Here's what we've been up to since my last post:
For Memorial Day Weekend we drove down to Disneyland. We wanted to get more use out of our annual passes, and also to have Clark stay with a housesitter for a few days to see how well he'd do with her. He knows Heather from PetSmart (she works there in the day camp), and he behaved really well with her. This is the first time we've left him with a sitter at home.
We had fun in Disneyland, as usual! The weather was great, and the crowds and traffic weren't nearly as bad as I expected. Here's a shot of me in my Mickey ears in front of the recently-refurbished Sunwheel in California Adventure:
The annual Food and Wine festival was going on while we were there, and we happened to be in the right place at the right time to take advantage of a free beer seminar and tasting that was going on. I don't like beer much, but Logan does, and he had a great time learning about how it's made.
Every time I go to the Disney parks, I wish I could bring their gardeners home with me. Their landscaping is so beautiful and so well themed to the different areas of the parks:
I still think it's neat that they figured out how to make a double balloon...
We're convinced our dog is at least part cat. The back of the sofa is his favorite place to be, and we haven't discouraged it much because it's an old sofa. When we get a new one things might change.
Clark really enjoys being around Logan, under his feet when he's working in the yard, and basically attached at the hip whenever possible. Here he is "helping" Logan put together his new Craftsman workbench in the garage.
Kisses are given freely!
Here's the new (almost finished) Craftsman side of the garage. Very red, isn't it? We're glad to finally have more than enough storage space for all of the tools and equipment Logan has collected over the past few years.
Here's the other side of the garage. It's our area for other storage- pantry items, work clothes, gardening tools, etc. (The garage is MUCH lighter than this now because Logan got all of our new lights installed this past week, but I haven't taken pictures of them yet.)
Our flowers in the backyard are huge this year, and we have gotten some big bumble bees buzzing around. I was practicing with the zoom lens on my camera.
I had a lovely crop of radishes. They turned out so large and fresh looking, but were way too spicy to eat. I think they were planted too late in the spring. I'll try again in the fall...
I'm growing beets for the first time this year. This picture was taken a week or two ago, so they much bigger now. They're looking good!
The soccer is ball is Clark's favorite toy ever. He finally popped it last week, after playing with it for almost six months. Not bad, considering he's a rough player. But he still enjoys chasing it around the yard even though it's popped.
A lazy Saturday morning, looking out toward the back door.
So, about our big adventure...Logan and I are leaving tonight for two weeks in London and Paris. Our flight leaves SFO at 7:30 tonight, and flies straight to Heathrow. We'll be in London for four days, on the coast of England visiting my friend Joanna and her parents for a day, and then back to London to take the train to Paris for a week. We're really excited, and will be taking the laptop with us. So I'm planning to put up a short blog post every few days to let everyone know what we've been up to. I've been learning French for the past few months so I can communicate a little while we're in Paris, and I'm excited to try it out after all of my hard work! We'll be in touch...
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