End of summer camping celebration

We went for a overnight campout before school started. Now that we live in Tehachapi, in the mountains, camping is just about 10 minutes away - very convenient. As usual, the favorite food item was s'mores or at least the mallows and the chocolate.

Activate house power on my mark

How often do you get to do this? Here is me switching on the electrical power to our house for the first time ever. Amazingly, the electric company showed up the day we moved in and installed the meter. After switch on the main breaker, we tried each of the individual breaker. No sparks! No smoke! We had to wait three days for the gas company to show up. I should not complain, though - a cold shower is always worse in the dark.

Bring on the school year

The last day of summer - cartoons in Mom & Dad's bed.
The school crew.
The place.

Meri looks and is happy in this photo. The smile disappeared when it was time for Mom to leave the classroom.

Fun in sun

I think we are ready for Baywatch. We just need a couple of those orange, banana, life-saving things. We visited the beach in Ventura before school just to make sure we were still living in southern California. It was a little further from our new home in the mountains but close enough.

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Perhaps as consolation you could check out my new blog, SRL.

Is that a buffalo or a bison?

 
During our homeless stretch, we spent a day in Yellowstone National Park. Of course, that is where the buffalo roam, right? Not this time. Though we saw some elk in the park, it was not until about 500 feet after exiting the park when we saw our first bison (not a buffalo).

En garde!

 

 

Brayton and Ethan took a fencing class. They really enjoyed. Unfortunately their large amount of lightsaber play carried over to their fencing. Most lightsaber techniques do not apply well to a game where you score by poking each other with the point of a sword. Oh well, they has a great time.

Wheel them in

 
Good thing we bought a hand-truck. It can be so useful for moving things.

Orion climbs to the top of the rope in gymnastics

 
 
 
 

The eagle has landed ... along with all the eaglets

Here is the new house. We are now residents of Tehachapi, CA. We spent about three weeks homeless as our Lancaster home sold before the Tehachapi home was finshed. Stay tuned for more pictures.