Wendy at
On the Front Porch hosts
Small Town Snapshot Sunday and has invited me to join in the fun. So here's my first offering for Small Town Snapshot Sunday....
The other day when we were in Kingman for the grandchildren's ballgames I spotted a large flock of turkey vultures circling over businesses and homes downtown.
This is the largest flock of turkey vultures that I've ever seen that wasn't flying over a large body of water.
At home there is a mockingbird that sits on a utility post across the alley from the back of my garden. He sings, and sings, all the time I'm out there.
Yesterday my daughter and sil took their boys and my son's children to Wellington lake to swim, fish and cook out. They had left early in the morning. Around 10:30am I got a phone call asking if it was OK for them to come swim and cookout here because it was just too windy at the lake.
It was windy enough that the sil had to set the grill at the end of the house to be able cook the hamburgers and hot dogs.
Here's the proper way to relax in the pool. We staycation all the time and have for many years.
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...my poor pool. I'll get out there with the pump later and see if I can find a hole. I patched one hole on top of the ring near the ladder the second year, so a hole isn't a real problem if I can find it.
My Mockingbird was out their singing away this morning when I checked out the garden. The garden didn't appear to have any damage.
I was trying to get a better picture of the bird when he all of sudden hopped up in the air, then back down to the post. The first time he did this I missed getting a shot, but I caught him the second time. I hadn't seen him do this before. He did it several more times before flying off.
On around the backside of the house I see something that catches my eye.
How strange! The last time I was out at night and walked under the motion sensitive light I noticed that the left bulb was out. I wonder why the lens fell off? Very strange indeed.
Other than the pool, we didn't fair to poorly from this summer storm. I'm sure there will be more to come that leave me standing at my window wondering how my gardens are holding up. Farmers endure this feeling year after year. I have a picture of my great grandparents standing in a field of wheat up to their waists and on the back of the picture is a note saying that this crop was hailed down the next day.
