Today, we had lots of family visiting and that means lots of kids, so we took them fishing for the first time and my nephews had their cute little tackle boxes and brand new poles, I understand that the kids talked about this day for weeks prior. So I baited up the hooks with some weird looking lures that they had including a hot pink fuzzy, feathery one and sadly we didn't even get a nibble! Maybe we will have better luck next time.

The exotic red cloak flowers are in their prime now in the sunken garden and the family was real impressed so that made me feel good. Both my wife's side of the family and mine are very fun and positive but her side is far larger so that's where all the kids come from, and from all over the country so it's a big deal to have so many at once. My wife went to Olive Garden and got huge pan of lasagna which was great and a huge pan of Tiramisu which I had two pieces and as I write am actually craving more but I know better, lets hope I don't wake up in the middle of the night to eat it as it will be hard to explain to the rest of the family about the missing sections!
I read to my brother-in-law a new si-fi type of comedy that I just wrote for fun for family and friends and he genuinely seemed to like it, it's only one chapter and I don't know if I will even be inspired to write chapter two.

I am really excited tomorrow as I am doing a landscape for a friend and it is exceptionally beautiful and is in an old classic neighborhood in Leesberg, Fl, the other older homes have not really updated their landscapes so I expect that this will really stand out and get this I don't even have any more Sims Landscape signs to put up, so so much for great marketing! I intend to remember to get new signs ordered this week, lets hope I remember.

I tried to lower the boat to see if I could go out on the lake but no the water is not high enough and I still can't use the boat! Then I tried to go swimming in the pool and the water was like ice water even though I have solar heat and it was a warm day so I spent the extra time allowing the garden to feed me with it's beauty.

I am looking forward to the fall season as it always stimulates me to have even more creative ideas and I have some time late afternoon to work in my own garden tomorrow where the yellow hollies need trimming and it's a lot of work for a guy with tennis elbow but gardening isn't for wimps so I will get it done!

Yes, the dogs are fine, they survived all the family kids, I spent quite a bit of time with the standard poodles today, they are just the sweetest most innocent loving type of dog who just loves attention, I let them jump on me and I firmly hug them and they just eat that up. I almost forgot to tell you that we have had for the last two nights a visitor in the form of a opossum and he has come directly on to the patio looking for fallen dog food. Needless to say the dogs went wild and woke everyone up so not good. As I opened the door to scare the critter away so the dogs would not hurt him, the Jack Russel went through my legs and chased him around the corner and when I turned on the light the opossum was horizontal on the floor, playing dead I thought and checked first thing in the morning and sure enough he wasn't there..... I am glad I didn't take the time to draw a chalk line! I hope he doesn't come back tonight as we need some sleep!