coffee klatch with two of my favourite people!

Leapin' Lizards, lol.
 

I like having to watch where I step every time I leave my apartment in order to avoid crushing the little lizards scurrying about underfoot in a frenzy of activity!

It even makes me smile when I'm in a big hurry [and maybe feeling a little testy for whatever reason] and they are teasing me and trying to trip me up by running around me in every direction. They are so cute and I just love that they live right outside my place; it's almost as though they are guarding it.

You can tell which ones are the babies and which ones are the grandfather/mothers by their sizes and coloring. The older ones almost seem to have an air of authority about them when compared to the little ones.

It's one of my very favorite things about where I live and makes me smile every time I leave or come home. :)

Walking miles on the beach all day for the past 2 days

Joyful day with Jackhammer.

Spent some wonderful time together snuggling, watching old movies, and looking out the window together at our backyard becoming saturated with fall colors. Talking about things we want to accomplish and places we have been.

Sweet, uninterrupted moments that make my soul warm. <3

Lazy Saturday morning with Red! Watching our 3 doxies and 1 aussie run and play in the nice cool weather. Getting dressed up for a night out for a steak dinner at one of our favorite places in OKC and getting home before dark. LOL We are busy planning what all we are going to do this next week during our trip to Santa Fe. The weather is going to be cool so tomorrow we are getting all of our fall clothes out to air out and start packing. It's been a long hard year for us and I can not wait to hit the road and have some R&R with my gal.

I found some bus driver gloves in my closet. Wearing them makes me feel like I wanna punch and slap everything because they are padded.

the final touches
 

Of our move coming along nicely..
our fur babies
my kids and grandkids
Him laying next to me after a long work day.

A
Conversation with an old friend

The sun the moon and all the came between

Cooler temperatures are awesome!

I got up this morning at dark-thirty and went out on my back patio. With the summer gone, it feels so much better outside now. This makes me happy and puts a huge smile on my face.

:)

Taking 2 of my grandkids up to the prison to see their Daddy, my oldest son. (the 5 yr old little boy does not understand that his Daddy is in prison, he just thinks he is on a special top-secret work assignment. Yeah, he will find out soon enough, but it works for him right now. His 10 yr old sister knows, though.)

Anyway, I took them up, like I do once a month, and just to see them all interacting is just so sweet to me. My son gets to be silly with his kids, they all get to hug on each other, my son gets to read to them, we absolutely stuff ourselves silly with the foods from the vending machines. Tues is his 41st birthday, and so today we shared an extra special treat from the machines today, strawberry shortcake!

Well, my son did some kind of sleight of hand with his son, and pretended that he was able to "float" in the air. My grandson actually BELIEVES, with a Capital B. He thought his Daddy was something pretty cool anyway, but NOW, I mean WOW.

These visits are always so very bittersweet. I hate that he is there, that he has to be away from his life and his family for so long. But as I sit there, watching him with his kids, and look around at all the other inmates visiting with their loved ones and just making do for one more day, and I hear the squeals of laughter from my grandbabies, my heart feels blessed.

Joy?

New pillows. (not the dirty kind!!) NEW PILLOWS!

4 new, giant, fluffy pillows alllllll for us! WEE!

Having the step kiddo for this week, after her week at her father's :)

Her desire...
 

MMmmmmm...waking to her beautiful smile, her long red hair all tousled from the night. Her deliciously warm skin against me as the sun peeked through the heavy curtains.

:moonstars: