I totally forgot!!!!

 ...what it's like to be hot!  

All four of the critters, asking to please go in the front door with me...the look on Orange Guy's face...

Yesterday's church barbecue was fantastic...Margaret and her little Tennyson...

He's so cute!  He cooled off in the pool...

Wulf loves his balance bike...

In the afternoon, Molly and Josh came over with Lydia and Ophelia.

It's nice to be Grandma!!!

This little guy lives in Salem, Oregon, and Grandma is heading there tomorrow!

Can you believe he's going to be a big brother sometime this week?!

And to step into the time machine for a minute, this was like 11 years ago, so Margaret (green/gray stripes), Kathryn in the Senators sweatshirt, Evelyn in the red hoodie, Suzanne on the front left, and Sonja K. in the middle with the black jacket.  They were 13, 12, 10, 9, and 8 years old.  (Now they're 24, 23, 20, and 19)...my five-girls-in-a-row, in five years.  Margaret was actually five years old when Sonja was born...then six, finishing kindergarten when baby Robert was "born", born sleeping...then seven when Jonathan was born the next year...now she has two little ones (Wulf and Tennyson), and Kathryn is expecting her second ANY DAY NOW, as her due date was on Saturday!

Time flies.  When these girls were little, and my head was spinning, people would say, "Just wait 'til they're teenagers!"  It seemed unlikely that they would actually grow up, the days were long and busy.  This picture was from a night I took them to the drive in.  I think we got pizza and took it with us.  The younger kids (Jonathan was 6, Charlotte Claire 4, Camille 2) were home with Paul.

Anyways, it's hot and sticky here in central NY.  A bit too hot, and a bit too sticky.  I have to pack for my trip, and I'm thinking to go to Walmart for a fan-on-a-stick, one of those oscillating ones...last night, sleeping in our room was nightmarish, not to be a drama queen.  We do have a room air conditioner, we should put it in the window.  I don't mind so much during the day, but sleeping in the heat, ugh.  I was actually getting shivers last night as I tried to cool myself down, that's pretty hot.

Today I'm staying away from the Fauci emails, China's sneaky role in the virus cover up,  the inflation rate, the border crisis (I'm not the only one ignoring THAT!), the horror called Critical Race Theory, the new Israeli study suggesting natural immunity from Covid-19 is long lasting and as good as a vaccine, and other such goodies.

Instead, I will write about how sticky my shirt is right now.  I feel like my name should be Mrs. Puddles.  The dogs are so hot, so tired, the house is so quiet, and shh, it's rather nice, except for the sticky part.