Whatta weekend!

The weather yesterday (Sat.) was about as perfect a summer day as it gets here in Del. It was in the mid-70s, NO HUMIDITY, with a breeze blowing. Fabulous! Now why can't it stay like this all summer???

Today is just about as nice. Bobby's taken Rebecca and Liam to Breakneck Park and thence to Wal-Mart South to get hot dogs and hamburger for a cookout tonight. (We figured Sara needed a break, too.) The kids rode their bikes then helped dig weeds up from between the bricks on the patio--Liam especially enjoyed digging up the weeds (and dirt!) from the bricks.

I saw lightning bugs for the first time this year during a thunderstorm Friday evening! It was raining pretty hard, too. Who'd have thought lightning bugs would be out in a deluge, but there was a load of them!

Sitting out on the patio today was absolutely wonderful. I sat in the rocking-lawn chair with my cup of tea, Mr. Bird walked around on the picnic table, and we just gloried in the glorious day. I saw the female hummingbird at the feeder a couple of times and even managed to get a couple of pictures of her. Bobby said he's watched her feed then head for the top of the middle cedar in the little plantation; and, sure enough, I happened to be looking at the cedars and saw her fly from the top of the tree! How wonderful to have nesting hummingbirds in the yard!!! Neither of us has seen the male yet, just the female, but that's ok. Where she is, he'll be. She's so tiny that with her coloring--pale green on top, white on the bottom--she could be mistaken for a cicada.

I do love my outdoor birdies!