Meanwhile, Sophie is enjoying Percy time❣️

We might have gotten into a little mud…

…You know it’s bad when this is what your glasses look like when you get home!

Zac climbed the Waterfall in his Jeep.

I promised him a redepemption run after I had to tow strap him over it in his Ranger a year ago Christmas. Good times!

Off-roading with Zac and Chloe

We had fun angles (left pics), and good food - BLTs made by Chloe (lower right).  I thought my Jeep looked pretty picturesque in the woods (upper right).

Trying to get a good downy woodpecker pic

Julie got me one more sticker since I was keeping my Jeep

These little black cat stickers are so cute!

I got this cool pic of Julie’s bamboo shrimp

She calls them fanboys since they always sit there “fanning” their filters feeding appendages. 

Julie’s fanboy (bamboo) shrimp are so fun and cool

It’s fun to watch them collect goodies out of the jet stream and then occasionally clean off their filter “feathers” as a little snack.

Stumbled across this on the internet

The design of this watch, fae and hands doesn’t appeal to me as much for some reason, but I do like the complications.  This is a mechanical Swiss watch that has the most complications I’ve seen crammed into one movement.  It has the same movement as the Omega Speedmaster, but they included the moon phase on this one. Crazy that you can have all this running on tiny gears, springs and jewels in there.  So if you ran the chronographs as a second time zone you would have GMT, day, date, month, moon, 24hr, and time.  What more could you “need”? Hahahaha.  

Random pics from Facebook…

Facebook offered me a post from a relative who’s name or picture I didn’t even recognize, but she was posting this pics of the five of us plus my grandma and grandpa Barton (bottom pic, couple on the left).  I think the couple on the right is Aunt Suzie and Uncle Chuck?

Foul weather friends

The dogs stay close when it thunders ALL day.  I don’t remember a July and especially an August with so much rain and so many storms before.  I guess it’s a needed contrast from last year’s drought…?

I imagine this being Andy’s garage one day…!

Woah, he flashed his rubies at me!

AND I was lucky enough to get a decent shot of it on my phone.

We got our murder back this summer

There’s normally six or seven, but this morning we only had one crow for a while.

Happiness is a warm pup in the lap…

And the pup is happy too!