Bubblicious!

OK.  I made a new discovery today that was so awesome!  And I know you likely already know about it, but to me it was all new and amazing.  Today for the first time ever, I tried one of those bubble drinks.  Bubblicious awesomeness!!!  I got avocado milk...with bubbles... which made my family curl their lips and raise at least one eyebrow in suspicion, but it full on rocked!

Avocado...perfection!
Sweet condensed milk...bliss!
Tapioca balls...fabulous!

It's officially my new favorite thing!

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Marco Polo

I remember not liking that game as a kid.  I found it completely impossible as someone for whom dog paddling was the best swim stroke available.  I got stuck in the land of "it" for way, way too long.  But when I played it today with my kids I pretty much loved it.  I realized there are a few tricks that I didn't know about when I was a youngster.

1 - Splash the face of the person who is "it" if they're pursuing you.

2 - If I'm "it" full on lunge in the direction of the "Polo".  Hold nothing back.

3 - Oh, and it's OK to peek every once in a while.  It makes it so much more enjoyable.

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A Little Morning Magic

I went for a lovely walk this morning in my dad's neighborhood.  As I was walking down the driveway there was a lovely doe to my right having a little snack.  She looked at me and then to my left.  I followed her gaze and there were two white spotted fawns.  I kept walking down the driveway and in the cul-de-sac there was a bunny.  I stopped in my tracks unable to move from this magical spot and looked around figuring surely I was in a Disney movie.

After a bit I was able to keep walking.  As I rounded a bend in the road there was a woman standing with her dog.  The dog was staring into the trees completely transfixed by the two bunnies that were just feet away.


Dog's person:  "We can't get anywhere when there are bunnies."

Me:  "I know exactly how your dog feels."


Nice to see that the dog felt the magic, too...only I suspect the dog was thinking of the edible type of magic.

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A Good Thing

My fabulous brother and his wonderful family are in town right now.  My nephew is totally into trains which led us to get the big boxes of model railroad stuff out of the shed.  The kids paid a bit of attention to it before they wandered off...and that left me, my brother, and my dad to dig through it all.

With all that stuff comes oodles of memories.  Good ones!  My dad and brother were pretty much in charge of the controllers, track, and cars.  My mom painted the backgrounds on canvas panels.  And I painted all the little people and helped with the creationing of the buildings.

We did this for many years and were even in TV and magazine stories doing our thing. 

And to quote Martha Stewart, "It's a good thing."

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Grackles Rock!

I really like grackles.  I know they're the scroungy rats of the bird population, even lower on the totem pole than pigeons, but I think they're pretty awesome.  They're scrappy, they're resourceful, and they keep on truckin'.  Case in point, the grackle I saw the other day with only one foot.  He was the most adorable peg leg ever.  And that bird was fast!

While I usually see grackles that look like they're a bit rode hard, a bit ravaged by time, I saw two today that look like they have managed to live their lives in the lap of luxury.  As I leaned back against the edge of a pool with my little guy, two grackles landed at the pool's edge, and proceeded to take the most spectacular bath.  They dipped in.  They splashed a bit.  They puffed out all their feathers in the most adorable way.  Those grackles were livin' large!

And then one landed right beside me.  It had a pretzel stick in its mouth.  It dipped that pretzel stick in the pool as any kid would dip an Oreo in a glass of milk, and gobbled down his moistened treat.

Grackles rock!

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One of the Kids

I went to the gym today.  They have a really cool double waterslide, tube on one side, open top on the other.  I'm a tube girl.

After I worked out I put my swimsuit on, went outside, claimed a chaise, and lay down.  I've been very gradually working on correcting my funny school year tan...basically I'm tan only on the top of my chest in a scoop neck shape.  So I set my timer and did a brief "bake" on each side and then head over to the waterslides.  Up, up, up the stairs I went till I reached the top platform where I stood waiting with about a dozen kids under the age of ten.  I felt like an amazon towering over them and when my turn came this chick, four times older than all of her peers, blissfully and quite speedily slid down and...SPLASH!

And then I raced back up to do it again and again.  Love!!

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Smile

I go for walks every day.  Sometimes twice a day if I'm feeling particularly ambitious.  And when I'm walking I'm so, so, so happy!  Truly it's pure bliss.  And when I'm on my walks I always have a companion...one of my two sweet dogs or my iPhone playing podcasts from NPR shows (not the news).

What I've noticed is this.  I catch myself smiling or laughing goofily often throughout my walks.  I also catch a lot of other people not smiling or laughing.  And so one of my favorite things is to catch other people's eyes and share a genuine smile with them.  And I tell you what, I bet 90% of them return my smile...and if I'm with one of my dogs they got a big smile, too.

So go share a smile, they're seriously contagious!

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