Random scenes around the house: Penelope’s tongue in overdrive during breakfast, a beautiful rainbow after a summer rain a few weeks ago and Luke singing his favorite hymn, “Christ the Lord is Risen Today,” during family devotion time last Sunday. He sang it much more enthusiastically the first time, but as usual the camcorder wasn’t close at hand. Next time…<\/p>\n
Luke has warmed up to Maple. She’s been learning, ever so slowly, not to bite the members of her family, and he’s been learning to have fun with her and enjoy being chased by her, as evidenced by the photo below. She’ll accompany us on our walks around the neighborhood and has already become something of a celebrity, with folks making conversation from their front yards and cars when they otherwise wouldn’t, asking about her breed, what she’s like, etc. She loves the walks and is quite the trooper, given that she’s a little dog and Luke and I don’t exactly take short walks.<\/p>\n
For his part, Luke’s greatest source of fascination at the moment, besides his seemingly perpetual interest in geography, is a particular azalea bush in one of our side yards. There are a total of five, planted in a row, but he is drawn to one that has decided to grow out of the ground at an approximately 45-degree angle. He calls it his “leaning plant” and loves to visit it every chance he gets to go outside. Granddad jokingly refers to it as Luke’s “blasted sapling,” a moniker I particularly like. I’ve been working a lot on the yard lately and Luke often accompanies me on my tasks, buzzing especially around the Leaning Plant. We’ve already had a couple of running-through-the-sprinkler sessions, and could have some more this weekend. The azaleas in the backyard<\/em> still need weeding and watering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Random scenes around the house: Penelope’s tongue in overdrive during breakfast, a beautiful rainbow after a summer rain a few weeks ago and Luke singing his favorite hymn, “Christ the Lord is Risen Today,” during family devotion time last Sunday. He sang it much more enthusiastically the first time, but as usual the camcorder wasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,25,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}