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Well , the three princesses were here at MiMi's house. They had so much fun playing with the yellow ducks, chasing bugs, shooting squirt guns and running those cars into the fence. Oh, yes and of course there were hours of playing Barbies, and temporary tatoos. I think the shining moment is when we did our belly dancing with the sparklers, and when Holly rode the Barbie car around the yard. I guess as I blog tonight you baby girls are resting your little heads somewhere around El Paso, Texas and then on to 29 Palms. What Little gypsies you have become. I can not wait until you settle and get all your things back...like your pink kitchen you will feel like it is Christmas again. You have been such brave little travelers. Bailee is coming tommorow and we are so excited, she will help us with the void we have in our hearts that your leaving left. You know Bailee Boo when she arrives it is a party. She is going to Disney World too, so that will be a great time for her. All my little baby girls are military Brats now...three Navy and one Marine.

As much as I miss you all , I am still glad that you will get to have so many adventures. Speaking of adventures, Uncle Bryant or Bailee's Daddy had quite an adventure over the fourth of July , he was in New York City and got to play for the opening of the crown of the Statue of Liberty, it had not been open since that day in infamy when 9-11 happened. Guess what your Great Great Grandfather Anthony Luciano came from Italy and came to New York through Ellis Island where the Statue is. Uncle Toto has a picture of the ship he came on and the manifest that has your great great Grandfather listed. Uncle Bryant loves New York and he played at a Yankee game. Mi mi loves New York too, and went with friends there on her 50th birthday, and Mommy and Daddy Christopher had their honeymoon there. I am attaching a clip from the news in Georgia that shows Bryant and the Marine band preparing for New York. Watch it and look for Uncle Bryant.

Rain Barrel

Playmate come out and play with me 

and bring your dollies three climb up my apple tree

shout down my rain barrel  

slide down my cellar door

and we'll be jolly friends

forever more!

Oh playmate I cannot play with you

my dolly's got the flu

Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo

ain't got no rain barrel

ain't got no cellar door

but well be jolly friends 

forever more!

Hey baby girls Scott and Mimi made a rain barrel, when it rains the water will collect and we can use it later to water all those flower you all love to pick ...that way we save some money, help the environment, and rainwater is the best for plants. (kind of like breast milk hard to engineer) we are painting it today and will post a picture, Scott has it kind of looking like a still, I thought he should paint it to look like a whiskey barrel and paint Jack Daniels on it. I think I will add a survey to this post cause Scott says he has never heard the above song...please tell me Holly I taught it to you or I will fail like I left something out of your childhood . Of course we never did have a rain barrel, nor did have an apple tree, and no place where we had a cellar never mind a cellar door...you had some dolls and the flu once I think....Tina how about you?

The Jelly Belly's

Now this is for the ladies, MiMi and friends for her 52nd birthday decided to become belly dancers, click on the video and you will see Mimi doing her dance with her costume and jewels on.  Can you believe it? I think I am princess Jasmine.... woo hoo, what a work - out. 

The Snakes crawl at night

Okay, this song goes out to all the baby girls in the house, "Oh the snakes crawl at night that's what they s....ay when the sun goes down then the snakes will pl...ay. 

Now this is a "good" snake, that cotton mouth that Scott swung over his head like a lasso and flung into the field was a bad snake.  We being descendants of Eve will just go with all snakes are evil and not worry about it, we just do not touch snakes...Right? This snake was living on Mimi and Scott's plants at the front door, he is just a garter snake and he eats bugs too. Cool right? But remember if it looks like a snake, and slithers like a snake, it is a snake. 

Mimi and "Hotts"

Well, here it is the finished project, how long does it take two people to Vinyl side a house?  My thanks to Habitat for humanity for making it seem so simple.  The door is a brick red color so feng shui.  It took us awhile but we really did enjoy the process. In fact inspired the neighbor to do the same. So copying is the best form of flattery, and should improve the neighborhood as well. But the "el Chickamino" is still looking like a yard ornament at this point, yet another project. 

The house needs some baby girls here to make some noise. Bailee was here this past weekend and of course played in the yellow bucket filled with water, picked a few strawberries, and saw a "nun nun"(bunny).  Incidentally just to clarify for Bryant and to help the girls with our nature lesson for today that is a Purple Martin house in the front yard, believe it or not they do not like to be near trees, and they like to be within so many feet of a house because they have learned that humans will protect them from predators, (like umm Marines).  Purple Martins, will come and "scout" out the digs and if they like the landlords on the way back from Brazil next year they may stop and colonize our "red neck" antenna, which would mean entertainment for us and a bad day for all the bugs in the area. So baby girls the lesson for the day is some birds help us by eating insects, and some of Mimi's children are the real pest.