July 8-9th  was a busy weekend with over 800 visitors to our garden, Teary O'hara and I (he is our self pro-claimed garden fairy) and I worked for weeks to prepare for the two day event; the tour bus pulling up to our driveway did surprise us a little!  Visitors said that our garden was one of their favorites as it was full of whimsy and surprises, Amelia and Evie Rose show off one of the water features, that is Teary with his little Miata loaded with posies!  Teary even brought in a banana plant as a focal point, I added a sign that said "I don't remember planting this!"

June 25 is a special day as Evie Rose and I share a  birthday on that date!  This year she was into horses and wanted a "My Little Pony" cake, of course we took it a step further and had the miniature horse foundation bring 3 little horses to our yard for the kids to groom and ride, the horses provide a great service for elderly and disabled children, but for a sizeable donation they will bring the horses to private functions.

Some mid-summer shots of our Amelia clowning around and just posing her cute self!  Yes, we keep her in chains on the beach, or in a cargo net, she gets a little wild and needs to be controlled!  She loves her Buddy the cat for sure!

July was a time to celebrate family time with our beautiful Grandchildren in Peru, Santi 4 and Miranda 3, after spending a couple of days at their new home in Lima, we traveled to Punta Sal, a lovely resort that we enjoyed for a week of fun, getting reacquainted with the kids took about 2 minutes...   Sand, surf, lots of good food, the best part was spending quality time with those kids!

Evie Rose, age 3 doing her hat modeling routine on the Buckhorn Beach on the St Croix River, MN

On our naturalist tour on Andros we were shown all the different plants used in bush tea....

Bob was given lessons on how to catch crabs using first his feet and then being quick with his fingers!

Pictures of a blue hole on Andros with a diving platform (or jumping platform in my case) with treads to give you a running start.  

No trip to Fish Creek on Andros is complete without a visit to Androsia fabric factory, I bought dresses for the girls, very beautiful photo op's with the fabrics blowing in the breeze!

These photos say "what a difference an hour makes!"  from glassy calm to turbulence and rain on our approach to Fish Creek Andros

We loved the sign "do not enter...Very Bad Dogs...the name of the stoneware shop is Pina Colada on Eleuthera, pretty colorful but guess we will not get out o the car.....

The night was dark, the car died continuously if we had the wipers and/or AC on to keep windshield clear, the drivers (Bob & I) were not that accustomed to driving on the left side, and only about 1/2 of the oncoming cars dimmed their lights.  Our dream machine died going up a cut like this one on a pitch dark night.  We had to push it over the top so we would not get hit by oncoming traffic,  we kisses Davis Harbour ground as we got back to the boat.