Aviv looks like he is hard at work and the pup likes it.

Adults, strangers, animals. all love Aviv at first sight. He is so sociable, not shy at all. That's a great quality.

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On the last two days he even became friend with a Japanese boy "Yoo" the same age but looking so small next to him.  How they manages without a common language was a wonder.

Bubble and I attended a cabaret show called the Hank and Patsy show. These were  two famous Country Music stars from the 1950s. The two performers sang the songs we grew up listening to  and after the show we had great chat with "Hank Williams" and a
great photo shot as well.

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My kind of memories!   

Jeanne Lee even though my specialty is classical music I still retain my fondest memories of the Country Music stars from back then. I still have an extensive record collection of them.

I always start with the last post & go back to what I've read before.... this time the same only I'm in a rush & don't want to wait to thank you for the fantastic photos of "The Trip" ..... and for letting us all share in your joy.  Great photos of all of you!  (Okay, Bubble, without trying, your little Aviv is a scene stealer!). 

I know Don has visited Bubble when Ben was alive & since, but is this the first time for Bubble to visit Don & family in his back yard?  I think y'all need to write a book~ 

Oh, Gloria, hope they end up sending you a whole new computer!  Wish I could send this RV back.... but I did that once & after a month & 2,000 miles later got the same piece of junk back.     At least I can still come in here & whine & you are muzzled with no way to scream.... want me to scream for you?   

Better get busy, son called & on his way to put the re-designed door back on the frig in the RV.  He found a site online last night where many others complained about the same 'frig & problem, got some new ideas. 

Happy Day to all........Shirley

Bubble.  Now Avi will be wanting a dog of his own.

Yes. it is stange how children can meet and play with others. I remember we use to take my girls to the South of France when we went back to UK. Youngest about 5 at one time and she use to play with a little French boy on the Beach all day long.  Neither on speaking the same language. Yet in a hurry next day to get back with him again. I use to watch them and they would just laugh away and chatter. Use their hands a lot.  I still do that and it does work for me here with the Mexican people we now have many of.
Even people I know make fun of me as my hands always going. Say people would think me doing sign language

Jack - That park looks like a lovely place to sit on a summer afternoon. The hanging basket is beautiful. Can't have them down here in summer because it's too hot, but in the fall they do well. I find that periwinkle (vinca) will bloom beautifully nearly year round. It's very hardy in the heat.

Sachiko - The vegetables from your garden look delicious. I like eggplant and recently found a recipe for "eggplant pizzas" which I plan to make.

Bubble and Don - I love all the pictures! Thanks for sharing your visit with us. The Hank Williams imitator looks very much like him. I loved country music and the only radio station I could get at night while growing up was WWVA, Wheeling, West Virginia.

Pat - I know the trip was hard on you, but not surprised that you didn't let the opportunity to visit Don and Bubble get away!

Bubble - So cute of Aviv with the dog. Boys and dogs just go together!  When I was small, relatives of some friends used to visit each summer from Quebec, Canada. The children only spoke French and we spoke English. Language was never a barrier. We would jabber away together and somehow knew what the other one was saying. Children are naturals at communicating.

Beverly, several years ago I planted five vinca plants in front of my kitchen window.  They wintered and multiplied.  I did not know they wintered and I did not know they spread along the roots.  I have vincas growing out of my ears!  This summer with the extreme heat my little garden was overtaken by bindweed and crabgrass/quackgrass.  We have a woman in our complex who likes to garden for the Association so she has been rearranging things for me, some that I like, some I do not like (she doesn't listen for what I like!) so it is mostly what she likes.  However, I do not have to do the work because I cannot do the work.  Beggars cannot be choosers!

But I have plenty of vinca!!!

Mary Ann

Beverly I came to Wheeling from Pittsburgh with a friend that loved hillbilly music (was not Country at the time)   I was not a fan. We drove for almost 2 hours to the Virginia Theatre (torn down years ago)  We sat in the balcony, on a hot night, with cow bells, hooting and hollering.  Told him on the way home that was my last trip to Wheeling.   Little did I know that I would be transferred here in 1960, and lived here since (love it)  WWVA still broadcasts but the Jamboree in the Hills is 20 miles west in Ohio. 

Did like Hank Williams   Remember  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg2oR91_r5I

Bubble, Those are quite wonderful photos! You seem very happy.

My convalescent celebration was being sent from my daughter. She went to Sapporo for her academic meeting and was sending two melons which are local specialties there.

I cut the melon big, and we enjoyed that. It was fragrant, was very sweet and tasted good.

Sachiko3 that melon is what we call a Cantaloupe.  Very popular here in Texas.
Out in the Wild West (Pecos, Texas) they were famous for their Cantaloupe's but they are hard to find anymore.  My Mother loved to take half of a Cantaloupe and place a scoop of ice cream in it to eat and enjoy.

http://www.texascooppower.com/texas-stories/nature-outdoors/the-truth-about-pecos-cantaloupes

It will take me a while to get the hang of
my new google smart phone.   
But this is a start:

This is my second year with these orchids.
Cut them back in the Fall and up they
popped again in the Spring.

Beautiful melons, Sachiko!

Sandy, I'm so envious of those gorgeous orchids.  I tried several times to have orchids and only succeeded in killing each and every one.  <sigh>

Sachiko, like Hal, they look like our cantaloupes that I always preferred to Water Melon.  They look tasty.

Sandy a pretty photo and from a phone.

No one was more surprised
then I was when my cut back orchids
popped up again the next year.     

Now to see just how long I can keep them.   

I used a litttle orchid fertilizer and set them in
a North/East window,  and I think that  they liked
that.      While they were hybernating I set them
under a table and only watered them occaisionally.   

Miracles of miracles!   They lived to bloom again!

Sandy

Sandy, what a beautiful picture of your orchids !!!   And, such a clear picture with your new phone.   Almost makes me want to get one of those kind of phones.  My phone is just one of the Jitterbugs and it is just a phone.  I hardly ever use it, which is why I am hesitant to put the money into one of the smart phones.  I don't usually go out by myself and whoever I am with always has their phone.  Mine is mainly for an emergency.   But, after seeing the picture it takes,  there are times when I would like to take some pictures of my own.

A perfect picture.  Thanks for sharing. 

Joy

Thanks Joy!   I have so much to learn,  that I
can spend hours on the phone right now.....  and not making
phone calls or texting.    I won't be able to do that until
after the beginning of the month....  (my choice of when to
start up service) ...     

So now I am spending time learning how to use  the
fabulous camera,  Instagram,  play games and go
onto Facebook and Twitter.     

So much to learn  (a little at a time).   
So I am very excited!

Sandy

Yummy melon!  That is one of my favorite fruit.
Sachiko, do you make a drink from its seeds?  Here we clean and dry them, then grind them in a food processor. 
You put the coarse powder in a loosely tied cheese cloth (or a man's handkerchief!) and plunge in a bowl of water.  "massage" that tied parcel and the water will turn milky.   
Leave it to soak  about 15 minutes and squeeze of the seeds. 
You can add a little sugar if you want. Cold it is a very refreshing drink.

Beautiful orchids.   I never had luck with this plant

Bubble, do you use hot water to soak them?  Also do you drink it hot or cold?
Have you tried it cold, with ice?

Mary Ann - I'm wondering if what you have is the ground cover, vinca. They do spread! Mine are supposed to be an annual but here in Florida I cut them back when they get real "leggy" and it works like pruning a plant. They grow quite big with beautiful blooms. I like the dark pink/red ones best. I copied this photo off the net to give you an idea of the type I have. They don't spread but will reseed themselves.

Sachiko - Lovely juicy melon! A darker orange than the cantaloupes we have. We can get several types of exotic melons at our grocery store but I haven't tried some of them.

Hal - That's an interesting link about the Pecos cantaloupes.

Sandy - Beautiful orchids. I had two of them on my lanai and they would bloom every March. The blooms last several months. Not sure what happened but they both died. I'm tempted to get another one.

Sandy, they are beautiful orchids.  I've had no luck with growing orchids.  I'm always tempted to try again when I go through Lowe's or Home Depot garden shop.

Sachiko, the melon looks delicious!

Beverly, my vincas could very well be ground cover vincas.  Mine are blue or periwinkle, but I have seen then in pink.  I am just trying to contain them, if possible.  By this time of the year they get quite tall, however, in Spring when things are first coming up, my little blue  flowers are visible.  The little blue flowers are of several varieties but all about the same size.  I also have snow drops in among them. 

Your vinca is pretty; I wonder if our nursery carries them.  Maybe next year!

Mary Ann

Those melons in Japan look much better than the ones I have been buying her. So ripe looking and the skins are not a thick of ours it seems.  I had one the other day that was so hard to cut the peel. Was good once I was done peeling

Sachilk That melon looks like I could grab it through the tub.  In the summer we can get field melons, only off the farm stands, they are on the soft side and I like them.

Beverly, I have never planted Vinca plant, most of the time I can safely plant impatients as my back yard is all shade.

JeanneP, your children are well traveled, travel is such and education.

Shirley, glad your son can fix your ref. door

Bubble, thanks for the picture of Aivi, he looks like such a happy child

Sandy, I was given and orchid, when I was in the hospital, keep it until summer.  Put it out in the florida room in back of a chair, did not think of it any more till I found iit frozen, after our first winter freeze. Last year.

Don, I just played thatr Hank W. track and loved it.  I love old country music.  Not what they call country now.  When I lived in Charleston durning THE WAR, we went to a lot of Grand Old Opery traveling shows. Saw all the big country stars.  About 20 years ago spent a few days in Nashville and of course I went to Grand Old Opery.

So many wonderful photos!

Beverly, MaryAnn, etc. I thought I had seen vinca here but when I googled, the sources were talking about the plant doing well in hot and dry zones. So I thought it must be another similar plant. I Googled vinca in Fairbanks and yes they do grow here!    https://frostdate.com/ak/fairbanks/vinca-vine.htm

Sachiko, as always your photos are crisp and beautifully styled! You have an artistic soul! I really enjoy different melons but prefer different cheeses with them rather than a sweet.My sister will eat slices of cantaloupe with bacon slices for breakfast! You are lucky to have such a caring daughter although much of that is from you and your husband I suspect in raising her right.

Sandy, such a sharp photo, especially from a phone, yet dreamy in how you positioned the photo. You are quite a photographer! I Googled your phone as my  sister loves her iphone and it's camera and I am getting more and more intrigued by these phones. However, I rarely call and do more texting or use my computer and post to phone numbers or phone email. I think I'm more curious about having a new toy I really don't need.

I really enjoy this site and all the photos people post here!