Pre-pool activities (before the pool)

Here is a short video of the girls and Fenric the dog are playing in the sprinkler. The girls almost always have to get their hair wet before doing anything else! I don't know why, it just is the way they are. So for the entire time the girls are working on their hair-do's, Fenric is trying to conquer the sprinkler, at one point, not on the video, putting his mouth around the sprinkler to contain it!! I like just watching, it's pretty entertaining.

To swim or not to swim

So July's theme is SWIM. Well, being that it is summer, I can do that! This month will be devoted to swimming in the real sense as well as in the abstract, such as swimming in thoughts, pictures from the recent few months and random swimmers itch! We'll see if I can actually stick to it this month. I don't have work, school (homework) or any other things to distract me. I will say I have lots of catching up to do from the past 16 moths, but with time and persistence I'll get caught up. . .

SO I BEGIN. .

Today it is going to be up to 100 degrees here in the great midwestern state of Wisconsin. We decided this year to get the girls a pool that they can use for the entire summer and we did not have to repeatedly fill and empty, fill and empty. . . .So we bought this~

And the girls love it. It's still a little cool/cold for the grown ups to go into, but yesterday after a lovely 90 something degree day, it felt "doable". Today I considered going in and then after lunch actually did go in and play with the girls. It was lots of fun.








We started out the summer with this! and it was just not a groovy pool! I'm sure you will concur!

Long time no post

I know, I know. . . I've just not posted. Easter came and well. . . I just got busy with end of the year school stuff and now that school is finished, I can breathe a bit. I've got lots of pictures and stories, now I just have to get them up!!

wordless wednesday

Here are some more protest pictures

I think (actually I know) I'm glad that I didn't post anything while the protests were going on. Why? Well, because I think I might have blown up on the blog. . . I really don't want to offend anyone, but I DO feel it's important to be able to have and state an opinion. There were many a conversation had that included topics around friends and family not talking because of the differences in opinion. I really don't want to be that way! What I have been continually asking myself throughout these past few months is "Who benefits from this bill?" I surely know who will be hurt with the passing of this bill and it will be millions of people.




I feel my blood boiling just a bit remembering all the media talking about all of the "union thugs" that have been living high off the hog in WI. HELLO!! Okay, I'll stop, get off the soap box, remember I don't want to offend anyone~ Keep calm. . . .




In short, I think the 14 DEMS did a damn good thing leaving the state and camping out in Illinois so that this bill could explode and be brought out into the public the way it was. This is what my tax dollars are spent on and believe well spent! Here is a video that I took (I did take many, just not all turned out the greatest) from one evening at the capital. (I've tried twice to upload video without success! I'll try again after school)



I'll post some more great pictures tomorrow from when the 14 dems came back to the capital. The crowds were 100,000+ people! And not ONE incident!

This is how we spent February

We protested at the capital. Yes, the capital building in Madison, Wisconsin with thousands of others who were outraged by the new Governor's bill. . . Here are some pictures~







This is our crew in the car on our way to Madison.









This is inside the capital. I have quite a few of these~





















Mine and Bobbie's girls exercising their rights to protest the injustice!

feel like a poll

but don't know what to do a poll on? share some of your ideas . . .