Sunday

The middle car girl walked up and she and I spent an hour or so revamping a cute little denim jacket with new buttons and some lace.  She was happy with it and took it home with her.  It is fun to have grandkids visit. 

DH picked another half bushel of tomatoes today, so tomorrow I will be doing something with them tomorrow.  I just have to decide what.  Let me see, I could can them, make chili sauce, make salsa, make spaghetti sauce, make stuffed tomatoes, dry some.... well, none of those really flap my dress up.  Oh, well, I will figure something out.  It is hard to cook for just two people.  Sometimes I think we have a handle on it and then boom, we eat leftovers for a week after something.  We really did cut back on how many tomatoes we planted but the tomatoes are being very generous.  Something will come of them! 

Blasts from the Past

Today, as I was scalding tomatoes and cutting them up for the crock pot spaghetti sauce, I was listening to the radio.  "Rain drops keep falling on my head" played, and it made me remember how my DD loved that song when she was little.   She would sing it lots.  I think she had a music box that played it too.  Then right after that song they played the "I wanna be just like you" which was another song she liked from the Jungle Book movie.  When that movie first came out, she and I and her cousins all went to the movie house in Kearns to watch it.  We all fell in love with the songs and the movie.    We still like them!  I wonder, does she still like the Raindrops song?

Campfire Games

I was thinking this morning about campfire games.  They are so for the little ones and OP really got into the categories game.  She was hollering and clapping and would say something when it was her turn.  She got after Papa for not clapping.  She was so cute and funny.  Lulu really liked them too.  Chev on the other hand is no longer a little one as she stayed in and read the first night then did come play the second night and actually, once she got going, she enjoyed them too.  

I remember my Mom towards the end liked the games too, and she especially liked the washer game.  The one with a washer on a string and everyone put their hands together that out to the other people on each side.  And someone was it and had to guess where the washer is.  I will have to throw some string and a washer into my camp box and try it on the girls if and when we camp again.  

Missed One!

Poor Chevy... although she was a good sport about the bug...

Pictures from Camp

Lulu... having a happy time.

OP during one of her happy times.

Jack and OP eating cake! Yum.

Lulu and her marshmellow stick.

Shawna contemplating life in general.

Jack attemping a life changing activity...

An act of bravery by all...

Papa having one of his happy moments...

Jack... lecturing on the fine art of roasting marsh mellows as family tries to follow his thinking...

Hawk Pictures

Here is the pictures I took of one of the red tailed hawks in our elm tree.

Arial Entertainment!

Yesterday, we had three red tailed hawks and a couple of magpies giving us quite a show out the window, playing on the wind currents, diving, flying very close to our windows, landing on the peak of the porch roof and the rock wall and the elm tree.  The hawks are like miniature eagles.  I am not sure what the magpies were doing hanging out with the hawks, but they acted like they were all together.  They stayed here for nearly an hour just flying about.  Very entertaining for us old people!