Happy Mother's Day to me!  I got new yard art for Mother's Day - after a VERY strong hint to AJ from Meredith.  We were shopping on Saturday and found these at Tuesday Morning, and she sent photos to AJ along with the message "What your mom wants for Mother's Day...." message.  It worked, and I love them!  (I think I may need to move the tiki heads though......)

In honor of Mother's Day, I planted flowers - not so much in Mom's memory (since these are annuals and will get pulled out this winter, not what I think of as a memorial planting), but I can't help but think of her when I plant flowers.  

The garden is doing great!  I have pea and cucumber blossoms

And the kale and swiss chard are doing great.

The lettuce, on the other hand, isn't doing so great.

I found the culprit(s) though........

 

First kayaking trip of the year!  It's the first time I've been out on the water since the Carr Fire.  I've driven up to Whiskeytown Lake, but driving by isn't the same as seeing it from the kayaks.

It was still a beautiful evening at the lake...

We fund a pair of eagles hanging out in a tree - posing for photos

And a heron sun-bathing.  I have never seen one like this...

And the obligatory selfie...... 

My latest quilt is off to the quilters.....This was a fun, quick quilt to put together.....

And I have baby beans coming up...

And a baby tomato...

The garden is looking really good right now - but then again, it's Spring.....wait until the summer heat hits it.

We had a beautiful visitor this weekend - I don't see the orange dragonflies very often, and this one hung out for a while with us.

Now this is a happy Birthday  Girl!  We've had nice warm weather here lately (85 yesterday) so the pool water isn't freezing.  Alli got to go swimming on her birthday!  It isn't the first time she's gone swimming on her birthday, but it isn't very common.  Usually, the water is still pretty cool this time of year.

She wasn't sure she wanted to go in.....

But AJ thought she should....

So with a little help... 

That didn't work, let's try this.....

Success!

Happy birthday Alli!!!

Check out my new garden gnome......and his hat glows at night!

It's been a week here already.  Ralph has been battling low blood sugar since this weekend, and Monday I had to call the paramedics to revive him - not the way to start the week for either of us (I love our First Responders!!!)   He's still on a roller coaster with his blood sugar, and I don't really know why.  

Summer is here!  It feels like we, once again, skipped Spring.  We had 94 degrees here this week.  That did mean that it was beautiful here for Easter - which was great because I had a houseful of dogs and people that could escape outside.  Ronna, Joe, Jeff, Kirby, and Dave came for Easter, along with Oscar, Lily, Molly, Grute, and Max.  A full house for sure!

We went for a couple of walks with the dogs.  The field is full of wildflowers, and the creek is full of tadpoles.