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I'm having a busy summer.

Happy Independence Day!

It's time for Americans to celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence!

I hope the sun shines wherever you are.

Oh boy, it's July!

I did say Rabbit Rabbit the very first thing this morning, so I'm set to have good luck all month long. Maybe.

There are so many damn darn rabbits in our yard this year, that they are actually fighting for space.

They eat everything. One of them is eating at the bottom of the clematis. That rabbit. Never had that happen before. This is what a year without a real winter does.

An update on the clematis. It looks good even though that rabbit keeps after it.




I'm done complaining now. As you were.

May showers bring June flowers

Our Clematis is a beautiful thing, year after year. It's not in full bloom yet. It's loaded with buds which will open in the next two days. Everyone's yard is great this year. We've had so much, TOO much rain, but the plants love it.

Post pix of your spring why dontcha?

'Tis the season

Graduations are being held everywhere these days. Tomorrow our twin granddaughters will graduate from the same high school that our four children did. Unbelievable. They were just born yesterday. In September they will go off to the same University.

Our step granddaughter Deva will graduate tomorrow from Bennington College in Vermont.

We are very, very lucky. These girls are three bright and good people.

Congratulations to all graduates. It may feel like an end, but it's a beginning. But then, every end is a beginning of something.

Must be summer

I know for sure that it's summer 'cause I saw a firefly last night. It's the first I've seen this year.



Didcha catch'em and put'em in a jar when you were a kid? I did. I didn't keep them a long time. Just watched them and then let them go 'cause I wanted them to live to fly around. I shouldn't have disturbed them in the first place. I was a bit of a brat. Big surprise, huh?

If you don't have fireflies where you live, you're missing something lovely and exciting. I never tire of seeing them.

OMG! It's June!

Rabbit Rabbit! Or Tibbar Tibbar, which is what you say if you forgot to say rabbit rabbit the first thing on the first day of the month. I can't believe that I forgot. That rabbit. Snuck up on me.

Memorial Day

The weekend is here. A weekend of sales, picnics, fun and games.

I have no objection to any of those. And I am almost a pacifist. Almost. Not quite. So I'm not a fan of things military.

I remember when I was a kid that if there was a man on the street anywhere, he was in uniform. My father was in the navy, and he is buried in a military cemetery. (He was not killed during the war.) I just noticed that I wrote "the war." That's WWII. Young as I was, that war made a big impression on me.

I hope you have a great weekend. There's nothing wrong with having fun. But, if you have a minute, do think of those men and women who gave their lives in defense of The United States of America. I don't happen to agree with some of the wars we have fought since WWII, but IMHO I think we owe the fallen in those wars at least a show of respect.

Meme of the moment

My daughter Actonbell did a meme and asked folks to do it too.

Siobhán tagged her, and Cheryl tagged Siobhán. That's all the history I know.

The challenge is to answer it in 100 words or less. Here goes:

Current obsession? A cruise I'm going to take this winter.

Favorite clothing? jeans.

Dinner today? steak, potatoes, salad.

Listening? blessed silence.

Message to tagger? I love you!

Favorite vacation? Multi-month road trips across the USA with husband Niks.

Reading? Just finished a mindless mystery.

Me in 4 words? Old, fat, lazy, generous.

Guilty pleasure? afternoon naps.

Spring? Beautiful, wet, usually just right.

Looking forward? Dinner with Acton and the SIL tonight, pictures of the grandtwin's prom which is also tonight.

Happy Cinco de Mayo

I love Cinco de Mayo. First of course, there's the food. I love it. But the entire thing is fun. If you're in the right place.

The best Cinco de Mayo I've ever had was in 2002. We were in San Antonio. Niks and I were on one of our long road trips. My sister Doris and her husband flew to San Antonio and met us there.

I scanned some photos of Doris and me in our sombreros at the Mexican Market there, but you think I could get them to upload to blogger? Noooooo. Sh*t. That blogger.

I guess they're too large.

All I can say is you missed a real treat.

Of course we toured The Alamo and all that good stuff.


Doris especially wanted to see Ft. Sam Houston again. She spent a year there when she was 18.

Only Doris and I knew why it was so important to her. That Doris. Rascal.

She was terminally ill at the time of this visit to old San Antone. But she still had a couple of years left. She and I spent much of that time together.

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Have a drink on me and Doris.