BAD BLOGGER REPORTING

Sorry that I haven't posted lately, I didn't get lost in the jungle, I've just been a bad blogger... Family time gets priority and that's not bad....  Just a quick post today... and more photos to follow another day.

My  granddaughter Jordyn came to visit us and my daughter Christine looking at photos on the smart phone.

Beautiful Jordyn is expecting a baby boy at the end of September and it will be my first  great grandchild.
I'll become a great grandmother, can you believe it. I look old enough lately. It seems that I'm speeding up aging lately...... hope that I can live up to the new title. I'm keeping my fingers cross that all will be well for baby and mother.

James love to go to the park. Wheels and tires are a big hit with him.

James getting a cool drink on a warm afternoon while at the family park.

James got all tired out it seems... not sure if this picture is in the right sequence.

James loves, did I say loves the water....

James is a little water baby and Daniel is taking swimming lessons too but right now is napping time.

Having a little rest on the edge of the wading pool. All that swimming on the belly is tiring.

James love running after the Toy Story ball in the park.

Having a snack to boost up his energy, as if he needed it....

Playing on the big slide like a big boy.

Daniel is still sleeping in the fresh air by the pool.

James getting ready to go down the slide.

James climbing through the small tunnel to get back on the slide

James driving the Off Roader  buggy

Sorry, it took me so long to post. There never seems to be enough time for this old grandma but I should have some more photos soon  from last Sunday we spend at the cottage at the lake. I still need to download some photos from my daughter's smart phone. I wish I was smart.... those smart phones, everybody has one but me....

I appreciate your visit and I don't take you for granted. If I haven't visited your blog yet, I hope to get there very soon. I hope that you are all well and are having a good summer. Let me know that you visited my blog by leaving a comment. I really appreciate all your comments...
JB

I FEEL BEWITCHED...

My stove is 18  1/2 years old and has been used extensively over the years.
When I bought it I didn't take the extended warranty on it because I had to pay more. As a matter of fact I never buy extra warranty on my appliances. It worked fine for a few years and then one day after I self cleaned the oven, the convection wouldn't work on it. I checked for fuses but it looks ok and tried several times to see if it would work but it didn't worked.

 I never had convection before and I'm a kind of a girl that I make due with what I have so I've been using  the conventional oven for all these year.

Yesterday I had an itchy nose and I twitched it as my hands were busy and accidentally push the broil convection button instead of the broil button and I hear my convection fan working. I doubled checked to see if it really was working. I couldn't believe it..... I reduced the heat and cooked the most delicious pork loin chops in no time. Then I checked to see if the convection oven would work as well and it did. I used the broil convection oven today again with great results. See what I mean about being bewitched. Had I known that I was bewitched I would have twitched my nose long before this. lol...

This past weekend my van started acting up and I could feel a little vibration in the gas petal as I tried to accelerate on the highway and the car seemed to rev up so I got the mechanic to look at it and because  the warning  engine light had come on. He checked it up and took it for a test drive but couldn't find any thing wrong except it needed a clean air filter.

He took the car to his place ( this mechanic is the young lad who works on our farm's father and works on the military base as mechanic) and he took the car to his shop which was quite a distance away.

 He called and said that the car heated up and he was very afraid that I would possibly have to replace the engine. I told him that I never saw the red warning light go on when I drove as I was watching for it... and that I was checking to see if the engine was heating up. I felt on pins and needles when I drove the car with the engine warning light on. The engine never heated because the indicator needle was in between hot and cold when I was driving it. I think that he was really worried that he had overheated my engine.
He  discovered that one of the fan has ceased up and he replaced it with a second hand one that my husband found in a repair shop and now my van is as good as before the problem and even better because of the new air filter.  I call that a good week...

My daughter Christine is flying here with her boys in two weeks and is going to borrow my van to go  the lake to be at the cottage with her sister and her family. So I'm glad that my van is OK.

On a more colorful note I have some petals to show for this week and here are some of the pictures I took. There are still 5 varieties that have not bloomed yet.

Today my oldest daughter Nicole turns ** and she was flying to Santiago from Glasgow Scotland  and I want to wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Her flight to London was delayed and she missed her connection to her destination. What a bummer. I hope that she managed to get another connection.
These flowers are for her.

This variety is called Siloam Button Box

Stella Del Oro

Mary Todd

Beauty to Behold

Rainbow Gold

New Note

Siloam Baby Talk

Either  Chicago Apache or Chicago Royal Heritage. I'll have to wait till they both are in bloom to be certain.

Gay Cravat

Blue Happiness

I'll have to research this one. It's called Kate Carpenter

Little Showoff

Toltec Dial

By Myself

Decatur Cherry Smash

Siloam Button Box  bed by the drive way.

Arthur Moore bed in the back after the heavy rain got them flattened down a bit.

Thanks for visiting and I hope that you have a safe and relaxing weekend.
JB