Woodsmoke, pink turkeys, and the world's largest hot tub

It's been a while since anything new went up.  Partly, that's due to having been traveling to see family and partly because they turned around and came and visited us a few weeks later.  Between the preparing to go, the packing, the visiting, the unpacking, and the preparing to host, blogging hasn't gotten much time.

Mrs. H also reminds me that we had food poisoning, selling a house, lots of vomiting, and now Lyme disease as other things that got in the way.  I got Lyme disease as a result of a tick bite I must have gotten from the trip to Quincy Quarries I mentioned earlier.  Those in the Midwest will probably laugh at the fact that I got it here, on the one day I ventured out of the concrete jungle and not while I was living in the Midwest itself.

Anyway, the trip to the Midwest was a great opportunity to hang out with family, mostly while we floated in a 100 degree pool that my father-in-law has hooked into an outdoor wood burning boiler which heats the house during the majority of the year when the weather is nasty.  From the pool, we could also see the turkeys in the backyard as they cruised through looking for food.  Baby H has started seeing turkeys everywhere. Pink flamingos on a beach towel were "pink turkeys".

There are some pictures of a tall stick-man in the pool that I can post later as well, but they're not going up until I get a picture of a certain individual in a certain hat to go out there with them . . .