Babies!

My friend Kathy has a yard full of chickens, geese & ducks. Didn't take pics of all of them but did get the babies in the clover.  Soooo cute.

 See the baby chicks in the clover?

 "CLOVER! Yummy"

"Hey you guys stop drinking my pond!"

(there is actually a pond on the property for them to swim in but at this time they are too little to join the big birds.)

Aren't they cute-ness?  They kept running away from me though.

4th of July Weekend

Spent the 1st through the third surrounded by a lovely 40 acres of Nevada country at my friend's Kathy & Paul's house.  Its simplly gorgeous out there.  No matter how hot it gets out there at night you open all the windows and doors and a lovely cool breeze floats through.  

June 25th...Geek Joy

What little joys did I have yesterday?  Whatched several episodes of Earth 2 (loved that show), knitted and painted a little...and...here comes the geekiness...saw Saturn!  HA!  The Honey setup the telescope, which is just a small little thing, and at about 9 or so it was dark enough that he found it in the sky.  It was really tiny but we could make out the rings!  It was waaaayyyyyyy cool.  It was pretty small in our telescope, one because our telescope is not powerful and two it is 1.2 billion kilometers away from Earth.  We tried to see if we could get a pic of it through the telescope lens but that did not work.  I fould a picture of what we kind of saw on the Theory of Everything Blog.  What we saw was a little fuzzier but still this is close to it.

Cool right?  I could tell that The Honey was happy...How?  Well he kept saying "I saw Saturn". *grin*

June 23rd...Hammock Joy

Today "The Honey" and I went to Donner Lake.  The pictures were taken from my hammock. :-)  It was absolutely gorgeous.  At first we weren't sure it was going to be the peaceful escape we were looking forward to because there was a large group of teenage girls spread across the shore.  NO I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH TEEN GIRLS.  (After all I teach high school)  Just as most know teen girls can be loud and over the top in experiencing their joy, and when there are 20+ all together...well you know.  It turned out that this was the mellowest and most laid back group of girls I had ever been around.  It was actually kind of strange. lol  The other thing I noticed was that NONE of them had electronics on them of any kind...no iphones or cells to be seen.  I am so used to seeing (& fighting over) electronics as another appendage on teenagers that it sort of stuck out that this group had none.  AND wow can you imagine they were having fun talking, swimming, boating and being with each other. LOL


What did "The Honey" and I do?  We laid in the dappled sunshine, read, ate, knitted (me only) and took a paddle boat out into the middle of the lake.  It was glorious!  Thank you honey...great idea!  The view from my hammock was oh so fine.

Small Joys

I no longer have the use of my Rainbow Bug which curtails my "sense" of freedom.  So for now I have a lovely new bike. PURPLE!  Of course it had to be a loud color.


The other small joy is getting my "studio" in order.  Its great to be able to walk in there and have space to create.  Its also a very sunny room with a big window that faces the street and a side window that faces the neighbor's nice side yard.

June 17th...Discovering a new spot Joy

After a relaxing zen yoga class the lovely Rachael invited us over for a delicious lunch in her lovely garden.  Toby & Rachael then introduced me to a secluded spot for walking with great views of sparks.  If you look closely you can see downtown Sparks in the distance.  There is also an irrigation run off from the Truckee that is cool and shaded.  The Honey was also introduced to the spot the day after and loved it as well.

June 10th...Pool Joy

The school year ended on the 8th of June and our lovely Kim-ster invited some of us over to the pool in her complex.  My first step into finding my quiet place.  It was also my first dip of the summer.  It was lovely to swim and laugh and de-stress!