The river is a short drive from where I spend weekends. At last it's warm enough to take our chairs, wine glasses and dog-grandson (we're minding him while the sons party with childhood friends) to the bank above sandbars and flowing water late in the afternoon. The only noises are occasional: the roar of an eager bull, the rattle of the wooden bridge, the swoosh of passing cars, the gleeful shouts and splashing of kids, and the admonitory voices of parents. While Cruz prowls and sniffs and unearths sticks with hope in his heart, we revise our newly-discovered mnemonic for geological periods: Cows often sit down carefully; perhaps their joints creak. Persistent early oiling might prevent painful rheumatism.
Join us for a glass? We do have conversation beyond the geological.
restlessjo said:
I may come needing advice! I’ve used up all my photo memory and in the process of reinventing myself have messed my site up! đŚ Toying with going Premium.
LikeLike
morselsandscraps said:
I’m hopeless. When I used up all the photo memory on morselsandscraps I just started snippetsandsnaps. 30% into snippetsandsnapsnI started resizing photos.
LikeLike
restlessjo said:
Time is the problem. I should have started experimenting when I realised memory was low a few weeks ago but as usual I let it ride. It ran out mid-post on my walk and I had to scurry around deleting logos and early stuff. Some folks never learn. đ Wish me luck!
LikeLike
morselsandscraps said:
I do. All the luck you need.
LikeLiked by 1 person
restlessjo said:
It’s a little early (and damp!) so I’m substituting coffee and watching that pingy/pongy game that you don’t have any patience for. Well, somebody has to keep cheering Rafa on! đ
LikeLike
morselsandscraps said:
Damp here too – but sweltering damp. I’ll have you know I played a lot of the pingy / pongy game in my youth. Not very well, mind you, but it was fun.
LikeLike
restlessjo said:
I could never lift those rackets with my skinny wrists đŚ
LikeLike
morselsandscraps said:
I’ve never had a skinny anything. My problem has always been lifting my own weight!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Heyjude said:
Aw. go on, throw him that stick! Cruz looks like he should be out on the ranch rounding up the cattle. I have no idea where I get that from, but I can just picture him running alongside men on horseback. Nice to have a river in ‘your backyard’. You have a bounty of natural beauty in your part of the world.
LikeLike
morselsandscraps said:
I know I’m extraordinarily lucky to live here, and to have access to bush, river, lakes and beach.
J usually chucks a stick when he’s down at the river with Cruz, but we didn’t want him getting excited about other people. Better to have him off-leash and calm. (Cruz, that is!)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Heyjude said:
Haha… this made me laugh đ
LikeLike
pommepal said:
I do like the look of your grandson/dog, and what a lovely way to wind down the day. So very manic here on the GC no where to go for peace and quiet except our own back yard.
LikeLike
morselsandscraps said:
This is virtually our back yard – a council reserve J shaped and has been maintaining when he’s around.
LikeLike
pommepal said:
Lucky you, so peaceful looking…
LikeLike
Lucid Gypsy said:
Cruz has a look of perpetual alertness or perhaps surprise, due to those cute ears đ
LikeLiked by 1 person
morselsandscraps said:
At the word “walk” he points his ears and tilts his head to one side. That’s mega-cute. I’ve given up worrying about the hairs he sheds everywhere, and his habit of breaking through wire screens. Once fly and mosquito season starts I won’t be so mellow about the latter’ although I have no idea how to be unmellow.
LikeLike
desleyjane said:
He’s adorable.
LikeLike
morselsandscraps said:
That’s what everyone says. He’s very different from your lady. I bet she’s manageable.
LikeLiked by 1 person
desleyjane said:
Well she’s small. LOL. Yeah she’s pretty good. Unless there’s fireworks or a cat, then I just put my head under a pillow. LOL.
LikeLike