We were always having a pretty good time. That's Jake on the left, and Colin.
August, 1985.
And here's my Dad and our newest cousin, Dallas.
And heeeeerrres Dallas, and his big brothers Reno and Ryder (did I get that order right boys?)
We had to let the swimming pool "go green" early last year when Jim was in the hospital and then we let it become a biosphere over the winter months. I hate putting the cover on the pool.
With all the rain, we are about two weeks behind in cleaning and refilling it but the local tree frogs were right on schedule. The racket at night has been deafening.
They put up the "Froggy Club Med" sign and have been doing what comes naturally in the spring and now we have about a million tadpoles in 4 inches of green water. I couldn't stand the notion of running the entire population through the sump pump so I got down in the slime with a net and bucket and rounded up about half of them and drove down the block to empty then into the stream. Hope the neighbors downstream enjoy the racket.
I was so tickled when this bundle of wonder arrived in my mailbox yesterday.
Imagine winning something you really liked just for showing up and shouting!
A long time ago I entered a drawing at the grand opening of a hardware store. I won a fake chandelier, retail value $49.95 but I was living at home at the time and my family's home was a ranch with 8 foot ceilings. I asked the manager if I could choose an alternate prize. He was quick to agree when I asked for a very untrendy bicycle that had probably been hanging on the back wall for ten years. That was so cool.
This is just as cool and all the way from Hawaii. Thank you Diane.
