My new favorite summer salad

It's a long time classic, I know.  But it is so wonderful!  Simple, light, fresh...  Perfect for summer!

Caprese Salad

Sliced tomatoes

Fresh mozzarella sliced

Fresh basil leaves (I chop them slightly, but am thinking of trying it with them whole)

Balsamic vinaigrette drizzled over the top (or whatever you prefer of course!!)

ENJOY!!!

Happy and grateful.

A week or two ago Clay's family gave us a riding mower his uncle has had and didn't use anymore.  Up until now we have borrowed one from our family or our neighbor or Clay has used a push mower to mow about 2 acres...  (That takes about 4 hours and a LOT of sweat, if you care to know...)

Then yesterday one of our friends gave us an old dishwasher that had been his parents!  It works great and I am SO excited!  I'm sure this is not a big deal to most of you, but for 5 years I have been washing dishes by hand.  Since it's only two of us it wasn't too bad, but I seriously hate doing dishes.

It's truly amazing how God provides for us, even the extra stuff we don't NEED, but could REALLY use.  Awesome.

Memorial Day weekend

My family, minus Clay, who insisted on moving limbs instead of relaxing at this point and wasn't in the picture... :(

The girls in the best climbing tree ever!

Gabrielle, Alexandria and Virginia all getting pushed around the pool on the float by Uncle Clay!

Our first Daylilly blooms!  It must be June!  They are like clockwork!

Our first Althea flower!

Smoke and me.  He is one of the sweetest horses ever!  And the prettiest!

We have had a wonderful long weekend this Memorial Day.  Clay is off on Fridays so it was a four day weekend for him and although he insisted on working on our property for part of it, we had plenty of relaxing time together.  My family came over Saturday and we cooked out and officially opened the pool!  The kids had plenty of fun and we all got to have a good visit.  Clay gave all the girls rides on the float, pushing them through the pool.  They loved it!

My Mister 2

It has been at least 10 years that my poor baby has needed a paint job.  It wasn't until the last big snow we had this year and a guy pulled (slid) out in front of me that he (my car) was finally put back to all one color.  Not a complete paint job, that he still needs, but at least all one color!  The empty spots at the base of the headlights is a rubber piece that drys out and therefore is impossible to get from junkyard cars.  And I'm sure it would cost more than I can spend to order them from Toyota, if they are even available.  So still no where near the complete restoration I would love to give this car, but a step in the right direction!  I love this car!  (Can you tell?)

Floods

Water over our road.  Road was closed a few hours later due to this water getting too deep to drive through.