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Lukey and the Garden Railroad

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W hile Lukey and Kenzie were spending the week with us, Lukey got in plenty of time running trains on the garden railroad...  the Kenzington Gardens Railroad.  As I've mentioned in previous blog entries about this little garden railroad, we control the trains via Bluetooth and the power is supplied by a battery in each train.   It can get a bit complicated running multiple trains at once by yourself but Lukey is now able to control two trains at the same time using his iPhone.  And, he was even shooting photos while running both trains at one point! I don't know if I've ever shared a photo showing the entire garden railroad so I shot one photo showing almost all of it (below).  The only thing missing in the photo is the curve on the right side of the frame that brings the trains back around the bend to the train station on the front side of the garden railroad.  This is very small for a backyard garden railroad!  Little by little, I add a bit more...
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In the Backyard with Lukey and Kenzie

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L ukey and Kenzie spent their first week of summer vacation at our house as they always do.  It was far too rainy this year to do everything we had hoped to do but we did manage to do quite a bit and we had fun.  We even got quite a bit accomplished with some new additions to the backyard due to the help of Lukey and Kenzie! Lukey helped me assemble this new pergola.  We've always had some umbrellas to shade ourselves from the sun but the big umbrellas were problematic in a number of ways.  The wind would grab them and they would break as they slammed to the ground.  Replacing them every few years was getting expensive so it was time to look for another option.  I was tired of spending money on umbrellas that, really, were less than ideal anyway.   I found this pergola at Wayfair and it was 40% off.  I also found a decent outdoor sectional couch with a coffee table.  I saved both and then showed Sheila...  she liked the idea so we p...
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