31-JUL-2007
Rest Now Because Morning Comes Really Early
My 2 year old twin grandsons are staying with us for a few days while Mom and Dad have some deserved time off. I must be really out of shape, because at the end of the day, I just need to put up my feet and chill. They are so much fun, but they really keep us hopping. After a while, we don't even bother to pick up all the toys; they can pull them out faster than we can gather them. But we treasure every moment with them, because they grow up way too fast.
30-JUL-2007
Cool Pool
Twenty minutes to blow this thing up with the electric pump in 95% humidity, 85 degree heat. Twenty minutes to fill it with water. Total minutes Ben and Jake spent in the pool--about 5.
29-JUL-2007
Cake
This is what Ben and Jake eat for dinner when they get to stay with Nana and Boppaw! Just kidding, they had a good dinner and the cake was for dessert!
28-JUL-2007
Do You Know the Number for Pizza Hut?
Jake playing on the climber set in our backyard.
26-JUL-2007
Thursday Challenge--Elements
Adding water to my backyard pond, which I have to do several times a week. THIS time I remembered to turn off the hose when the pond was full. Let's not talk about the time I left it running for hours (almost killing the fish and greatly increasing the water bill). Now I use a timer to remind me to turn it off (if I can find the timer)!
25-JUL-2007
Swing
My friend and I happened upon an Estate Sale today. It was cool and sad at the same time. Cool, because you could see all this old stuff that people hang on to, and sad because most of it is stuff that they once cherished, but no one in the family really wants--so they sell it. You could tell from the yard that someone used to be a gardener, and it was probably beautiful at one time. But it was overgrown and everything was falling apart. I would have loved to see it in its prime.
24-JUL-2007
Spooky
This building used to be the married student housing at Marshall University about 30 years ago. Before and after that, I don't really know what it was used for. But it is abandoned now, and to me, it looks haunted.
23-JUL-2007
Sticks & Stones
Well, sorta. Actually railroad ties and rocks along the tracks right behind my mom & dad's house.
21-JUL-2007
On the Road Again
This is the view out of my car window today. All 13 hours and 657 miles of it. Yep, we drove from Wisconsin to Lexington, KY today, and while the clouds and farms and corn fields are beautiful, it gets old after a while.
20-JUL-2007
Getting My Feet Wet
Well, we've been here nearly a week, and the theme was "Come to the Waters." But I hadn't even stepped into the lake, we were so busy doing other things. So today, I got my feet wet. That's as far as I went, but it counts!