Kingbirds Flitting to Sitting

We have had Kingbirds flitting around their nest for 2-3 weeks, but just in the past few days, they have been taking turns sitting on the nest more often.  I’m thinking it won’t be long before we have babies flitting around.

Evil Tree Limb Turns Over a New Leaf

Who knew that the tree limb that nearly knocked me off of the riding lawn mower, giving me a slight concussion, would turn out to be so wonderful. 
I purchased my grandson a swing and I wasn’t quite sure where I would put it.  I went outside, looked around, and BINGO…..right before my eyes…..the evil tree limb that I dreaded every time I mowed the lawn, turned over a new leaf and was the perfect spot to hang the swing.

Oh how my grandson loves to swing.  Yep, me and this tree limb are best buds, now!  I can’t get my videos to load on my blog, so I used the computer snipping tool to snip out parts of the video to post for pictures. 

As my daughter was pushing my grandson and each time he swung towards her, she would pretend that he had kicked her and he would laugh, not just slightly, but a deep, hearty laugh.

Grandma Smile!

When Lehi Friends Visit

On June 14th, a couple of my high school friends came to visit.  This is the third summer they have come to visit and we are already looking forward to next year.  We wanted a picture of us all together and we were trying to use the automatic photo shoot on my camera.  Between setting the timer, running back and forth trying to get in the picture and shooting multiple shots to try and get a good photo of us, I think we managed to get a few good ones.  The two photos below are the ones I liked the best.  Although, our faces, necks and arms were totally washed out by the sun so I put the photos in PicMonkey and sprayed us on some color where we were totally faded out.  Still not the greatest but hey, it semi worked.

We had so much fun just sitting around and talking, traveling up Pass Creek Canyon to Loristica, out to Craters of the Moon and then to the old Houston Pioneer Cemetery.

Pass Creek/Loristica……

Craters of the Moon……

Houston Pioneer Cemetery……

My friends arrived on Sunday evening and left on Tuesday.  It was a short visit, but we covered a lot of ground in that short amount of time.  When we get together, it feels like time has never passed.  I found this quote on the internet and I have no idea who wrote it, but it fits our trio friendship perfectly……

You know someone’s special to you when you don’t talk for awhile because things get busy but when you eventually do, it’s like you didn’t miss a beat.  You talk like there was no gap in between and you laugh until your stomachs hurt.  It’s a rare and special connection and personally I think it’s pure magic.  If you ever find someone like this in you life, never let them go.

Eyed Hawk-Moth

As we stepped out our back door last week, we noticed 5 moths hanging on the door and surrounding area.  They held their places the entire day…..without any movement, at all.  According to the internet, they appear to be Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata). 

In the photo above, you see a hawk-moth and right above it looks to be a very small moth.  I don’t know if the smaller moth is what drew all the other moths around the house, or just what was going on. 
The information on the internet stated that hawk-moths have two sets of wings on each side and when fully opened, you see a pattern that looks like an eye.  Non of the moths had their full extension of wings, but in the next photo, you can see that they do have two sets.

That evening, after not seeing the moths move all day, we were out sitting around a little fire making s’mores when I looked up and noticed that every single moth was gone.  Hmmmmmm, interesting.