Have you ever seen the old movies where they quickly tear off the months on the calendar to show how long it had been between scenes?  Well, that's how it felt to me this morning as I tore  the month of June off of our calendar as we move into the month of July.  It truly amazes me how fast time is passing and the older I get......the faster time passes.

In just four weeks time we will be in mid-summer!  My granddaughter just got out of school for summer vacation.  Before I know it, she will be back in school and I know we won't have had time to do half of what we had planned with her.

It wasn't always like this.  When I was her age, summer vacation seemed to go on forever.  I lived in an old mill neighborhood that was filled with kids my age.  We played hard from right after breakfast to when the streetlights came on at night, never stopping except for meals.  Gosh, in some ways I miss those carefree times, but....no....I wouldn't want to relive them.  It's much more enjoyable watching Sally live these days for the first time and seeing the delight on her face as she discovers the world around her.

So, here I will pray that time has mercy on this old woman and that the days may linger just a little longer giving me a little more sweetness of a summer that will soon be gone.

It looks like the middle of summer here, yet, the official date is still four days away.  With all the rain we have had, it almost looks like a jungle in my back yard.  Everything is so green.  Sometime today I have to get into the gardens and do some weeding before they over take the plants.  My bleeding heart is HUGE!!!  It easily takes up a third of the garden now.  We have had that plant for five years and I'm not sure if it will continue spreading over the next several years.

I'm getting some work done.  Wouldn't you know it......my clothes dryer went on the fritz and I had to take my laundry to the laundromat this morning.  Thank goodness it hasn't gotten hot yet.  The hotter it gets, the worse my asthma symptoms become.  Anyway, that is done and the dryer will be fixed sometime between 1p-5p tomorrow.  So, now I need to put away the clean clothes, clean my floors with the new vacuume cleaner Ben and Rachel gave us as a gift during their vacation with us.  After that I'll putter around the house picking things up and putting them away as I go.

Sally will be staying with us for one more night before going back with her mom tomorrow after school.  Boy, it's been hard getting her up these past couple of mornings.  She really hasn't wanted to go, because it's boring the last week of school before summer vacation.  Her birthday is this coming Friday and I know she is going to want to skip school.  I'll talk to Dee and see what she thinks about it.

Well, I'm not getting any work done here.....so.....I'll stop typing for now.