Starting July With a BANG!!!

Perfect days & perfect nights ... sunny, and breezy, but getting pretty dry ... sooo out comes the sump pump for submurging into the pond and all the hoses to connect for watering the lawn and veggies (8 hrs a day for 2 days) ... then happily some overnight rain!

HAPPY 4th of JULY ... thunderstorms, fireworks & rifle shots! Sutter had a fear and now Willow has the same fear, so out comes the snug-wrapping "Thunder Shirt" and the herbal anxiety chewies!

Poor Willow ... she trembles during Thunderstorms, Fireworks
and Gun shooting heard in the distance!

But thankfully there are more sunny days for "pond play", chipmunk chasing, sister chasing/sparing and rolling in grass and dust bowls!!! The veggie plants look good...

Co-caretakers of the veggies ... our 1st Summer Squash!

Beautiful 4th of July at our pond!

"We're ready and waiting!!!

Looked who stopped by for a visit ... getting so big!

A year ago Sutter was supervising Willow, Emma & Mya
swimming ... we miss her!

Rainy days don't keep us in!!!

"WHAT ... you want me to pull these "Jugs-on-a-Rope" !!!
(Mya & Emma)

"Ohhh ... you just want us to count them!!!" (Emma & Mya)
(30 gals pond water trucked downtown to the Church garden)

Puppies love pulling "Jugs-on-a-Rope" (Emma 9 weeks)

Church garden ... "and WE Helped!"

Blueberry Pickin' has begun ... and cutting down all the
dead bushes around pond's edge!!! (Emma)

Willow Pickin'

Mya pulls Big Girl "Jugs-on-a-Rope" ... Willow  intrigued!

Once a year we make BB muffins ...
(the girls help pick and do the "licking" clean up!

Drying on their porch bed after an afternoon of swimming!
(Mya, Willow, Emma)