After grandson David went to work, grandson Nathaniel helped Grandpa work on the waterfall in the garden. We didn’t run it last year because it leaked, and they thought they could find the trouble by digging up the hoses. They couldn’t find the leak, but I took a photo of Nate with our glads. A few hours later, heavy rain knocked down five stalks.
On our way out for a drive, we checked on Jonathan Creek. John and I saw it in the morning when it was clear and a bit low. After heavy rain, it was muddy and about six inches higher.
Nathaniel pulled a money tree plant for me near the bridge. I see those plants there every year and wanted a few seeds for our garden.
We went on the Blue Ridge Parkway where the 8s, Kate and Nate, took photos of the mountains. Circling around, we drove through touristy Cherokee, and stopped at Soco Falls. The younger set quickly hiked down the mountain, where they took some lovely shots of the falls. Nathaniel said he wanted new pictures for his computer desktop. Kate got some to take home, too. I was content to look at theirs, knowing I had many similar ones at home.
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Such a beautiful day! I hope you and your family had a wonderful 4th!!
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Our celebration on the 4th was quiet. We thought several of our neighbors were going to come, but they backed out the night before. There are seven of us in the house this weekend, making parties of all our meals.
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one thing I’ve noticed through your postings Anne is how close you all are!
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Our siblings have lots more grandchildren than we do, so we concentrate on the two that we have. Right now our son and Rose are living with us, and daughter Kate is spending her two-week vacation here. Our other daughter in Denmark comes for Thanksgiving. We have been so very blessed.
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and busy around Thanksgiving/Christmas I bet!
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Yes, major holidays are busy, but we are retired and have time for it now.
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Oh, to have a low key day!
Those boys get handsomer every day, especially noticeable when they are not posing and just casual like, but… Shhhh, it might go to their heads. lol
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Do you need a day off? It’s lovely to coast for a few hours.
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Oh, I so do but you’ll understand as soon as I finish my next blog. Sigh!
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I’m braced now for your next post. Thanks for the warning.
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It’s so beautiful where you live and Jolie is right, those kids get better looking every day! So much to be thankful for!
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Y’all are right. We have so much to be thankful for. I’m also grateful for wonderful blog friends like you.
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I like low key holidays. It’s hot and humid here so I’m glad I didn’t have to do any work!
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Hot and humid do not belong with holiday, even if they all begin with H.
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Sounds like an ideal day to me. You have such a great family. xo
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Love all these shots, Anne. 💕
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I know you are busy. Thanks for reading!
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Seize the moment, enjoy the family, Post, Happy Fourth.
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We hope you had a great holiday.
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Is that how the money tree looks all the time – is it green at all or just the tissue-papery look?
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The seed pods (money) get more silvery as the season progresses. They are green to begin with.
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Thanks Anne – I never knew and I could not picture them looking like the one in the picture all along. Years ago, there was a restaurant in downtown Detroit called “The Money Tree” and their logo was a money tree and they had a huge metal money tree in the lobby and it had the papery looking blooms (that’s not the word I guess).
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I am so glad your grandson doesn’t have his back to the drop off to take a picture! Aren’t you amazed at how tall our grandchildren can get!
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I think we enjoyed the height of our grandchildren more than we did our children. They are amazing.
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Sounds like an awesome day! My grandma had a money tree when I was little and I loved how they dried
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We had money tree plants in NY, and I always liked them.
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Nice flowers. Good thing you got a photo of them before the rain.
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We put the broken glads in a vase on the porch, so we are still enjoying them.
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Lovely family bonding Anne.
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even your low key days are beautiful.
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Heavy rains snapped a whole stalk of lilies this week. I probably will start staking some of the taller plants. Your Gladiolus are beautiful.
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I’m going to sign off here, but I got another failed mail for that site I was trying to send you – don’t know why as it is a nature photography site, nothing more so here it is and you can just delete this comment since it idoes not pertain to your post: https://jocelynandersonphotographyshop.com/pages/sandhill-crane-family-with-adopted-gosling
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I’ll keep this comment here in case something happens to the emailed one.
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