Play Date

Cooper had a play date today with Dexter; the golden retriever puppy that Susan and her brother Chris gave their Dad for Father's Day! It was hot but they had a fun day!

The HOTTER Than Heck View

Kansas is HOT. Excessive heat warnings for the sixth day in a row.

The sky is a beautiful blue though! :)

And a pretty new blue birdbath for our hot little bird friends.

Happy Birthday to Sara Elizabeth!!!!!

The Good Stuff

Pictures L-R: the newlyweds on the bus after the wedding, Sara & Evan at the rehearsal dinner, Lucas all tuckered out after a full day of wedding fun, Bobby and Teresa (I love this picture of them), Susan playing with her handsome ring bearer at the rehearsal dinner, sweet flower girls Clara and Anastasia, Matt & Kelli (3 weeks before having baby boy Eli), a kiss for the groom from his beautiful bride, their first dance as a married couple.

THIS is the good stuff of life!

Thanks Kelli for the pictures!

Mr. and Mrs. Josh Gering

It was a wonderful magical weekend filled with excitement and love from beginning to end!

And shame on me for not taking a single picture. Now I must copy them from other people's Facebook pages while patiently waiting for the professional photographs.

Josh & Susan entering the ballroom.

One tired little ring bearer!

One of the flower arrangements from the rehearsal dinner.

Paul the Possum

Paul the possum is no longer waiting for the safety of darkness to chow down on bird seed, lately he has been making appearances before dark too! The bird feeders are supporting a whole host of critters! Bobby has started buying the bird seed in 50 pound bags from Orscheln's, he says it's the best $20 ticket for a show he ever spent!

Purple Power

Congratulations to Evan who graduated from K-State on a cool Saturday in May with magna cum laude honors! Sara did a great job of capturing pictures at the ceremony and later at the party his folks hosted! It was a really fun day! Evan, his mom, dad, and sister Nichole!

Sara and the grad!

Josh and Susan were in town for the party too!

Evan and his Grandma Bonnie!

Evan's friends Levi & Molly made a surprise appearance all the way from Wisconsin!

It was one of the highlights of the day!

Fun times!

Newest Members of the Bird Menagerie

There had been several oriole sightings this Spring so Bobby put out oranges on the feeders to attract them to hang around. His friend Steve told him that orioles really like grape jelly, so this morning he added grape jelly to the oranges. Mr. and Mrs. Oriole seem very pleased with the addition! I had tried several times throughout the day to get a picture of them but they are easily startled when I approach the window with the camera. Finally when Bobby gave me the signal that the male was eating I just leaned forward in my chair and captured these pictures. I love that the orioles are as bright as the oranges they eat, even the female is brighter than most of the other bird feeder visitors!

The hummingbirds are back in town too and have been frequenting the sugar water feeder that Bobby put out. On Friday there was one that spent a lot of time at the feeder and sitting on the edge of the raised flower pot next to the feeder, we are really hoping that they build a nest in the flowers. Bobby did a bit of internet resarch and found out that hummingbird nests are the size of ping pong balls, their eggs are the size of a small jelly bean and three baby hummingbirds weigh less than a dime! We're keeping our fingers crossed that they pick the flower pot for their new home!