Summer time...

We have had a great summer. I haven't been cooking too much because we have been busy and grilling out a lot. Pretty boring I know. I do have a couple of recipes to show off later, but for now I wanted to share a couple of fun photos from this summer.

John and I were on one of our 'bookstore' dates when we stumbled across this.....
Mall Cops, hard at work.... (too funny)

We recently went to the drive-in to see a movie (pretty bad experience not deserving of its own blog post). This was a little while before they started the movie. (#29 complete, but I hope I get to redo this one and have a better go at it.)

Rachel and I have enjoyed spending a little time going to garage sales the past few weekends. It has also been very hot. This was after I mistakenly opened the fridge to get a water and realized how great it felt. I know, bad for the electric bill....

Last night we decided to give the dogs a bath. That was nothing short of entertaining for Jeff and Rachel, who took these pictures. Brinks was just nasty. John kept making terrible faces. And 'B' just kept shaking all over us! Too funny!

We see how John helps, he played most of the time while I scrubbed Spooky. She didn't mind the bath though because she loved the attention. (yes I decided to stand in the water for Spooky because she weights about 60 lbs. and I wanted to be close to her.)

I hope to get to blog some other fun stuff and recipes this week. Everyone have a great Wednesday night!

Garden updates....

I just realized as I started to show off my flowers, that I haven't blogged about them in 2 months!!! A lot of things have happened in the garden since then. These are pictures I took yesterday. I am so glad that some roses actually managed to grow with my brown, black spotted thumb! It is a chore to manage, but well worth it so that I can show it off.

A beautiful rose in the front garden. (I recently mastered the Macro setting on my camera)

I can't remember what these are called. Ignore the grass. We've been out of town and we hadn't got to the back yard yet.

These yellow roses are nearing the end, but there were so many I had to get a shot. There were so many more that had bloomed while I was gone. Too bad.

A white rose in the back garden.

This picture refuses to turn the way I upload it. I'm sure I had some goofy setting on my camera forcing it to do this. Oh well. Just tilt your head to the left... There ya go...
This is not a very good picture, and that is why I wanted to show it to you. On vacation last week, I read some of the manual that came with my camera. I learned what settings to use for some things, and this is a picture I took before I knew what to do.
Isn't Brinks the sweetest dog ever... I thought I would leave you with this adorable face...