Memorial Day weekend was a pretty good, if low-key, start to summer. This year we weren’t camping, or doing a garage sale, or anything, so we could just relax a bit. During the week, Monday was the Lincoln’s Got Talent show, in which Beth was a judge again this year. Mostly singing, some instruments, a few gymnastics, a cool light show, the whip and nae-nae while wearing giant teacher heads, and a kindergartner telling jokes. Tuesday, the softball team played the other last-place, winless team. We played them close, but they broke a tie in the last inning with an enormous, gigantic walk-off home run to straightaway center field, hit off me. So now last place is ours alone. The weekend really began last Thursday, with the elementary school graduation for Missy and Natalie. That ceremony does go on and on and on….but Missy was asked to introduce her class as they came in to the gym, which was awesome, and she received the citizenship and reading awards for her class as well as the “art heart” award for the entire 6th grade. Natalie won the most improved award for her class too. In the evening, the middle school did their end of year awards, which wasn’t as big a deal but Alex got two awards, one for high honor roll and one for reading. On Friday I heard something I rarely do from Beth: it was a fun field day. School’s over, now next year all 3 of the kids will be in middle school. Everyone slept late Saturday (except me, I did a 12+ mile bike ride/geocache run around town) and I started work on fixing one of the really beat up screens in the camper, since we’ve decided to keep it rather than sell it. I’m kinda making it up as I go, but the plan is: Cut the old screen out along the stitches to the canvas; lay the old screen atop a length of new (rolled-up fiberglass replacement screen), cut around the old screen leaving 1.5 inches around the perimeter of the old screen, fold and glue the 1.5 inches over to make a hem, glue and clamp the top edge back over the old seams, and work down gluing the new screen in. We’ll see how well it works. If it works I’ll post an instructable type video on YouTube. Sunday we all went to Nappanee to go to Rocket Science and do some geocaching, but they were closed so Dairy Queen filled in. The geocaches, all within the town, were fiendishly well hid. We found one of three. Monday was the Tracy Yeager Memorial 5k which I ran, finishing 118th overall with a time of 26:00 flat. Slow. It was unusually warm for Memorial Day, and I was hoping to get the pool set up, but the pool place was out of the hose filter I need so hopefully I’ll do that early next week.