Active August!!

Hello and so long, beautiful August!!  It has been a plethora of activity! 

Jake came on a very warm day to plant some just right shrubs along the side of my front deck.  He broke only two shovels and bent one pick digging holes amid rocks!

His recompense? Plain bread and potato dumplings made just for him!! 

What does one do on a random rainy day?

Watch as the neighbors hire tree cutters to demolish a couple trees

AND trim off the huge branches threatening to smash my garage roof!

Then give my evergreen tree an upside down haircut!!

I am growing OLIVES!! Going to soon have 5-8 homegrown olives from my back deck tree! Woot!

Bunco Night showered me with the 2nd most wins and $20! 

A fire across the street claimed a tree and two houses...

lots of firetrucks and quick action...

Saturday lunch with my role model...

Nancy 92 years!!

Lovely Sturgeon moon!!

Blue sky and shining sunlight!

Time for hot water leak/mold repair  😒

Out with the old and in with the NEW!😊

Floor and closet repair from mold damage...

Tried my hand at Kalua Pork for Hawaiian pot luck!

Pork roast, Himalayan pink salt, smoke seasoning and 15 hours in the slow cooker!  YUM!

Assembled a new shoe rack by myself!

Styled the pom pom tree a bit!

Enjoyed an evening watching 3 Millers and Cody play soccer!!

REFLECTIONS 

August has been a very busy month besides being HOT, HOT, HOT!  

Lots of events to claim my thoughts and energy.  More is going on than what I'm sharing!  It is challenging yet very exciting and fulfilling.  What, you say?  You'll have to check back next post to find out the last of the August Plethora Party!! 

This has been a good 4 GeoGram weeks in the life of Gram G.

"Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you."  Psalm 116:7 

July!

July has been "planning" month. I've been mentally busy but not much to show for it.😏 Still energy intensive!

Over Labor Day weekend my 5 sons and lots of family are coming out to demolish the old deck and construct a new one for me! Much detail to work out!  But it will be Big Fun for all!!

Kahana invited me to join their backyard 4th of July picnic!

We ate ladies' lunch at La Provence 

Enjoyed a polenta eggs benedict with acorn squash and the hugest croissant ever! 

It was my sister, Kate's, Birthday so I HAD to purchase a large slice of Purple Rain fancy cake...ate it all mine own self!!

Some of us Garden Club ladies enjoyed an 11 hour adventure to the Oregon coast! Always a good time!

Ecola State Park 

Haystack Rock in background

Ending route of Lewis and Clark Expedition

Pacific Ocean in the back

Debbie and Keys took me downtown Vancouver

To watch Pomai in her first Hawaiian dance performance!!

A bunny sunny nap in my Hobbit garden!

My blue jay lookout guard!!

The elusive Washington banana slug!

They can grow to 10 inches

(Face Book photo)

Some of Burt's family white water rafting in Costa Rica!!

Gemma finding her roots in Germany!!

Great grandbaby #4 starting his/her roots in Germany!!  Arriving in January!!

Great grandbaby # 3 coming out to visit us over Labor Day weekend

And Family!!

Brian and Angie having High Tea with ghost of George Washington hanging around...

Chuck finally reached his BIG 5-0 Bday!!

REFLECTIONS  

July has come and gone.  It's been an unusual month. At this point it feels like summer is on the way out.  My mind is on Labor Day weekend, actually week, when family is coming out to redo my deck. I am discovering that keeping up a house as a single senior lady is quite demanding with lots of projects to accomplish. There's everyday "senior" living that is challenging as well. But I am grateful to be able to live on my own and have lots of family to love and to cheer on their adventures! 

This has been a good 4 GeoGram weeks in the life of Grandma G.

"But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments."  (Psalm 103:17-18)