Pop N Bubbles: July 2008

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Jay Leno

Guess what - Another person has contacted me and wants to publish this picture of Jay Leno that we took while we were in Universal Studios in May. Someone from NowPublic wants to use this picture to write a story about Jay as he is preparing to leave the Tonight Show. So I gave my permission to use this picture. Wow this is fun. I guess I am going to have to start to charge for some of my pictures. Photography is such a great hobby. I really enjoy it and I really have fun. I just need to keep on practicing and learning. I haven't shot a single picture in the last 3-4 weeks.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

HAPPY BIRD-DAY TO US!

Or at least that is what we are hoping (and praying!) for! These 3 little birdie's have gotten so big (yep, there's 3, one's ducking) over the last couple of weeks we couldn't believe they could all still fit in the nest.

A couple of days ago we looked up there and they were gone - but those little barn swallows keep coming back at night so today we moved their nest while they were away. I read up on these little birds and believe it or not they are protected by law. Legally we couldn't move the nest until the babies left the nest. Being law-abiding we let them stay until they learned to fly!

We have a great big pine tree they are more than welcome to call home!

Wonder what we've been doing the last couple of weeks?

For the last 2 or 3 weeks Robert and Mike Taylor have been working on a leak we had with our sprinkler system. We thought it was fixed the first Saturday, but noticed we still had water building up, so Robert dug it up again. After that we left it open until we were sure it was fixed...which we hope it is now. The 24th of July started about 7AM working in "the hole" but we believe tonight it is fixed. We hope so because we just filled the hole in...again. Do we know how to celebrate or what? Happy July 24th! We like Mike Taylor but we'd like to let him have his Saturdays back without a visit to the Toones.

Friday, July 11, 2008

JUST ANOTHER DAY TO CELEBRATE!

It seems Angie has adopted dad's way of doing birthdays. When dad was little his mom used to let him celebrate his birthday for about a week. Now Angie thinks that should work for her too! Although I'm opposed to this (too much attention for any one person is not good!) we will be celebrating at least until Monday when Little Grandma can come to Angie & Carson's birthday party with her home baked goodies.

Until then we will celebrate Stacie & Angie's birthday tonight (which means Stacie is celebrating for a week too).

Grandma Toone really started something didn't she?! Happy July birthdays to Stacie, Angie, Carson (and Grandma Toone - who would have been 91 on July 20th).