A Weekend’s Rest

The rest was not for us, however. This Saturday we had Rachel stay with us and we dropped Ben off at Grandma Joyce and Grandpa Howard’s. Both Lance and Cherise needed a little rest and we hope this helped out.

Lance wanted to borrow the leaf blower so before I went down to pick up the kids, Karen blew leaves off everything she could think of. Here she is making the deck spanking clean.

We were lucky to have another deer this weekend. Only one out of the normal four was here. This one is the young buck. We can tell by his teeny, nubbin, antlers-to-be that are very hard to see in this picture. He is not as cooperative as the big doe in providing photo opportunites. I had to take this shot with the telephoto.

For fun activities we went to see “Bee Movie”. It was pretty funny. You can read my review the first of next month. Rachel also watched a DVD, Rescuers Down Under, I believe. I’m not completely sure because I had a fairly demanding video game that kept me out of trouble at the time.

Watching the video made Rachel remember that one of the bonus features on the Lady and the Tramp DVD is a computer game, “Adopt a Virtual Puppy”. You pick a puppy. Then you have to feed it and play with it, etc. The better you do, the better your score. We tried to run it on my new computer which has Vista on it. This program along with many others I have will no longer run with the new operating system. Since I’m down a couple of computers at the moment, I had to root around to find something it would even run on. Then the sound didn’t work. Anyway, Karen and Rachel had a fun time playing. They were at it quite a while.

On Sunday we had to run a couple of errands, one of which was to go to Sam’s Club. We picked up various items and in the process ran across two huge pet books, a dog one and a kitty one. Does the dog on the right look like anyone you know?