Fish, flowers, and fun

 

An alien from another world?  Nope...just Kenny, getting ready for his first swim meet of the year a couple weekends ago...


Stephen and Beth were more interested in video games during this meet, and less interested in the swimming, as you can see from the picture above.  Below, Kenny sports a picture of the team mascot, the Marlin:



(Don't worry, anxious grandmothers...even permanent marker comes off easily with sunblock!).  Kenny has really excelled over the last couple years in swim team, and it is obvious that he's a far better swimmer than either of his parents:


Beth was able to make the Monticello Marlin swim club, too, and competed in her first meet last weekend, doing remarkably well:


Stephen's currently in swim lessons, but if he builds the basic skill set like his older siblings, I'm sure he'll soon be swimming for the Marlins, too!  Here are a couple pictures of some of the day lilies Hope has planted at our church in Monticello:

 

These beautiful day lilies were given to us by Hope's Aunt Diane Pruden, who grows and breeds them at her home in southeastern Michigan. 

  

We had only limited space to plant, so we donated them to our church, and they've done wonderfully...

This past weekend brought about one of the funner times of the year for me--the Arkansas Archeological Society's and Arkansas Archeological Survey's annual dig, held this year on the Ouachita National Forest.  This year, we're helping to excavate a prehistoric site near the Ouachita River.  Below is a picture of part of the area I helped excavate:

 

We've found a number of prehistoric artifacts and features.  During lunch, I took advantage of the down time to stroll a nearby dry ravine, which has lead me to a number of artifact finds, including the dart point pictured below:

 

Unfortunately, I have a business trip to go on, so my stay at the dig was only 5 days, but even with the tick and chigger bites and poison ivy, I had a lot of fun, and the weather cooperated nicely!  Hopefully, I'll get further chances to help excavate this site in the near future...

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Anonymous said…
beautiful lilies!

lulu
7:35 AM
Lisa said…
Glad to hear Beth is carrying on the (newly established) Bragg family swimming tradition.
8:18 AM
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