Catch up

This days I am not sure what to do first. I have not blogged in quite a while. But I have good news. Our church has hired the new office administrator and my time as volunteer secretary is over at the end of the month. The good thing: I did have to figure out and learn how to do a few things on that PC and learning something new is always a good thing. 

Most of our friends are fully vaccinated. Life for us is almost back to normal. So, on Saturday June 5 we decided to invite some friends from the neighborhood for dinner on our back patio. Look who showed up when we got the patio ready with tables and chairs. Freddie is back. We had such a good time with our friends chatting and laughing that I forgot to take photos.

News later that day was not so good. Sarah and family had been invited to a friends' lake cabin for one night. They had to return early though because while fishing at the lake Caleb ended up with a hook in his thumb and his parents could not get it out. He had to be taken to the emergency room. 

Monday (June 7) James decided to treat ourselves with an outing. For once there didn't seem anything pressing on our calendars. We decided to drive to the York River State Park. It is fully open again. A passing ranger stopped to tell us all about the osprey nest on the (state park provided) pole. It was very interesting.

We had a nice walk along the river but mainly in the fores because it was very hot). 

Mmhh, yes, a very fast "good" snake crossing our path right in front of us.

I had had a hankering for a lunch at the Yorktown Pub. It sure has changed since we where there last time quite some time ago. There were many people and a tent had been put up. Outdoor seating suits us and we did not have to wait too long since it was almost 1:30 by now.

We splurged to have an appetizer ... fried oysters. Oh, they were good!

Ha-ha, my crab cake was not bad either. Good thing we had done a walk beforehand. 

On Wednesday we were lucky to enjoy our 4th (?) rhubarb dessert from our own garden. Unfortunately probably also the last.

Trying to please the birds. Have I mentioned that we are enjoying a true Virginia summer? It is hot. Twice we saw a bird drink out of the ant trap above the hummingbird feeder. So we decided to get a bird bath. We even got a little solar powered fountain. With good sun it is so strong that it could empty the bowl in no time. It came with several tops for several different fountain features but we ended up to leave it without any of it and there is only a little two inch high bubble. We are wondering though whether the birds are afraid of it so we took that fountain out today to see what will happen.

Yes, and that is it for this blog at the moment. Apropos blogs. I am always a bit self-concience about writing them but the other day I woke up at 2 am and (very unusual) could not get back to sleep. I decided not to fight it, went into the living room and read some of the Camino blogs. I was so happy reading and after an hour and a half went back to sleep.