A visit with Darren

Darren came to visit today, so I fixed us some lunch and we had a relaxing afternoon.
Mom in mid-bite....
Bill showing Darren his latest project.
We were being attacked by the scarecrow, so we were laughing and not posing for this picture.

This one we posed for, after the wind calmed down a bit.

A visit from the kids

Shelley, Cary and the boys came to visit today. It was a beautiful day so we sat outside and let Garret run and Luke get a suntan...
Garret was asking me about the scarecrow, he wanted to know "What is that?"
I think it kind of scared him, he kept looking at it.
I finally showed him how it was made, and then it didn't bother him anymore..
He had fun running among the weed infested strawberries (next week's project)
Garret found a scrub brush and was "cleaning".
Bill really enjoys those boys..
Oh, and of course, I do too.
So we had fun just sitting outside in the beautiful weather and drinking coffee.

Cary was being a pain.......
but he finally gave in....hee

Creekology

A small creek by Forbes State Park, only on someone's farmland. It was going to be another hot day. So Bill and I decided to get out of the house for a while. He found this little creek when he was riding on his scooter yesterday.
The frog picture...in the right hand corner, he is just floating in the cool water there.
Day Lilies, there was a entire 30 foot area full of them.
You can see the dirt road made by some farm equipment, and then the water area, the road
goes back up a hill and into a pasture. I don't know what Bill is staring at, he looks like he is having deep thoughts...lol.
There were some large tadpoles here, but they swam away when they saw my big giant head.
It was really tempting to wade in there, but couldn't see under the rocks, so didn't want to meet up with a snake or anything.
It was just a beautiful little area, pretty cool too.
Red clover
A perfect anthill
Tadpoles swimming in a tractor tire track left in the dirt.

New bridge at Forbes State Park, so much better that the bumpy, rickety old one.

Scooterin' on a Sunday Afternoon

It was extremely hot today, (what else is new?). We got tired of watching movies, so we decided we needed something cool to drink. We hopped on the scooter and went to the grocery store and got some sodas. So then Bill got the bright idea of riding to Farina (7 miles) to the park there. We got there and sat down on the picnic tables under a shade tree. The birds were even too hot to fly, they just sat on the branches and looked accusingly at us, like the blazing hot weather was our fault. We drank about half of our soda and looked at each other and said "That's enough of that"...we got back on the scooter and went straight home, back to the sanctuary of the air conditioning, cold tea, comfortable furniture and did I mention the air conditioning? We didn't leave the house the rest of the day. The heat index was 104, going to get worse this week.

You can never have too many pictures of those grand kids

Look at his beautiful eyes.....I just want to pinch those cheeks...
Great grandma and Luke.
Shelley's flower beds are so pretty, so took a few pictures, and of course, Garret.



Garret is telling me this a door....

Brothers....
Shelley and her boys...

A boy and his dog

I love this picture, taken by aunt Christine, how adorable. Aw, his grandmas love him so much too.
Oh, my gosh he looks so much like his mama at that age...how cute he is.

Give me a break!

I was following this ice truck on my way out of town....can you read it? "We Only Have Ice for you"...