yard art ..

when you say "yard art" .. most people in oklahoma think of things like this ..

or things like this ..

what they don't think of are things like this ..

jugs of gas ..

back pack blowers ...

grass catching devices that go on enormous lawn mowers ...

weedeaters ..

bug/weed killer sprayers that you hitch to the back of a ranger ..

or grass catchers ... well .. at our house .. jeff sees these items as "yard art" .. they sit in our driveway for weeks .. on display for all the neighbors to see .. because at our house .. we don't put things away .. we leave them out .. like "yard art" ..

i found a gold mine ..

for some odd reason .. i don't want to confuse you with big technology terms so we will just call it an odd reason .. not all of ellie's pictures from their camping trip downloaded onto my work computer .. so as i was looking thru pictures last night .. i happened upon about another 300 pictures that she and granny took .. gold mine i said to myself .. which is good because i was wondering what else they did on their camping trip .. well .. you won't believe what all they did ..

the camp site .. check out the table cloth .. ellie and granny picked that up at the dollar store ..

how clever .. i am betting that cash did not write this .. or maybe he plowed out the letters with his bull dozer ..

and for the record .. it is morning time uncle dan .. so it is ok that he is still in his pj's .. grandpa is eating a cinnamon roll and cash is playing in the dirt with his trucks .. a super way to start the day if you ask me ..

it is a rule that it is ok to eat donuts for breakfast when you are camping .. you can also eat fruit loops and trix cereal if you want .. but only while you are camping ..

check out the "rb" .. what a great looking campsite ..

oh .. they found water ..

the hikers .. notice that cash chose to take the bitty baby back pack .. not his red school back pack .. the bitty baby back pack was much better i guess .. i am now beginning to wonder what all he put in it .. i did not look inside of it when i hung it up .. might need to do that when i get home ..

more water .. oh grandpa cash is saying .. look at all those rocks .. lets ditch the girls and go throw rocks !!

like this one right here .. no its not to big ...

ugh .. big throw .. look out grandpa .. i am going to splash you with my rock

and this is how beauty queens look while they are playing in a creek .. i didn't miss her to terribly until i saw this picture ..

cash you are going the wrong way son .. turn around ..

paddle boating .. who does not love paddle boating .. me .. i do not love paddle boating .. it is way to much work !!

walking across the very slippery and moss covered dam .. oh .. be careful .. both of you .. i have a picture of me .. when i was 7 .. on this same moss covered dam .. i will show it to you one day .. as you can see the trial run in the "rb" was a huge success .. they are headed to pitkin colorado next .. and i am so sorry everyone .. but there are no more slots available in the granny/granpda camping summer camp !

the kids are home ... from camping with granny and grandpa ...

granny and grandpa took the kids and went to devils den in arkansas after the crazy weekend .. the kids have been begging granpda to take them camping in the "rb" as cash calls it .. so tuesday after memorial day they loaded up and headed to arkansas ..

they went hiking ..

they picked leaves .. i can tell that cash is thrilled to be holding up these leaves so that ellie could take a picture of them for me .. i can hear her .. ok .. cash hold these up .. i want to show mom the leaves .. no ellie .. i don't want to hold up the leaves .. please hold up the leaves .. oh .. all right .. i told her to take lots of pictures so that i could see everything that she did .. she took tons of pictures .. she took pictures of moss .. grass .. trees .. leaves .. stumps .. logs .. all kinds of things ..

ellie and grandpa by the waterfall .. see the camera bag .. and her sun hat .. no sunburn on her face .. gabe would be so happy !

a group photo .. got to love the self timer on cameras .. they had a great .. i mean great time .. so great that they are leaving for 2 week trip to colorado in a few weeks .. i asked cash if he missed me .. "no mom .. i had so much fun with grandpa .. we rode our bikes and i beat grandpa everytime !" .. who can argue with that ..

we're home .. rested and ready to go .. i think ..

we made it home wednesday afternoon .. we are rested and recharged and ready to go for this coming week ... i thought that i would share with you just a few of the things that we saw and smelled .. when we left on monday afternoon with the sun to our backs .. jeff was wound tighter than a top and i was exhausted to the point of tears .. i put bon jovi in the ears and closed my eyes until we were out of oklahoma .. when i woke up we were in missouri .. now remember we stay on the little state highways that are just 2 tiny lanes .. these roads wind thru very little towns .. which usually means that there are very interesting things to see .. we drove by a house that had an entire living room in the front yard .. complete with lamps and a frig .. there were 2 big ole fellas sitting on the couch .. and 1 big big fella sitting in the ez-chair .. we got a nod and a wave from them when we drove by ... i wondered for the rest of the day if they had any furniture inside their house ?  .. right after that place we drove by lots and lots of hay fields .. i love the smell of fresh cut hay .. there was a grandpa on the big tractor raking the hay into nice neat rows and then there was the dad that came behind him with the baler and then the sons behind him picking up the bales .. 3 generations right there before my very eyes making hay .. i love things like that .. we saw lots and lots of rolling green fields .. some with cows some without .. the smell of wild flowers and wild rose bushes along the highway .. who does not like the smell of roses .. of course there is also the pugnet odor of the chicken houses .. if there is even the slighest breeze and it is blowing your way .. the odor can knock you right off the motorcycle .. so you have to watch out .. we saw santa and his reindeer atop a roof .. already for the coming holiday season .. we saw washers and dryers .. old cars .. swing sets .. old tv's .. old barns .. new barns and lawn mowers ( push and ride-ons) .. but i think that the best thing we saw was just a sign .. that read .. "big fat hog fer sale" .. i begged jeff to stop so that i could take a picture of the sign and then go and see about that hog  .. just how big is a big fat hog .. doesn't that make you wonder ? we also saw these items ..

which of course we had to purchase immediately .. for the kids .. now .. just how are we going to pack those on the motorcycle and bring them home you ask ... i will let you just keep a wondering on that ..

On the road again ... Sing it willy !!

There is a really fat hog for sale off of hwy 76 in Missouri if anyone
is interested !!
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We are on the road again ... To who knows where and yes I am listening
to Bon jovi .. No stress here ..