The Best Days of May

After a lot of cold, wet days, we are enjoying the sunshine this weekend!

Heather and I do not have preschool on Fridays, so we had a nice day all to ourselves. Heather decided it would be a good day for a picnic for herself and some of her stuffed animals.

She spent the rest of the afternoon in our new hammock reading books to her stuffed animals. (This is between the two pear trees.)

On Saturday, Heather had a tball game, Wayne had a baseball game, and then Wes took the kids to Addy's graduation party. I went home with a lot of plans for yard and garden work, but what I really did was a whole lot of sitting on the porch with Spike and Patches.  Anyway, it sounds like the party was a lot of fun. All W,C, and H could talk about was Martha's pool. Congratulations to Addy.

On Sunday, Cole and I decided to spend some one-on-one time. I feel like I never get to do this with Cole. We wanted to go for a bike ride, and we thought we would beat the heat by going early in the morning. However, by 8:30 it was already getting uncomfortably warm.

We went up Perron Hill...

 ...and across the swamp road...

 ...which comes out by this farm on the Shadow Lake Road.  This horse was friendly as can be.  As we were riding by she came eagerly to the fence so we stopped to visit. 

 I don't know specifically what breed of draft horse she is, but she's massively muscular. Her hooves are the circumference of dinner plates. Just incredible. Yet gentle as a kitten. If horses could purr, she'd be purring as Cole patted her nose. She loved it when we patted her face and shooed the flies away from her eyes.  As we rode away, she followed along by the fence as far as she could. I'm sure she was saying, "Don't go. Don't go yet." We rode up around Daniel's Pond and then back the way we came.

 When I took Cole for a bike ride, Heather was heart broken that she couldn't go. She has learned to ride her bike, but the driveway is all she's allowed to do for now.  So to cheer her up, I told her that we  could go to Shadow Lake Beach in the afternoon. They all played at the beach for a while and then Wayne wanted to go fishing, so we went to the camp for a little while.

 As Wayne was fishing, a loon popped up right in front of the dock.

To top off the weekend, strawberry rhubarb pie for Sunday night dessert.

All day, Cole kept saying what a fun weekend this was and that it felt like summer vacation already.  Tomorrow will be a rude awakening when he has to go to school. The countdown begins.