A Good Night For Croquet

We spent the day getting caught up on laundry and outside work.  The tree beside our deck had left a residue on it that was sticky and hard to clean.  Doug spent quite a bit of the afternoon scrubbing it.  I appreciated his work.  I had cleaned it several times, but he was able to put more elbow grease into it and it looked fantastic in the end.  I know we were both worried that the tree had ruined the deck, but not after today.  We haven't decided what we are going to do with the tree.  We were hoping that this was a one time incident as it had never happened before.  We will see what next summer brings.

To celebrate all of our hard work around the house this weekend and to relax a little before Monday arrived we invited my parents up for dinner with the enticement of a game of croquet.  We hadn't played in awhile and everyone but Meg was ready for a game.  She had spent the day catching up on homework and still had some to finish.  We got started later than normal as Dad and Cam played golf in the afternoon.  Between the setting sun and the leaves on the croquet field it became pretty challenging to see.  Cam proved victorious in the end and everyone had a wonderful evening of fun.