Summer Fun

Summer is here (early = high 70's & 80's) and the mosquitoes are hatching.... we have one more outer building to paint...... so it's now touch and go.  We managed to paint one wall before Tom said we were done painting for the day......

So we mowed some grass here and there.......this year so far he just heads for the tallest grass and mows that area and than moves on to another spot.   It is a two day job to do the whole yard ......or it appears to me that he is antsy  with a short attention span?

Than he decided to cut down a dead tree (Balsam) in the yard and burn it up.  We had that done in no time...... While I was cleaning up the little stuff he was visiting the neighbor..... he came back a short time later and I was done..... "Your done already... I was going to help you."  is what he said when he came back....... 

 The girls were busy..... chasing squirrels...... chasing each other..... Emily and Maggie are die hards... they will sit for hours at a tree with a squirrel in it......Sarah would rather chase butterflies........ and Lilly knows when to walk away.

 We took them down to the river to swim and cool off.  That's their favorite thing to do... If you say the word SWIM they go ballistic.  Sarah swims like an Otter and of coarse Maggie is determined to get to the stick Tom throws before the rest...... even if she has to take it away from someone else..... Lilly lays await on shore to pounce on the first one in to shore....... Emily likes to swim around and around......  Sarah will join her.  It's fun to watch how they play together.

 I finally got Emily to quit taking wood off the wood pile and leaving it around the yard..... One less thing for me to pick up...... but I can't get them all to consistently do the their "pooping"  in the outer limits of the yard and they are still steeling Tom's "trapping poles" to play chase with......  ; {

They have all been treated with "Frontline" for wood ticks........ so the girls are in great shape but the down fall to that is .... they carry them to our bed...... Tom HATES them and to me they are just an annoy-ance but I do have to chuckle..... If I feel one crawling on me at night I just flick it off.  Tom usually finds them on him by morning....... "M O M !!!!!!!! I found your wood tick...... I told you to wake me if you find one in the night".........   "Ummmm.... it wasn't mine.....it was Lilly's"..... "Ya right!"..... "I HATE those things!"