Mialkowski Family News

Oops, I forgot to add in two great pictures from the Gatlinburg vacation. The one below was taken at DollyWood while Katherine and I were riding on the Tennessee Tornado roller coaster.

And then the one below was taken in Pigeon Forge on some kiddie ride:

We sure had fun up there in the Great Smoky Mountains. Since we had cabins, we grilled out like every day. For the trip up I bought a cassette adapter that one end you stick into a cassette deck in your car and the other end fits into your MP3 player. It worked, but the Volvo rattles and roars so much that you couldn’t really enjoy the audio books and short stories that I had piled onto it.

Fourth of July 2008 in Georgia! The family met at my sister-in-law’s house and had some good eats! Katherine made a Key Lime pie as featured below:

Later that night, we went to Historic Lawrenceville, GA to see the fireworks show. Here is a picture (taken by Katherine) of that very show:

Lily really had a good time watching the fireworks from start to finish. We’re sure to be back next year!

Well, this past Saturday we had a yard sale. Brought in $54. I had a guy interested in one of my motorcycles too, but he may have decided to pass on the idea. Too bad it was a drizzly day at times and the early afternoon brought in a steady shower. We ended up donating alot of clothes to GoodWill. We’ll have another yard sale this fall and I’ll try to take off a Friday so we can have it Friday and Saturday as long as the weather permits. Trying to get everything set up at like 7 in the morning on a Saturday is a bad idea. Especially when the vultures start landing that early in the morning. We will be going on vacation this Wednesday so now prepping for that will start.

Yup, tomorrow I’ll be celebrating Father’s Day for the 2nd year! We’re having a BBQ over at our house. I’m going to grill up some alligator and Katherine is making crabby patties. Katherine’s father will be cooking either lamb chops or steaks. We received our economic stimulus payment check – that will come in handy especially since we’re going out of town in a couple of weeks and need to get the a/c checked out in Volvo. Last weekend we went out to an Indian restaurant which had a really good buffet. Next weekend we plan on having a driveway sale on Saturday so hopefully we’ll be able to get rid of some unused items.