I took advantage of being up early and sat outside with my coffee and my dog Patriot. It was very pleasant - warm and slightly humid.

This book is the second-to-last book in the Alice series written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It's about Alice's summer after high school graduation. She's spending it working on a cruise ship with her best friends.

His green friend is still scaling the wall across the way.

This is on the radio at noon each day on WRCJ. There is also a website for Bird Note that is wonderful. Gives lots of fascinating facts and sounds about birds and what we can do to help ensure their survival.

Wore my yellow parrot shirt today for Wild Wear Wednesday to earn my Go Wild Badge. :)

It was a perfect evening to walk and take photos.

OLIVIA Goes Camping. Outdoors is great, but I don't like the bugs, either. I might try to go camping when I am older.

The year of the beasts by Cecil Castellucci ; illustrated by Nate Powell — The storyline reminded me a little of the cruel sisters who fight jealously over a man; one drowns the other, whose bones and hair are made into a harp by a minstrel who then sings about the tragedy. The Year of the Beasts is only a little less gruesome, and is told in alternating chapters between text and graphic novel. The older sister takes to the woods after the boy she likes starts dating her younger sister, and tension mounts between the sisters throughout the summer. I feel like it would have been more successful if the graphic novel part had been placed at the end (in chronological order) instead of mixed throughout the text.

With family and lots of friends. Had a delicious picnic lunch. All kids and grown-ups went swimming, played ball, went in the splash pad too. It was so much fun!

We raised 3 Painted Lady butterflies from caterpillar to butterfly. It took about 7 days for the caterpillars to turn into chrysalid then emerge at butterflies. We fed them oranges, watermelon, and sugar water on carnations. Our butterflies were beautiful.

My mom and I went for a hike around Wild Wing Lake. We saw a lot of wildlife.

My family and I camped at the Canton Family Campout. We went kayaking, roasted smores, watched Smurfs under the stars, and had pancakes for breakfast.