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This is Nellie giving me the “Okay, what did you do with her look?”  Sylvia is with her dad this week and kitty started missing her in less than 24 hours.

If the forecasters are right, I won’t have to water the garden this week.  Or next.  Just before 11 AM, our mail carrier, Sally, delivered our mail.  I took a look at the weather radar loop and then headed for the door.  More rain is coming this afternoon.

This week will feature mostly indoor activities.  However, I’m hoping to do some outside stuff too.  I need that.  Don’t you?

Last Monday evening, as Sylvia went out to the garden to finish weeding around the tomatoes, she asked me to bring out the tomato cages in about a half hour.  Twenty two minutes later, I walked out of the house, noticed that it was not very bright outside and then I looked at the sky and saw this:

I’m a trained weather spotter and I knew what it meant.  So I zoomed in and got a closer look with the camera.

I walked quickly to the barn, tossed tomato cages on the trailer then delivered them to the garden.  Dismounting from the tractor, I quickly began placing cages beside tomato plants.  Before 14 cages were delivered, the drops began to fall.  We decided to install the cages on Tuesday and Sylvia headed for the house and I for the barn.  As I pulled tractor and trailer into the barn, heavy rain began to fall.  That was good timing.  “Thank you Lord!”

On Saturday, the greenhouse in Lake Odessa would end their season.  Sylvia went in to find some flowers.  In that she failed, but she did bring home some cucumber and egg plants, which are now in the ground.

Now we await the harvest.  It shouldn’t be long before the first peas are ready.  The rhubarb has been feeding us now for some time.

Flashback Friday is hosted by Camille.  (Click on the badge to visit her blog, which is the home of Flashback Friday.)  Won’t you consider joining in the fun?

Last week, I shared a photo of our younger son.  Here’s one of his older brother that was taken four years earlier.  Most of our photos in 1965 were shot on B & W film.  Color would come a bit later for us.

Bryant and me in 1965

I sure would like to be that thin again.  But time moves on and so must we.

Today is our granddaughter’s 21st birthday.  Happy Birthday Briana.

Briana with Patches

That cute little girl has grown into a beautiful and highly intelligent young woman.

Christmas 2012

It’s difficult to believe how fast the transformation took place.  At least it seems that way to me.  After this summer, Briana will be starting her senior year in nursing school.  Her family loves and is very proud of her.

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These roses grow beside the barn.  It’s a place we can’t see from inside the house.  That means that if one wishes to gaze upon these beauties, one must go to where they are in a back corner of our place.  It is worth the trip.

There are many places that are worth the trip.  Why not get out and visit some of them?

Speaking of trips, our company has not yet arrived.  Complications arose and have delayed our son’s departure.  We hope to see him before the week is over.

In the meantime, I’m feeling lazy.  My mind is hazy and it all seems crazy.  It must be summer time.  (A few days early according to the astronomical charts.  Bah!  What do they know?)

Flashback Friday is hosted by Camille.  (Click on the badge to visit her blog, which is the home of Flashback Friday.)  I was introduced to this delightful meme and blog hop by Rosey.  Why don’t you consider joining in the fun?

I was very distracted last week and failed to participate.  Sorry about that Camille and Rosey.  I’m going to try to do better, because this is a very fun meme.

We’ve got company coming this weekend.  Our son, Scott, is going to spend a week or so with us.  Sylvia and I are looking forward to being with him.

Mason, Michigan, 1969 — Scott’s first birthday.

As 1973 began, Scott was enrolled in Kinder in San José, Costa Rica.  That fall he started Kindergarten in Quito, Ecuador, and his mother was his teacher.  (That was quite a challenge, but that’s a story for another day. 🙄 )

Speaking of education, Scott, attended classes in three different schools in Michigan after we returned from Ecuador.  Later, when we moved to Connecticut, he finished middle school in the town where we lived and after that High School in an adjacent town.  While in Mississippi with the USAF, he earned a couple of degrees.

I think he takes more pleasure in the various martial arts black belts that he has been awarded.  An activity that he continues to be very active in as an instructor.

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This is one of Nellie’s favorite spots.  Sitting on a chair in front of an open window.  It seems that from this vantage point there is always something interesting to watch.  Maybe I should move my recliner?

Our kitty is increasingly more comfortable with us and around us.  She doesn’t spend much time with me, but she will approach me even when I’m standing.  Her comfort level with Sylvia is all together different.  As soon as Sylvia settles into her recliner, Nellie will appear and hop up on her lap and relaxes for a long visit.

If she hops on my lap, I give her a kitty treat.  She devours the treat and then leaves me.