Friday, August 27, 2010

Great Birthday Fun

I have had the opportunity to spend my birthday week with our Grandson and his family. There have been lots of stories from books about Arthur, cars, and Curious George etc. Mack sits next to his Mom and holds her arm when she reads to him.We have taken long walks in the Bob and watched the road diggers and cranes down the street. The workers even waved and honked at us with the big digger.

We've had good meals like this home-made pizza which is best if eaten with your fingers as demonstrated below.

And we've spent a lot of time with the train. I mean a lot of time!

We even had breakfast outside one day as it cooled enough when I got here to enjoy being outside. I took credit for that.

We got to see the place where General McArthur was born in Little Rock and visit a museum in his honor.

And of course, we played in the sand and had to get it off little tootsies.

It was a pretty special birthday, I'd say, with a little man who calls me "Papa."

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

GETTING DECKED

Since we got our new park model we decided we needed a new deck. Fortunately our neighbor, Doug, is an excellent carpenter and was the main contractor. We resurfaced the original deck and added a 12 x 12 addition.
We are thrilled with how it turned out. Thanks Doug!!
We've had a crop of geese this year and here they are on their "Goose Parade"

Monday, August 2, 2010

REGAL EAGLE

The other day I heard an eagle fussing so I went to find him.
At first nothing seemed amiss.

But soon he assumed a defensive posture looking into the sky.
A couple more eagle calls and I could see he was mad.
Since I was looking in my viewfinder
I couldn't see what was bugging him.
When I got home and looked on the computer I could see a
crow (see below) was dive-bombing him.

He soon took off showing his powerful talons.
By contrast one of my favorite butterflies made a visit yet both
do what I can't do....fly.