A shot In the foot

Stylish, don't you think? I finally gave up after fighting Plantar Fasciitis for a bit over two years off and on, I gave up and went to the podiatrist. After a shot in the foot and a stylish boot to wear at night to hopefully resolve the issue. Lets hope this des the trick. I wait two weeks and go back to see how I'm recovering. Fun, fun, fun. Gettin older sucks. Just sayin. :(

Change of pace

Decided a while back to put hooks in the girls bath for towels. I even bought the "rack" from Ikea. I just hadn't put them up cause I dreaded THIS


Yes - huge holes from what I can only describe as towel cramming. We put the old bars back up with the butterfly wall hooks which, by the way, simply make BIGGER holes. Sigh.


And after patching and painting a new way to hang towels. ;)

Happy 4th of July!

All day long it rained and rained and rained... then about 9pm it stopped sprinkling and we headed out to shoot off some fireworks...

and by some, I mean THIS stash:

Holy cannoli!  I can't believe Butch bought THIS much at the fireworks store.  He spent twice what I would have expected... but hey, it's his money, so go for it!

 

Can you believe G had never done sparklers before? 

These are the HUGE sparklers and they left off a LOT of light!  LOVE Angela's circle around her face :)

 the neighbors were shooting off some good ones as well - did a timed photo over the trees :)

 LOVE that you can even see the light tracer of the shot going UP... we had a little wind, but all in all a good night to set off fireworks - enjoy!

 I include this because it looks like stars... this is the squeeler one that shoots up and pops - who would have known the shot would look like this on timed photo?  Loved it!

 Another boxed one with multiple smaller shots... wish I could have gotten that one centered but working on time release photo on a tripod doesn't really give you anything in particular to shoot for.  Next year it's BIG tripod and a chair so I can put the shots center in my screen - then shoot away!

 double mortar round!

Interesting fact

Wettest June in the last 15 years and at the rate we're going, this may shape up to be the wettest year! We're still rainy, rainy, rainy!!

Wisteria

I think it's time to take the grape out and put this wisteria in its place. By next year they may just meet in the middle!
Now to see if I am THAT motivated ;)

Angela

5'6" is the official height! (Confirmed at the clinic) Whoop!!

No more days of vacation... I went back to work :(

I went back to work and Nick and Kaylee left about 10 minutes before I did... bright and early! 
Robert left a few hours later and all of a sudden the house got VERY quiet for the girls. 
I cheated and didn't go home early that night, I wasn't ready to give up the party so the girls and I headed out to dinner with Mike and Linda as well as Mom and Dad.  I took them to Dad's favorite Chinese restaurant then we went to their home to visit one last time before everyone had officially left Georgia. 

What a FUN staycation this proved to be!  I sure hope we can do this again in the near future!!  Such fun!!

Day 8 - Wednesday

Today was the day that Gail and her family left for home.  Linda and Mike along with Kaylee and Nick drove them to ATL and went to the Coca-Cola factory while up there.  They seemed to have enjoyed their jaunt to the city. 
Robert went to Mom and Dad's for the day so the girls (to include Sarah) enjoyed a very quite day at the house.  I guess it was good to break us into starting to loose folks and getting quieter and quieter!
The girls and I picked up food from Metropolis and really enjoyed a little Chicken Tiki-Masala and Butter Chicken along with some humus  - yum!

Day 7 - Tuesday

 

We were to work on the downed limb today at mom and Dad's house.  Because Angela had guard practice, the girls and I stayed at the house until I went to pick her up from the high school and missed all the hard work... darn! ;)

 Everyone listening raptly to the story of one-eye, two-eye, three-eye from Nick.

 and all the flowers that were transplanted in front got a good watering after the fact as well.  The week has suddenly gone to lots of afternoon showers and clouds.  NOT the way to end my staycation, but nice, none-the-less.

More pictures from mom - Robert with chain saw - varrrooom!!

 Sarah dragging limbs to the burn pile!

 Mike drilling a hole to install a light switch to be separate from the ceiling fan/light switch already in place

 Nick and Mike hard at work with electrical

 relaxing after

 girls and their electronics

 adults and their electronics

 Height comparison... yes, Angela has shot past them both!!

 I think there were some tiptoes and or sucking in of breathe to get taller involved... but Liz is just barely (I'm biased!) taller than Linda - however we all commented that she could be mistaken for one of Linda's crew easily!

Day 6 - Monday - Lane Packing

 

The group at Lane packing watching the peaches go through the line.  I didn't realize they would be going through this early in the season, but they were in full force!

 The tour that wasn't.. we filled the bus, only to be told that due the them spraying the trees with pesticides we would not be able to take the tour.  Poor Robert this is his second failed attempt at going on the tour here at Lane!

 We did have a nice lunch and visited then headed to the house where the rest of the crew loaded back up and went to Andersonville.

 This is how the guys spent their afternoon instead!  :)  Much better option and after I finished whatever I was doing, I did the very same thing!

And Poor Butch, who just got home had to head back out to Baltimore again!!