MOTHERS' DAY ON PARK'S PEAK
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Mothers' Day weekend brought my daughter and granddaughters to Park's Peak. We had a grand time!
The first thing we noticed was it had FINALLY leafed up on top of the Peak. Everything was GREEN! At 3500 feet we are nearly a month behind Charlotte.
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David had put in the posts and needed some carpentry "help" from the girls to make their "tree-less tree house" on the rock at Abbie's "Nature Valley". It is just a few yards down the mountain,but with the leaves on the trees, the girls will have their own private viewing platform, or as Ella calls it: THE STAGE! When they come back after Memorial Day and the end of school, Dave will help them finish the decking. Carting wood and tools up and down the mountain requires lots of YOUNG legs!
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| Ella got to hammer! |
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| Abbie helped drill in the floor joist brackets! |
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| ...and hammer! |
I think Abbie is just a little excited!
Saturday night we went to "Saturday Night Lights" at the Tryon Equestrian Center. It was VERY kid friendly and free except for the ice cream, beer, and tips to the face painters and buskers! Thanks Sean and Laurie for telling us about this. The girls had a grand time and watched the horses between rolling down the fake grass hill!
Finally, while the girls were getting carpentry lessons from their granddad, I was doing my latest "crafty" thing. I made a bathmat out of wine corks to go with the mirror I put in the upstairs bath! Thank goodness my sister drinks a lot of wine and saves her corks! The hard part was figuring out how to cut the corks in half so that I would have more surface to glue. A 1/16th inch thin hack saw worked after Dave drilled me a "jig" in a piece of 2 x 4. I used over 200 corks!! So when you come to Park's Peak, you are stepping on some good times had by my sister and Dave and me!!!
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| I ran out of glue and had to finish it back in Charlotte |
