Daylily

With all the rain lately, we've had our plants, flowers and vegetables growing as well.  This daylily in the back yard sits there towards the very back of the yard, and stands out in an area of green, something nice to see from the back deck.

As mentioned, the rain showers have continued, and look like they will continue.  That's keeping things interesting here!  We did squeeze in some dinner during one of the breaks in the rain - I got outside with Mommy's famous hamburger mix, and I got to grill some cheeseburgers on the deck, using my new grilling implements.  It was a Christmas gift, this box of stainless steel grilling tools, and it all looks so great!  And it works too, but the visuals are fun.  I am indeed the Grill Master!

Sort of.  Anyway, today Madison and I went over to the church to get the five inflatable costumes from our "Unleashed" series, because we're not done with those guys yet!  We have to test them out, of course, and make sure they still inflate and so on.  But it'll be fun to see the reunion there.  We'll probably film that next week, as this week there's been yet another event at the church that might close us down for a bit.  We'll see.

On the way home, we stopped for something that we haven't had in ages!  We had taquitos!  Obviously in this day and age, the roller grill items at a gas station have been a dubious choice for food, and in fact, the past month or so there have been no taquitos at all.  But this afternoon, there they were, rolling endlessly, enticing us with the warm memories of spicy chicken, and the temptation was too much.   Madison and I walked into the gas station, and cried out with all the emotion of someone that's been separated for four months now:  "Hey, taquitos!"  Running forth to the warm welcome of a familiar site, we embraced our destiny.  Madison loves taquitos.

Mommy did some yard work today, but this week will be on and off with the rain.  We'll try to squeeze in some more trips to get mulch, amongst other things.  We were gathering pictures for Nana and Ye-Ye's 50th anniversary.  We found plenty of old ones that we've been scanning today, like this one here:

This was Pikes Peak, obviously.  I've been to the top of that mountain about five or six times.  This was one of the first times though.  You can see Nana, Ye-Ye, and that's Aunt Shain and myself.  In the middle is Ye-Ye's mother.  Ye-Ye's father is taking the photo.  Lots of memories in some of these photos.

Tonight's viewing was episode 19 of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", followed by "Avengers:  Age of Ultron."  The two go together chronologically, and watching this season leading up to things, it's pretty cool how it all worked together.  It can be taken on its own, or you can do it like we did, watching the entire season, and then the movie right in the midst of things.  That's how we did season one with "Dark World" and "Winter Soldier" thrown in there, and it's been great to relive things chronologically.  The thing is, we're doing it at a much more rapid pace.  Back in the day, we were going week-to-week.  Now, with this binge-watching, we're seeing an entire season in a little over two weeks!

"Age of Ultron" was a better movie than I remember it being.  Not that it was bad to begin with, but there were things that didn't make sense and a general feeling that the first "Avengers" movie was so much better.  But this movie was enjoyable, and a lot does happen in it.  And seeing how it all fits together is a lot of fun.

Tonight we read again from "Truckers," and we're still stuck at the Store with the nomes.  But they've got to devise an escape plan, and that's all up to Masklin.  The girls are enjoying this story, and perhaps we'll go on to "Diggers" right after this - I don't know.  We'll leave it up to them.  There are options for the next book, but just like with season two of our current binge-watching, we're rapidly going through this book, and having some laughs along the way.