Jeff's Groovy Boat

Jeff brought home a boat today. It's quite groovy in a harvest gold sort of way.

It is a step up from his current boat -this one has actual seats with real cushions. It may be unattractive, but at least it's paid for.

-amy

Sean's plane ride

Sean flew out of BWI on Sunday and we snapped a few pictures to commemorate.

Sean did his best to ignore my waving and cries of "goodbye" but the ticket taker lady told him to turn around and say goodbye to his mother. Thank you Ticket Taker Lady!









Sean waiting in line to board.
















Jeff and Sean doing what they do best.
-Amy

P.S. A friend mentioned my post about the Ducks and I had NO idea what they were talking about. I see now that Someone (otherwise known as Jeff) did post some Duck stuff that I was unaware of. I was worried that maybe my memory is way worse than I thought.

Home Sweet Home, A Duck's Home That Is

For the past few weeks, it has been raining almost every evening, thus our yard never drys ups and water starts to accumulate in the front yard. A pair of ducks have mistaken this large puddle for a pond and started living in around it. Sean and I found a duck egg today, but it was broken in to by something. We have not named them yet.

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A bunch of us went to Philly last weekend for a day. We had the most perfect weather you could ask for. Our first stop was Bartram's Garden. Here is a picture of Jake standing in the middle of Mr. Bartram's stone cider press. Mr. Bartram did not mind - he was dead at the time.








I asked Jake to poke a stick into the cider reservoire to see how deep it was. I can't imagine how they kept that thing clean. Maybe they just didn't.

We also walked the streets of Philly and stopped into Besty Ross's house. Here is a photo of her tombstone that she shares with her also dead husband. (I heard he was always riding her coattails). That lady lived to be 84! Her rented house was really small and charming.

Can you believe these are the only pictures I took - I am so mad at myself. We are going to Mt. Vernon next month, I'll do better there.

Bye,

Amy

Updates in Life

Here is the graduation cake I made today. It turned out okay, the high humidity and rain made it extra challenging though.











This is the strawberry shortcake we ate on Memorial Day. All the strawberries came from our garden - the fact that the berries were free made the whole thing taste better.










I tried to make Scarlet pose in front of the mailbox, but she refused - however, the irises had no problem standing still for this shot.
















Rembember the nest of birds I had in the shed? When I went back to investigate, I found this little guy (or gal, who knows) flying around in there and pooping all over the place. I know people love birds, they're cute, blah blah blah, but this one and his family moved out and left the place a mess. And me with no security deposit.

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He didn't even make up his nest before flying the coop! See, it's all rumpled!