Memorial Weekend

Well we discovered some new things about Kona this Memorial Day. She does not like mannequins or marching bands. I'm pretty sure one of the nasty ugly mannequins made eye contact with her so she was fully justified in barking and lunging at the store window. I did hope to actually SEE my youngest daughter play however. Good thing there were two other daughters along so they could take pictures and show me what I missed! Here we have our bass drum playing nun again! She loves doing this! And there marching right next to her is daughter number 4. These are their new uniforms, don't they look sharp?

Here is Kona pretending that she likes her Kong. She is settling in a bit. Now that she feels more comfortable around us it seems to be okay (in her mind) to bark at the cats more. sigh! She is still keeping my exercise program going quite well! ;-)

These are one of my favorite sights at my house. My white violets from my great grandma. Grandma had a teeny little cottage with these growing all around it. To my child eyes it was the most charming place in the world. Grandma was an awesome woman. She always wore jeans, this was before women wore jeans, she gardened and cooked and baked on a wood stove. She could actually bake a cake in that stove, it is still so amazing to me! She attempted to teach me to tat once, but it was a hopeless tangle of knots.

And here we have the --- ta da--- FINISHED Green Dream!!!!!