A Great Summer Day!

Today was a lovely, warm day (in the high 70s) -- finally! Kevin helped me deadhead flowers in the garden, weed, and he set out the grandchildren stones plus the stones he painted for my garden last year.

My tree-climbing monkey walked up the Mountain Ash tree to the branches.

He is always ready to pose!


After his hard work, it was time to play in the water.

And more cooling off with an ice cream cookie sandwich.

Grandma bought him an electric bubble maker.

Kevin likes the new angel Grampa selected for our garden representing our Angel Karin. He wrote, "I love this :) --->" with "this" spelled phonetically as "zis" in tiny letters.

Creative, attractive chalk drawings now grace the wall around the patio!

He found a friendly snail! He was not afraid at all, as he did not hide in his shell.

He crawled right into Kevin's hand!

And he didn't stop there! He crawled up his chest!

Kevin created a home for him. But before bed, he opened the lid in case the snail did not want to stay there.

Today is Grandma and Grandpa's 42nd wedding anniversary! I showed him our wedding album.


He was interested in the New Testament which sat on the top of our wedding cake.

I still have it (of course!) and showed it to him. I also have the Bible which my nephew Mark Herne, then 3 years old, carried down the aisle as our Bible bearer. The Bible was the theme of our wedding -- also featured on the cover of our program. Of course, our ceremony was centered on a Christian marriage with Christ as a the third leg of our marriage to keep it steady. I told him the story of what little Mark did! As he walked down the aisle and caught sight of his Mommy, he dropped the Bible and ran to her. On the same shelf with those small Bibles was a small New Testament with colored picture of Jesus with the children on the cover. Mommy Karin received it in her Easter basket in 1977 when she was only 4. I told him he could have it. We found some verses which he could read and Grandma read the Love Chapter to him.

We had dinner on the patio beside the bay at our club.

Two neighbors were there also!

And a friendly seagull kept vigil on the clock.