Perfect!

What an awesome weekend we had!

Our town's Heritage Day's,  falls on the second weekend in June each year.  

Usually it is unbearably hot...

But this year,  

Perfect!!!

Five years ago we took Rissi to Heritage Day's and she enjoyed an ice cream.

This year we took her with us again.  And she enjoyed an ice cream.

Where have the years gone?

Rissi and Gary at Heritage Days 5 years ago

Five years later

  Gary and I were taking pictures, and suddenly Rissi says "here, give me the camera and let me take a picture of you guys..."

And that's when I realized just how grown up my little baby granddaughter has become.

It makes me sad to know this.  Years pass by way too quickly.

 It was a beautiful weekend.  A perfect weekend.

The Perfect Day

Today was a perfect spring day. 

 The temperature, seventy-five. 

A soft breeze blew the flowers ever so gently...

There was lots of sunshine...

And plenty of Summer smiles....

The kind of day you just want to fold up and put away inside a drawer for later...  

Can you imagine that... 

  You wake up one day and peer outside to a cold, gray and dreary world.  Everything is going wrong.  Your head hurts and your in a bad mood.  Your stress level has risen to an all time high but wait...

You open that drawer and pull out that perfect spring day.

And there is  Summer climbing up the slide backwards in the warm sun.  You feel the warm breeze and you are calmed by the greenery and beautiful flowers.  Life is good.  

Agree, Gracie?

If every day could be a perfect day for a walk, this would be good.  Can you put those days away for me while your at it mom?  Days that are good for walks.  No rain, please.  Not too hot either. Just nice walk days.   Thanks.  

Today In A Word: Chaotic

Yesterday the Bug Boys were here.  They drilled holes all around our house, then this morning came back and finished their task of 'termite prevention'.  

This morning Summer was here to hang out with me while her mommy attended Field Day at school with Rissi.

It was hot.  So I decided I would try out my new snow cone machine.  

Disaster.

I ended up transferring the ice to my Ninja instead.  Snow Cone machine =JUNK.  Ninja = AWESOME

Every time I looked out a window, I was face to face with one of the Bug Boys....

Though all the blinds and drapes were closed (Mad Dog prevention) Gracie found it amusing to tear through the house at breakneck speed barking non stop for 3 consecutive hours, sniffing under doors, and listening in between barks for any sign of strange talk from outside,  until the Bug Boys were gone.

 Meanwhile, I tried to amuse the little one with Sponge Bob Squarepants and snow cones.  

 Gary was next door in the office doing a hearing test, so    another of my morning tasks was to answer the phone and watch the camera/monitor so I would know to run next door if I would see a car pull up to the office so I could take care of whoever it was without interrupting the hearing test.  

 When someone came I would scoop up the little one, run to the door with Gracie lunging at my heels to get out and get at those Bug Boys, shoo her back inside, dodge the Bug Boys who were working around the house, and...  well... you get the picture.

 Chaos finally ended, and the Bug Boys wrapped things up and were on their way.  Gracie fell asleep.

The girls met Anvil and enjoyed picking flowers.

And another quiet chaotic spring day was behind me.