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Seasons come and seasons go…
Winter warns us with shorter days, cooler nights, a sprinkling of snow on the mountains.
Spring tip-toes…is bashful, she peeks in one day and darts back into winter’s shadow the next. By the time she finally arrives summer has pushed itself in in full force!
Ahh summer…beautiful days, warm evenings, green grass and bright flowers in all their glory! The long lazy days of summer.
While we are clinging to those glorious days of summer…there it is, all at once, the golden glow of Autumn dancing before my eyes in a smorgasbord of colors…like an over-enthusiastic child waving its arms and shouting, “Look at me, look at me!” God has opened his paint box and no words can describe the wonder of his lavish work of art….oh the beauty…
Fall is in my face!!
Sunflowers courageously waving along the roadside are summer’s encore they seem to be shouting “One more dance…just one more dance!”

Three half dollar CD’s took me down memory lane to  lazy summer days of long ago.  How that music transported me back (has it really been 50 years?)

Frankie Avalon, Pat Boone, Paul Anka, Tommy Sands…Brumuda shorts, drive-in movies, car hops…Only the Lonely…and oh, remember Ally Oop and Cathy’s Clown??  What those songs did to my soul!  Puppy Love, Johnny Angel, Sweet sixteen…was teen-age love really that passionate?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…those were the days!!!  Music of the 50’s and early 60’s were the best.  I think everyone probably feels that way about the music of their youth…but honestly…these were the best!

Well, this afternoon I went back to a golden summer long ago.  A white convertable with the top down, (girl friend what make and year was that fabulous car of yours?)  Hours spent on our beach (well Prospect Lake) smearing bottles of baby oil on our bodies and baking in the sun…..wow did I have a fantastic tan….I can prove it too..I’m still carrying the signs of it on my arms!!! We took picnics up the canyon with our battery operated transistor radio singing along with every song! Shopping down town to find the perfect shirt within our meager budget.  What would my grandkids think if they knew their Baba used to sneak into drive in movies in the trunk of that convertable?  What did a movie cost back then 75 cents? Warm evenings dragging main and stopping for cokes at every drive in.

I really wasn’t in my garden watering, weeding,pruning and planting….I was revisiting those olden golden days of one particular summer of my youth and I wouldn’t trade those memories for a million dollars!

I am soooo excited because we have an extra twenty four hours this year.  Tomorrow is the day…that extra day!  I think of all the times I have said…if only I had an extra hour in each day.  And now here they are, all at once , twenty four unscheduled hours!!!! What are you going to do with yours?  I am going to get out of bed making a joyful noise to the Lord!  “This is the day the Lord has made…I will rejoice and be glad in it”  Next I am going to Curves (I go there regularly)…not so much for the exercise but because we go for coffee afterwards. And I go for coffee not so much for the coffee but for the company.  I always order just coffee…a senior refill $1.06 bottomless cup! Oh, but tomorrow…be still my heart….I am going to order a cinnamon twist to go with my coffee!  I am sure I heard somewhere that calories do not count on Leap Year Day!!!!  Next I am going to go to an antique and craft mall that has been beckoning me for months!  Then I am going to take my grandson to the play area at the mall.  Not sure what will follow that but I will make in memorable.  Because it will be another 4 years before I have 24 unscheduled hours.  Have fun with yours!!!!!!

My daughter said I should start blogging again.  I guess she thinks I have a lot to say.  It certainly seems that way when I get around my friends.  Oh how I love to sit around the table with coffee and friends.  There is always something to talk about! We try to solve the problems swirling around us….. the..”what is this world coming to..” topics.  We always have to part ways with no conclusions and a promise to get together soon and resume discussion. But, what a privilege  to have the freedom to state our opinions and concerns.  May US Freedom continue to ring!

Can’t believe the world is trying to pass me by.  Where has the time gone?  Well here I am in 2011 and now 69 years old. (I know, I can’t possible be that old) and I hope a bit wiser.  I am learning to be content with all that I have, to count my blessings and just savor every moment of every day! Finally I have come to terms with the critters in my garden.  I have been so stressed out over the deer and bunnies eating everything….and I said to myself “no more” this Spring I planted only things they had not eaten in the past and fenced off a little area around my patio for the flowers.  So altho not as colorful as it was many years ago….it is green and I am at peace with the wildlife. As a matter of fact we have seen a mama bear and her cub pass through the yard a couple of times and have a gorgeous 4 point buck that enjoys the shade near our porch.  Ahhhhhh God is good, I am in awesome wonder at His great creation!

My older two had spread their wings and left the nest…we had just moved them up to college.  My heart was in my throat as I drove the “baby” to his first day of Middle School.  As he disappeared into the throng of kids I sat in my car thinking, “OK, I still have six full years with him at home…that’s a good long time isn’t it?”  Then I blinked my eyes and we were in the parking lot at C.U. hugging our goodbyes….. his first year of college.

Wasn’t it only last week that he got married?  Didn’t we just welcome his first born yesterday?  Now, today, we are welcoming his third born child into the family.

In a few weeks our daughter takes two of our grandsons to the very same Middle School and I want to shout, “Daughter, don’t blink your eyes, sweetheart, don’t blink your eyes!”

My son loves bringing his boys “back home” (to his “home” that is) to  visit Baba and Zedo and to show them the old climbing tree, the remains of a fort in a tree, the path to school and the junk yard that holds all the broken bikes, Tonka trucks and homemade go-carts of his youth.  He enthralls them with stories of his childhood escapades and adventures.  So I’ll let him tell you, in his own words, about that hole in the fence.

“I have decided not to fix that hole in the fence and I have given up on the grass-less dirt spot in the lawn right under the swing.  They add character to our yard, but more importantly they provide entertainment for the boys (and I am sure sister will love em too).  I imagine them bringing their kids over to see Baba and Zedo and telling their kids all about the “short cut” out of the yard through the hole in the fence.  If I ever replace the fence I will put a half picket there to preserve the hole.”

Sunday morning, June 14…..5:35 am…..I opened my eyes… I was facing the window and a movement caught my attention. A deer I thought (of which we have many wandering through our yard day in and day out)  but as I focused my eyes I did a double take…believe it or not a magnificent adolecent mountain lion was standing just outside my window.  He wasn’t more than 10 feet from me!  Golden in color, muscular and regal, he looked my way then walked nonchalantly away.  I yelled for my husband Del, “Quick, look there is a mountain lion just outside the window! “  Unfortunately he did not get to see it.

What a way to start the day! Believe it or not!!!!! a mountain lion up close and personal!!!!!

Please welcome to the blogosphere, the one and only….Baba!!!!