Let The Fun Begin ~

Summertime fun started yesterday .. we have two of our grands for ONE MONTH!!!  Oh joyous days for sure.  Living 3 hours away, with both in school, our visiting time is limited.  So we look forward to our summer fun with them ~ camping for about a week at Big Lake is always an awesome adventure. Fishing and bike rides and long walks and long talks!  So blessed to have this special time.

All year long we save our aluminum cans for the kids .. they crush the cans and we take them to a recycling place.  The kids get the money for a little extra fun money!  Here is the can crushing process in action.  We like teaching them the value of recycling too!!

This has been a funny Spring ~ lots of moisture which is welcome!  However, the temperatures have been cooler than normal along with less sunshine.  My freshly planted flowers are hoping for sunny weather too ... looks like maybe this week will warm up.  True to this time of year we have lots and lots of fluffy and curious baby birds.  I love to watch them as they learn to fly ~ you can see the way they look around in wonder at this big new world.  We have Oriole families that return every year!  We also have Mexican Bluejays that return!  And many other varieties that we enjoy watching for.

Happy Geraniums

Pretty Petunias

More Petunias in Rustic Whiskey Barrel

Gorgeous Gerbers ;)

Hopeful Hollyhocks

Lovely Clematis

Sunny Sunflowers (pretty soon)

It's spring fever.

That is what the name of it is.

And when you've got it, you want - 

oh,

you don't quite know what it is you do want,

but it just fairly makes your heart ache,

you want it so!

~  Mark Twain