Back from family get-together...

 

Easter Fireplace at daughter's  (love the bunnies!)

Hope everyone had a good Easter...

We drove down to our daughter's place in the Hill Country to have a private family get-together and memorial for our 17 year old grandson who died recently in an accident in California. It was wonderful having us all together despite the sad circumstances. We had a delicious Easter Brunch at daughter's house and spent the weekend talking and reminiscing. First time in a long time that all of us were together in one place.

Took numerous pics and videos... too numerous to show here. Some are pretty funny trying to get everyone to pose in certain spots and set the camera to take it while daughter ran in to get into picture... or dog ran off and then ran back.  Apparently you can take a video and then stop it to make a fixed photo from the video (who knew?).

Anyway, I will post one taken outside. We took several group shots, inside kitchen, by pond,  and this one. 

DH and I are in the middle with youngest son and granddaughter in front of me. Then on the right is our daughter, SIL, and oldest granddaughter. And on the left is oldest son, DIL, and his older son (his younger son is the one who passed recently).

As I said, we took lots of pics as who knows when we will all be together again.  One of the silly pics we took was of me on their tractor. They have 8-10 acres with horses, dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits, and land turtles. And SIL grows veggies, trees, and other things - which he hopes to turn into a business one day (after retirement).

And no, I didn't drive it (tho I could have). Daughter drives it all the time.

Easter Monday everyone headed home, but me. I jumped in the car with my oldest son, his wife, and 2 dogs and we headed to his place in Mission, TX for a few days. It's a really lovely area, with palm trees and a state park... close to the Mexican border... great birding area!  I spent most of my time laying out in his backyard by the pool, bird watching, and playing with his 2 Golden Doodles, but we did visit Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park and birded with other birders. 

My slippers and pj's of course... in son's backyard.

Flew home from Mission on Southwest Airlines this past Saturday. Haven't flown since before the pandemic (did wear my mask). And it was fine. Truth be known, I love to fly... just not very fond of airports (too loud and crowded).

Home the feral cats and kittens are loving the Easter grass in our backyard. We will have to mow it soon as it's getting really high... but they love playing around in it... so we've put off cutting it till this coming weekend. Here's a pic:

and that's about it.... 

If you're still with me, I'm going to post a few memes that I like:

(I already do all these things... but need to work on the hair)

I like this...

and 

Oh, and I took some pics and a rain video from my daughter's porch Easter Sunday. I love the view sitting on her porch drinking my coffee... and listening to it rain. 

And rain video:

I could fall asleep to the sound of this rain video...

(remember to enlarge it to get a better view by clicking on the arrow and then the small square)

Hugs (virtual),

Rian

* Adding on here May 1, 2025 Rabbit! Rabbit! White Rabbit!

Rabbit! Rabbit! White Rabbit!