another cloudy day

so much has been going on, it's been hard to be here. we were on vacation for a week in may and we went to branson, andrew, bruce's brother, came down also and we spent the week fishing and piccling around. we've been playing catch up ever since then i think.
bruce was supposed to do the copper creek triathlon this last sunday but when he got up early sunday morning it was really cold out, like 54 degrees and the water temp at copper creek was 72 degrees, he changed his mind and i was so glad. i had been kind of nervous about him with an open swim triathlon anyway.
we ended up taking the boat out fishing. we got our great nephew in trouble with his live in g/f. she was upset because he hasn't been spending enough time with her and she was calling and upset. we ended up getting home around 10 p.m. and she was supposed to be on her way to come and get him and she was still at home. i don't think i'd like to be in either one of their shoes.
we have to take our trolling motor in and get it fixed if they can fix it. we have a short or something in it. bruce called a few places and hopefully tonight i can tell him to take it off and i'll see about taking it in tomorrow. we did catch fish though. we have been going to hickory grove east of ames. we had never been there except we went last monday and we caught fish so we decided to go again. it was fun, it was windy when we first got there but after a while it died down and the fish were biting. one nice thing about taking someone with us is if they are male, they always help bruce with the boat and i don't have to help. hurray!
i made some rhubarb jam the other day. i gave a jar to our neighbor and gave a jar to my mother-in-law. it's good. i think i like the strawberry and rhubarb better. for me, i love anything strawberry. i make what's called Christmas Jam and it's my favorite right now. it's strawberries and cranberries.
i'm working on an afghan for a friend of mine, her daughter is getting married soon and hopefully i'll get done with the afghan. it seems like it's taking me forever. i have another baby afghan to make when i'm done with this one. our niece laura is expecting in november. we have 3 new babies coming this year so far. our nephew and his wife are expecting in september (a girl) and kelly and mark is expecting in july ( a boy) and who knows what laura is expecting. she and her hubby have a boy and a girl, so just like Uncle Bruce says "if they have 10 fingers and 10 toes and momma and baby are healthy, who cares!!"
i better go so i can get busy. i've been up since before 6 a.m. and am tired. Take care everyone, God Bless, treasa