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 Was so fun getting 17 people together for a camping fishing trip.  We all reserved through ReserveAmerica and got 5 sites.  Everyone brought their campers and tents and we all had the best time.  This was our site our "Maizy Bell"...she is a 1967 Bell camper 13 feet long including the hitch.  My brother Chet and his camper and pickup all ready for the weekend.  Daughter and son in law with their new tent camper.  First time camping in it.  Camp breakfast in the cast iron dutch ovens....always a favorite for our family.  Always takes at least two dutch ovens to make enough.  Setting around the campfire and watching this beautiful sunset was just the best for the day.

 Don't you just love Peonies?  I have so many around our house....they just get so tall and fill out so big.  Then the blossoms...  The blossoms are just amazing...bigger than my hand. Stand so tall and then the wind comes up and down they go.....mine are white with just specks of pink and then at the end I have one red plant.  This  year it came up big and tall and had about 5 blossoms on it.  The smell is just amazing also.  The ones around our wagon spread out all over the fence.  Last year a man stopped by and asked if he could pick a couple for his wife.  He said he was laid off and no money and it was his wife's birthday. So hubby and I said ok go ahead.  This year he came back and asked again.  We asked how he was doing and he said real good a nice job and money coming in.   So why then do you need to pick our flowers....He said "because they are pretty".  So we said "no not this year".  We really don't want him to make a habit of pi