God's Blessing - RAINBOWS

I had the blessing of seeing two rainbows this week!! This one from our house and then a few days later - a double rainbow out the window at work!! Thank you God for your paintings and beautiful colors!!

Newest Family Member - BLACKIE

This kitten has been hanging around our house!!! It likes to be in our garden out front so we feed it and give it water out there. It is cute and how can we resist???

Animal Kingdom, Gill's Birthday

We went to Animal Kingdom for Gill's 51st birthday. He loves it there. He got in free since is was his birthday and we had an unused ticket from who knows when that got me in. We had $30 in Disney gift cards that paid for parking and lunch, actually our nice day cost us $1.19, how is that for a bargin??? We got there at just after 8 AM, got Gill's birthday button and special birthday ticket, then the park opened at 9 AM. We really were not planning to stay long - so HOT however we were having a good time so left at 7 PM!!! AND NO RAIN!!!


A waterfall in the Oasis, Gill's favortie place, lots of birds, ducks, small animals, nice and relaxing.

Tracey and Gill in the Oasis

Tracey and Gill in the Oasis with 2 red macaws behind us

Nice bird and lily pads with flowers

We have a BIG snow capped mountian in central Florida!

the birthday boy - Gill

elephants on safari in Africa

Destiny, a 12 year tiger being brought into surgery. She had a tooth pulled and a renal biopsy, fascinating to watch

look at those PAWS!!!!

renal biopsy under ultrasound guidance

there were lots of people - I counted 11 in the OR and some observing from behind the glass window

they had to give her a ringers lactate bolus - they hung a 5000 ml bag!!

tiger in Asia

tiger in Asia

Festival of the Lion King - I love this show and music

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!!!

This morning we went to a pancake breakfast at church, delicious!!! Regular and blueberry pancakes, fresh fruit and bacon.

Sack races, Gill is in flag shirt.

3 legged race

Watermelon eating contest which Gill WON!!! Imagine that!!!

VACATION WEEK

Dreamsicle in the new cat wheel, actually we have had this for awhile however, Daddy (Gill) finally put it together. Quite nice, nice padded place to sleep, burlap on each side for scratching and cubby holes on top to hide.

Magnolia Park

Magnolia Park, I did a research to see what Peacocks eat, one usually always comes to truck and we do not have food and actually one thing they like is cat food and we have lots of that!

Ichenucknee Springs State Park

Peacock Springs State Park

I have been on vacation for a week - nice and relaxing. We started by going and seeing the peacocks at Magnolia Park, a county park not far from our house.

We had 2 LDS missionaries come twice this week, once to watch a movie on Joseph Smith and another for some teaching.

DONNY.COM launched on June 16th, this is Donny 3.0 and I am loving it - lots of new pictures and videos, chat room and message boards.

Then we visited 4 state parks, Ichetucknee Springs which is known for tubing. In fact Gill is going there with the church group in a couple of weekends; Troy Springs, Peacock Springs and Lafayette Springs. We crossed the Swannee River several times. Peacock is popular for cave diving and Lafayette was under construction. But it was a nice day, we ate dinner at a nice little restaurant the Goose Nest in Fort White, before we got back on 75 to head home.

Then we went and saw "The Propasal", cute and funny with Sandra Bullock and Ryan???

I also did a search on cat whiskers, I find them occassionnally around the house and yes (please no comments) I save them. Well much to my happiness, I found a BLOG and I am not the only crazy person who saves them.

OH and my Brother called me TWICE this week. OK my Mother had some really bad back pain earlier in the week, she got a shot in her back and has felt pretty good since them. So he was making sure that I kept updated about her. Thanks Brad!!!!

PIZZA FUSION

Just ate here, new place in Dr. Phillips. Good, for those who need it - serving gluten free, organic & vegan options! They also deliver in hybrid vehicles!

BABY BIRD

We have a baby bird, the nest I think was actually in the folks who live behind us yard. I came home from work Monday night and saw this baby in a bush in our front yard, not sure how he got there as he can not fly yet. He is so cute with fuzz on his head. We saw him yesterday but have not found him today yet.