If your children are bored, just grab a couple of large empty boxes (appliance ones are good). Cut a door and a window in them. Give them some crayons and markers, and they will be happy for days.

At least, that’s what I have noticed. Every time the grandkids come over, they want to play with the boxes. Happened again yesterday after dinner. Even though it was in the 90’s, although they did play on the covered patio, so it was shady.

Until the wind picked up in advance of a small thunderstorm on the lake. We all had to quickly put away the boxes in the garage before they blew around the neighborhood.

As for today: mowed the lawn, and then put down a bit of fertilizer, on the advice of my neighborly landscaper The lawn has never been fertilized, although it was mowed and watered regularly until we moved in. I only got about a half-full lawn clipping bag. The fertilizer should help the lawn get a bit stronger and thicker.

I got the quarterly 401K statement today. The results were much better than before; an increase of about 11%. Much better than the negative amounts in the past 2-3 quarters.