Day 57: And then the party came in

The party came in here last night with a vengence - my parents came home from the cottage and Heather and Ross, et al. arrived a little later.  As my head was hitting the pillow, a small portion of my brain thought, blog?  It wasn't loud enough to make me get up.

I did arise fairly early this morning to two happy boys who haven't seen each other in quite a long time.  I retreated with the dog and the breakfast to the back porch where this greeted my eyes:

I'll have to look up what these are called - it may be somewhere in my backbrain.  I'm not likely to find it after my early morning wake up call though.