A Dragon’s Breath

If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.  ~Phyllis Diller

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.  ~Dorothy Parker

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.  ~Doug Larson

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.  ~Edgar W. Howe

Arguing with a teenager is like wrestling in the mud with a pig. Sooner or later you figure out that he/she is enjoying it.
– Author Unknown

Attention Teenagers! NO is a complete sentence!
– Author Unknown

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
– General George S. Patton, Jr.

Raising teenagers is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree.
– Author Unknown

Hug your children today — while you still can.

This year we took a small vacation to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where my husband’s sister lives.  They have a house on Lake Hamilton.  So among seeing the sites around Hot Springs, we spent alot of time on the back porch watching the various birds and animals that we could see.  The slideshow below contains many of the wildlife that we saw, but there were also many that we saw that I was unable to take a picture.  Fortunately, I was able to capture many closeups from the back porch–my camera had a 40X zoom.

Some of the wildlife not pictured: the 5-lb catfish that my husband and Lewis caught while out on their trip, the bats, some blue jays, other fish, and plenty of other bird species that I could not name. Oh! and the mosquitos!