August Birthday Celebrations

We began with a double celebration for Mark & Scott's birthdays as they are 10 days apart

Dani found these t-shirts on the web & thought them perfect for Scott & Deidre for their present living situation!

LiLi had made a birthday card for Uncle Scott

This kid always designs something appropriate

She was little "Suzie Homemaker" that day serving drinks & food. Here she is fixing the birthday cake

She had color coded the candles that they each had to blow out

A week later we headed up into the hills to do the birthday thing again. Seeing Scott's was that "special" number Deidre decided to have a last minute party for him with her family

In the background is the ground clearing for the new house

There were dogs everywhere.....8 in total

The chickens have grown & were enjoying some outside time

Again we had birthday cake

Mark & Scott both got the same present from us......a replica of an London rail station clock

Love Val💜

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Designer "doggy uggs"

Poor Molly has been having a hard time already this winter with the snow. She has good size pads on her feet which are "webbed" like a lab's foot. When she goes in the snow it builds up in between her pads & forms a hard piece of almost ice-like snow. Then she holds her foot up for someone to pull it out. I decided to make her her own boots. Jessica had spent the night here as we went to First night for new years....more on that later.....so we "googled" how to make dog boots & then modified it to work for Molly. Keep in mind these were boots you could make in 10 minutes. It took approx 10 mins to measure Molly's feet. Two hours later here's the results I did decide to make her 2 for each foot figuring she would be like any typical kid & lose a couple here & there. We had to go to W*lmart in the middle of the project to get velcro to make the fasteners. We then made her wear them around the house for a while ...

Work, cat bites. hospital.....

After a long winter I went back to work on Thurday & as usual it was crazy with the phone ringing off the wall! The weather wasn't that great but golfers in the northeast are like caged animals who are finally free! We had good weather predicted for the weekend & I was scheduled to work both days. After a very long day Saturday I finally got done around 8 pm & was meeting Popster & Jess in Ballston Spa at a surprise birthday party for Jeff & Colby. Jess met me in the parking lot & said she was leaving as she had also worked all day. She showed me her arm where she had been bitten by a cat earlier at work. She had gone to urgent care & they gave her antibiotics & she went back to work. Before I left for work Sunday at 5:30am I woke her up to look at it & didn't like the way it was swelling up. I told if it didn't look better when I got home at lunch we were going back to urgent care. This is what it was...

11 years ago.........

......we finally got to see this face Love

Life from where we are

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