There's been a lot happening with us Sweigarts lately, so I'll hit a few of the highlights.
We have two new-to-us vehicles, both Civics, a '93 & '05. I traded my truck in on the '93, and Anna chose the '05 as her first car.
Anna's Civic is in the body shop at the moment, having the rear-end replaced, after it encountered a guard rail after hydroplaning on Memorial Day. Thankfully there were no injuries, which we are very grateful for.
We traveled to MD last weekend for Ian & Angelita's wedding, and had a wonderful time. It was an up and back trip, leaving on Friday morning and returning on Saturday evening. You can see some of the wonderful wedding pictures at the photographer's blog, here.
Marge and I attended our first Camping World Series Truck race on May 15th, and Ben and I attended the Nationwide Series CARQUEST Auto Parts 300 on May 23rd. Following the Nationwide race I was parked in, and enlisted the help of four local high school students to 'assist' me in moving the offending vehicle out of the way. We were able to get free tickets for both races through work connections.
Another school year has come to a close at Sweigart Academy. Emily, Anna, & Wesley finished up the spring semester at CPCC, and Anna & Wesley are both taking classes during the summer session, which started three weeks ago.
We've been having plenty of rain the past few weeks, so everything is very green and lush. A week between cuttings is almost too long for the grass.
Marge has been doing a lot of work in the yard, trimming back our azalea's, pulling & digging up multitudes of saplings (and not so saplings), and raking up several years accumulation of leaves.
Marge and I attended our first Charlotte City Council meeting, to show solidarity against a proposal concerning a request to Raleigh to allow Charlotte to have a referendum on a 1/2¢ sales tax increase, to help fund, you guessed it, mass transit (again). The State bill this concerns is titled "Congestion Relief and Intermodal Transportation 21st Century Fund Legislative Act." We were disappointed with the vote, as they voted to make the request to Raleigh.
Christianne started working at Chick-fil-A in May, so our four oldest children are currently employed at the Mt. Island Chick-fil-A. Anna has also been promoted to Supervisor.
Ben has really been looking forward to going to Civil War camp at Latta Plantation next week. He attended last year and really enjoyed it, and has been patiently waiting for this year's camp to begin ever since.
So, that's a little bit of what's been happening with these past few weeks. Maybe I'll have some pictures to post soon.