I get a call from my mom "Do you have a hose?" Huh? "I turned the water on and forgot to turn it off. I need to get some water out of the pool." Since it has been over 100 for a few days running, I wasn't sure this was a true emergency. But, Mom was worried and when I went next door to look I saw that her conventional pool was now a stunning infinity pool on all sides.
Well, I needed to finish my sketch challenge sample card, go get groceries on Senior Citizen discount day (Tuesday) and fix mom's pool "problem". I looked out my kitchen window and spied a couple of the neighborhood boys with bicycles stopping to swipe some fruit off my front yard Thundercloud Plum trees. (It's OK, weeks ago I gave them permission to eat as many as they want to keep the dropping fruit off the sidewalk.)
"Do you two know how to swim? Go home and get your trunks on. I need some cannonballs, quick." A few minutes later, me and Bert, my water loving 100 lb. black Lab, Jake and Donovan are whooping it up in Mom's pool. Cleared out a couple of inches lickety split.
Wet hair at the desk, this card is done. On my way to the grocery store. I'm loving summer.
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 GMT Views: 818
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Wed, Jun 23, 2021 @ 11:40 AM
I don't know which I love more -- your beautiful tropical card or your story. They are both making me smile big time. Thanks for the fun start to my day. And those dp you combined are fabulous. Love this!
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Wed, Jun 23, 2021 @ 1:46 PM
Wow! Sonja this is gorgeous!!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
Registered: November 30, 2007 Location: Huntsville, TX Posts: 94
Fri, Jul 02, 2021 @ 4:06 PM
Love your card. AND love the story. It is wonderful to live in a community that you can get the neighborhood boys to help a gal out on a hot summer day - jumping in a pool. Aaahhhh. To be a kid again!!!