Holy Leapin' Lupins

Another favorite flower of mine - Lupin.

Shasta Daisy, love them too.  I love all flowers.

...like sunshine feedin' daisies ~ like the love hidden deep in your heart

John Prine

Summer Has Arrived!

Happy Days, summer has arrived on the mountain side - and arrived big/mega time.  When the heat arrives it arrives like you are sitting on the element of an electric stove.  With the heat, it brings many, many bugs.  The bugs love me, I think I have very good blood and they are trying to suck it all out of me.  My right ear resembles half of Dumbo ~ the elephant.  I have been bitten so many times on my ear it swelled up and pounds like it is explosive.  I do not believe there are any more places on my right ear that they can bite; movement is lower on the cheek ~ the eye. 

My Noisemaker is feeling somewhat better today, he is moving, he is still cranky.  Geez, men do not fair up well when they are under the weather.  Women do much better in that category.  Women move.  It is always non - stop movement.  Some of us have non-stop lip flappin'. 

I was up and about very early this morning.  4:30 a.m. out to the porch.  5:30 a.m. out to paint up the steps and the porch.  By 9:30 a.m. I was bug bitten, bitchy, but still Bev!  hahaha. 

I have had a beautiful song is my head for two days now (sometimes that happens - like lip flappin' - it does not want to stop).  The song is But You Know I Love You written by Mike Settle.  Released in 1969 by The First Edition and later by Dolly Parton.

Many songs were rolling in my brain this morning; it is rather non stop - again somewhat like lip flappin'. 

...toe-tappin', head noddin', lip flappin', john prinein'.....

The Creek

 

Our Front Yard is a creek.  Probably have posted similar photos in prior years, but who cares.  It is a beauty and I do love it very much in the summer months.

Noisemaker is ill - he has caught some virus and is really feeling sorry for himself.  I had the same thing but it did not hit me as hard as it has Noisemaker.

We finally got our hot water back - thank god.  Do you know how hard it is to be without hot water - holy smucksville!  We needed a new element.  We drove into the village, but no plumbing outfit had our element.  We returned home and thought to try the general store - you guess it - they had it!  Noisemaker installed it and viola hot water we have.  Downright Paradise!

Columbine - Precious

My favorite flower - love Columbine.

I have this blog, in part, to save all my favorite pictures and my thoughts - it is my journal.

Thank You For Visiting ~ Hope To See You Soon.

Luke Bryan - strikes again

At Colbey's graduation dance who comes a blasting through the speakers but Luke Byran - oh geez I got excited.  Noisemaker does not dance; hmmm...I thought...I said to my granddaughters - lets go girls and off we went.  I was in Luke Bryan heaven.  It was the song about the pick up truck and girls dancing...let me think here; it will come to me.  It's not - I'm getting Bruce Springsteen up there and tangling it with Luke.  Perhaps, I should toss in some John Prine and Neil Young - that ought to really make it interesting. 

The song, the song - you got your hands up...la, la, la - now I have to google it and try to keep it correct in my mind.

It is titled I Don't Want This Night To End written by Luke Bryan, Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins, and Ben Hayslip.

Yesterday, I drove to the general store.  I love driving and listening to the radio - I hope for songs to be played that I like so as I can sing along.  Yeppers, you got it right - what did they play - Luke Bryan!  Drunk On You.  I laughed, I am laughing as I type this.  I knew I was in for a good day. 

When I returned home, I had planned to lip flap with a friend of mine - the skunk, Janis Ferguson.  Oh my we giggled and lip flapped - it was great.  A great day, indeed.

The Graduate

Colbey - The Graduate - June 2012

A proud moment for Colbey - he was beaming.  It was a proud moment for everyone. 

The graduation dinner and dance was held later on in the day.  The dinner was delicious, I enjoyed it very much.  The graduates had the time of their lives at the dance.  They did dances there I had never seem before, it was a fun time.

Yes - as we are trying to head out down the country road - the cows came to wish us a safe trip.  The heathens.  My word - paddies all over the road, but eh the government of the day, keeps it all in rancher style - free range run. 

The Pre-Graduate - Colbey

Graduation - Colbey - 2012

Very Proud!

Noisemaker and I have a very blended, extended family.  To this extension here is Great Gramma Shaw and Mila Marie. 

I do not have the name for this mountain/peak - it was close to Mount Robson.  Love the cloud formation.

Mount Robson - British Columbia

Mount Robson, British Columbia

Elevaton 12,972 feet

Noisemaker and I have been on the road the last few days.  Attended our grandsons' graduation.  The following posts will be of our trip.  Enjoy!