Kody's Visit #4

Okay, I am now two months late in posting this. Oh well. I'm just going to post lots of pictures with just a little writing so I can see if I can catch up with everything!! I still have Jessy's visit left to do and you know life goes on and things keep happening! I might never catch up!

The last we saw Kody and his Mattie they had headed up to the Santa Barbara Zoo for a great visit. We catch up with them now off to...

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Conejo Botanic Gardens again. This time with Uncle Steve and Grandpa. We did the Kids gardens and had another wonderful Tea Party and then walked the long way around the Garden on the Nature Walk.

Tea Party

Here he is at the Picture Tree. It is a tree with a bench where I have been taking pictures of Jessy everytime she comes out to visit. We HAVE to take a picture at the Picture Tree!!!
Pretending to sleep when we took a break from hiking. It is a long walk!

Our next adventure a few days after that was to go to Underwood Farms. Beach Gramma and I took him over to the Moorpark farm. They have a great little place over there with lots of playground stuff for the kids and animals to look at and feed. It seemed a little expensive to feed too many animals but he did get to feed some of them. It wasn't very busy there with only one or two school groups there.

He got to ride the "tractor" Play in the sand with all the trucks.
Ride a pony!!
Climb the huge pile of hay bales. Running up and down as fast as he could. Look at the goats

Feed the Emus. Notice how they have the pipes set up so you can put your feed in and it falls down to the animals. Gone are the days where you can have them eat out of your hands!! I wonder if any place allows that now?
Kody and Emus Run through large "caves"
Climb on wonderful wooden trucks and trains. I remember these from the last time we went over and I wanted them then and I want them now!! They are so great. They have a couple different trucks and a long train. Needless to say they don't move as they are just made of wood but they are so cute!! When Paul retires..........

Pose with the Grammas!!

All in all a great day! I would recommend the place for anyone with kids under 8 or 9ish. A Disneyland it isn't but isn't that what is so great about it?

After we left there we went out to lunch and we bought a piece of cake for him to eat at home. I really think he liked it!!

That's it for tonight. One more outing and Kody's visit will be done!!!

Skyline Cafe

Just to let everyone know that Tammy has joined us in the blog world. She just started her blog two days ago so it is very new!! Welcome Tammy and we are looking forward to great things from her. You can find her link on the main page of this blog and I'll also add a link so you can check her out right now!!
http://skylinecafe.blogspot.com/

My Dad, 87 Years Young!!

Recently my Dad read an article in the newspaper about an 87 year old women who lives in town. The writer of the article (which I didn't read by the way) stated that even at her age the lady gets out in her garden to work everyday!! I guess they wrote it in a way that made it sound very unusual. I know it is hard for "young" people to understand how much a person over 60 can do but sometimes I am amazed at how little they think their elders can do.

Now my dad was a little "upset" about the way the piece was written. Now I say he was upset but I'm sure he would say he wasn't but I can't really find the right word for what he was feeling. He couldn't find the right word either it was just that he felt something about it and it wasn't completely good.

A few days after he read the article he asked me to take a picture of him working on his fence. Now you have to understand, he has been rebuilding his front fence for a month now. He has been tearing down the old one, digging deep holes for the new posts, painting and hammering it all together. All this by himself. He has been working on it steadily even if it hasn't been as fast as he could have 20 years ago. This would be a large undertaking for a 40 year old and as everyone knows, he isn't 40 anymore! (His baby, me, is way over that already!!)

In honor of his very hard work and his never say die attitude here are the pictures of the very young at heart man, my dad.

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