Remember Flair pens? They were the first felt tip markers introduced in the early 70's. We all fell in love with them. Amy bought some of the rereleased version. 

Look who is visiting for a week. 

Pool was a little green. Yuck 

Baby Leila napped under the umbrella. 

So sweet

Speaking of green...my boy on a dolphin is a lovely shade. 

The yard is like a jungle with the daily rain and heat. 

Brody was serving up pretend cake to Aunt Cherry. 

He drove out into a sudden shower

Nana Jan tried to demonstrate pedaling technique. 

Leila was unimpressed. 

Brody was learning scissor skills. I tried to impress him with my paper dolls.  He promptly cut them apart. I put faces on a few that remained uncut. He requested that I throw away that center one with it's tongue out. 

Ryan and Chris installed Candy's new book shelves. 

Chris celebrated with this move (?). 

She sent me this pic later with it all filled up. 

Paul asked for a picture of Sophie creating art as a child. That was difficult. Looking at our thousands of pictures revealed that we did a lot of eating and swimming. Found this one of Dupree as a biker. 

Cute one of the girls with big Pop and Opal. Typical Mary Grace pose. 

Another cute one of Papaw doling out apple and peanut butter to Whitney. 

Meet Leila

Finished these flowers up for our choir director's good bye lunch. Pepper looks like he is surveying the buffet. 

Next I arranged some for Cary's birthday / homecoming. 

He got in on that too. 

Uh oh...piggy got disemboweled. 

Doesn't look like he has much on his mind either.  

We got to meet Leila! She smiled at great grandmother. 

So precious. 

I can't believe that she is 30!

Chocolate lasagna at her request. 

Parker has gotten so tall. 

Brody enjoyed the singing. Our birthday songs have improved with Paul and Joe's voices. 

Brody helped blow out the candles. 

I gave Cary a card with cats meowing the birthday song. He opened it about 30 times until we convinced him to eat cake. 

And then sometimes you have to wear a lunch bag hat. 

Fungi and moss

Who loves high temperatures and even higher humidity? Fungi and mosses.

Here are a few mushrooms that have flourished in this heat and almost daily downpours. 

They really are quite beautiful. 

However, some look like slugs. 

A little colony. 

They accommodate existing plants. 

More slugs. 

Little marshmallows. 

Mosses love it too. 

A close up. 

Some even look sooty. 

Truffles leads the way on a mossy path. By the way I was melting at this point. When I went inside the evening news said the heat index was 107!! I really sacrifice for the blog. 

Stone from the Ellis homestead...turning green.  I'll never forget my sweet Paul carrying this from our Riverwood home. He was very new to the family and it was soooo heavy. I knew then Sophie had a good one. 

The old golf green is almost all moss. Hey, we meant to do that! It is a feature to future home buyers. 

Stop Hunger Now

Had a great time today at a meal packing event for Stop Hunger Now. 

It was pretty amazing. Here is the set up. They have it down to a science. 

Huge bags of rice, soy protein and dried veggies are unloaded. 

Bins are set up

Funneling stations allow us to fill bags which are then sent to the weighing and sealing tables. 

Nan and I looked lovely as I measured rice and she measured soy protein. 

Kathy worked the measuring table. 

Here our leader explains that each box will feed 216 people who are chronically hungry. 

Here is our team. A pastor from Port Gibson and his wife and surprisingly Jason Harms. He is the son of my good friend and pastor Diane Harms! She was my pastor at Madison UMC. He is now at Briarwood UMC. Small world. What a great feeling this was.