~ Saturday Surprise ~

I mentioned in my entry yesterday that 'bug' had stopped by, so yes it is about yesterday.  It was late morning when my stomach started yelling at me.  'Feed ME' it growled over and over.  I got up and looked in the cupboards, looked in the fridge.  Nothing really caught my eye, but coffee, coffee, and more coffee was not doing the trick.  I remembered the left over fruit and decided that would shut the angry pest up.  I was just putting things out on the counter to put in a bowl and I heard my kitchen door.  I turned and it wasn't open wide, but it was moving slowly and open only a crack.  I thought maybe my sister hadn't shut it tight when she left and either the breeze had caught it or our community dog from upstairs was trying to sneak in.  I made my way over to shut it when the darkest eyes and biggest smile looked up at me through the crack.  She's so adorable!  Makes all the aches and pains disappear.  Her hair was all curls and pulled up off her face.  I told her she looked beautiful and she giggle, 'I know, lets take a picture'   Too damn cute!!  She ran to my living room and posed for me.  After I took the picture she went back to the kitchen to investigate.  She needed to know what I was doing.  So I gave her a taste of the fruit, of coursing putting some dip on it.  Her eyes lit up and she grinned ear to ear.  Next thing I know we are fixing her a bowl, not me.  She is climbing on the bar stool and pigging out.  Well, we all pigged out and finished off the fruit.  It was fun to sit and listen to her talk about going to community days, ride the rides, and see the fireworks (see entry from last night).  I have no idea where she gets the gift of gab :) 

 

The visit was really not a complete surprise.  I had tried to stop at their house the night before to drop off my old memory chip from my camera and no one was home.  Like I said I had bought a new one.  It holds a whole gig!!  I am so stoked over it.  Hopefully no more deleting the 'not so perfect' picture because I ran out of room.  When I got my new camera, last year I think, I gave my niece my old one.  What I didn't give her was the memory chip.  I kept it as it fit in the new camera too.  It was time, however. to expand my ability of taking a shit load of pictures.   My niece is thrilled too.  Since she really does nothing with the pictures but share via email (at this point in time anyway) I changed the settings so the pictures do not have to be resized to mail.  In doing so, it gives her the ability to store about 225 pictures at one time.  I gave her a reminder to make sure she loads them on the computer and delete off the camera.  My sister doesn't do hers until the card is full then she sits and waits while the transfer.  She doesn't get how much easier it is to do 40 or so as opposed to 240.  LMAO!  So half the time she leaves her camera behind because it is full. 

 

Did stop at my parents for a bit.  No big party for my Dad, just wanted to visit a bit.  It was nice to have time to talk without the commotion of people coming and going.  I lucked out as some had been there and gone.  After dinner we sat out back and my older brother and his wife showed up.  It was nice to see them and hear about their recent trip to Virginia Beach.  It wasn't long after the sun shifted that I started to shiver.  The temperatures had dropped a great deal.  I bid my good byes, gave kisses and headed home to dress warmer for the firework show.  On the way I found the cloud formations unbelievable.  Full and puffy.  Almost looked like cauliflower in the sky.  If you look at the one yellowed by the sun, it almost appears as though there is a face.  Right about the tree line, looking up.  See it?  As I took some shots I was notified with beeping and buzzing that my batteries were low.  So off it was to go get changed, charge the batteries, and get back to park in time for the beautiful light show.  Amazingly enough when I left my house the sky was clear and blue.  The huge clouds had moved on and it appeared the view would be perfect!  ::grin:: and it was.

 

Hugs

~d