Red Sky at Night, Sailor's Delight?

Beautiful sunsets...


Bring morning............Rain!


And gray skies...


And I wish you could hear the rain, slamming on the roof....

A new tradition is born

I decided that I would start a new family tradition for the Florida bunch. Since we are together a few times a year, sometimes near one person's birthday but never near another person's birthday. So, now when we are all together I think we should always have birthday cake and ice cream....

Time for a pre-tropical storm power outage.


Happy Birthday every body.


Candles go out easy with so many mouths to blow.


Two of my favorite people came to the party.
Ben and Jerry!


Jimmy got frosted.

Good job Becca!

And Becca in return.

Good job Linda!

Dad's new pet

Has been coming in the house daily and smashing his wings against the ceiling and the light. I keep putting him out and telling him to run free, but he doesnt get it. This morning he was floating face down in the dog's water bowl and I thought he had gone to the bug box in the sky. To my surprise, he started moving when I picked him up and carried him out to a branch on the tree off the porch. If you could have seen the look in his eyes when I saved him!



He's about 3" long with about a 4" wing span. I wish he would stay out when I put him out!

I showed my blog to someone

And we got back to the picture of my mom and dad when they were young and in love a long time ago in a far away place.

She said that I AM my father's daughter. My brother and sister both look a little more like my mom than dad. I have my mom's hooded eyes, and her hips and her ass that she grew in her golden years. "Hi, mom's hips, hi, mom's ass".

I will take any part of my mom and be proud to wear it.

Will my girls see part of me or Bob in them when they grow older, especially like me they lost a parent at way too young an age (parents should live longer than 55 or 63 but maybe not as long as 112ish}. Funny how we are told how our kids look like such and such in our families, and then we age and look like someone else in our families..........Stop me I ramble!

But I hope they love the bits of me and Bob that they got and that Reece, Anden, Landry, Cole and Drew love the bits of Peter and Dawn and Jay and DeAnn that they got as much as I love the bits of Cope and Dorsey that I got.

NANA 911

It seems that when I got the tickets to the Sheryl Crow/James Blunt concert for DeAnn, the radio station neglected to tell me that the desk was closed up for lunch from 12 to 1. Things that make you go hmmmm.

So, I am hanging out in the 100 degree heat (okay, it was only 98) and I WAS in the shade of the building, and my phone starts humming "WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING" so I knew it was Houston calling.

Dawn told me that Reece needed to talk to me. This is all I heard "He is ripped and I can't sleep with him" "Can you fix him, Nana?" Well I thought that Blanket was the victim, as he has already undergone several surgeries. But, alas, it was Patches the dog that needs repair. I assured Reece that Nana could fix Patches when they come up next week or when I go down there the following weekend. Then Dawn said that she can sew, why was it that Reece needed Nana to do the repair work?

And my mind went back to the days of Bluie, and how thin and frail Bluie was getting in his old age, and how Grandma (my mom) was the repair/surgeon to to the fixing.....I can sew!

I see it is another family tradition!

So next weekend I will be repairing Patches the dog, perhaps a vest with his name or monogram on it?

HOW DO YOU SPELL HOT?

On the patio IN THE SHADE before the sun got to that side of the house:

On my car thermometer (outisde temp not in the car):


HELP ME I'M MELTING!!!!!!!

Visit to the Horsies

On the way into my sudivision is a smallish horse place that has 2 foals. Actually, they may be old enough to call colts now, they are both boys. They are still nursing.



Anden is pretty brave, she ran to the fence and called the horsies to come on over...



Cole thought it was so much fun to call the horses...



The baby says "Look at those kids, momma"



"Come on, mom, lets go see the kids"



"Yep, looks like kids to me!"



"I wonder if it is a boy or a girl. Hey pal, come see"


"It's not very big, but I bet it eats little boys," said Cole.



I guess little kids arent as interesting to little horses as little horses are to little kids, eating is more fun.



"Bye bye horsies, see ya next week!"