A couple of them have spent the night with us nearly every night since we got home. Teenage grandkids, and they want to spend time with us. Imagine that! Now that school is out they're asking if they can, when we get another contract, go with us for the summer! Amazing.
But while we're here at home, they are enormous help catching up on chores. They mow the lawn with my big green tractor, dig trenches for water lines to the chicken coop, they cut down some of the trees that died in last years drought and haul them to the wood pile for burning...
Is that a big tree? or a small tractor? That's a big boy for certain! He's just a sophomore, but he'll be playing varsity football the rest of his high school days.
While working the flowerbeds we ran across this itty-bitty pine tree. Well, I don't want it growing in my flowerbed next to the house. (Pine trees are notorious for growing up big and tall then dropping limbs on your house in wind storms! I can just see animated cartoon pine trees grinning to beat the band and yelling, "Bombs away!") So we will move this lil' feller away from the house so he can "green up" the lawn in the winter time.
We love spring and summer in Texas. That's when the pear cactus blooms...
and Texas sage blossoms:
This is a lime tree (see all the baby limes?)
We also planted a few tomatos, squash, and bell pepper plants. It's a wee bit late to do that, but it'll be okay! We probably won't be here to harvest anything - our kids and grandkids can do that - but we just love to grow things...
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