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Our niece who lives in South Carolina is here for a couple weeks, and we hadn’t seen Jay’s parents in a while either, so we figured out a day we could get away and go see them.   The picture above is Jay tying his boat to a tree at the landing.  The landing at the […]

Last Monday it was so incredibly, miserably hot, like melting, can’t catch your breath hot.  These kids came for the day and were  quite happy to see each other.   Here they are playing on tablets in that room that was so scary the night before that the little ones called their mother crying. So scary.

So my Outlook program went into an error a month ago, quit working.  There were many error messages advising many things, none of which would work, brought it all back in a circle. There’s no longer support for Outlook 2007. I had to use the xfinity website associated with the email address, and that worked

Okay, this was a challenge taken: Son in law in front, Future son in law in the middle, Grandson in the back, two sons, one on each side: Yeah. Volleyball with no net: Joe mentioned this to me–one red flower behind the fish house.  I asked him, “Bee balm?”  He said he thought so. Just

It’s Julia’s birthday and Kai was along for the weekend.  Lovely how that roll of paper towels was not moved out of the way before taking the pic.  Pssht. When Kari put a plastic container on her head and fake sneezed so it would fall  off, the hilarity was supreme.    Very sweet. They had

It is the end. It was a hot, intense weekend, and there’s still giggling down the hall, all connected between them and their aunt with tablets and cords across the bed and air mattress–a wall to wall sea of beds, pillows and quilts, fan in the doorway. An hour ago there was a weepy phone

This text from my sister: “The child told me the other night that he wanted to ask me something.  I followed him and he said it’s about the “taco princess” in the bathroom. Hmmm. It’s my antique planter! I tried to explain it is a basket she’s holding, but he’s convinced it is a taco.”

Happy Fourth of July.  Love, Val  

  It was great to be able to spend time with you on your birthday, enjoy a few laughs, some snacks. Pretty nice. Here’s hoping for a great year ahead, hoping all pandemic problems are in the past and life is steadily getting back to normal. Thanks for all the ways you uphold all of

We had some kids today, first time in a while.   This one noticed her school picture was missing.  Where was it?  We searched around a bit, but then I thought what probably happened is that it was gathered up when we decorated for Christmas, and then  somehow it didn’t make it back out again.  Probably