A Quick Visit to Mount Vernon

It seems like the way this summer is going with doctor visits, eye surgery and now back surgery, we are going to spend the whole summer here in Spokane. (Last summer we spent several weeks at each of our daughter's homes on the west side.) But, we really did want to see two of our grandchildren and their father in the Northwest Shakespeare productions. So we decided to leave Auntie Violet here at Peaceful Pines and just take Toad II over to Mount Vernon for the long weekend.

Besides the theatre performances, it was also Granddaughter Claire's thirteenth birthday and it was fun to be there to help her celebrate. Claire is our youngest grandchild. It was bittersweet to realize that she has become a teenager!

A child after my own heart, Claire didn't want a birthday cake, but requested pie instead!

Daughter MaryMae has had a running gag of presents for her brother-in-law Scott for may years. (She once gave him rattles made from goat toes...!) This year she brought him this hat that came complete with dreadlocks...

It actually looks pretty good on him...