Bonus Round

A great treat about this trip was my buddy Ann and her family were able to stay a few days and hang out with us. Hanging out with Ann, Lil Ann, Issac and Lee was so much fun and even though it was tough being at the cottage without I.T. and going through the memories we had a great time together.

Atlantic Ocean is the best

The water is so warm toward the end of the summer you could stay in it all day. The rip tide makes it impossible to really do that since you are exhausted from fighting the with waves. The life guards were working hard and we made sure to stay right in front of them so they could give us some added protection. Page was able to catch up with a friend for one night and they had a blast at the beach. I was impressed with their boogie board abilities.

Food is always a fun part of our trips

Hey little crab, sorry you walked into our trap and found yourself snatched up and thrown into a pot of hot water. I know its no constellation but you were delicious. I think this lasagna weighed 5 lbs... at least. Leah made it and I didn't go to the bathroom for a week. ok kidding but that's a lot of cheese. Yum Yum.

This sweet little beer came from a little tea/beer house a few towns over from us. http://teaandbeer.com/

Last and most importantly, we had daddy's famous BBQ chicken with all the fixins. Words don't describe the sauce and his grilling techniques. It was so good, I almost slapped my momma...but not quite. We did good to cook a lot in the beginning of the week so we could eat left overs the rest of the week.

It makes my mouth water just thinking about it. Yes i always gain weight after family vacations and I don't care :)

All Net

My lil brother is learning to catch bait and has gotten really good at it. This was not the best throw but the funniest with daddy adding the heat. So much fun at the beach, I'll try to capture some of it.

July is Sublime

I have many fun things going on during the month of July. My friend Raph is in town. We are hanging out. He has a favorite place to go where the chicks are pretty and the drinks are good and we can sit outside and people watch. We try to go at least once during his visits. He lives in Brussels and comes to town for work.

He's one of my smart friends I can count on to tell me interesting things like how far a penguin can shoot his poop. Never know when those little tid bits of information may come in handy.

You may be looking at this picture and wondering what is he doing to my eye. More interesting news about me. I had a muscle in my eyelid move a little and now it doesn't always respond to my blinks. It is only noticable in pictures... for the most part and this is how it will stay since I'm not interested in surgery. It can become a pain the in the buttocks to get a picture with both my eyes open, he decided to help me out. Nice.

This picture is a couple of years old from our trip to Switzerland.

Mr Green Jeans

Did you ever watch Captain Kangaroo? I have small, faded memories of that show and I'm not sure why, but I loved Mr Green Jeans.

I have my very own Mr Green Jeans...Ray. Here is a picture of this year's garden. I love the bamboo and of course the bounty of his work. It makes me happy when he talks about it and I visualize him walking around talking to his lovelies and wipping the sweat from his brow. Just this week he was telling me how he believes bunnies have developed the technology needed to teleport. hee hee

One of my goals to have a veggie garden and it will take time but I'm building my support system so that once I get my ducks in a row and it happens I will have plenty of people to learn from and hopefully have a good experience.

I have identified the plot and once Bentley gets the tree's that have huge X marks on them removed, I'll be one step closer. The trees are really close to the house and they are really tall so he has to hire someone to remove them. Really. The sun will flood in and the next step will be stump removal. I watched a show that talked about an organism you put on the stump and then plant a flower box on top and presto in a few months the stump will be disolved. (no I don't ever believe anything that ends in presto but its an idea)

Since Bentley has the good ole Georgia clay for soil we will be creating container gardens. We will bring out our Mr Green Jeans to provide some guidance. It will be a while and I get giddy everytime I think about it.

If you ain't scared...you ain't paying attention

I love that saying and I think of it often when I attend our family reunion. I remember when I was a little girl, my mother and her sisters would get together every so many years to have pictures taken. These are some very cool picture because they are all beautiful and they would always end up in the same pose and so we have a great record of them all together through the years. Us chilluns were smart enough to be scared when the sisters got together for these pictures because these women could become E-V-I-L in a matter of seconds and when they are all together it can be volcanic. Its a similar feeling at reunions.

This year we didn't have all our women together but last year we did and it was great. The food is always awesome and this year my mama made the family chocolate bread puddin and the corn puddin. We also had potato salad and bbq pork tenderloin - it makes my mouth water just to think of it. We had tables of food and sweet tea and took over Aunt Eunis' yard to eat, laugh and catch up.

I have quite a few characters in my family and I love it. Normal people are boring. The best part is, all of us think we are the normal ones yet how could that be. I think its a good thing that we are all touched with a little bit of crazy (some more than others). It keeps the boogie man away because he's smart enough not to get too close.

One of my fav men just playin with the kids like always. And one of my fav women takin care of him...Ahhh family.