If at First You Don't Succeed---You are like most people

This day didn't go nearly as well as I hoped. We moved our reticent renters out, with a whole long story of their lying, and put their larger belongings on the lawn and the rest of the house in the garage.
When we finished we showered and went to get milk. When we came home the cops were outside the rental, the woman actually had the nerve to call the cops. Shortest story possible: the creeps have all the rights. So I am bummed, she and her felon boyfriend are still there, with a promise to move "in a week... or ten days..." We'll start proper eviction procedures, which can take up to 3 months. Did I mention I'm really, really, bummed? Soooooooo--if this is some kind of test I'm going to pass it. Cause I'm really good at tests. You don't get a GPA like mine (graduating CummaGoomaLoudly as dad says) without being a really good test taker. Instead of any more garbage I'm going to share some more of my beautiful summer memories and just mellow out. So here's to new antiques (the youth chair)(hey, is that an oxymoron? new antiques?) Cousins are cool, aunties and porch swings go good together, friends are wonderful things, and birthdays are fun days.

If at First You Don't Succeed

Better Days...Better Nights

Tomorrow we have the unpleasant task of moving out a renter who is basically a squatter. Danny and I have a tendency to think the best of people, and seem to have a knack for being gullible. President Hinckley used to say that "there is much of kindness in the world, there is much of goodness." Perhaps because we look for those qualities and choose to see the world as basically good, we find ourselves "taken in" now and again.(In my head I see David with his finger pulling at the side of his mouth, as in "hook, line, and sinker") We believed them, we got snookered. So tomorrow we'll start spending our days moving their furniture out, cleaning up their mess, and painting the walls away from hideous and back to normal.
Hence, no sleep for this girl tonight.
I thought I would console myself my counting my blessings instead of sheep. It's worked a lot of times. So the objective of this post is to share happier days, and remember that this is just the short-term, and everything of eternal significance is wonderful.
For this post I chose a couple more blessings and good memories from Yellowstone: Hikes in the Sunshine, Bridges, Earning my Walking Stick Medallion, Blueberry Pancake Breakfasts, and Amazing Thermal Gardens.

"That's a Little Bit of Heaven Right There"

That's one of my favorite things that Amanda says about really good moments in life, whether it's a perfect piece in a great day, something really delicious to eat, or holding someone you love, or finding the perfect pair of shoes. Well, our trip to Yellowstone was like that. Even if it did take me two days of spit-baths to decide I would fork over 3.25 for a shower, and after a while buffalo in the road are not that charming, it was, overall, a truly amazing couple of days. Here's just a few, because it's simply not right to make people sit through the whooooole camera card full of Yellowstone pictures. I just like that one by the entrance because "It took am Act of Congress" is another one my favorite sayings. Three Billy Goats Gruff were immediately inside the North Gate and were an indicator of the wildlife we'd see. "We Two" was at the top of a hike where orange water ran out of the hill side. "On the Bridge" was in the middle of a hike to another set of falls I'm trying to watercolor. The waterfall was at the bottom of a long hike, totally worth it! We hiked all over that place and deserve both walking stick medallions we found! If you like these---I got more. :)
It looks as though a couple are going to be sideways, don't know what to tell you about that--they were right side up in i-Photo, and on my desktop. Chalk it up to the personality of computers and the mood they are in when you ask them to do something. Kind of ruins the impact, but whaddayagonnado?