Wrapping up July

Well, when the temperatures dropped to the high and low 80's, we felt chilly!! This has been a mostly very hot July, but it has been cooling down pretty well at night, 60's and 70's. This is tolerable, but thank God I insisted on our three air conditioning units in 2007!! We have been home most of July, except our visit to the kids, doctors, dentists and Audrey and Corey's baby shower barbeque, which was very nice and great to see everyone on that side of the family! We harvested cherries, garlic and pretty soon the apricots will be ready. Watering and gardening in the early morning hours, then spending the rest of the day inside, doing projects, but mostly, getting myself lined up to finally get started on Dionne/Amya's scrapbook!! A pretty non-eventful July. Our new TV and Blue-Ray DVD is finally all hooked up and so I re-activated Netflix. Oh, what a pleasure to watch movies now. We usually watch a movie every night...what else do you do for entertainment around here. However, it is just a beautiful time of year and this year, I am more than pleased with the beauty of my garden. Back in August.

What a sunset

My Hollyhocks have a great view!

Hummers are a plenty as usual!

These beautiful orange butterflies love my Purple Cone Flowers

August

Oh those warm, sunny August weddings in Seattle. 2008 must have been wedding year (oh and "baby" year too, just in case you haven't noticed!) We attended Dionne's friend Kristin's wedding held in the beautiful gardens of her parents' home. Dionne was one of the bridesmaids and of course, this was Amya's first wedding...Danielle and her boyfriend Chad were able to fly in from Arizona and join the festivities. Next day the four of us were invited to my dear friend Linda's son's wedding. Our kids grew up together. We danced the afternoon away. We all went to a baseball game and showed Chad, Danielle's wonderful new beau, around Seattle's waterfront. Rock and I flew to Colorado to join in the fun at Susan and Larry's "tepee raising" party and spent a very fun filled week in the Rocky Mountains. We have friends in Keller who have a boat and we were very fortunate to be taken by them all over Lake Roosevelt. They know the area so well that we were shown all the nooks, crannies, inlets and outlets of the "Mighty Columbia". We also had a surprise visit from an old friend and her boyfriend. Thanks for coming Kathy, we had fun. At the end of this very busy month, it was time for Rock to harvest his garlic crop. We now have around 15 varieties of garlic, which loves this semi-arid climate and the warmth of two feet of snow in the winter!

Go Mariners

Take me out to the ballgame .."Tall Chad"..never thought anyone would be taller than "Big B!"

Hi Chad, you are bigger than my Daddy!!

Stretch.......

I think this belongs in Keller, not in Colorado!

"Moore studs!" (oops, stu tuds! er...Duds!), forget it!

Parties on the "Moore decking" are just too much fun

Boating day on Lake Roosevelt

Nice surprise Kathy

One of the many piles of harvested garlic