Waterfront homes

Yesterday afternoon, we took Laydee to the Sacramento river to swim. 

The day before, at her weight check-in, we learned she had lost 6 lbs in 2 months! She went from 71 pounds to a svelt 65. No more limping around with a bad hip and leg. She is more vital than ever - at 7 years old! Her coat is so black she is blue and she feels like velvet. 

Here she is going to her floatie. 

While there I walked around and looked at all the beautiful river-front homes. 

Priced at 1.4 million and over - I won't be living there for sure. 

I've always dreamed of living at the water's edge - an ocean, a river, a babbling creek, or a lake. 

There was this beach house on my hometown beach where all of us teens would hang out - the dad was a big-time surfer and he had this big wooden deck - I would sit there and think, "wow this is the life." 

I grew up 2 miles from the beach - an easy walk when you're young. 

Too far to hear the ocean but at night when it was foggy, I'd lay in bed comforted by the sound of fog horns. 

 When we'd go back to Tennessee to visit the grandparents, every 2 years, we always drove up to Ohio and Indiana where some of my dad's brothers and sisters relocated. My aunt had a lakefront home in Indiana - on Sylvan Lake. 

We always went water skiing, when there. 

I did notice it is more humid by the river and there are more bugs. 

An hour or so after we came home, I found a big black bug getting comfortable in my hair - 

There were many out fishing - A beautiful 93 degrees. 

Ah, Laydee decided to come on in - she's had enough exercise for the day. 

Time to go - 

We went to dinner at Navy's house to have a joint birthday celebration for both him and his mother-in-law. I didn't have time to get photos together of Michael and plan to do this as a Christmas gift to both sons. 

Navy's birthday is Sunday but he'll be at work and then we're going out for dinner with some new friends that we recently met. Normally I would have passed since it was my kid's birthday but I didn't this time and he was fine with it since he was working anyway.