Kicking off July

Spent a nice day with the Giles family at the Saylorville Visitor's Center and butterfly garden. On the way home, the boys and I stopped to climb on the tanks at Camp Dodge Army base, just as my brother and I had done when we were kids. Got a discouraging phone call from Mike that he did not receive his contract, so the business would have to seek other options to continue :(  I stopped at Van Dee's ice cream in Johnston on our way home, for some ice cream feel-goodness after the bummer news.