Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

It's true, good weather days in our area are not as common as not so good weather days. But today is a perfect morning. I am sitting in my back yard listening to the symphony of birds and watching the groundhog stare at me from the little barn. One slight movement and he runs like a fox back under the barn. I grew up with ground hogs and muskrats and a variety of other wildlife. When we first moved to this house there was a family of groundhogs living under our foundation. Creative Ian devised an elaborate system to lure them out. Then Tim drowned them in the pool (pool wasn't ready to be used at that time-needed a new deck at the least). The funny part is what happened a few days later. Ian was taken out to dinner with 2 of his swim coaches. Amanda and Jessica Olbrys. He retold them the story of the groundhogs and their demise. Of course he was quite young and his voice a bit loud and animated as he was proud of his capture. I can only imagine what the other diners were thinking as he told the story!

Our backyard on July 4th