Tuesday

Little chipmunk friend on our front deck...

old MODOT shed progress

Sunday at the River

 Sure had a good time at the river today!  This is from when we went up the river to a sandy area

Has a level spot that Emily thought she could camp on.

Eventually they went to the top of it and began making a slide down to the river...they had a lot of fun doing this!

this is what is where the pink cabin used to be

Ben and Emily enjoying some grapes

Jack having fun with the water and sand.

Emily testing out the water in the little pool I got for the twins...she said the water was pretty cold!

"washing" her dishes in the water table

fuzzy caterpillar we saw on the table

Sure enjoyed my river time this weekend....and all the time with the Grandkids....I know I am so very lucky to get to see them so much!

Things Change

Have been meaning to get a picture of our local  MODOT shed..as you can see I waited too long! Ha! It was a red brick structure built in the 30's I think.  On Tuesday it was  torn down..this is looking at it from the North or towards town

Will sure look different for a while!

New look for the local gym..originally known as Hutchison's Store...new roof and siding....porch built on...should keep it going for years to come!

Bees and Things

I came across this guy the other day on the back deck...carpenter bee I think. anyway, I squished it in the middle just to be sure, but it was already dead.  I am saving it to show Tyler and Emily.

pictures  of wildflowers I took Wednesday morning on the edge of the garden..

and this pretty little flower in the turn around area of our driveway..

Katydid on a zinnia plant in front of our bay window Wednesday evening...I like their song and I like how they look like leaves!!

Clouds and Things

I saw this sign in a neighboring town...well-weathered and I liked the drawings!

Poinsettia story:  Had these two beautiful poinsettias for Christmas...at some point in mid-April they got put outside under some bushes in our yard. God took care of watering them. They spent probably the whole month of July and parts of June knocked/blown over.   When I went out to tidy up the yard first part of August I went out to go throw them away...Lo and behold they were still alive!  I dumped some water on them and took them over to the Mae yard..they are doing great!  Now I have to see how to get them to turn red by Christmas!

pretty clouds from a few evenings ago....You could hear the rumbling and some areas South of here got some rain that night....these clouds were fun to watch too, changing by the minute!

Totality!

We were lucky to live in the path of totality for the eclipse, and to have clear skies. I purposely decided not to try to take a bunch of pictures of it because I just wanted to enjoy the moment.  It was awesome! Got to see all phases of it and it was truly remarkable!  We did have the camera outside and snapped a pic of the shapes on the sidewalk.

The one and only pic we took of it. Richard took this picture..It was a moment to remember!

This was after totality, and it doesn't really show, but areas to the East appeared much darker than to the West.  It was an awesome event to watch!  Looking forward to the next one in our area in seven years..will have to do just a bit of driving to get to the totality range, but hopefully we can do that!

Around Here Lately

Took a road trip the other day and had lunch at this place....Richard really likes this place!

did some miles on this road!  interesting!

Bought a jar of these for Richard's Dad...hope he likes them!

Stick bug hitching a ride on the car the other day!

Fungi pics from the yard a few mornings ago

This Week

Found this in our yard....it would seem Fall is knocking on the door...but it's way too early for that!

bluebird pictures from a friend's house

These were from last weekend....we watched the twins while Matt and Sarah took the big kids to the school's open house...Ben must have been off to my side the whole time...didn't get a picture of him!

strange berries on an unidentified vine from our garden fence...pink and purple berries?  No idea the name of it....and see that brown thing draped across the top of the picture like garland?  Such awful sharp little thorny things!  Terrible!  

Big Happy Birthday to our beautiful granddaughter on Thursday!  Four years old! She is such a sweet girl! Hope she is always as sweet and happy as she is now!

Yesterday

I had Tyler a couple days this week...we had the best time! We did several activities and one was dominoes..he would set them up and then have them all fall in a chain reaction  It was fun!

That Tree and some pretty clouds yesterday evening. We sure have been having some nice weather lately!

Tuesday Things

On my beetle hunt yesterday morning I took this picture of a bee sleeping....they sometimes get into the flowers and appear to be sleeping...don't know if that is actually the case..

Did quite a bit of work at the cabin yesterday and brought this picture back to town. It's the sister picture to the one that was hung on the wall just  a bit lower and got lifted off it's nail. I always liked studying on these pictures.

Nearly time for school to start here...Summer has gone so fast.  I can hear the bobcat up the street spreading out the mulch on the playground. Next week we'll be hearing kids playing on that playground!