Bath Day!!!

Hi Everyone!!!!!

Guess what????!!!!!!!

It is BATH DAY!!!!!!

I love bath day.  

The last time I had a bath something fun happened.  

I jumped out of the tub right after I got sudsed up.  He he he.  

You should have seen my people......they were running around yelling and I just 

ignored them and jumped up onto the sofa.  

Hey...I thought that is what they wanted me to do.  Hee heee heee.  

My fav part of bath day is the drying off part.  I like to do that because it makes my fur so soft and fluffy.  

It just makes me happy.  

A little rub here and a little rub there.....

It also gets me so excited that I just can't control myself.  

GRRRR....

That is what I like about living in the country......I can dry off without anyone watching....

What!!!!

Hey!!!!  are you taking pictures of me?????!!!!!!!!

It is hard being so beautiful....

I mean the paparazzi are just ever present. 

Sometimes I don't mind, but other times I.....well....do need privacy.  

Hmmm............After a bath I like to cool off....

I hope no one is looking...

AHHHHHH

Excuse me....Do you know how to get to rabbitville??

Hey scram rabbit....this is Jill's life!  

Okay we all know it is really Bumble's life with a little bit of Jill thrown in.  

Sniff sniff.  I may have to.....you know.......go. 

Pearl the pumpkin.  An estimated 434 pounds.

Growing at aprox. 17 pounds per day.  

Oh nooooo!!!!!

Do not sniff around here.  

Get away from my vines!!!!!!!!!

What is all of the commotion?

Oh no folks.......this is not going to be good.  

Sniff sniff sniff.......Okay no one is looking.  

No one but me.......Pearl.....my vines!!!  My poor vines.   

AHHHH.........

Silly dog!  

I am still trying to get to the other pumpkins.   Hey Pearl, I may come to see you some day.  

Hi all.....I am back.  

Jill has been working on her grape arbor/trellis/sculpture thingy.  

She used her forge and made some limbs and then welded them together.  When they are attached to the rest of the arbor they will make an arch to walk under.  There will also be lots more small limbs that will come off of the large branches.   The posts that this arch contraption attaches to will be faux bois concrete.  Sounds kind of complicated, but she says it is not so bad.  

Well......time for my nap.  

Picture from the new deck.  Hi Pearl.  Keep growing. 

You know this guy reminds me of someone.  

Lots of things going on. Two weekends worth of fun.

I FINALLY got to ride!!!  

Eco was not very happy going on a solo trip, but all went well. 

Just a little more vocal than usual.  

I love this shot.  It looks like a painting.  Going fast, low light and enjoying every minute.

Eco happy to be back and calling his buddies.  

After riding, I decided to can some tomato juice.  

Now this is good advice.....I just do not know what a petcock is.   Actually, I do....but that is a funny word.   Instruction book???........ I do not even know if I have one.  

Ha ha....You really should run if your pressure cooker starts doing this.  

Run Bumble!!!!.........She's going to blow......

The Tater Hill Fly In was Aug 1st-7th. 

We enjoyed seeing some of the Paragliders!  

Tater Hill bald is the place in my banner picture. 

This was a little strange....at least after about the third time they buzzed by.

Could have been because we had visiting dignitaries. 

They drove this beauty.

They told me my horses were fat.  Ha ha.  Well...they have been on a diet.

I mean...it takes a few weeks to see the effects. 

Danza is getting a bit cranky about her diet.    

Up at night crying for more hay...

Poor thing.

The dignitaries brought homemade cheese!

Delicioso!!!

Muchas Gracias!!!

Bumble got to go to the dinner party.  

After the dignitaries left; we went to the neighbor's golf course.  

I am pleased to say that I got a hole in one!  

As you can see it is sometimes hard to find your ball with all of the beautiful daises.

Okay....now I am taking over......

Time for a Pumpkin Report!...

Not so long ago they were just babies.....Just starting their life and we had such high hopes for these little beauties.  

Well...just look at them today!  They are achieving their goals and one is even surpassing those goals.  

This is the little over achiever....She is really a rotund beauty.  We are getting ready to pass the 300lb. mark with lots of growing season still left!  Mom will not let me get near this little gal.  I think she looks pretty cool wearing those sunglasses!

Okay....that is all on the pumpkins for now.....On to the flowers.  

I just love flowers.

This strange sunflower popped up in my mom's vegetable garden and she moved it.  I do not think it liked being moved, because it started bending around in a strange way.  

Something about a sunflower that just says summer.....

I know that they always bring a smile to may face.  

Then there are the butterflies.......

Hello little butterfly!

We have started seeing some Monarch butterflies.  

They are so beautiful!

Here is a flower that I especially love.  

Just look at the color on that thing.

I am glad that mom got this gladiola.....get it.....glad!  Ha ha.  

We are also getting lots and lots of spiders this year.  They make me sneeze when their pesky webs get on my nose.  

Okay okay!   I am staying away from this one!  

It is the size of Texas.  

Well.....almost.

We have had lots of these too.  

Mom HATES these pesky bugs.  

She keeps going around with a bottle and collecting them.  

She said that they could have their parties in bottles an not on her flowers.  

Here is a party!  

Wow looks like they are having fun.  

Here is another party.  

There are some wild ones in there!

One day my mom saw this and just about had a heart attack.  That could be why our neighbor Donald had one.  

I mean....it is SHOCKING what those beetles were doing.

Almost unspeakable.  

Hey.....you guys need to get a room.  

Quit doing your dirty deeds on my mom's flowers!!!

How about a Perrier room???

HE HE HE.....

It does say "captured at source" on that bottle.  

Well....can't a girl get some privacy here.  That plane was looking at me.  They can at least fly a little bit higher.  What if I wanted to garden without my fur on or something.....Sheesh.  

Oh well....nothing left to tell....time for my nap!