The fence came down

This doesn't really show the fence so much, but you can see at least part of the combination of snow fence, chain link and latice (among other things) that we put up for a temporary barrier to keep the dogs off of where we needed to put grass in the back yard. 

    Since building the shop, we've had nothing but barren ground (like you see to the left of the tree below) and a few weeks.  Nothing to keep the soil from washing down into our brick and covering about a foot or two along the edge. 

You can see here - my hostas aren't doing so good this year either - none of my flowers / plants seem to be doing so well this year.

We finally took the fence down and the dogs weren't sure what they could do, but they loved running, playing and just plain rolling on it!  There still is some areas that will need some patching, but hopefully it will work out.

Zep's Haircut

Megan was over today and.....




Zep got himself a haircut

He actually was quite relaxed here.

Lots of fur left behind.












It will even out in a couple of days, but for now, he's so much cooler, and not so prone to those hot spots he keeps getting.

remi and the butterfly

Remi and and Zeplin spotted a butterfly floating around the yard.  Remi became fascinated by it and in her most stealth manner, eased up to it until it finally flew away to the other side of the fence.

Uphoff Updates: Speechless

You've gotta go see the new picture of our grandbaby at:
Uphoff Updates: Speechless

Alyssa's Birthday

Alyssa Ann Patterson turned 2 yesterday.

This is her with her daddy looking over the new Eye Spy quilt Nana made her.

You can see all the rest of her Birthday pictures at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/brianina/PattersonS#

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALY!!!

Guardian Remi

Remington is guarding the babydoll dressed in baby Brian's sleeper. As soon as I put it here, Remi went over, sniffed it out and layed down next to it just like she does with any baby that she gets to meet.

Sorry about the poor picture, I only had my cell phone.

Update:  The next morning when Brian got up, he found Remi had apparently decided that since we weren't going to take proper care of the baby - she would have to.  Brian found the babydoll actually ON the couch, with Remi right next to it.  With closer examination, we found the Right foot of the sleeper outfit a little dirtier and with a couple small punture holes.  We only wish we would have had a camera capturing how she drug that babydoll across the room, and got it up on the couch.   

    We don't know, maybe Zeplin helped her out, but I have a feeling if Zep even came close to the baby, Remi would have told him to 'back off' in no uncertain terms.  So it would have been a pretty fair struggle for her to get that babydoll up onto the couch where she wanted it to rest.

Mom n' Dad's Anniversary

This is just 2 little videos from my camera phone of Mom & Dad cutting the cake at their 60th Anniversary celebration. They were married May 20th, 1950. This is a replica Angel food cake make by Becky.