I wanted to start the blog entry with this picture that I took a few days ago. This poor squirrel got stuck in a milk's ring (most likely). Let's remember to cut those things that can injure animals, kids, etc. It does not take too long. I wish I could help this poor squirrel, but he runs just by me opening the door and I am not sure how I could hold him to do it. Plus, I have not seen him since then :(
Into nicer things... This is a banana bread that I started from scratch. My third try. Mike thinks this is the best one so far (my second attempt was not very good)...
More pictures of the yard... I love this honeysuckle, last year it got some type of disease in the leaves and I thought it may died, but it looks great so far. I love the orange of the flowers the most.
I don't even remember if I planted this one or it was here, but I like the poms poms look of its flowers. I guess Ari and I like purple more than I thought.
Another shot of the purple lupine, as you can see it has bloomed more in the top.
Can you see the bi-color in this clematis? I am going to try to buy two more, a red one and a bright all purple. :)
One of my favorite flower/bush, hydrangea. I bought this one without any blooms and I thought it will be pink, here looks more like a light blue/purple/white. It will be nice next to the one that I know it is pink.
Mike finally found a ring to substitute the one he got married with. This year when we go for our renewal of vows, we will ask the reverend to bless the ring :)
Ari wants to help more in the chores around the house, I know I better take advantage of that while it lasts... but here she is helping take the garbage to the front door (then I take it to the curve).
I took these two pictures that follow with Ron in mind... Does the bus look familiar to you? Ari plays with it quite often.
I took these pictures yesterday, she was feeling better, but still had some fever. I noticed that she had something in her t-shirt and I asked her, what do you have in there? She said a K. I looked and yes, it was one of her letters. (Is around her belly button).
She loves the cats (a bit too much), but I like this picture. She always goes to Misty the most because she puts up with her more... And I am happy to say that the fever is gone :).
Do you know what kind of bird is this? The one looking at me...
I took a picture of this beautiful peony (at Arianna's grandparent's house). I think this is the one called Sherbet Peony.
And finally, we seem to have a new neighbor in our yard. We had bunnies, lots of squirrels, birds, opossum, etc.... but I'd never seen a raccoon in our yard. My neighbor Chris had said that there was one somewhere in the back of our houses (we have a small lot with grass and trees) and he thought it lived in a neighbor's garage. But, I never saw it so close. Must have been so hungry that he came all the way to the patio door (literally one step from it) in the middle of the day! (Well, having a garbage bag that we had just put on the deck since we were getting ready to leave I am sure it helped)
