lots of family days

The first two weeks of August

were for our family :

away with daughter and the kids !

We stayed in Holland :

so not driving very far

and there are beatiful places in our own country !

The weather was quite good.

We stayed near the holiday cottage

doing our own fun things :

But we also made small trips to fun places :

a fun play park just around the corner

medieval feast

"de Spelerij" in Dieren

(highly recommended trip to go to with kids ...

ha ! and also fun for the "big ones")

and last but not least to a fruit picking garden.

(a lot went in the bucket .... and a lot in the mouth !)

We went home one day early, because of the heavy rains

that started on Saturday evening ...

(and went on till last night !)

At home the garden gave a sorry sight :

my two big boxwood trees

were affected by affected by the infamous caterpillars of the 

Glyphodes perspectalis 

GRRRRRRR

Today when the weather was dry again I started with the tall one ...

... the sad end of a proud boxwood tree

Tomorrow probably the next one ...

or later when there is room again in the waste container.