We've been Adopted

"Mommy" cat has been visiting us for several weeks now. Patches and her get into quite the screaming matches. And respecting Richard's wishes, we haven't feed her...until this weekend. Richard has been building me a pond in our front yard (By our front door). We got the pond in the ground and filled it with water to make sure that it wouldn't leak a couple of weekends ago. Since then, we have had other things to get done and the pond was put to the side...still with water in it. On Friday, Richard and I went to Pebble Junction and picked out our rocks to go around the pond and to build the waterfall. So we got up on Saturday ready to place the rocks around the pond, when we noticed two kittens drinking out of the pond. That is when we realized that the cat that has taken up residence in our yard is a Mommy...mommy to FIVE kittens. Sooooo...we feed her and her five kittens. Now that we're feeding this family, they are staying in our front yard and we have to say...they are so cute!!!! But one sad thing though, Mommy cat is very friendly and not quite full grown herself. I think that Mommy cat was someone's cat until she got pregnant and then she was put outside. It's my goal to get the kittens friendly enough to take all of them to the SPCA and get them their shots, dewormed and spayed or neutered...we'll see.

Memorial Day Memories

We had Tyler, Colton, Wesley and Dakota spend Saturday with us so that Brent and Emily could get their rental home ready for the new tenant. The kids LOVE to play with one another. They have built a "condo" out of branches and leaves in our dried up lake bed. I had planned on Tacos for dinner but my Hubbie convinced me that we had to grill hamburger and hotdogs. Tacos just aren't an American food for our American Holiday. Todd was able to spend the day with us as well since his travel plans were changed.(I have a great picture of the kids and Uncle Todd along the pool until I noticed that Todd is showing plumber's crack...so it's not on the blog)

Then on Sunday, we took the boat and the Criste family to Disappearing Island. It's called Disappearing Island because when the tide comes in...the island (which I think is actually a HUGE sand bar) is under a couple of inches of water. The pictures are of us trying to move things out of the water, but eventually you just give up and know that everything is going to get wet...that's part of the fun of the island. Being that is was Memorial weekend, the island was so crowded which is part of the fun...you end up making new friends. A couple of neat things happened. One was three F14 Fighter planes fly above us in a formation and then antique Mustang Fighter planes fly above. It made you salute!