Home, Baby, Home For A Couple of Months!

Relaxing with the Bottiny's

Hayden and Jill

Having Dinner on the Deck

Drew, Biff, and Walt

Halle and Girl Friend with pet Rabbit

Up at 5:30 and Drew, my son in law,  has already left for work at 4:30, so I missed him.  He gets there early so he can run and work out before his day begins, much like me!  It's clearing up here, 68º, one degree warmer than Chautauqua's 67º.  We head back to the lake today after a great four days with Jill and Drew and our granddaughter's Hayden and Halle.  We will see them all  again in six weeks.

Yesterday was a hanging out with the grandchildren kind of day.  Rainy till mid afternoon, we stayed inside, and I helped Drew clear out his den, then put it together with a new desk they bought on Craig's list, a wrap around kind, creating more space, making the den look great.  Evie and Halle hung out because Hayden slept till at least 11:30 if not later, exhausted from her recitals and staying up late.  She did get up, however, we rarely saw her till later as she, like a teenager, preferred to stay up in her room, text messaging friends I assume, surfing on the Internet on her Mini Ipad.  Kids!

Evie, with Hayden, After Her Recital

With My Sister, Ellen

Around 2:00, Evie and Jill went shopping at BJ's, Home Goods, and Target, picking up some things for Drew's newly organized den and food for dinner.  Around 5:00, my sister Ellen and her husband, Wally, came over and we had good time, barbecuing burgers and dogs outside, after enjoying appetizers inside until it was cool and pleasant enough to sit out on the Bissell's porch.  We did eat outside, had our dessert in the comfortable chairs on the porch, making it a nice evening.  It was good to catch up with Ellen and Wally, who at 61 years young, ran triathlon three weeks ago, an amazing dude.     We have not seen them since the Christmas holidays, when Ellen had all of us over for dinner.  Ellen and I both have blogs, hers concentrating mostly on her garden and flowers, and she is becoming a professional photographer, so we compared notes on our blogs.  It's hard to keep up with her photos they are so amazing.  They left about 8:30, so we the watched, with bated breath, the great Nik Wallenda walk across the Grand Canyon chanting " Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus."  I was glad to see the slick, oily televangelist  Joel Osteen there as well, bringing God's concern with a good Reality TV show.  Obviously, God cares about about a good PR opportunity for Joe, a chance for the great Nik Wallenda to preach his faith.  If he fell, would it have been Jesus's fault?  Amazing  reality TV but I felt sorry for Willie Geist, having to act interested and awed by this family. We all had a good laugh, even the girls.