Lazy Days of Summer

This is the second week we haven't had swim team and it has been LAZY!  We've watched some of our favorite movies, played outside, swam, taken Mo for walks at the park and hung out in our jammies.  It has been great, but we can't stay idle forever.  We need to get back on track.  Abbie has been working some late nights because of IT problems at work.  He has a business trip coming up and then we go on vacation.  After all that hubbub, we'll need to get back on schedule so school won't blast us out of bed completely.

Today, we slept in, hung out and I did housework and played with the guys.  We tried to swim and within three minutes of getting wet, it started thundering.  Then it went from a completely lovely day to something wicked this way comes.  Big storm, lost power, lost of thunder and rain.  And it came from the northeast, so from the totally wrong direction.  Strange weather patterns we've had this year. 

We got out, ran in and waited it out.  Played and talked.  After, quite a while after, we went back out and I let the boys swim again.  I wasn't going to get wet again, so I trimmed back my herbs and started some clippings indifferent pots. And here's what I found while trimming my mint.

This is the second time I've spotted this rare pink grasshopper.  He's munching on a fallen bloom from my mint plants.  I had tried to get photos with my iPhone the last time I saw him, but they didn't turn out.  This time I ran in for my real camera. 

Mo continues to do well.  He's getting hair more and more.  I hope it all comes back.  If not, he'll be one shivering pup this winter.  Small dogs don't do well in extreme temps, so I'll have to buy him some kind of sweater.  Abbie will have a cow - owning a dog who wears clothes.  He'll be humiliated.  He's already making "yappy dog" jokes.  He doesn't yap much though, just when he sees people out in adjacent yards.  Here's a few shots of today.

This kid is a survivor.

And I got pics of the boys, but that is a whole other post.