ROWANS 1111ST BLOG

We had to find pine cones and then we made treats for the birds out of pine cones, seeds and peanut butter. Dilly was licking the peanut butter.
This was a sleepover. We were in the black diamond room in Flagstaff. nana took this picture..
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Hats, farmers and pilots

Farmer Rowan and Farmer Dylan are very busy working in the garden
Rowan really misses her Dad, Captain MacIntyre

Flagstaff and flowers

We went to this meadow in Flagstaff which has a prairie dog village. We didn't see any prairie dogs because it was mid day, but we saw a lot of beautiful flowers. We took a short walk and Rowan said, "I think it it going to rain, we should hurry back". The sky was very dark and it started to thunder and lightening. We headed back and made it to the car just as it started raining!
Papa and Dilly with matching shirts. Aren't they cute?

Rowan is pointing to the an entrance to the prairie dog village. When we were here before there were lots and lots of prairie dogs. I think I have some pictures of them. I will have to try and find them.
Rowan, Dilly and Tadbit (Rowan's frog friend) lounging in the wildflowers in front of our cabin.

Townhouses and Prayers for Sean's family in Texas

Rowan and Dylan each have a townhouse in the middle of the living room constructed by Kirsten Construction Company. The duplex shares a roof. Rowan was in her house, came out and pushed off the roof. She came over with a serious look on her face and said "It is incredibly dark in there!" The construction company was called back to put in skylights. Speaking of houses, please pray for Sean and the girls (who you see in the Australia pictures in the slide show to the right). They have just moved to Houston, Texas and are fleeing Hurricane Ike. They are heading for Arkansas to wait out the storm with Grandma and Grandpa Romey. We pray for them and all in Hurricane Ike's way. Speaking of prayers, Rowan became sick with a fever as high as 104 and a sore thoat. Her fever is much less today and she is sleeping a lot. Please pray for her quick recovery.

The Stars of the show

Dilly has this little car that both kids love to ride around the house. He loves to push Rowan if she can be convinced to go slow enough. Our house has a circular roadway they use. It starts here at the toy bench, goes through the living room, through the kitchen (which gets wild when we are fixing dinner), down the hall and back to the toy shelf. They have put miles on that little car since they arrived.
Papa and Dilly being silly with Trader Joe's stickers. Speaking of Trader Joe's, that store has kid sized carts that Row and Dilly love. They both get a cart and collect all the groceries. At Fry's they have carts which have little cars attached to the front which both kids can ride in. We can't go to Frys' without getting a car cart. Kirs has it down to a science. She drives up and down the parking lot looking for a car cart, they get out and claim it before someone else gets it. Jules and I went to Frys the other day w/o the kids, both car carts were taken by other families. I was so glad they weren't with us because they would have been heart broken.
Race car driver and the pit crew!
Here's the artist at work.

What a piece of work. Row and picture both masterpieces in purple!

More clothes lines, sunrise and sunset

This is a picture that my cousin Annie took of a creative clothes line in Australia with adjustable lines which go lower for easy pinning and higher for drying. Kirsten and I have been faithfully hanging up our clothes on the line. I got a call at work the other day from Kirsten. She said I hung all out clothes on the line and it poured rain. They are dripping with rain. Do I have to wash them again, or can I let them dry again. We went with letting them dry, since it wasn't a dust storm. What can be cleaner than rain, right? Well they weren't dry by evening, so she was going to leave them up overnight. About 9pm it started pouring again and we finally put them in the dryer! It rained 1.3" that night! That is over 1/7 of our yearly rainfall of 7 inches.
This is a picture that I took of clothes hanging behind a townhouse in Sydney Rocks area
This is sunrise Annie took outside her window in Brisbane, beautiful huh! Good on ya Annie for getting up early!
This is sunset outside my front window in Phoenix with the setting sun shining on a thundercloud over Piestawa Peak.

Kirs, Rowan, Dilly and laundry

In Australia everyone has at least one clothes line. Usually they have one outside in the sun and another under the house or under a covered porch for rainy days. My favorite image was when we visited my aunt's sister and she had laundry hung on lines under a covered porch and sitting among the laundry was a rocking chair. It was so cute, I wish I had taken a picture. Anyway I have started hanging my clothes out on the line on my solar dryer. It's not any harder especially if your washing machine is outside like mine is. Here you see Rowan and Dilly having fun running through the sheets in our backyard.

Our Grandkids Rowan and Dylan. Cute, huh! They and their Mom Kirsten are visiting in Phoenix for up to 6 weeks as a stop over before they move to India. Rob is there already in training for his new job as an airline captain for Kingfisher Airlines in India. Kingfisher is both a airline and a beer, owned by the same man. The beer came 1st, then the airline. Rob was given an offer they couldn't refuse and things have been tough in the American airlines ever since 9/11.
This is Kirsten and Rowan spending some quality time. We are really enjoying all three of them. The kids are a laugh a minute.