Dog Days...

 ... August is full upon us, the Perseids have peaked, schools are back in session, and summer is winding down. Iris, peonies, weigelas, bleeding hearts, and creeping phlox all done, as is the magnolia tree.  The blooms survived this year!!!  So incredibly beautiful!  We now have Echinacea, black-eyed susans, russian sage, melissa, garden phlox, and butterfly bushes!  The little hummingbird has become a daily regular.  She is absolutely amazing! It continues to feed my soul to be out there in the backyard, cleaning, trimming, weeding, transplanting, and just sitting.

Old Business:

• Still working through Massage is Weird, but very near the end
• Wool has gotten incredibly good, and I don't ever want to put it down.  It has helped me get my love of reading back - what an incredible gift.  I started out only being able to do 1-2 pages at a time, but now do a full chapter in 1 sitting
• Trail Guide, still plugging along, 3-4x per week
• Planning for Success, not successful at all lol
• Magazines, good
• Running - horrible!  Did do 1 5K with almost no training. And ran all but about .5 miles, so I can do it, but am still struggling with heart rate and breathing
• Craft table is actually pretty good right now!
• Cleaning - rolling along, getting more consistent
• Guitar - not so good, but...
• Sanding booth - almost done, but now laundry equipment is in the way until I get it up to 022.
• K at the office continues to just be marvelous!
• Visited the cousin in Denver, had SSOOOOO much fun!  It was way too short!
• Church conference in Cinci is done.  Drive down was beautiful, huge learning experience, difficult on the neurodivergent brain, but so glad I did it.

New Business:

• Looking forward to AMTA conference next week!
• No longer dating donut dude. Too many reasons to list, but most important, just not who I wanted to be with long term
• Got fence section put back up, and have started replanting that area!
• Have hosted my 019 kiddo a couple of times, that has been wonderful!
• Last thing I did with donut dude was go to Bluespring Caverns down in S Indiana. That was absolutely gorgeous!

July Flickr Upload, Part 1

As always, you can see the entire upload by clicking here...  and here area  few of my favorites (that I have ready to go, so far!)

 We did a 2-ship flyover for a friend's party.  Tons of fun!

 Parade/Watershow Flyover in Monticello, IN.  That was very cool.   Lots of smoke!

 We were the missing man.  That was a very humbling experience.

Rejoin after the missing man... and we are outta here!

July 2015 Flickr Upload

Hidy-Ho!  I have to say, it's kinda nice being able to stay on top of things, even when it's really not a terribly important thing... Here are my favorites from July, it was a busy month between finishing up school, taking a vacation, getting boys to camp, boys going to their dad's, and a wedding all thrown in there... :)

You can see the full upload here...

 014 Being goofy, which is rare.  Rarer still, is him letting me capture it....

 This one, on the other hand, is most often goofy.  He's checking out the animal displays at camp.

 Enjoying National Ice Cream Day at Kelly's, the local Ice Cream-aria.  I forgot to take pictures WITH said delight.  This was also right after they got their new specs.  They both love them so far.  Hope that continues; they are known for their love/hate relationship with their choice in eyewear.

 A group shot of the family from the wedding weekend.

 We took a stroll along Clearwater Beach on the one afternoon it was not raining.  I know it rains every day in Florida, however, it not only rained every day, but nearly all day as well.  There were several flood alerts out.  It downpoured soon after we got back.  I think we got more pictures together in that week than we have in our whole relationship!  It was wonderful!

 When we got back home to MI, it was beautiful weather.  We couldn't resist getting out on the bike.  It was my first time.  We went to the Blarney Stone, which is an old watering hole haunt of Gadget, and then right up the street was this little gem, the Glass Creek Winery.  It was pretty  nice.  The lady was very friendly.  They live on the property and grow their own grapes.  I am always amazed that MI has the right weather to make such yummy grapes and wine, but it does!

July 2014 Flickr Upload

As usual, you can see the whole stream here, and I've included some faves...

 Always one of my favorite things to do on July 4, Battle Creek's Field of Flight Air Show.  A good friend of ours is the Air Boss.

 Our Second Annual Hangar Party - So much fun!

 Another fun summertime gig - the demo derby!

 A fun treat for the 2 of us, a Tin Caps game...

 A trip up tot he Walldorf for some yummy food...

Bittersweet goodbye...