Resting on the weekend

This was a very pleasant weekend. I didn’t have anything that I had to do. I worked in the garden; I put up pickles and tomatoes, and have my sister, my friend Wendy and their kids over for dinner Saturday. We ended up with some extra kids, but we usually do, no bug deal.

After dinner Danna, Wendy and I played some dominoes while the kids ran around outside and played. There were 4 girls and 2 boys from 10 years old to 14. As is the usual case, the boys and girls seem to group themselves together and then proceed to pick at each other. The girls decided they needed a force field and ended up sitting in Wendy’s car while the boys made faces in the window and blew bubbles at the car. I can’t explain it, I just report it.

Of course the girls had to whine and complain about being bothered by the boys so we told the boys to get away from the car and leave the girls alone. Their answer to this was to move a couple of feet away and continue to make faces and blow bubbles. Again, I can’t explain it.

Eventually the girls got tired of sitting in the car and decided to go play in the field behind my house, and they let the boys go too. Before too long they are running in out showing us what they’ve found and reporting each others words and actions. Alright, they were tattling.

Oh yeah, did I mention that Rusty, my sisters big red dog is there too? Running around chasing the kids and generally being in the big middle of everything. One of Rusty’s favorite things is to run out one door, go all the way around the house and in the other door. It’s enough to make you dizzy. Saturday he was doing is typically circuit around the through the house, and all of a sudden there’s another dog with him. A brown and white dog we have never seen before. A really friendly guy who was really enjoying Rusty and the kids. After about 20 or so loops through the house and some wrestling on the front lawn he disappeared as quickly as he arrived. I think I will call him the Lone Ranger.

I guess it’s just another day in an everyday life.

P.S. I won at domineos!! Hey me!!