Family

This Labor Day was a great one for me.  I got to spend it with some of my favorite people--family.  My nephew Greg, wife Andrea, son Mark, son Aedyn, and daughter Lois came out for a good visit combined with food, golf cart ride, kitty chasing, and good time all around.  It was so very special of them to make the trip out, which I'm sure seems like a long drive with three kids in the vehicle!  Porters even came out and allowed some gentle petting from the boys. Twinkle showed her whiskered face once when the boys and Dad were out for that golf cart ride. 

Mark and Aedyn were so excited when they got back from the ride--had seen a coyote on their journey!  There have been several small packs seen in the neighborhood the past weeks.  Then Tuesday morning I had a bobcat cross my back yard to the neighbor's tree where he/she got a bird.  Later that day, had an email from another neighbor that they had seen a lone bobcat when they were out for their early morning walk; while eating breakfast saw five coyotes run through their side yard from the wash to the street; then just at dinner time they had two mule deer looking over their fence drinking the birds' water--all on the same day!

Also was able to convince Greg & Andrea to take home a painting--the one of the Superstitions that Andrea has always liked.  My motto is that I don't give them away unless someone specifically asks for one.  That way I assume they really do want it.  There are two up at my brother's place in Linden.  (See, the more I can give away, the more room I have for the new ones I will do this fall.)