random twaddle

SILVER LAKE I took the cousins' camp kids for a walk around Silver Lake Wednesday morning. It was gorgeous! The temperature was perfect (not too hot) and the water was the highest I've ever seen it. The kids had fun scrambling up huge rocks. We saw 2 deer and had a snowball fight (yes, there was still patches of snow at the end of June). Isn't this an incredible world that we live in?

PET PEEVE One of my major pet peeves is cigarette butts! I absolutely hate them. They are dirty and smelly and it seems that smokers have a difficult time disposing of them properly. While at Silver Lake, I paused to search for fish below the water's surface. I didn't spy any fish but saw plenty of discarded cigarette butts floating on the water's surface. While I'm on my anti-butt kick, I also hate them being thrown out car windows! Why can't ALL smokers just put their cigarette butts in the ash tray and then dispose of them in a garbage can? Are you trying to advertise to the world that not only do you have a stinky, unhealthy habit but you're lazy as well?

CHANDLER BEING FUNNY Coming home from Silver Lake Chandler says "I'm famished, mommy, I'm famished!" I laughingly say "What?" He then says, "It means I'm really hungry." I am not sure when my 8-year-old son grew up enough to use words like famished let alone think he has to explain them to me!