Happy 4th of July

Wow, I didn't realize it had been a month since I posted anything. Leann and I assessed for national board certification in June and that took a lot of my time. During one of the massive rain storms, the garage flooded which seeped (ya right, how about gushed) into the game room. This of course was in the middle of the night so I wake up to Clint yelling for me to help. We had about 2 inches of water in the game room before we got the wet vac going. We used towels to slow the water and then sucked it up as it came in under the door. That lasted about an hour before it finally stopped coming in. Now we have a really great reason to toss a bunch of stuff from the garage. It had about 3 inches of water standing in it. the next morning, John stopped by and he looked at the driveway. Since the garage had never flooded before we knew something had changed. Well, I had moved some railroad ties around in the driveway and had created a dam so the drainage was diverted into the garage. Yes, I'm the brilliant person responsible for the flooded garage. See, I'm really blond and dye my hair dark. Speaking of dyed hair, I thought I'd try to have less roots showing and used "soft black" as my color choice. I don't know what brain burp I had that thought "soft black" would be dark brown which is my usual color, but when I finished, I was really glad Clint was at a ABA conference for the weekend. I looked a little goth. No one seemed to think it looked as bad as I do, just different. We had the Barker family reunion in Mountainburg last weekend. It was great to see everyone. next year we are going to have it at the park at Lake Fort Smith. We drove around to see the changes since they flooded the spillway and expanding the lake. They have a really nice picnic area with canoe rental, paddle boats, pontoon boats and a pool. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.