Sunny Days

Sunny and hot has returned in full force I think! We got about 3+ inches of rain on Monday - so much so that our laundry room and bedroom flooded with water from the back yard! We caught it pretty fast and just dumped the dirty towel hamper in from of the water coming in under the door! Anyway, I took a picture of our pond last week and then I took one Monday evening after the

rain. You might say the pond is full! Everything was so clean and

green after the rain - except the pond - it was pretty muddy. The

pond has only gone over the overflow dam once since we have lived here and that was last year. It was almost over the top of the regular dam. The pond used to be surrounded by pecan trees as well as other varieties when we first moved here in 1980 but the beavers took care of most of them within the next 5 years until we "relocated" them. There is still one beaver that we know of living here but, it hasn't caused too many problems. It likes to dam up the creek that is just west of the pond (where the overflow pipe drains into Wildhorse Creek).

We made our weekly trip to town yesterday. Hannah, Rebecca and I went to eat at the new Chinese Food place (YUM YUM) and then did a little shopping (they shopped - I watched) then went to "tweak" my booth at Ooh La La. We had a fun day. We ran into Dawn and the three young ones and got to visit with them at the restaurant and the shop. We're trying to limit "town" trips to one, maybe two a week. We live about 40 miles (one way) from Wal-Mart in Duncan so, we're trying to adjust! If we run out of something - we run out of it. Bummer!

Short post today - I need to get to working on furniture for the shop since it's sunny. I want to leave you with some funny poetry from a bood by Shel Silverstein. A friend of ours gave a book of his to Rebecca a few years ago, then we found another volumn at a garage sale. His poems are funky and goofy - not your typical poetry! We thought they were pretty funny. Anyway, blessings to all of you. May your day be profitable in the ways of the Lord!

Well, I was going to copy the page from the book and post it, but BLogger is not letting me add another image right now. So, I will just type it. Shalom!

Peckin'

The saddest thing I ever did see

Was a woodpecker peckin' at a plastic tree.

He looks at me, and "Friend," says he,

"Things ain't as sweet as they used to be."