While John was at Bible Academy last night (I think that was the last one, but they have a VBS coming up first week in August), Hanna and I had some time together. I took for a long walk, I thought we could try going all the way around the block for the first time. She enjoyed it, she saw a couple of doggies, and she'd point and say "dahgnnnnnn" and then "wff wff". She also saw some sprinklers going, and just jabbered away about those. Don't know what she was saying.

However, that's a long walk for those little legs, and about halfway up Isanti on the way back, she stopped and wanted to be picked up, and I carried her the rest of the way home. It was a gorgeous evening though, nice and warm. Today is more overcast. We just can't get two sunny rainless days in a row.

The construction silly season is here. Just assume that wherever you want to go, you won't be able to get there. The roads will be all tore up. And if you have a nice alternate route, forget it. They'll find it and destroy that too. That yearly huge kid soccer fest is going on right now at the Sports Center in Blaine, so that is bringing traffic up Radisson, which is being turned into a 4-lane. They took the light away at 105th weeks ago, so there's always a hold up there, but with the extra traffic, the backup on Radisson can go back a mile or more. So this week, when I go home I go up to Lexington then back over on 109th.