Saturday So Far

Charlotte spent the night last night, so early this morning Mary and I took her to the neighbor's beautiful backyard to take pictures.

We were up anyway, and we decided to get out before the weather and the child became unpleasant as the day wore on. . . .

It was a nice outing, but unfortunately did not produce nice photos.

This is mostly what I got:

When I asked (begged) her to please look at GiGi and the camera, she just said,

"No, thank you."

When we gave up and walked back over to our house, we heard a raucous noise that I thought was some outlaw bird on our roof or something. Turns out, it was this:

A squirrel was 'stuck' on the brick wall above the garage. He moved around, up and down, but acted skittish and slow and scared. He was up there for hours.

Just a few minutes ago, he fell down! Smack, on the concrete, but then scampered towards us and to our front door. He wanted in the house, then ran up over the door, across the front on the house, and fell again!! Flipped over and over down to the ground - but at least this time it was onto dirt. Right back up the wall, and this time he made it to the roof and took off.

So, we will say that he or she is just fine, and will probably be stealing leaves from our hibiscus plant by early afternoon.