pjs in July! Very cool!

Back at the garden, celery -- PLANTED FROM SEED -- is thriving. Bravo, Jeremey!

      I also "used" the kids for help with a book project George Ella and I have been working on.  One of the photos needed concerns eggs. Since our plan is to use a few photos of these kids on other pages, I had the idea this time to use all three kids at once, each holding an egg from the chicken house. What follows is the start of a "photo session" and then a closer view of just their hands. I tried to combine the work of figuring out how to do what I asked without making it a lot of work for them. In this case, work meant holding still.... This whole project is in progress, but I thought that sharing some of on-going process might of interest.  Thank you, A, T and W!!

         I'm leaving room to add a few of Rebecca's photos from Cousin Camp, but she has been busy celebrating their tenth anniversary, right after CC ended.  Note: I added her photos Monday evening. It's been a very busy, but happy, time.

congratulations R and J!! (The plate was a wedding gift from my sister, Haven, and her husband, Robert, who live in California. Not available at your local mall store.)


FIVE PHOTOS BY REBECCA O. WRIGHT

Cousin Camp, 2017, part 1 of 2

post #345
       This year, with the addition of cousins of cousins, there are MORE COUSINS, six in all, ages 21 to 1. Total confusion works wonders, except for the ability to produce excellent quality in one's photos. O well, better instead to enjoy each other and this place and this time, still on-going.  There will be more photos next week; I hope this makes up for usually not having family photos on this blog.

OK, day one, I picked up my son delivering two kids, at the Louisville airport, three hours away. This year said son stayed two nights in Kentucky before returning to Denver, leaving said kids for another week!  No beds/mattresses left in the house, so he slept in what is called the summer "house" at the pond: no electricity, screens instead of windows, earplugs required to survive the morning din by frogs and chirping insects.

Later that same day, my daughter picks up said son's wife's brother and his family at the Morehead airport where they arrived after 6 hours of traveling via the plane they built themselves (before the birth arrivals of two kids, now ages 3 and 1.) Somehow they claim the trip went really well. They both fly F15s for the Air Force, so maybe their perspective is not your run of the mill one.

Two cousins were already here -- Thea, who lives nearby now, and her beloved half-brother who lives in Massachusetts and will be a junior at UMASS-Amherst. GO TEAM.

Hey, Dad, how did this balloon creature get on my backpack?

double the trouble this year!

chief female honcho -- sitting for a change, at the pond, every afternoon! hot weather!!

uncle and nephew, age 6

two hoops on hand, used for lawn darts as well as for the around and around

five cousin onslaught

FOR REAL - a response to a red light on the camera, on a tripod!?!?!

so happy to be wearing a cousin hand-me-down

returning from the pond

The path back to the yard, the swing, the garden, the house, and food....with family

last night's far away lightning, no sounds, just a show, a midnight magic show, at my house, a happiness shared with the grandchild staying over with me for that night

Next week, part 2!  Stay safe, be present, and thanks for reading these posts.