Thunderstorms with heavy rains hit around 3 a.m. this morning, so our walk was once again canceled. The rains brought much cooler temps, but the humidity was still a little on the high side throughout the day.

Since nothing could be done outside, John wanted to go to Bemidji to pick up some shelving materials for the garage and, as I ran out of paint, I needed to go back to Home Depot to get another gallon. While we were in Bemidji, we stopped to look at some bigger ride-on lawn mowers. John is thinking of getting one that turns much sharper for cutting around our trees and also has a bigger mowing base so it won't take so long to do the lawn. Now is a good time to be looking to buy as many mowers are on end of summer sales. We also spent some time visiting a couple furniture stores looking at sofas--didn't see anything that struck our fancy, but we're in no hurry to buy anything. We stopped at Burger King for a quick lunch before heading back home.

Sam had a mini basketball tournament this afternoon, so we met at Matt's place to follow them to Red Lake Falls where the games were being held. Sorry to report that the guys lost both of their games.

Sam, #5, taking a shot


Sam backing in with the ball so
he can try for a shot

Since we were gone all day, nothing got cleaned up in the kitchen, so that job got put off for another day. Our evening was pretty quiet--reading and watching some TV before heading off to bed.