Griffin goes to.........................

The garden!  Finally, we've all decided today is the day.  The watermelon has

been inspected and is ready to pick!

Griffin looks a little nervous.........

Oh, please be careful!  I can just see it going SPLAT! 

After all of this anticipation----let's get it to the house in one piece!

Griffin is so proud!

Hurry , you two, the suspense is killing me!

SCREAM!!!!!!!!

She's a beauty!  Thanks Papa for giving us the gardening

wisdom back from the days when he would grow fields of

watermelons for all of the neighbors!

Remember, until the melon turns a whitish color on the bottom and

the little curly cue vine nearest to the connection is dry and curled

up, the melons will not be sweet and ripe!

GRIFFIN GOES TO.......................

Where oh where is Griffin?

Oh where oh where could he be..............

Tybee Island , Georgia!  Home of the famous oldest working lighthouse.

We made it just in time to climb to the top (12 flights) of stairs.....I thought

I was going to die and Dad had to stretch out those cramped muscles

while Griffin and I shopped the museum shop!  

We didn't get much time to awe at the ocean view, storms were

blowing in and there was a lightning bolt spotted!

Down we go.

Chief Griffin.......

Remember the bee screaming kid on the Inn Of The Mountain

Gods golf course?????

Well, I quickly swept him out of there and into town

to do a little curio shopping!

My little chief is in school everyday now.....

It's so quiet around here...........

Thank goodness we only came home with a headdress

these thrifty "junk" tourist shops are a must

though when going to Ruidoso!

Happy boy...................

Back to school blues..?????  Not for this sweet young boy!  He LOVES school.....

just not the dreaded 1st day picture...........

Sad boy...............

Bryce celebrated his 19th b-day a few weeks ago!  But he's sure sad today.....

his sweetheart is going "back to school"!  What a fun summer and good

times had by all.......time for changes.........time for challenges.........

time for discipline..........but "time" goes by so fast!

Hang in there Bryce.......

Father's Day 2014

Inn of the Mountain Gods in Ruidoso, New Mexico is such

a treat for a Daddy golfer (serious) and a Jr. golfer (not serious)

but what a beautiful day .......

this is going to be fun (not!)

So big!  Getting to go play golf on a REAL golf course other than our

hometown "goat" ranch.....

Waiting so very quietly for Daddy to tee off....

be still and just watch the father tells him....

put your hands behind your back even so you

can be still............

A BEE!!!!!!!!!  A BEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  A BEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As loud as you can get, and on a quite golf course I think

they heard this all the way back into town!!!!!!!