Summer Time Fun

We'll call it the Bow and Arrow Club.  Shain and Kyra made their own and had a lot of fun doing it.  What can I say they both have imagination and use them.  Oh, how I remember being 12.  Feeling very confident and sure of myself.  Always wanting to try something new and loving life.  At that age in the late 50's girls didn't worry about hair, outfits, boyfriends (not that we didn't have any, we just didn't worry about them).  We just enjoyed life and what it had to offer.  I remember riding around town on my bike with my girlfriends
It was just the feeling of being.  I can't explain it but it's something you lose when you enter High School and all of a sudden boys enter the picture.  Girls change.  Of course not all of them but the majority of them do.  The bright girls dumb down they don't want to appear too smart afraid the boys won't like that.  I wish I had an answer for this I would give it away free.  All I can say to the girls......  Don't change, well do change but keep your confidence.  Tootles

Eleanor

We lost our Eleanor on July 18, 2012.  Isn't she pretty ?  We miss her so much.  She use to come in the bedroom and get on the side of my shoulder and sleep.  We called her steel toes because she seemed so heavy in her paws.  She insisted on getting a drink, sitting on one side of the sink and water running in the other side.  Getting a drink from the pan on the floor was beneath her. She has a sister who you have seen here on this site.  Her name is Elviria and she is all black and of course Edgar (sparky) the outside cat, mostly. Then we have our dogs, Tasha, Olivia, Bella and our newest one, Eddie.  We are all sadden by our loss and are remembering all the sweet funny things she did and to never forget how much we will always love her.

Getting her drink.

 Just being beautiful.

Doesn't Goldie look good enough to eat ?


Tootles

The City and other Things

 Now this is what I call a home.  Just look at the work around the outside and how big it is.  I would love it.  I bet the back yard is just as beautiful.  Oh, to dream my dear, it would be lovely.

Below are two of my dogs.  Bella is on the left who is a couple years old and Olivia is on the right who is 10.  Olivia is giving her some sage advice.  They are quite a pair. 

How is everything going for all of you ?  I hope just grand.  Me ?  Well, it's good, really it is.  I can't complain.  Life has been pretty good to me and my family.  Oh, I do have wants.  Like maybe friends.

I don't seem to have any.  I suppose and it is hard for me to admit, I didn't take care of my friendships.  Things got in the way.  Sometimes it was time, other times it was commitments.  You know, the things you thought were so important at the time and now that you look back you realize they were not important at all.  Then there is the, "I'm just too tired or I just want some peace and quiet.  Well, I have got that now.  I'm tired and I sure have lots of peace and quiet.  Ha! or lol. (not really up with a lot of the new text shortcuts).  I would love to belong to a Book Club, Quilt Club, Crochet Club.  Hey, show me a Club and I will join.  Well, not really.  There has to be a liking for what ever they are doing and maybe some of the Clubs I would be unable to participate but I think you get what I mean.  I know some people would say join it on line.  Well, it's still not what I want.  I miss the getting together.  The talking until you realize how fast the time has flown by and your hungry or you've talked so much your voice is sounding hoarse.  It's funny, I remember going to see my daughter when my three Grandchildren were little.  I would spend the day with them and we would have such a good time.  I would go home and tell her Dad my ears are on my shoulder, I have spent the day with our daughter.  He would laugh. Tootles

Golden Gate and Other Things

How we love San Francisco. There are so many things to see and do.  The Golden Gate is just one of the many places.

How is everyone this wonderful cool morning.  The delta breeze arrived this morning and not a minute too soon.  Hopefully we will not have to put up with anymore 100's. 

I'm working on getting all my books on the app. ibookshelf.  It's great.  Now I can organize my books better and be able to look up books to see if I have them.  I was going to wait until fall but I'm indoors now anyway because of the heat so why not.  Tootles

Pier 39

What a fun day but then who wouldn't have fun in
San
Francisco ?

We always have a great time.

This time we ate at a little cafe away from Pier 39.  It's in the city and called Cafe Divine on Stockton and across from Washington Square.  The food was good but the service was not.  We enjoyed walking around although I must say not a fan of the up and down hill walking.  It's a little difficult when you are not use to it. Tootles

San Francisco

Crossing the Bay Bridge.  Just think about it .
                         Tootles

Elviria !

 Need I say more ?  Yes, I guess I will as she is the sweetest and most loving kitty ever.  Right now I think she is tell us to barbecue and I am on the swing not in the mood for cooking.  I'm in the mood for swinging as in dropping my self back in the swing stretching out my arms, hanging on and looking up in the walnut tree.  Remember doing that as a kid, well I still do it today.  I love to swing, always have and always will. I could be out there for a long time, sometimes going fast but most of the time just swinging back and forth and enjoying the birds singing to me as well as the gentle breeze.

 This is what I am looking at if I turn to my left while swinging.  The walnut tree is wonderful not only for shade but the yummy walnuts we get off of it in the fall.  We are so lucky to have it.  My ferns are doing great.  So far this year we have only had a couple days of 100' and the rest have been in the 70's and low 80's.  Go figure, we don't understand.  This is the end of June and it has been great.  We are loving it.  You can just see inside.  That's the funny room as we don't really know what to call it.  We don't really use it other than to get outside or inside.  It's a passing through room.

 Now standing in the passing through room and looking out the doors you can just make out the swing.  That's where I was swinging.  Everything is so cozy, how I do love my home.  It's a little odd and a whole lot strange but I do love it.  My husband has build every room and has had a lot of fun doing it.  We call it the fun house. Ha!  Not really, actually I have named it.... It's called......
" Arcanes Portus Aveo " .  It means Secret Haven of Happiness and Good Health.  You could also say Hidden Home of Happiness and Good Health.  How I do love it.

This is a corner of the Passing Through Room.  My treasures from the Thrift Stores.  I do love to shop at them and just look at what I found.  Of course, not Sadie Blake.  She's my doll my Mom made me.  Isn't she sweet but the flowers, the rooster and the plant divider is all from the thrift store.
I have rearranged it since I took this picture.  I'll get around to taking more pictures and show you but until then .....Tootles.