the graduates~

Night before last,  Grandma Mel and Grandpa Slim had a very important event to attend ... the 4YK Graduation Ceremony.

Here is our proud granddaughter, the graduate ~ Bailey

and our great niece ~ the graduate ~ Julie

and our neighbor children that we baby sat until school started for them ... the graduates Morgan & Megan ~

Big sister Brooke... getting bored with the whole thing. 

a family shot of my daughter Staci with her crew

It was so fun watching the little ones get their diplomas. Now they will be in Kindergarten class next fall.   They will be the high school graduating class of 2023.  Wow... if that doesn't make a person feel old.
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Slim and I went fishing yesterday...

all we caught besides a good sunburn were undersized small mouth and large mouth bass

got reprimanded by a loon for being too close to her nest

which someone put boards around to protect it from boaters and a little deck on it ...

notice the two eggs in the nest

We were also getting the evil eye from this goose.  There was another one there with it ... and I believe some little ones in the taller grass; but we didn't see them.

Cool Reflections

When we got home the weather was looking pretty threatening... big rain clouds building up.

My poppies finally opened while we were gone...

and this morning the wind and rain has them all laying down... but they'll

pop up again when the weather clears.  I guess that must be why they're called 

poppies!

I snapped off two photos of them when we got home last night from fishing.

Until next time...

So it goes in my neck of the woods.

~mel