August 11, 2007

• Hey, friends,
  
  What are y'all up to this weekend?
  
  Friday night, we took my nephew
  Mike, my baby sister's son, who is here in town to visit my son for 10
  days, out to dinner and visited with him for a while.
  

  
  

  
  

   

  My son Jamie and nephew Mike
  
  

  Today
  was a nice, at-home day, mostly. I did housework and just piddled
  around, and D got started on his long-awaited project of building a
  tiny "teardrop" camper out of wood.
  

  
  

  
   He's got it cut out and ready to
  start nailing together.
  

  
  

  
  

   
  

  
  
  

   All
  it's going to be is a tiny shell, just big enough for a queen-size
  mattress, and the back end opens up like a hatch, and that's where your
  little camp kitchen is. We think it will be lots of fun.
  

  
  

  
  

  I'd never camped at all until D and I got together, and we did a lot of
  tent camping in Florida in the winters. This will be a step up from
  sleeping in a tent, we think.
  
  We also drove to a neighboring
  town to buy a pie safe that I have been wanting. It's a gift from my
  Mama, and from Doyle to me for our third anniversary in September. I
  just love it...we think it was made in the late 1800s..still has the
  original pierced tin. I'm having fun finding old stuff I have to put on
  top of it, and inside it.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  A little neighbor friend,
  Sophie, who's three, came over to visit this afternoon, and I had fun
  shooting photos of her in the front yard. She's very dainty and
  ladylike, and loves flowers. When she saw the tiny petals of pink crepe
  myrtle flowers in the grass, she said, "OH, LOOK!!! They're so cute!"
  and carefully picked a tiny petal up and placed it on a leaf on a
  nearby bush.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  

  She
  liked my pink impatiens, so I told her their names, which she
  translated as "patience." Then she pointed to the maple tree's trunk
  and said,"What's dis tree's name?"
  
  Kids kill me.
  
  
  
  
  

  • 11:27 pm
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