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 Sometimes that’s the best thing. Love, Val

 It was the last day of the summer watching kids. Julia and I teamed up and had fun. It was a gorgeous day, sunny, bright, cool breeze. We had lunch on the patio and that kid in the blue shirt ate his lunch and told us that he has a pretty much perfect life.  He

 We spent Monday at Dan and Alicia’s hanging out in the rain.   They were working with some magnetic letters here, spelling words.  Some creative and sensational words.  I ignore.  And that very old dog, over on the right HAS to be RIGHT in the MIDDLE of everything.  She’s getting her knees under herself, up and

 It was a great weekend, and so much fun to be with you on your actual birthday, for the whole live-long day.  Opening gifts in low-slung lawn chairs has its challenges, but so glad it was not raining or horribly hot.  It was a great weekend, actually. Here are a couple pictures from birthdays past. 

 They found this monarch caterpillar in the yard and brought it to me. We found a second one in milkweed around Joe’s trailer, and put them in a big tumbler on the cupboard with milkweed and a long stick for them to walk on.  Later Heidi moved them to a bigger glass bowl. The day

 This guy went with us to Poor Richard’s last weekend and found this cool little pretend cobra. He also wanted to buy a carousel horse, an old taxidermy fish (Dannell, I objected) and three pocket watches for $110.  Non. No. The fake cobra was it. Last week we went back to the zoo.  The goats

Ahhh, summer.  Love, Val

Sometimes when I’m here, I just do.   I don’t know why exactly, probably a dozen reasons. Last night walking back from the lake, wind in the pines, with the sun at that low evening angle, I thought how few Sunday nights we had together.   We had lots of Saturday nights, many, many.  But Sunday nights,

Yes, about that exciting. Love, Val

 This was a zoo volunteer explaining about floating rocks that are formed from rapidly cooling lava.  This was the first adventure I’ve taken this little girl on.  Julia agreed to come with and help–it was more than I could do solo, but it went great.  This baby is very easy going.  We stopped at the