Stoop Setting

Clara said this morning that she liked this outfit a lot.  It's her two favorite colors.  (Those are purple shorts, in case you can't see them well enough to tell.)

The Longhorns had practice and a game tonight, but at 7pm, so the boys went to the soccer fields while the Birds stayed home.  Today was our first summer like day here in the Cities in weeks.  Clear blue skies, sunshine, warm-but-not-hot temperatures.  In short, a perfect day for a little soccer.

Turns out, this weather is also perfect for sitting on the front stoop and polishing off the last quarter of the "pink cookies" (strawberry wafers*) in the bucket while watching the neighbor across the street putter in her garden.  Which is exactly what the Birds did.  Our neighbor across the street has provided hours and hours of free entertainment with her incessant yard puttering, and watching her from our porch was one of our favorite ways to putter away an evening.  We're gonna miss her, Fans.  We're gonna miss her.

* For our adult Fans, we can recommend trying them with champagne, and would also encourage you to keep an eye out for this in your locale's hipster bar.  Don't you think that combo screams hipster bar?