meandering

My Mom made the girls some new dresses.




Note the height of my tallest sunflower! :)




The girls dance with grandpa. I used to dance on my paternal grandfather's feet when I was small.





K slides


We did a lot of biking this weekend. My parents borrowed my Uncle C's van so that they could bring their 'trikes' with them. I was still feeling punk from the sinus infection on Saturday morning but really wanted to go riding (I hadn't ridden for over a week because of the cold/infection).

We rode to the playground with the girls and then Dad offered to let me try one of the trikes. So I rode off on Mom's with the intention of going back to some wildflowers I saw to photograph them.

It wasn't meant to be. I crashed. Trikes (at least the style of my parents) are not so easy to keep balanced as one might think. I was going fast and slid along on my right side. I got the bike up and discovered the chain was off. I could not get it back on. Two people passed me by before a Samaritan walking a huge retriever stopped to help. We discovered that I had actually shifted the gears about an inch. We got it back together with minimal grease to his hands and I returned to the playground. I was spent, covered with grease, and sore.

That evening I went for a trike ride with Dad and he tutored me a bit. We went about eight miles.

On Sunday morning, we put the girls in a trailer and went on a twelve mile bike ride before church. It was a fun weekend. I have lots of scrapes, a sore shoulder, and the insides of both my knees seem to be bruised. So goes life, I guess. :)



Mom and Dad went home with lots of produce from my garden, they went home with squash, cucumbers, jalapeños, and this cabbage (they didn't' need any of my tomatoes, not sure I would have shared anyhow).


Mom gave me a slightly belated anniversary present this weekend and there is a larger one coming). This is a flower aquarium. The flowers are enclosed in water. My Mom thought it would be nice for me to be able to bring flowers indoors without everyone's allergies going nuts. This is the first arrangement I made.



This is my latest arrangement in my flower aquarium. I wanted to play with possibilities. This is celosia and banana peppers. My husband thought it was a protea at first glance.