The kids took advantage of a rare summer rain-without-thunder/lightening to do one of their favorite things: build dams in the gutter.
The girls started things off at the edge of the driveway.
Nate liked the idea and picked a spot uphill to start his project.
When the rain tapered off they found an alternate water source.
The boys successfully dried up the flow downstream, much to the girls’ chagrin.
Much to Erik’s and my chagrin, when they ran out of brick and natural building materials they began chipping up from the cul-de-sac chunks of asphalt to use. And then they all ran off to some other diversion leaving a ecological disaster and eyesore behind them. We ordered them back to clean everything up and the asphalt filled the whole wheelbarrow! Now what are we supposed to do with that?! It is too heavy to put in a trash can at the curb. Erik suggested dropping it all down the manhole. Finally we decided to smuggle a few pieces into our regular black garbage bags each week, but we keep forgetting. Oh well.
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