Y'all!
I have been PLAYING!
And now I have a better response to those who ask me What I Do.
"I'm retired".
I have been in the valley, on the river, hiking, playing, drinking to excess, pounding the bongos, cooing at babies, scritching dogs behind the ears, napping, reading, knitting.
Oh yeah, and someone hired me to do some work. FROM HOME.
I would feel guilty about having so much fun, but dammit, I deserve it. ::tosses hair and flutters eyelashes::
I've been taking walks here
and here
and at night I sleep here. In a King Size Bed. With six pillows. And then my husband brings me hot coffee and omelettes in bed for breakfast.
Yawn. Stretch. Sigh.
And in the afternoon, if I'm so inclined, I may take a drive to the local hotsprings to soak. Through this valley.
If the urge strikes, I may stop to pick some wildflowers.
There were a few birthdays of note. First, my nephew Tyler turned 11 on July 11th. He is a beautiful little boy, but I was a moron and didn't have my camera out for his party, which was held on the banks of Deep Creek in a log cabin around a fire. We are country and our necks are appropriately red. Proud of it.
Miss Madelyn made her one-year milestone, and celebrated with her very own cupcake. She didn't quite know what to think at first, but got the hang of it.
And last, but certainly not least, Miss Ruby turned two. The morning of her birthday (the day after her cousin Tyler's, so still in the woods), I sat with her on my lap next to the campfire to warm up for the day. She clutched her pink/gray/stick-infested-and-mud-grubby blanket in her right hand, with her left thumb firmly planted in her little cupie-doll mouth.
Her big sister Josey tiptoed up to her and whispered, "Ruby! You're two! You're a kid now!" As opposed to a baby.
I anticipate her future birthdays will have the lines a bit more blurred on stages of growing up, but until then, we will enjoy this two-year-old, who looks remarkably like her mama did at that age. Nutty hair and all.
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