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 John sent these, what a day brightener. Five years ago, maybe? Oh you cute kids, how much fun we’ve had.   love you all so, MOM

The lake was high, up about a foot from the rain last week, but perfectly crystal clear. We could see a turtle swimming way down in the weeds, and lots of fish swimming. This caterpillar was in the cup holder of the chair.  At first I thought it was a rolled up leaf, but then

 We made a quick trip up for just one night with these guys.  I love having the whole family at the lake, but this is nice too. It’s very, very quiet.  And we got in a rousing game of Apples to Apples, which we haven’t done in a while.  When everyone is up, we tend

 Here’s their pretty house. We took the dog for a walk, can’t tell we’re 1000 miles from home. Looks the same.  The dog was hit by a car last January when he was just a baby and after surgery where lots of pins were put in to hold him together, he’s well now.  He runs

 There are two banks of falls at Niagara Falls.  This is the American Falls.  This is the Horseshoe Falls, the one everyone thinks of.   The river flows south to north which is disorienting, for some reason. Those are two of Renee’s kids on the left. Anyway, I’m up here in the bedroom, and I can

Here are some random pictures of this gecko who eats crickets as his main source of nutrition. His name is Philippe, if you’ve forgotten. The turtle is Bernie.  Anyway, Petco consistently has only crickets that are too big. Too big of crickets intimidate this beautiful little guy. The touch him with their feelers and freak

 This is a bit unusual.  The kids all left to go up north with their dad to visit the grandparents. That means the morning of the sleepover was entirely left to ME. ??? We walked up to the park, as they wished to do, and it was a meandering walk as they paused to inspect

 One day this week we went to the Big Pool for lunch and a swim.  This afternoon we headed over to the Little Pool.  Yesterday we had lunch with my parents, at their house.  On the way there, she was talking about what color everyone’s house is. My house is white. Her house is brown. 

They came to play this morning, and ransack they did.  At one point the freezer door was hanging open and orange cream bars were all over the kitchen floor.   Apparently they’d grabbed what they wanted.   I tossed the ice creams all back in the freezer and shut the door. Crazy fools. Maria and Kari were doing

We do go to these fireworks every year. Lori used to invite us. After supper, we’d trek down some kind of goat trail from her house to the boulevard viewing spot. This year we went to the park near where Alicia’s brother and his wife live. It was quite a hike, but also quite do-able.  “Make