Beautiful August weekend

Enjoyed repeatedly running the dog all weekend and her sister came out to visit with the grandkids. The smiles on the dog's faces was only matched by the length of their tongues hanging out of their mouths. My grandson proceeded to give my an unintentional head butt to the liver.....lights out pain, and surprising power from a four year old who wrestles with his dad using head butts......Papa was neither ready, nor cannot still get rid of those liver pains, but way too much fun with the grandkids this week. No swimming in the river this weekend because I have some sores on my feet and do not want to chance an infection with the schedule next week.

I speak great three, four and five year old.......it is a special language, and my daughter and son keep asking how I can understand what they are saying.......I just tell them it was all those years on the PNJ forum.....

It was a beautiful day to be alive. Nature has all the damn answers and it does not require a bank account to get them.......just the patience to appreciate the gifts we have been given.

Sometimes the beauty of a barrier island or waterfront does not get a bit more beautiful or appreciated with the building of a house. I have done this too many times to count, and all it really does is distract from the beauty which initially was responsible for the decision to build. Simple pleasures and simple values carry the day, and rarely get swept away by nature..........I stand in awe of the power of nature and realize how utterly insignificant my time has been trying to get the best of nature. I love this song and it will play at my wake because it nails down a basic principle.......pillars of salt and sand.......way too autobiographical......

It has been particularly nice not to deal with the damage of a Hurricane. It has become almost a decade now since the first of the two successive Hurricanes and I must say I never thought it would be this long. What horrible luck to get two back to back. Now people are just holding their breadth.

cleaning fence lines and its hot , take a break then go back out.