at MPS airport...
(loved all the free-to-use iPads all over the place...)
...at the RDU airport....
...and back at home...
meow!!
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Sat. June 20
( just the pictures)
good morning, sleepyhead!
good morning, sleepyhead!
Visiting Papa with my mom, brother and his dog.
Dinner at Mexican restaurant with Mom and other brother, Brad, who recommended I try a Blue Moon beer, which has orange fruity notes to it. not bad. (now i'm sleepy!)
Eau Claire, Wisconsin isn't exactly Mexico, but this outside seating was nice.
Salad with jumbo blackened shrimp, yum!
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Friday, June 19, 2015
travels with Raphael
Took a drive with my brother Dean and his furry boy, Raphael. Raphael, one of my many furry nephews, is an English shepherd.
He enjoys riding in the car. Even on boring trips to Walmart.
hey, look at this....!!!!
Only in Wisconsin: Green Bay Packer flip-flops!!
I reward Raphael by giving him lots of walks.
my faithful leader.
(he loves to sniff a lot, so I just wait.)
If you go too fast on down the path, you miss out on
the beautiful things...like these pretty wildflowers that I'll bring to my dad's hospital room.
stop and smell the daisies, bruh!!
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Monday, June 8, 2015
late night run
Took a late night run tonight.
Had to get out of the house. Mind spinning. Emotions out of control. If I don't make some productive use of this emotional energy, I might do something that would scar my children's emotions for life. even if it set me free.
So I laced up and ran down the street. Had a flashlight in my pocket, that I used occasionally, to be seen by motorists, but still had a sense of unease. I used to always go running at night in my college days, but that was a small town, a different time period.
Tonight I knew that female joggers, especially those with pony tails, can be prime targets for assaults, rape.
But I was feeling so distressed, so out of control, that I almost didn't care, almost welcomed the horrors of a rape; after all, it would just reinforce the sickening sense of shame i carry around with me anyway. why not, just reduce me to an even lower piece of slime.
Not like this cute little snake, though, (snakes aren't slimy) that I spied on the sidewalk, lit up by the streetlight.
(i think the poor guy was dead).
death. just what i don't need to think about some more tonight.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Saturday at the Outer Banks
Saturday morning: Woke up to see two special visitors in the backyard of our condo: 2 young deer!
They were grazing in the grass near the water, and they seemed somewhat unafraid of us,
as they simply hopped over the fence, stared at us awhile, and eventually ran off.
Then it was beach time. Loaded up the car and drove a mile or so to the other side of the island.
Set up the umbrellas, played in the sand, jumped over some shorebreak waves,
but water temps only in the 60's prevented us from doing any swimming.
Still nice.
Back to the condo village for more pool time, and some baseball practice with Colby.
A last frolic on the sandbar...
oh and just one bathroom selfie.. (while checking those tan lines!)
Goodbye, salt water, sand and sunshine!
Love you!!!
(p.s. time to condense my wave-tossed thoughts into my other blog again...)
Monday, June 1, 2015
Friday at the Outer Banks
Back home again, and time now to look back at these lovely pictures, reminisce the peaceful natural surroundings we enjoyed last week and catch up on the blog.
Friday morning: Picture perfect calm waters, so nice for kayaking the sound. Took Sam out, she wanted to go WAAAAAAAYYYY out, even to cross over to the NC mainland! (lofty goals, yessiree..) so i went right along with my captain's directions.. but then as we got WAAAAAAYYYYYY out there, she suddenly realized that we were no longer able to touch the bottom with our paddles. That unnerved her tremendously because, as she put it, "it's not that we c an't touch the bottom, but what may be lurking in these deep waters!" So we rather vigorously spun around and began paddling back to the shallower, safer waters and the sandbar in front of our condo.
Friday afternoon: pool time! Water was still too cold for me, so I spent most the time lazing in the sun.
peek-a-boo!
Dinner time treat- ate at a seaside fish restaurant, right on the Nags Head pier.
And while the kids kept busy coloring their kid menus...
...mommy took a look at the drink menu! And how could i not sample the local brew, an OBX Beer, while on the OBX!!
Is the glass half empty or half full?
(seriously though, this was all i could drink...i'm not much of a drinker anymore, just a few sips, ok a few gulps will do, any more than this and i be sick!!!)
Fun on the beach after dinner.
What comes after Friday?
Saturday, of course! Stay tuned!!!
(thank you for your patience!)
love, jennerosity