It's Back!

Awhile ago I was trying to revamp the blog and I deleted the visitor counter by mistake! I figured I'd have to try and sweet talk Murray into getting me a new one and then start over from scratch. It would have been very disappointing to back to zero or I could have guessed at a number since I knew we hit 10,000 awhile ago.

But no! I started searching around and found a counter site, then checked to see if we had an account set up & we did! All was not lost. The last count was still there & I was able to design and install the counter on the blog! Yay!

Bird's Eye View

Well, if you thought "Mountain Dropping" looked a little dangerous, you should probably just skip this post all together.
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Feeling adventurous? Ok! Read on!!!!!!!

Sweetie has really got a thing for climbing on stuff lately. They really liked climbing on the trees in the backyard over the winter and this summer they've been scampering around on the branches of the trees out front. No big deal, they go up a little ways, swing off the branch and drop down & repeat. We got home from church on Sunday & I go in to start lunch and they decide to play for a bit. No problem. WRONG!!!!!!!!!! Lovey comes in to get me, "MUMMA!!!!!!!!!! you HAVE to come SEE this! Sweetie is climbing WAY UP!" Ok fine, I'll go have a look at her monkey shenanigans and get back to meal prep.

Lo & behold she's not innocently swinging 2 feet off the ground. She's higher than even our cat has ever dared to go. My heart jumps into my throat as I ponder what to do about this. I can't exactly fly up there & carry her down. She looks so small up there in the branches! I coach her down, telling her to take her time, hold on tight and sure enough she inches her way down, almost effortlessly and hops to the ground, pleased as punch. "It was a great view up there! I LOVED IT! I didn't know I was so brave!"

She's getting a little overconfident in her climbing abilities! She didn't even bring her curling ribbon safety line or tie all her sisters scarves together or anchor herself to a kitchen chair or anything!!!!!!!!!!

This is the same girl who's afraid to ride a school bus?????

Day Off!

Saturday was great! We did not have to be up & out the door by 8am as we have been doing all week for VBS. I didn't have to wakethe kids & drag them out of bed. They could rest & sleep in all they wanted. But of course, they DIDN'T WANT!!!!!!!!!!!! Sweetie comes and crawls in with me at 6:46!!!!!!! Four mornings in a row I had to go in to HER room, raise the blind, turn off the fan and pull her blankets off and this after calling her a few times and giving her 5-10 minutes of extra sleep! There's some kind of weekend sensor in their brain, I swear!

With all the hectic activity this week, Murphy's been missing out on walks, we haven't been getting out daily like we used to. So yesterday, we took him twice! Once before lunch and again after supper. These shots are all from the morning excursion.

With nowhere to be and nothing to do at any particular time, it was a pretty lazy day! The kids were in the pool for awhile and then decided they'd move into the playhouse. They managed to drag ALOT of stuff out there in a very short time! They each had their pillows, a cardboard box for a "toybox" filled with Barbies, animals, gadgets and small toys. Honey brought her tooth box, Lovey & Sweetie brought their plaster bunnies, plus their stuffed animals. I mentioned that they couldn't really live out there, they didn't even have a bathroom! The next time I turned around, I saw two kids dashing across the lawn. One was carrying the potty and the other had as many pullups as she could carry! Solved that little situation, didn't they?

While they were in the process of moving in, I was busy mowing the lawn and discovered a neat trick! The mower works MUCH better with the chute snapped onto the side so the grass can be expelled from the blade area. I always wondered why it wasn't on but I rarely mow the lawn so never spent too much time worrying about it. But since the grass was very long and a little wet, I was stopping every few feet to dislodge the buildup and restart the mower. I'd had enough. That was IT! I was going to ransack that garage, search high & low! There MUST have been something that came with the new mower to prop that flap open! So I marched into the garage and found it immediately lying on the tool bench. Brand new, never used and I popped that sucker on and the rest of the job flew! I'd better take it off now that I'm done though as Murray obviously prefers the other way :P

We played in the backyard all afternoon and eventually went in for supper which was leftovers, courtesy of Nanny & Grampy! Easy peasy! Then we had another walk after supper and the girls got their bedtime stories and adios amigos, off to bed!

My poor rhubarb patch. Why oh why won't it grow??? It was right beside the driveway and got a little rocky from the snow shovelling over the winter. So I dug a new spot by the garage, filled it with 5-6 bags of dark soil, transplanted them, and have been watering and weeding as necessary. Are we the only people on earth that can't cultivate a rhubarb patch?!?!?!? Isn't this the plant that is an overbearing, take over the garden, grow so fast no one could possibly eat all it produces, kind of plant?????????