A simple life?

This blog thing is still quite surreal to me. Perhaps I'll stick with for a bit just to be sure I give it enough time to be sure it is a waste or wonderful.

My daughter and son in law have made it possible for us to live a dream and be out in the country on this 80 acres of peace. Of course God is the real reason they have such wonderful hearts and gracious attitudes. We would never have moved out here except they encouraged us by saying they would love to live on the same property.

My oldest grandson, KB, is here for 4 weeks while his mom and dad are overseas picking up our new granddaughter. This makes for an active time around the place. It also makes for more laughs and fun. Seven year old boys have a way of making everything a game and adventure. He also loves to hear my indian and settler stories about Dun Croft in the old days. We found a stone tomahawk blade and that has given my stories some credence. Every night I try to make up a new story with indians, settlers, cowboys, bears, deer, wildcats, brave young boys and once upon a time adventures. He smiles a lot as I tell them and asks lots of questions so they must sound good to him. I suspect I'll be a lot less interesting as he gets older and I get more muddled.

Saturday we got up 6:30 and looked at the trap to see if we caught another tomato stealing and watermelon stealing opossum but it was empty. We caught two on previous nights and spray painted their tails the next morning before we set them free about a quarter mile down the road. If we catch them back on the property again they won't get the same good treatment. Then we took the dogs (stupid 1 and stupid 2) for a run. KB and I on the golf cart and the dogs on foot straight out through the Buffalo Gate and down the ridge. Back home we picked up trash from the addition being built on to the house. KB hitched up the trailer to golf cart and off we went to collect rocks from the pasture. Rocks damage the baling mower if they are too big so we cleaned up about 200 pounds of them and dumped them in the woods. A quick trip over to the the mud pond to hunt for some frogs just for fun then back to the house to cool off. It was about 98 by 8 o'clock. Mury and KB sprayed for weeds in the drive and on the gravel beach at the swim pond. I went down and got a pick up load of mulch to start a new area around some trees in the yard. Got it unloaded and spread then we sat under the cedar tree in the shade while the sprinkler sometimes sprayed us to cool off. We shoveled up some dirt piles around the new foundation and dumped them in the big pile. The Ranger needed some gas so it was filled up. Weedeating was next on the list since the grass has not been cut for three weeks. The yard looks like it had a bad hair day. Not much to cut but it was looking ragged. It was now time to go Cat fishing. We saddled up the golf cart, grabbed a hot dog for bait and headed for the pond. One cast and KB caught a 2 pound cat. The next three he caught large Bluegill. He was tired of fishing and it was time to swim at the other end of the pond. After moving the sprinklers for the fourth time we called it a day and came in to play with KB's Playstation. That machine is something from Hell. It dominates a kid's mind and is a cause for conflict between us. They should be banned but grandparents aren't the ones in charge of such things so we just try to limit it without being too restrictive. Grandparents are to be buddies not Playstation Nazis.

A couple board games after dinner and it was off to another bedtime story for KB. As is the usual he was homesick for mom and dad. We talked about it, prayed about it and he was off to sleep.

What a great day The Lord gave us!