Cross Country

M joined the cross country team and in late summer she started running. She ran the course in her first meet and greatly improved her place in the 2nd. Then she hurt her knee in gym class. I picked her up from school and the emergency Dr. said dislocated knee cap. Our regular Dr. wasn't so sure. She has a P.T. appointment and the knee has been causing her some more problems. She used crutches for about a week, but that didn't slow her down.

She really wants to run and do sports. Basketball starts soon. So here she is in her running clothes and the close up I think illustrates her feelings about the injury.
M.H.

Odds and ends

Here's Bitzey. She's smart. She was the dickens; always jumping on Nibbles and running out the door when it was opened. After being fixed she was a quiet kitty for a week and now she's getting back to her old self. But she's also turned into a lap kitty. Often comes to sit next to me - on those rare occasions when I'm sitting down.

This is L's pinata from her 2nd grade birthday. It didn't get too beat up then, so I hung on to it and she reused it for her birthday last year, where the girls really beat it up, so I decided it was time to burn the bunny.

Here's my snake plant blooming. This was my grandfather's plant and I remember it from the 1960's. My sister had it at her house and we decided it needed to be divided. We split it 3-4 ways and one of mine bloomed immediately, twice! So do they really only bloom once every 100 years?


M.H.

Homecoming

Homecoming was 2 weeks ago and I've had a bit of a problem getting the photos loaded, but here she is.

Gorgeous Weather

Since before school started we've had weeks and weeks of beautiful, sunny, warm days. Days that make you want to be outside and soaking up some sun. Days that make you feel good. The whole summer actually has been cool and lovely. Mostly too cool to swim, but it's been great to only use air conditioning about 1 month out of 4.

I don't have much yard work to do this fall. Usually I buy a lot of on sale plants, but the stores don't have much this year or what they do have, I already have. Picked gourds and small pumpkins, carrots. Raspberries are blooming - all 3 plants; strawberries are sending out hundreds of runners.

The house is mostly staying clean - which makes me very happy. I am driving kids places constantly. It is not unusual for me to make 6 trips from the house/day. Carpooling is not working well this year, as I have kids to pick up as well as drop off at dance and though "you drive-and I pick up" is a fair sharing, asking someone to drop off and also pick up a different one of my children, is not. L will be driving by next fall and then this task will also lighten.

The kids are so happy with the DVR - which records and saves tv shows. Good thing we didn't know it existed before, because now it is a vital necessity for some people - and I do admit I like the ability to see So You Think You Can Dance even though I have to work that evening.

The reason I'm writing today is no so much that I have something to say, but that I have a chance to write. It's early Sunday morning and I've got laundry started (which didn't get done as we went shopping) and tea brewing and I'm all alone - priceless, as MasterCard would say. And that's what's also wonderful about the weather -it's there every day, free for the taking and most days it's a wonderful day, a mood improver. When I get bogged down with too much work or anger that things aren't going my way, stepping out into nature is my relaxer.

M.H.

L.

Here's 2 more of L.
M.H.

M.

Here are some photos of M.
MH

More Photo Shoot Photos

Some were taken by Joanne, but many were taken by the kids. They are good photographers. I'm trying to catch up!
MH