Grammy's boy and mountain bike friends

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Caine spent Wednesday with us here at our place, and he spent the night as well !
He is getting to be quite the 4-wheeler ! Grammy zips her sweatshirt up around him like a seat belt !

I thought that he might turn when he encountered the garden sprinkler, but he just stopped and looked at me and wiped the dirt and water as it pored down his little face!!

He is fascinated with all the equipment Grampy has for his tractor, and everything becomes something to ride...

He loves his wonder pony 'Tex'....that what he calls him. He can really get moving on this thing !

Takes after me with the horse thing...I wore 3 sets of springs off mine before I outgrew it when I was a kid...

I should have stuck with the wonder horse...Mine was called 'Jim Jump'..he never threw me!

He is ready to start this thing up and go ! Bob says start it and see what he'll do...

I did and he didn't even flinch, just looked like...,

ok, now lets get it moving !

Happy guy in the morning! He slept from 7:30 Wednesday night until about 4 am...I changed him and got him his sippy juice cup, but he didn't want it, so I put him in bed with me, and he went back to sleep until about 7:30 in the morning !

He is a sunny guy in the morning, so we 'talked' and sang and got up around 8. Then we had breakfast and he rode the 4-wheeler on the dog run with me, and then he got to be pulled in the wagon when Melissa and I took our morning walk!

He was asleep in the truck almost immediately on his ride home thursday afternoon...

Grammy was asleep by 10 pm !

Today a friend from the lake came over with her daughter and son-in-law. I rode Linda on my 4-wheeler and the'kids' rode their mountain bikes.

We did our trails, and then I took them through West Vaco, and into the Pigg River.

Heres Ashley riding up the river and the next one is her flying down the hill into the river !

They had a really long ride with some good challenges along the trails, and then the river to cool off. They are both working in New Jersey, she's a doctor in a trauma unit of a big hospital there, and her husband works in the medical field, only on the high tech end...computers.

This was Linda's first 4-wheel experience, and she did great!!!

I am really tired after the last few days of 'fun' with Caine...and I'll stick to 4-wheeling !

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Floating Pigg River

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When asked what I wanted to do on my birthday, I said,'kayak the Pigg!'
So we did!
The day started with breakfast at the Whistle Stop in our little town, where a blueberry muffin topped with a candle was brought out by the staff singing Happy Birthday to me!
Then we went home and loaded up the pick-up with my ocean kayak we got in the Keys and the old canoe I have had for a good 25 years, for Bob. The Newcombs (our neighbors) joined us with their aluminum john-boat on their trailer and we set off for "Sylvia's bottom" to drop the floatilla in. We had placed one truck down under the bridge on 890, which is where we would take out.
Bob hasn't canoed since he was a kid, but got right back into it!

The river was a tad muddy from the rains of late, but there was good water, with few areas where we scraped the bottom, and nowhere did we have to walk.

We did jump one deer along the way, and we ran into some other locals enjoying the day running the edges with their 4-wheeler, but as Sam said, "If Momma and Daddy weren't so loud, we'd see some wildlife!"

That was after she switched and rode the back of my kayak with me, out of paddle splashing distance from her Daddy!

I made a jug of melon drinks for me, and the neighbors were having 'red-eyes'...Bob stuck with water and we had lots of snacks and took lots of breaks, stretching out and chatting.

It was a great day, we came home and changed out of wet things, and went to 'Carl's', another local eatery for a bit of dinner, and then headed home, unloaded the boats and Melissa and Sam brought forth a cake topped with a beach chair, Palm trees and dolphins with Happy Birthday on it! Sam lit up two candles and they sang to me again! Gee its nice being old!!

Couldn't have asked for a better day!

Next trip we plan on bringing the fishing rods!

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