Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all fathers. Hopefully everyone will get a chance to wish this to their fathers today. John is wearing a tie that Anna painted for him in school. He is wearing it with a black T-shirt. The tie is a regular tie that her teacher brought to school, and then each child got to design (paint) their own for their father. What a good Dad that John can be!
My dad just worked his last day on Friday. He is officially retired. Anna wanted to get a retirement card for him, but they were all so sappy. I told her she should make one for him. She told me what it is going to say, "Since you are getting kind of old, you might want to think about retiring"! I laughed and told her that was great! Not at ALL sappy!
Well we must go on a bike ride on the bike trail as John and the boys have picked that for our activity this afternoon. High in the mid-eighties!

Puberty

Yesterday, I took James, Daniel, and Abby to garage sales with me. That is quite possibly the stupidest thing that I have done all week, but there was a funny little moment when we were walking over a little bridge and up a path to one house. Abby kept saying "This is NOT our puberty. It's not our puberty!" I said "Not our puberty? What do you mean?" She said, "We do not live here. It's not our puberty."! Oh, I get it! Not our PROPERTY! I had a hard time trying to keep a straight face as I explained these terms to her. Silly, sweet little girl!

The Back 40

Today as I was washing clothes, helping mom use the computer, and making reservations over the phone for a hotel for a baseball tournament this weekend, I happened to look out the front window. Very cloudy and ominous looking out there. Right in my front yard stood 2 coyote! Mom's little dog was lying on the bench on the porch, and our Charlie I did not see. These animals got up and just came closer to the house! All of the sudden, Charlie came flying around from the back of the house, and was off like a shot after them. That set mom's dog off yipping after them too. Charlie got nipped a few times on the backside, and there I went in my longjohns after the BB gun- the ONLY gun that I will allow at my house. I knew how to shoot a BB gun a long time ago, but this one has a scope on it, and I am not so steady as I was at age 14. Anyhow I did get a few shots off, and they ran "down in the hills". Never a dull moment out here in the back 40!
I just told the kids last night that we would put the tent up in the back yard soon so that they could camp out. I may rethink that thought.