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         Happy Fourth of July

 

Fun At The Beach

Spent the day at Bay Beach where the tickets for the rides are only twenty five cents and the swimming pool is free.  Had a nap, a meal, and a movie and now Owen is gone home.  A big day for him tomorrow.  Independence Day he calls it and that's what it is.

Tags: Independence Day, Charlotte's Web

New Aquatic Center Nearby

Stopped there yesterday but we were too early.  It doesn't open until 1pm and we didn't get a chance to go back before Owen's Daddy picked him up.

Tags: Resch Acquatic Center

Just living is not enough. Said the butterfly, One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

I planted my blue moon wisteria today.  It's a southern flower but this new variety says it will survive to 30 below zero so I searched for an found one.

Watered garden, one hour

Lots of plants on sale at Fleet Farm today that I wanted but no extra money.

 

Summer Solstice

 Pictured is Jenny's new haircut

So was I once myself a swinger of birches

 And so I dream of going back to be.

 It's when I'm weary of considerations,

 And life is too much like a pathless wood

 Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs

 Broken across it, and one eye is weeping

 From a twig's having lashed across it open.

 I'd like to get away from earth awhile

 And then come back to it and begin over.

 May no fate willfully misunderstand me

 And half grant what I wish and snatch me away

 Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:

 I don't know where it's likely to go better.

 I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,

 And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk

 Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,

 But dipped its top and set me down again.

 That would be good both going and coming back.

 One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

This partial poem is called Birches by Robert Frost

 

Tags: robert frost, poetry, summer solstice, summer,

Fun in the sun and riding the rails with Thomas #1

Those little blue plastic pools are well worth the price...what fun they hold for children.

Also went to 'Sodor' to see Thomas the Tank Engine and a nice lady gave us two tickets to ride which lasted about 45 minutes.  So tired at night, kids left about 7 and today I slept until noon LOL.

The sad picture of Hali is because I was taking too long to get her a popsicle...she sure loves popsicles.  Owen climbing up the mouth of the crockodile...he was a little scared he would run across Captain Hook but climbed inside anyway.  My finger on the lens of the picture of the Thomas train when it pulled into the station.  Mr. Conducter said 'tickets please' and punched them just like in the movie, Polar Express.  Hali standing alone by the little pool...first time...that's mud, not poop on her butt hahahaha.

Tags: Thomas the Tank Engine, Sodor