Family day

Yesterday was fun. It started with my dear nieces humouring me with a photo shoot. We usually hang out at the gazebo  but luckily there were already people there which meant we found a new playground. 

Two grade 8's and a grade 5 starting tomorrow. 

Hopefully we didn't give any people watching (there are always people watching) heart attacks with our heights. Although I guess you can't really see how high they were. 

Maybe more of an idea from this one:

Then over to Henry and Marcia's for poker night. 

And to celebrate the return of Caleb who had been away all summer where he turned 16. 

My sky writing with a street light. 

Mike daring to eat a tomato and kind of liking it. 

Henry is drying peppers on a fishing line and I love how they look. 

They have a few apples too. 

But Mary Lynn's Rose Mallow flowers are growing exuberantly from just three plants 

We can't plant them at her grave marker so Henry placed a marker here and we spent some time with her. 

I was soon chased indoors by bugs and we had a great potluck supper and poker game. 

Ava had a remarkable number of three of a kinds. 

But in the end...

Her Papa won. 

But not before we staged the dream outcome. 

Happy back to school everyone!

This week

I haven't been over to the gazebo area a lot lately mostly because it was hot, then we had some nicer days with lower than 10000% humidity and it still wasn't/isn't fun because the bugs are back with a vengeance. They seem to love the goldenrod a great deal and me even more. 

So mostly Harry and I are walking at night. But I do have a few pictures from the last week. 

A hidden community building lady bug: 

Haven't found more than two and I saw one of those being placed. I actually went out purposely yesterday to look for more and didn't find any. They might be trying too hard. 

Pretty sure it's safe to feed the chippies and squirrels again a little according to this article anyway:

http://m.therecord.com/opinion-story/6838324-wildlife-feeding-clarity-helps

Whatever you put out for birds they're going to join in anyway. 

I've wanted to get a squirrel up here for ages and apparently holding back is the way to make it happen. 

Too close to focus but I like the whiskers.  

This guy dropped a peanut

Chirped once

And grabbed another to go.