Today on the porch...

The ceiling is finally painted...the porch ceiling that is. My first day of blogging I put that on my list of things to do. Done, check! How long have I been blogging??? My dear husband power washed the 125 year old lead based paint off the bead board ceiling then painted it sky blue to discourage wasps. I will be picking up paint chips from my lawn and my neighbors lawn for the rest of my life or until it kills me. Whatever comes first. Be careful what you wish for...

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Hope Springs...

Oh, I love a movie with people  who are my age starring in it! I enjoyed this heartbreaking funny movie. I laughed and shed a tear or two.Meryl Streepe you are a hero... Good one! My daughter and her husband saw it and to my chagrin they thought it was gross! Her words. People that age should not be thinking of that stuff! I had to remember I have said almost the same thing about people who are way too young to think of those same things!

Despite the drought a few hardy flowers...

A day at the beach...

 

 

 

 

 

 

My week in pictures...

Took the baby to the U.P. State Fair...
 

 

Hello, Walter...really that was his name! 

Wedding in Kalamazoo...

How old are you, young lady?

 Stuck my camera under the table...

Like Mother like daughter...
 

Aunt Joanie's classy "red solo cup"


  

Dress up day on the porch...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tired on the porch...

 

Busy summer here on my old porch. Kids and dogs, family and friends, wasps and even a snake have kept me hopping! M and kids last night. We all ate Chinese then I slept with the baby and Lila in the pink room. M and I went to the salvage store where she bought a bargain food processor. The baby, she is two now but everyone still calls her baby, is so precious. She is smiley with dimples and so loving. She saw toys in the store but said," I don't need em, Gran, I have toys at home." She studied each toy so intensely but walked away. We shopped too long and Papa burned the chicken...M could not stop laughing when he had no answer to the question, "Why didn't you just turn off the grill?" Funny stuff...
Oh, the snake slithered between my feet while I took several pictures of this old garden chair!

I'm reading The Wolf Gift by Ann Rice upstairs and In One Person by John Irving for book club as my down stairs book. Both books need to get better. Rice's book doesn't have her usual pizzazz...slow and stilted. Irving's book is making me walk in a pair of stilettos. Ouch!