The Perfect Summer Evening

My husband is just like his father, he hears the word, "Auction," and he has to go just to see if there is any good deals. One of the roofing companies in our little town was going out of business and so there was an auction going on yesterday. We have a little overhang we built last fall over our basement door that we need some roofing for so I thought it was a great idea. Five hours later he came home with a 1200 square foot garage full of Spanish bar tile, (we needed enough to cover 8 foot by maybe 12 foot.) He had a trailer full of new dead bolt locks for the apartments, two new lawn chairs, three hundred shirts for me to take to the school kids in Kenya, two saddles, a light fixture, a cart for Lake Powell and tons of miscellaneous crap. His prized buy of the day though was a couch, love seat and chair. When they were brand new they had to have been absolutely beautiful. But they had definitely seen better days. Dar was so excited about them that he wanted to bring them in and replace my family room furniture. The thing was...... the stuffing was coming out of the back of the couch. They were filthy dirty and pretty ragged. I told him to just set them in the garage until we decided what to do with them.

Everyone was tired from working hard all day and the Labrums came up to visit so we all sat out in the garage on the couches drinking Coke and eatting cookies. By the end of the night, we had all three garage doors open to enjoy the view and the cool summer breeze, and the guys decided that we might have to leave the couches in the garage so they could have a new "Man Cave" to hang out in. They were even talking about installing a big screen television on one wall. We had such a nice time and.... the couches were pretty comfortable so I agreed to clean them, fix them up and we could put them somewhere in the house .... (mostly so we don't have a permanent man cave in my garage!)

It was the best night! Kennedy came out and asked if he and Porsha could ride the horses. What!!!?? Who are you and what did you do with my kid? He never asks to do that. So we saddled up the horses and they played tag with them in the barn.

After dinner, all the kids hooked a rope up to the Kabota and pulled each other up and down the canal on the Labrums wake skate. One of the big reasons we wanted to build on this particular piece of land is because of the fun we knew the kids would have playing in the canal. They had a ball and we had fun watching them while being amazed at the color of the clouds as the sun set.

It was the perfect summer evening!

We ate warmed up lasagna and Lisa brought stuff to make Hawaiian haystacks (now there's an odd combination!)
The lasagna is so easy to make:

Boil some water and cook the lasagna noodles according to the directions on the package. Brown one pound of sausage and add a jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce.
Put a layer of lasagna noodles on the bottom of a casserole pan then add the meat sauce and some mozzarella cheese. Add another layer of noodles and some more mozzarella cheese and bake at 350* for about 30 minutes.