A Very Sad Day Today

  I just wanted to post that we lost our sweet Miss Calico.
      She was just outside the front door eating her food when I heard her food dish go flying and when I stepped outdoors saw her being attacked by 3 dogs-I was able to shoo them off but sadly they hurt her so bad the vet needed to put her down.
     Such a shock of events for sure. I called the county sheriff as there is no animal control or any city law enforcement here at the lake.  I wanted to report this as these must be wild feral dogs and could kill other animals or small children.
     We will be grieving for some time, feel so terrible her life ended in this way. We brought her home and buried her at the lake house.
     Friends are asking if we shouldn't have moved-I won't go there-life is fragile and precious no matter where we are in our lives.

  The last photo I took of our dear friend

You my internet friends are always so special to me, I just needed to share my sorrow.
   

My Saturday

  It was cool this morning, so I got myself outdoors early to start the task of pulling weeds-and are there ever so many out there.
   I started with the area that I had weed sprayed a couple weeks ago which is around the carport and to the right and back of my outdoor firepit-dutch oven cooking area.
Miss Calico always cracks me up-she was sound asleep in the middle of the dead weeds so I just pulled weeds around her-she ended up moving to here-had to grab the camera cause she looks so cute and comfy.  She has been sound asleep in that same spot for at least 4 hours now.

  Yesterday a couple friends picked me up and took us to meet an elderly lady who has lived in the same spot for 40 years and has gardens of flowers everywhere-a very magical place. Sorry no photos, I did remember to take my camera and then left it in the car-and didn't get back to get it. Hopefully we will visit her again soon.

   Yesterday I grilled out supper-hamburgers, leeks-sweet peppers-elephant garlic, and french fries.  I keep the french fries in the freezer and then just pull some out place on foil and place over the coals-love the smoky taste they get.

I may just bake a pie or cobbler in the dutch oven tomorrow morning.

I learned about Shutterfly this past week and decided to make up a hard cover photo book with photos from my Yellowstone trip-my book turned out soooo nice-much better than I had expected. It arrived in the mail today. I happened to catch them when they were having a big sale too-which made a big difference. I ended up adding 10 extra pages. It was difficult to decide on which photos but I think I captured my favorite moments. Here is a photo of the front and back covers. all the pages were very thick paper like a heavy cardstock-loving it

Happy 4th of July for all of you from the States.