Nephew getting to drive Unca Tom's jet ski. One of the few times the ski was completely in the water all weekend. Doll Face and Daddy going for a swim.

She is taking a campers siesta. Me thinks she is dreaming of her staring role (someday) in the Nutcracker. She's getting ready to land.... I could sleep in that position if someone were to break my hip. She can actually continue up with her foot and tickle her ear with her toes. That's nothing, I can bend at the waist and touch my knees.

Youngest child, Tom, his sister in-law, and Marilyn decide to try to set up Dad's new tent, before he tries to do it himself. They are fearful it could land in the lake, if I did it. Older son taking pic, me in background preparing to Dutch Oven a nice sized piece of prime rib.

Sunrise on Camp Morrow. Milford Lake Kansas. This is what you do when the air mattress has won the battle.

Stress

I've read somewhere that stress is the body's attempt at overiding that strong inner urge to strangle someone who so richly deserves it. Or something close to that.
My current stress is from a threatening letter I got June 2nd. My Cell phone co, Cellular One, decided that they may have to suspend my service. (I'm glad to know that's what they call it. I can't get service within ten miles of home)
Well for probably four or five years now, they've been taking my bill out of my bank account via a debit card number. For some reason they stopped doing that. I called to see why they stopped taking it out of my account, thereby causing me to be deliquent. My conversation went like this.
Me- You have stopped taking my bill out of my account automatically, Why?
Cell One- Sir, has your card been cancelled, or have you changed banks.
Me- No
Cell One- Well you are now deliquent, we will need payment or we will be forced to suspend service.
Me- What service?
Cell One- Pardon me sir?
Me- Never mind, just take the payment out of my account, the same one you've been using for, oh, say, THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
Cell One- Sir the card number you gave us no longer works.
Me- Well what number are you trying to use that all of a sudden doesn't work?
Cell One-Sir we are NOT allowed to give out card numbers over the phone.
Me_ I'VE GOT MY NUMBER, HOW'S ABOUT I READ IT TO YOU TO SEE IF WE CAN PINPOINT YOUR MISTAKE.
Cell One- Okay give it to me.
I gave it to her.
Cell One- That's the number I have.
Me- Okay. Well that account is still open, and has enough money to pay your bill. Why didn't you just take it out.
Cell One- Sir I'll email them (I thought I had been talking to them) and let them know of your trouble.
Me- Uh... no, it's your trouble.
Cell One- This should take care of it. Good Bye.
I got a bill yesterday for the same amount plus another month. $264 WE MISSED YOUR LAST 3 PAYMENTS.
Me-I thought this was taken care of.
Cell One- Sir, we can't take PAST DUE balances out of an auto pay account. You will have to send a check or I can take the payment over the phone.
I gave them (you guessed it) the same acct/card # that they've been using.
"Okay, that card is good, that should do it" she said.
Is there even the remotest of chances that this is over???

Natural Beauty- Part I

Some of Marilyn's flowers shooting off their fireworks, a week early.

Natural Beauty

The Morrow's went camping last weekend on Milford Lake in Kansas. We were helping celebrate the fifth wedding anniversary of my son to this steely eyed beauty. She allowed me to snap this photo, early in the morn, just after emerging from their tent. It had been a long nite in a tent with the baby and husband. Oh that we could all look this good naturally.
But the real compliment I will pay to her is of the very highest order. She is a really good mommy! To me, there is nothing to accomplish, more important than that. (I should add that she has an excellent child rearing partnership going with the help from a good husband)
Happy Anniversary Kids!!

I cropped the picture below, a little bit. I didn't want to delete the blog because of the comment, so here's the same photo, just cropped a bit.

Two Views From the Front Porch- June 23rd, 05

{Click on Photos to Enlarge} Looking East from the porch. Someone needs to put a stake on that young redbud tree. Soybeans in the background. The John Deere furthest from the camera is hooked to a Field Cultivator. We use that ahead of the planter. The nearest John Deere is hooked to a row crop cultivator. Usually used to kill weeds, this one is rigged for 'ditching'. Or rather it makes a deep furrow between rows where we will run irrigation water in a couple of weeks.

6.23.05 Looking North from the porch. Ol yeller's had a hard couple of weeks hauling corn.