Keith & Martha Crawford

Well I am posting an update, so that means I did not sell my KR. NOPE, I am back to building!
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The next is dry glass over the canopy bottom frame.

Here the glass is wetted out and drying.

after both sides are dried it is time for the test, and it OPENS!

these next pictures are hanger rash that i have a lot of

gap seals for elevator

Oh yeah cant forget the new building shack. Cheap, small, but its at home

Last for to day my helper, Levi he likes to climb.

As you may have guessed from my lack of updates, I’ve been a bit busy this summer. After heading to the DR, I had two weeks until the start of summer classes. Which would have been great, if we’d had electricity in our house and I was able to unpack/do laundry/etc to catch up after vacation. Unfortunately, we got back to the house with 1/2 power on Sunday night. It wasn’t until Friday night that power was restored. So then classes started, and six credit hours of 500 level classes are a bit time consuming during the summer. Not to mention the fact that I had to chase around a quick and lively toddler in the off times. But I had lots of help; I was lucky enough to get my little sisters, Heather and Tiffany, to come be my slaves for 3 weeks each. Here they are:

So classes are over (which I aced) - and now, I am getting ready to start my student teaching experience at St. Johns Oakview South Elementary. I will be in a self-contained, Cognitive Impaired classroom with grades 3-5. My host teacher is certified in Learning Disabilities, which is fabulous ~ since that is the area I am interested in most. She also co-teaches with another special ed teacher, who is certified in CI, so I am covered both ways. I am so looking forward to this experience and am excited to be working there with them.

So back to that lively toddler… he has finally reached the 20# mark so we could turn his carseat around. (Well, most days he’s over 20#). He’s busy getting into everything and running everywhere. I can tell why he doesn’t gain any weight!!! If I ran that much, I’d be much smaller too! Here are some pics of our little man. He’s certainly not a baby anymore ~

Favorite summer foods: (and, yes, that ear of corn IS raw!)

You get extra points if you can figure out what he has here:

Who put this gooey stuff on a perfectly good graham cracker? Ewww…

And we’ve learned lots of new things! Music comes out of these weird wires when they are attached to the white and silver box, but mysteriously stops when the wire comes out! Imagine that!

While at Grandpa Doug and Grandma Debs, I helped fix this pump!

We were camping there for a few days while they went on vacation. We had to feed the bunnies and kitties. But we also had some fun…

And I got to help drive the boat!!!

Oh and I drive the car too. Now, if I could just get Mom to leave the keys in there too, I’d be all set!

Grandma Judy helped me ride a bike! Yay, Grandma! That was fun!

Guess who? Peek-a-boo!

Phew… after all that, I’m super tired.

Yesterday was the 4th, and Keith had a rare holiday off. It was so nice. So I put him to work. We picked up a load of fill to put at the base of the new fence we put in last week. Then we had a lite lunch and went to the zoo. Levi enjoyed looking at the animals, especially the monkeys. The lions and tigers were pretty lazy since it was a nice warm day. Here’s some pics:

Then we went to the fireworks. Had fun.

This is just for my brudder:

This is for my dad: (baseball training camp … this one is for the Jays, if i remember right)

Boca Chica from the paddleboat and a sunrise:

Us:

The Garden in the middle of the hotel:

Random other pics: Horseback riding, Keith and Jon-Paul, Keith surf-sailing

I am selling my airplane. It is a KR-2s in the boat stage.
It comes with the following.

boat
all spars
elevator and stab
control cables
all parts for single stick control
a dull stick
rudder pedals
Corvair motor mount
Corvair core with heads, crank and jugs
a box of nuts and bolts
5.00 5/ tires and rims no tubs
t6 6061 gear legs
Diehl gear mounts
canopy
e-mail me @ martha@simerson.net for phone# and price I live in lansing MI

It was well worth the trip. Very relaxing, with great weather, food, and service. What more can I say? Hmmm, i’ve run out of steam i think. I exported the photos, but don’t feel like uploading tonight. Here’s a preview…

More to come….