Day One Hundred Fifty Nine

Neil and I are beginning the prep on our house for new siding and windows. We've lived here since February 28, 1983 and over the decades have done a lot of fixing up, but never anything this big. Right now, we have to clean and paint all the woodwork and that requires some elbow grease. Neil has been scraping paint off the porch ceilings the last several days. I remember when we used to think stuff like this was fun. Let the making of the mess begin!

Day One Hundred Fifty Eight

I love my grand kids. That's why I post so many pictures of them, in case you haven't noticed. Here they are today after lunch at El Tapatio, mugging for my daughter Kelly's camera. (By the way, thanks for sending me this picture, Kelly! I didn't take any pictures today.) Elijah has taken to wearing these goggles everywhere. He wore them to church this morning, took them off during the worship service, then put them back on again on the way out. These two always make me smile!

Day One Hundred Fifty Seven

June 6, 1944. D-Day. The Battle of Normandy. U.S., British, and Canadian troops invaded German occupied France. 10,000 killed or wounded. This was the beginning of the end for Hitler's bid to rule the world. Thank God for all those brave young men who stormed those beaches. A lot of them never made it off those boats. Some of them lived to tell the tale. All of them bravely fought in our place so we can be free. God bless everyone in the military. God Bless America!

Day One Hundred Fifty Six

Here's a blast from the past. Elijah and Shelby one year ago yesterday, splashing around in that tiny kiddie pool in the backyard. We went through about four pools last Summer. They kept getting tears or holes in them. The last one was really big and nice, but it required maintenance--cleaning and filtering and such--and the water ended up so bad it smelled like pond scum. No more pools! Besides, Echo Valley Pool just reopened. We can splash there. And it doesn't smell like pond scum.

Day One Hundred Fifty Five

Enjoyed the afternoon with family at Mom's place. Lots of
discussions and laughter and remembering and picture taking.
As usual, we stirred things up and rocked the place and had
a great time together. Love you guys!! Let's do it all over again
next week.

The girls show off their Summer Toes: from top and going
clockwise: Sarah Foy, Ann Sissom, Julia Foy, me, Jane Foy
and Shelby Myers.

Grand son Elijah shows off his pre-school scrapbook to his
Great Uncle Ken Mabry and his Great Granny Hamp Mabry.
Couldn't leave these important people out, as they did not
make it into the Summer Toes picture.

Check out http://kaykel.blogspot.com for the negative
color setting of Summer Toes!