By the pool....a day in our lives...No, I don't make this stuff up
Well, it was a holiday weekend, I suppose. Happy July 4th from our house to yours. Saturday, Ken was catching up on outside work, clearing wood from some trees we had cut, burning brush, etc...I had purposed to spend the day doing heat and ice on my back, which has been bothering me a lot for a long while...and, spend time with our new dog, Cow-belle. She is a Blue Tick Hound.( Ok, the name on her AKC papers is Belle....but she answers to both! And, she needs to earn her keep by being the new mascot for our Tuesday night jewelry show on YouTube, "Coffee and Jewelry with Barbie and Ken.") Ken closes the bidding on each item by ringing an orange cowbell. It got really hot out on the deck, even with the ice packs. I mentioned to Ken at one point that I would love to have my new pool put up. My daughter and her husband bought it for me for my birthday. Melissa knows I love to read in the water. Until she started college, we belonged to a pool which was ...