Sadie doing "Patty-Cake"

We got out to see Sadie this afternoon. Grandma Carolyn was taking care of her while John and Julie planted landscaping material around their house. We had some 0.60" of rain during the night so it was a bit wet. As shown on the photo, Sadie has learned to "patty-cake". In fact, Carolyn says that if she sings the song with Sadie and "throws it in the oven", she will swing her arms just as Carolyn does. Sadie has also learned to waive "bye-bye". You might say she is being "Home schooled". We did some planting too this evening by putting in a climbing Black Eyed Susan. This is the 3rd year that we've had one climbing up a Trellis that I built out of "Chicken wire" next to the clothesline post. While the first two vines were a bright yellow, this one is orange. We hope it does as well as it's predecessors. It wasn't until after we had it planted that I remembered the difficulty of cleaning the dead vines off the chicken wire last fall after that first hard freeze. But it was worth it. There was never a time, even with our dry weather last summer that we didn't have yellow flowers in bloom. I think Sadie will like the looks of the pretty flowers but we won't let her eat them.