Well. Doesn’t he look dapper in his new collar? He thinks so. Still feeling like Dr. Doolittle, I’m hearing voices in my head when I meet these guys. My sister suggested I record my “imitations” of what they’re saying for you. Uhm. I’m not sure I can do that! Only a select few get to hear my silly voices. hehe!

So what do you hear him saying/thinking? You don’t have to say it outloud (although it does make things a lot more fun, doesn’t it?), just type it out!

Caption that Camel!
(As many times as you want, just for fun!)

It has been insanely hot here. With the humidity, it’s averaged around 103 for the past few days. Phew, huh?

This morning, it RAINED! I was so excited. The squirrels were excited. Everyone is happy! Of course now it’s sunny and even more humid, but hey. We got rained on. Neener neener.

That poor baby black squirrel was so hot yesterday, he flopped over the bottom rung on the ladder of the slide and just stayed like that for a good 10-15 minutes. Kinda scared me, I thought he was a goner! It must have been a cool spot for his belly.

I’ve been dinking with a new simplified skin for my blog, and most of it is done if you want to have a look at it (the skin dropdown is under “bloggy do’s”, it’s the clean & simple version). I’m trying to learn this coding stuff! I’ve got a 80 page book in front of me that I’m reading as I go. Eesh! If you don’t like it or don’t wanna stay on that skin, just switch back. It’ll be okay, I promise!

I think I’m gonna paint today. On a canvas, with oils. How ’bout that?!

I’m telling ya, every animal at the Zoo knew what to do when they saw me with my camera!

Caption this Giraffe!
(As many times as you want, just for fun!)

For the first time ever, I’m growing poppies! It’s been over a month since I put seed down to grow a “humminbird and butterfly” garden. We built up this giant mound in the backyard, put a birdbath near it, and everything is growing like crazy. It looks like a bit of prairie snuck into the backyard! I just wish I had as many hummingbirds and butterflies as we have bumblebees. Argh.

Regardless, I have some beautiful poppies blooming, so I took a couple of pics for you. Aren’t they pretty? If I water them, they’ll fall apart. They seem so fragile, and they make me want to buy rice paper and paint a watercolor or something. Wierd. But hey, any inspiration is a good inspiration, I say!

This guy cracked me up this weekend, and I knew when I saw him that it was going to be a good day for critter pics. So here ya go -

Caption this Chimp!
(As many times as you want, just for fun!)

Did you notice? I went away!

I packed up the girls and headed north for the weekend, where a few interesting things occurred. But first, a pic of the view where we stayed, a place called Lake Lawn Resort. I have to go back to this place some day. With a fishing pole, and a boat!

If I’m not around for a few days, no need to panic - just caption, have a giggle, and I’ll join in when I can!

Caption this Monkey!
(As many times as you want, just for fun!)

Today marks the 4th year of my second attempt at understanding my husband. My first attempt lasted approximately 7 years, then they came and took me away (ha ha hee hee ho ho)! All in all, I’ve loved the big doofus since I met him back in 1989. That’d be 16 years for those of you without a calculator handy! I think about 2 weeks into dating I scared the goobers out of him when I said “I’ve got a feeling I’ll be spending the rest of my life with you”.

He should have bolted then, when he had the chance.

Oh. Wait. Yeah, he did try to do that. Muaahaaaaahahaaa!

Anyhoo, Happy Anniversary to my dear old aging bifocal wearing gray overtaking the hairs left on his head husband, who just gets better and better with age. Because if you can tolerate me for this long, you’ve gotta be good/special/brilliant/insane.

Say that 3x fast! Not because it’s a tongue twister really, just cause it sounds kinda funny when you do that.

Caption This!
(As many times as you want, just for fun!)