Puppy trainer Brooklyn was grading her little puppies on the tricks that they have learned. She had a list and would check them off after they would perform their tricks. She was one tough little trainer!
Gwyl and I were at the lake and there seemed to be a lot of excitement going on in the marina parking lot. We didn’t find out what was going on until we got home and checked out the internet. Here is the Life Flight helicopter landing in the parking lot. It turns out that it was transporting a little 2 year old girl that had fallen into a swimming pool and drowned. It was very sad. As exciting as it was to watch the helicopter come in and land, we feel very bad for her family and the grief that they must be going through.
This girl makes me laugh! We were sitting on the patio, having a Grandma and monkey day, when a daddy long leg came scurrying by. Addi jumped up, lickitysplit and started screaming! I told her to hurry and step on the spider, she said that she didn’t want to step on it, she was scared. So being a good Grandma, I stepped on the spider for her. Then she came over and stepped on it over and over and over again! She said that the spider was looking for her and wanted to eat her! A few minutes later, she told me that the spider scared her and he was starting to eat her! She went back to playing with her cars, which just happened to run over the spider. I told her that she now had spider guts on her car, which then started the 101 questions of “why”! She wanted to know what guts where, I told her it was like boogers and spit, then she told me that, “her mommy goes on booger hunts”! It is not easy to not laugh when faced with these situations!
The birds have started to eat my few precious peaches. Because of the cold spring, most of the fruit trees froze so this year we have had very little fruit. When I walked out today, dozens of birds flew away, I took a look and of course, they are eating my peaches!!!!! I mumbled under my breath that I needed to get Gwyl out here with his gun! Which started all the “why’s” from Addi! (note to self: when mumbling in front of 3 year olds, speak softer!) I told her that I wasn’t happy that the birds were eating my peaches, she told me I could get a pink one, which started “why’s” from me! I said “pink what”? In her innocent little voice she said, “you can get a pink gun to shoot those birds”! Smooth move, Grandma! Raising a little pink Rambo!
Addi was very intent on throwing her plums in to the canal . . . one plum at a time! Brooklyn and Sierra lost interest very quickly, but not Addi, she took her plums very seriously!
Plum facts: There are more than 140 varieties of plum sold in the United States. The plum is a drupe — a pitted fruit — related to the nectarine, peach, and apricot, but it is far more diverse than its relatives, coming in a wider range of shapes, sizes and especially skin colors. Its flavors also vary from extremely sweet to quite tart.
