Children of the Corn

It's definitely summer! I think it was in the 80s almost every day this week. Wednesday night I ran in the Dick Beardsley "Run for Your Life" - a 5 mile run to benefit the Dick Beardsley Foundation. I had a miserable head cold, so I wasn't exactly in peak form, but I finished in just shy of 53 minutes. I wasn't the last one on the course, so that's a good thing. After the race they had a raffle for a door prize and I won a brand new pair of New Balance running shoes of my choosing. Pretty sweet deal!

Alison and Eli got to play in the pool this week. It's going to be a challenge keeping them out.


After we put Eli to sleep tonight, I looked out our kitchen window and saw a cropduster spraying a field a little over a mile away from the house. The lighting was just right and I was thinking about going for some pictures, when Jennifer said "Only if you take Alison with you." It didn't take too much convincing and Alison was loaded in the truck and we were off. Once we got about a quarter mile away from where the airplane was spraying, I stopped so Alison could see it fly past and I could get some pictures. No matter how many times I see them, all I can think is "Cool. Those guys are freaking nuts."



After the cropduster moved on, we drove down the road a little bit more. Alison has been very observant about what kind of plants are growing in fields, and got pretty excited being so close to the corn. I pulled off to the side of the road and we got out so she could see just how tall the corn really was.



We loaded back into the truck and drove another half mile and saw this little stinker on the side of the road:



Needless to say, I rolled the windows up just in case.

And one passing artsy type shot. It's still hard to believe that this is basically our back yard.