Kayak Point 2

Our Daughter in Law suggested having our dinner out at Kayak Point today. It was iffy if the weather was going to be good enough. We went out mid afternoon. It was very nice. We grilled over a wood fire and the big boys all played soccer. It was a wonderful day.
My friend Rescue Rita and her husband Ray stopped by. Rita is going to be an Auntie and she is so excited! She was practicing on Buster. He loved her! I told her he loved her because she rescued him from jail (the playpen).


Giggling like crazy!



Princess are you feet wet? No! Then she poured water out of her boots! She had so much fun.



I asked Heir to play for me. He did. I love to hear him play. While he was playing T2 was singing under his breath. It was sweet!

T2 . I just buzzed his head last night. He gets so hot in the summer.

DIL and Princess cooking their dog.

Drummer and The Littles on the playground on our way out.

Isn't this hilarious??

Still fearless and a monkey!

Go Buster!

Princess's turn!

I hope you have a blessed week!

Peace

Weekend Update

I had Princess and Buster Friday. I didn't get much housework done but Princess and I baked banana bread.

She did a great job of pouring stuff in!

Putting the batter in the pan.

TADA! It's done. She told me it was pretty!

Our very silly NON helper! He is the happiest baby.

My little helper.

Today I had a mission to accomplish come hell or high water. I was actually hoping for one of those as a way out. Didn't happen. So Bugs and I got to it.

Bugs is a mini hoarder. He doesn't like to let things go. His room was a pit and I could no longer look the other way. He is a very eclectic boy and his room reflected that. BUT he had been asked to clean it and it was way beyond him. He didn't know where to start. Mama did!

I got him going and then I worked in our family room. I don't go in there and it showed! Bugs did such a good job of following direction and staying on task. We went through his book and toy box. He put some things in a tote to put in the attic. He threw things away that needed to be. Not all but he did a good job. He wants to keep it all I want to throw it all out. So we did a good compromise. His room is very clean and all downstairs is clean, even the carpets.

In Wednesday's post there is a duck picture. That duck has her nest in that stump in the picture above her. How is she going to get those ducklings out of that nest when it's time? Do you think she will just shove them out into the water or get them to follow her down the stump? hmmmmm

Peace

Wordless Wednesday

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Sunday Dinner

Massive picture dump again.
Sunday was a very quiet day. We went to church and got a few groceries on the way home. DIL and Drummer were having dinner at their house this week. I was asked to bring a fruit salad. T2 asked for the cookie version. It worked. They made shishkabobs.(spell check doesn't like that but I don't know what else to try. ) They were good! It wasn't raining but not overly cold.


Papa and Buster


Bugs and Princess flying

A football game is a must!

Drummer & T2

Heir - caught it!

Papa and Monkey swinging Buster

HIKE!

OK, this is where it gets funny. I was telling the big boys about how I had got some good pictures of The Littles yesterday jumping in mid air. I asked them to do it and they thought I was weird but did it any way. Ahhhhhhhh sweet boys!

T2 - this guy has springs in his feet!

Drummer

Heir Apparent

Then I got the 3 of them to do it at once. We were all laughing.

It's hard to see but it's Drummer leaping over Bugs

T2 over Bugs!

Drummer over T2

HIKE!

T2 throwing Buster. He was laughing so hard.

Princess getting ready to be jumped over.

Bugs jumping over Princess and Monkey

Pass it Princess!

T2 running with Princess, she was the football for the moment.

It was a wonderful time! I really wish my parents could be here for these dinners. They would love it. It's loud but the boys and kids are so funny and it's just interesting the conversations we have.

I hope you have a blessed week

Peace

It wasn't the zoo.

We have had such lovely weather the last few days that I had grand plans of going to the zoo today. We woke up to rain! Of course. Grrr. I really wanted to do SOMETHING so I asked Dh to figure something else for us to do. This afternoon we took off for Kayak Point. We love the salty air and water. We took Bolt and Scout with us. We had such a good time. Boys with water, sand, critter's, what isn't to love.

We saw 2 different Bald Eagles. Both were being tormented by smaller birds. This one is being bombed by Jay's. You could hear them fussing at him.

I didn't get a picture of it but a seal came really close to the shore hunting fish. I was standing there and hollered for Bugs to look! We both were pretty impressed, then it was GONE!

Here is the other Eagle. We think it is a young one. It was being bothered by Jay's too. Pesky little suckers!

They were really picking on him now.

So it left!

So we left too. We decided to take the long way home. We were going by the reservation and I wanted to drive through it. I had never been to this one. It's beautiful and they are doing a great Spring clean up and getting ready for Memorial day. It's a really sweet little cemetery.

This one did crack us up! Someone has a sense of humor!

On the way home we saw a coyote but I couldn't get my camera on him fast enough. He was BIG!

Peace

A boy A fish A snake

This is the reason I don't go fishing much. It happened over 25 years ago but I want to get it written down some where, since this is my journal here it is.
It was a warm summer day. Dh and Heir Apparent and I along with our dog were fishing at Rock Lake. We had been there all morning and it was drop dead gorgeous. Not to hot not to cool. We were catching great big German Browns. We had a stringer full of fish. Heir was sitting in an old lounging lawn chair. He had been having his feet through the mesh slats and was dragging his feet through the dirt. Dh was standing fiddling with his pole. I was standing at the lakes edge with my pole in the water. Lady our dog, was standing beside me. Heir leaned back and picked up his bottle and reclined in the lawn chair. For WHATEVER reason Dh and I both looked back at the same time and saw a 3 foot rattle snake going under the lawn chair. He was not coiled! But he was under my BABY! He was headed to the water we are sure but he was under my baby. YIKES! Dh grabbed Heir by his arm and threw him about 15' to me. I caught him! I grabbed my dog and my baby and was headed into the lake. Dh pointed and screamed at me DON'T MOVE! He grabbed his gun and threw the lawn chair aside and shot the snake. When snakes are dead or hit they do what worms do and wiggle around. Every time it wiggled I screamed again and Dh shot it and then pointed at me and said DON'T MOVE. Every time he shot the gun Lady about came out of her skin. I had a hold of her collar and Heir in the other hand. I was standing in the dirt at the edge of the lake and every time the gun went off I was headed into the lake. I just knew the grass around me was full of snakes and they were going to crawl up me. Dh was good. He shot and the head was off and his gun was empty because I kept screaming every time it moved. He put the gun down and we both sighed. He said it's ok now Babe. I hitched my baby up on my hip, grabbed my dog and hiked up the hill and got in our car. I was DONE! D.O.N.E! I sat in the car while Dh carried the lawn chairs and the ice chest and all our fishing stuff up the hill to the car. Heir and I sat in the car and I wouldn't even roll the window's down. It was HOT in there. THEN to add insult injury Dh got a gunny sack and put the stinking snake in it. When we got back into town we went to my folk's house and my dad helped Dh skin what was left of it and tacked it out so it could dry. We still have the skin and the rattles. Heir loves to hear this story.
Peace

Look what I can do!

I know the title has nothing to do with the jam but it made me chuckle.
When I came home from work this afternoon I knew if I sat down I was done DONE for the day. The big guys had been telling me that we were low on jam. I didn't quite believe them since it felt like last month that I had done up a bunch. I was downstairs in the pantry and looked and low and behold they were right. We were LOW on jam. I have 1 blueberry and 3 raspberry left and that is all. Not one strawberry. YIKES! That is almost a national emergency in this house. So I made a double batch and then made dinner and then made a singe batch. This should keep them for a few weeks.

Peace