Ben is now working for my brother, Steve. He's helping to wire a new house under Steve's watchful eye. Steve told me Ben was one of his best students. That made my mother's heart glad. I think Ben's enjoying being a part of a team of men putting a house up. He made friends with an Amish man on the team, Daniel, but sadly he had to move on only days after Ben met him. Ben told us that the Amish work hard and fast, and do excellent work.
And that leads us to the news that, working 40 hours/week, Ben's making decent $$ for a 16-yr-old. With money in pocket, he went to the guitar store down the street and brought home a red electric guitar. Somehow he managed to get his dad's OK, and here it is, along with an amplifier. I really don't care, as long as he doesn't blare it. It does concern me, though, that he won't play an acoustic anymore. "El Ca-Bong" lay untouched now that this fancy new guitar's showed up.
Noah has started swimming lessons, and loves them! He'll go for a couple weeks, and then go into another class for a couple weeks. It's not expensive, and I feel much better having him get lessons. The girls took lessons too. Josh and Ben learned from me and 12 year old Sarah Jane. They wore swimmies a lot that first summer we lived in a development with a pool. But they did learn to swim w/o lessons, and are good swimmers today. I thought of teaching Noah myself, but I knew it would go faster in a group, where everyone is putting their head under the water. He's very cautious. it could've taken me half the summer to do what he'll get in class in a couple days...
I'm wiped out. Time to crash...zzzzzzzz
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