I’m powerless in their presence.

Wait, it gets worse.

I forgot to add that there was a HUGE game of group tag after dark for the teens.  I understand that it was a lot of fun, until . . .

. . . until we had to take Tex for a tetanus shot.

Had a great time in the country at our friends house, our future/temporary house.

They were having a going away party.  They invited everybody they know in Texas.

There were kids everywhere.  Kids were playin’ basketball.  Kids were playin’ volleyball.  Kids were shootin’ archery.  Kids were throwin’ knives.  Kids were sword fightin’.  Kids were throwin’ tomahawks.   Kids were wrestlin’.  Kids were trampolining.  Kids were zip-lining.  Kids were rope swingin’.  Kids were everywhere.

There was a buffet in the house.  There was a bonfire in the yard, with hot dog roasting and marshmallow torching.

There were so many folks there that they had to open up a pasture for over-flow parking.

We had a great time.

We’re gonna miss our friends mightily while they’re gone.  Two years is a long time to miss someone.

We’re cowboys again.  Sorry, Cari, it just makes sense now.

I’m taking pictures of the bunnies every couple of days.  We’re expecting 2 more litters next month.  I might try to photograph them every day.  They grow so fast.

The house of the mouse

is a wee little house,

a green little house in the grass,

which big clumsy folk

may hunt and may poke

and still never see as they pass

this sweet little, neat little,

wee little, green little,

cuddle-down hide-away

house in the grass.

–Lucy Sprague Mitchell

What a gem of a rollicking rhyme!  Dr. Suess, you should take a lesson from Miss Mitchell.

Found this wonderful little poetry anthology at Half Price Books last week.

When the weather is fine Hubs and I like to sit on the front porch sippin’ tea, watching “our” pigeon flock and enjoying each others company in the early mornings and sometimes after supper.

Well, the weather is fine ‘most every day right now.

Trixie-the-Wonderdog loves, Loves, LOVES being out front with us, however, she still has a bit o’ friskiness in her so she wears the leash just in case she gets any “ideas”.

Why on earth she decided that she needed to get under my rocker I’ll never know.

I wonder if you noticed.  I removed my BlogHer Ads and Savvy Source ads in the sidebar and I’ll tell ya why.

BlogHer had some ad campaign on there about “Are you mistress material?” or some such.  Not at all the kind of thing I want to promote.  I know they’ll let me pick and choose which ads to allow on my blog but it’s not so easy to tell how a thing is going to be advertised.  Anyway, that was enough of a shock for me to look at my blog and see something blatantly promoting the concept of infidelity in a cutesy kind of way. Gone.

So, while I was sitting here pondering those thoughts after having removed the BlogHer ad I realized that I had been seeing  a Savvy Source ad whose grabber line was “Is spanking always wrong?”  I don’t know how I had seen that so many times here on my blog and not realized that I have a responsibility for what is presented here.  And that line doesn’t present a Biblical perspective at all. Gone.

There is a certain freedom that I’ve regained when I took off the BlogHer ad.  I can allow anyone I want to post here on my blog.  And I can post my own advertisements for any of the several companies I have affiliate accounts with.  Don’t run away!  I won’t be doing it all the time, but now I can, and when there’s something worth crowing about I will.

Now, with those ads gone, I have lots of free space  in the sidebar.  Thought I might put a blogroll.  Wanna be on it?  Pipe up!   Just say so in the comments!  :D