Saturday Post

My new hanging pot of petunias.

The Beans helping PopPop by digging holes.

It was getting dark yesterday evening but I took these photos of momma Killdeer (above) and her rocky nest (below). She's raising 9 kinds of hell because she felt I was too close, she even pretended to be hurt to draw us away from the nest. Killdeers don't like to spend all their time sitting on their eggs so they will lay them among rocks and gravel so the heat of the day will incubate them.


My old, cranky butt is tired. The Beans stayed Thursday night and, even though she's sick with some nasty allergies and tummy troubles, she and I went out and helped PopPop do some planting in the garden on Friday. Bubbie, Jerri, and Alexis came to fetch the Beans and stayed to help out some too.

Earlier in the day I was going to rinse the mop out in the kitchen sink and found another frog hidden in it. Beans thought it was so funny that Nanaw had a frog in her kitchen sink but declined to carry it outdoors so it could find it's froggy Momma and Daddy. Nanaw had to do that little chore and of course the frog thanked me in the way that froggies tend to do, by wetting on my hand.

The top photo is of a Redneck pony and cart that one of Keith's (Abby's daddy) friends thought up. The other two photos are of the happy party goers.

Today was Abby's birthday so we went to her party and had some fine hot dogs, burgers, cake and Ice cream. Her momma and daddy bought her an aquarium with some little fish and she was so very proud of her new pets.

James had some yummy ribs and a boston butt smoking on the grill when we got home so I ate a bite of that and then we made a flower bed in the front yard so I could plant some hollyhocks and glads.

I have big nap plans for our swing under the willow tree one day soon.