Hi, everyone!
Grandma and Grandpa have been taking me back and forth between Fairport and the bay. Mostly I’ve been helping with summer maintenance and having July adventures! Grandpa installed the floor boards in the boathouse that Grandma and I cleaned, then Grandma stained them. It’s a good thing that was an inside job, because the cottonwood fuzz came down heavier than ever! And some bird left me a very interesting feather with two colors on it!
There was a leak in the bathroom sink at the bay, and I helped Grandpa fix it. Then I helped Grandma finish the tropical fish jigsaw puzzle.
Sodus Point held their fireworks display on July 3. We didn’t have a construction barge to watch from this year, but we did watch from our dock. There were fireworks going off all around us, in addition to the official show! The official show is far enough away that we didn’t hear the explosions from the finale until the sky was already dark!
In July, the water level in the bay goes down and the plants grow, in the water and out. Grandma doesn’t take me with her when she is doing serious water chestnut clearing. There’s no clean place for me to sit in the kayak when she’s piling weeds on it! We were both sad my friend Moose-san wasn’t around to enjoy them when she brought this load home! While Grandma was weeding, Grandpa pruned the branches back from the stairs down to the boathouse.
In Fairport, the impatiens in the window box are getting lots of blossoms, and I have some new friends! There’s a baby rabbit that lives under the holly bushes! Last year, somebody ate the flower bud off the Peace rose right before it was ready to bloom. This year, I got to make friends with the blossom!
Uncle Steven’s family took a trip to Oregon and Washington and stayed with Uncle David’s family part of the time. They got back last Friday after an overnight flight. Grandma invited them to come for dinner and I helped her make pizzas with custom toppings. James got his favorite “nothing but cheese” and Thomas got red sauce, mozzarella, black olives and pepperoni. The adults had pesto, alfredo sauce, Italian sausage crumbles and balsamic vinegar with a little bit of mozzarella.
Thomas made a cocoon while he waited for the pizza to bake. Even though Uncle Steven’s family were all tired, we had a nice supper together. Of course, James and Thomas had gummi bears as a post-baking additional pizza topping!
After Uncle Steven’s family left, Grandma and Grandpa and I went out to the bay. We got there in time to watch sunset. I liked how the clouds changed color after the sun went down!
Saturday morning, we had a pretty sunrise. It was too windy for Grandma to go weeding from the kayak, so she fed the azaleas instead. Then Grandma and I both helped Grandpa do more pruning. He bought a very sturdy pruning attachment for his pole saw. It has a very long pole! Grandma and I had to help him hold it so he could prune back plants partway down the front bank. We have a better view of the water now!
Now we’re back in Fairport, and I’m enjoying watching my Peace rose blossom friend change every day. The first of the double day lilies bloomed today, too!
Love,
Lion-san
Wonderful fish puzzle. Would love to have it if you are done with it.
The double lily is very pretty.
Great Aunt Betsy.
You are a good story teller, Lion-san! I liked the fish puzzle and all the flowers. And isn’t it amazing how many different sunsets there are! That long pruning pole looks a little scary – I hope you and Grandma were enough weight to balance it!
Grandma Sue