Someone left these little guys on our sidewalk... |
And their larger siblings in our yard... |
I thought flamingoes playing duck duck goose would be funny... Dad thought taking all the color out of the picture would be funny... |
But he left the color in these flowers... |
And this one... |
But he messed around with this one somehow... I just can't quite figure out what he did... |
Mom ordered a ton (OK, more like 4.5 tons) of bark dust for us to spread by hand! |
We thought not actually getting this for Dad would be a great Father's day present! |
In case you don't know the punchline - 'Because you've got fine written all over you' - Is Dad a romantic, or what? |
How does that expression go? Like falling off a bicycle? Yes, I'm having a few issues, but I made it to Stubb Stewart State Park in one piece... |
I keep hoping I'll find some kind of inspiration and take some great pictures or have something witty and insightful to write about, but that apparently is not in the cards for this month.
In the cards of course comes from 'on the cards' and is related to fortune telling, not gambling. It is an old expression used in several novels from the 1800s, including everyone's favorite, Bleak House from 1852 which was actually a sci-fi novel predicting a dsytopian future in which an orange madman takes over the White House and rants about how everything is unfair and how he doesn't get the credit he deserves for being able to drink water out of a glass and walk down ramps...
But did you ever stop to think about all the places something can be in? In the abstract - in the act - in the air - in the altogether - in the back - in the back of my mind - in the background - in my bad graces - in the bag - in the balance - in the ballpark - in the best of health - in the biblical sense - in the black - in the blink of an eye - in your blood - in the boonies - in the buff - in the bull pen - in the can - in case of - in the catbird seat - in the clear - in the closet - in the clouds - in the cold light of day - in the cross hairs... and that's only the abc's... we haven't even started on in the dark yet and it is a long way to in the zone...
And what about the one's you maybe didn't know? In the pudding club? In the cactus? In the days of Queen Dick?
What else can I talk about this month? As you can see from the pictures, we didn't go anywhere, but we did get a lot of bark dust to spread. Caroline and Lucie did most of the work (Happy Father's Day to me.) We also celebrated our 24th anniversary, though it might be more accurate to say that we simply observed it this year. Hopefully by next year we'll be able to actually go somewhere (Caroline has hinted at Hawaii by subtly saying, "We should go back to Hawaii for our 25th anniversary.")
Of course the weather is always an exciting topic, and June in our part of Oregon has been its usual unusual self alternating between hot, sunny days and cold, wet days. It is time for July 4th so that summer can start and we can all complain about it being too hot and dry... I already can't wait to start complaining about how it is too cold and wet again... But that will have to wait until the next decade... you know in few months when many more years have passed...
Oh - did you want to know about those last three 'in the' idioms? In the pudding club is pregnant; in the cactus is a difficult situation; and in the days of Queen Dick is never... like "I love cauliflower" said no one in the days of Queen Dick.