June 29, 2014. Canyon Lake, Texas. An Ordinary Day.

Some times the ordinary days turn out to be the best days. Ken and I arrived at the Texas family home by 1:30, which meant we spent a lazy morning at the lake. I drank two cups of Ken's good coffee. When we arrived, the four girls were in their rooms so the house was quiet. Suzanne left for the grocery store while David continued to work on his walkway to the deck. He is installing a smoker as well so he has torn up his paving stones, added drainage and now will redo the walkway. Yesterday we accompanied David to buy a set of binoculars for the house. Several of his bird houses are active but with your naked eye you could not distinguish one bird from another. I pointed out to him that one sparrow is not the same as another sparrow. We three sat and watched the birds feed their babied and with the help of his new glasses and the Sipley bird book we decided that he had a nest of black chinned sparrows, so that was satisfying. Next on our schedule was watching the World Cup, Greece against Costa Rico. As the afternoon went along, one by one the girls appeared until we all ended up watching TV together. In the meantime, we all helped sort the groceries and Suzanne prepared dinner, which was spaghetti and meatballs, with everything made at home. If you asked all of us about our day, we would say that we did nothing exceptional, which would be true. But it was an ordinary day but one that was extraordinarily pleasant.