Category: Family

A New Man

There are a total of four updates today, so be sure to read them all and not just this one.

I got new glasses! My prescription changed only very slightly, so I questioned the need for new glasses. To make a long story short, I wish the optometrist that was at the store when I went to pick them up was the one that had been there when I ordered them.

But I am used to them now, and like them. They do make me see a little better as well, especially at a distance. Our new TV looks even more impossibly sharp 🙂

Here’s me wearing them, taken just a minute or so ago:

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Cross Legged Princess

Daisy crosses her legs a lot, and sits like a princess whilst doing so:

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You may be able to tell in the middle shot I have been grooming her a lot. In fact, using a wide-toothed comb and a pair of scissors, I have trimmed most of the fur down both of her sides and a good portion of her underbelly. Why? She gets matts, very bad ones. At first she hated being trimmed, but now she seems to enjoy it. From me at least; she still doesn’t let KLS do it!

Susans

Our black-eyed susans are in full bloom:

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We have six plants in total. The one on the left in the above photo was planted last year; the one on the right was planted back in May of this year. As you can see they produce many flowers, and keep flowering well into fall (since the flowers take a long time to die off, we had blooms even when the first snow fell last year).

Incidentally it was only 88F today outside, which is the first day this week that the temperature has not broken 90F. It was 98F on Tuesday!

We had the driveway resealed today as well. You may note it looks unusually clean and black in the above photographs.