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<\/a><\/p>\nWe’ve had kids swimming in our pool.<\/p>\n
Had seven boys one day.\u00a0 They had a ball.<\/p>\n David\u00a0took a week off for our\u00a0anniversary and\u00a0we did things\u00a0close to home.<\/p>\n We took a drive one day.<\/p>\n Just have to say I love Indiana in the Summer.\u00a0 I sometimes wonder why we ever want to go someplace else when it’s so wonderful here.<\/p>\n Southern Indiana is full of vistas like this.\u00a0 Lazy rivers and woods.\u00a0 Once you get away from the cities and towns, most of Indiana is like this.<\/p>\n Cornfields growing high. They did get knee-high by the 4th of July this year.\u00a0 We’ve been blessed with plenty of rain.<\/p>\n Wildflowers growing beside the roads.<\/p>\n Old church yards with graves behind them.\u00a0 Whoever cares for this graveyard has a talent.<\/p>\n Someone carved a chair from a tree stump.\u00a0 It even has a footrest.<\/p>\n There are a lot of old, abandoned houses spotting the landscape all over Indiana. People just up and leave and the houses go back into the earth.<\/p>\n We ate out about every day, but I have to say something about all this cleaning for the Corona Virus.\u00a0 In one restaurant, my arms stuck to the table and David said it’s the cleaning supplies they are using.\u00a0 After eating there, I got sick to my stomach.<\/p>\n We went to another restaurant later in the week\u00a0and the disinfectant smell was so strong, I once again got sick to my stomach and could not eat.\u00a0 So now I’m wondering if the cleaning for the Corona Virus is worst than the virus.\u00a0 It can’t be healthy eating and smelling all the disinfectant and now I’m wondering how much of the disinfectants are getting into the food.\u00a0 I think I’d rather take my chances with the virus.<\/p>\n So on to my photography. I have taken so many pictures the past few weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 One day I sat out on my shop porch swing and tried to get some pictures of the birds eating at our feeders.\u00a0 This is why I will never be a wildlife photographer.\u00a0 Let me entertain you with my wonderful pictures.<\/p>\n This guy was wondering what in the heck I was doing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He\/she kept looking at me suspiciously.<\/p>\n Molly was curious about what I was trying to do.<\/p>\n Finally I got a bird shot.<\/p>\n And another.<\/p>\n Then papa cardinal arrived with one of his babies.<\/p>\n You can see the topknot on this baby bird.<\/p>\n This is what a baby cardinal should look like, but…\u2026.<\/p>\n We have a visitor to our birdfeeders that we have named Frankenbird.\u00a0 Poor thing, I don’t know whether it’s just a young Cardinal or an anomaly, but he comes regularly and doesn’t seem to be afraid of us.<\/p>\n No topknot and very few feathers.\u00a0 Almost the size of an adult Cardinal.<\/p>\n We will watch him and see if he transforms into a beautiful Cardinal.<\/p>\n You know how life has its ups and downs and you never know when either will come? \u00a0I had some really deep downs this Summer when I lost our dog, Belle.\u00a0 I have to spell her name in front of Molly because when she hears Belle’s name, she starts looking for her. How do you explain to a dog that her friend has died?\u00a0\u00a0 I keep telling Molly we are looking for a new friend for her and we have been.\u00a0 We’ve lost the chance on two litters of Labradors the past couple of weeks.\u00a0 We didn’t get in soon enough in being a pick which is your number that you get to pick a puppy from the litter because we didn’t know about it.\u00a0 We tried getting a Silver Lab, but they were all sold before we even got our name in. The second litter was sold quickly also, so when David found a breeder in northern Indiana he got our name in right away and guess what?\u00a0 We have first pick of the puppies!\u00a0\u00a0 They aren’t even born yet. That is how popular Labrador Retrievers are right now.\u00a0 They will be born next week and six weeks later we can go see them.\u00a0 I’m sooooo excited.\u00a0 They will be either black or brown. I don’t care, we have had both and they were great dogs.\u00a0 I also have someone who will care for our dogs if anything ever happens to David and me.\u00a0 I hope I have dogs until the day I die, but I want to know they will be cared for.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n