Life continues to be wheely rich and full in the Miser Family Household.  

Y kicks us off, identifying us as big fans of wheels ("This came with my bedroom but I love the bronze work and mesh. You could say I'm a fan."), but it's clear we're fans of many kinds of wheels, whether on buses, or whether they come in sets of 48 on my husband's tank (he no longer drives that particular vehicle, by the way), or whether they appear only in the shadow of the cannon.  

Of course, bicycles are also wheely popular.  N-son resurrected this old photo from a bike race he did, back in the olden days when people could congregate for bike races.  (Remember those days?)  My sister-in-law has a great bike story.  She says, 

I was riding my bike on the Las Vegas strip in the early days of the shut down. I was down at the welcome to Las Vegas sign and ran into someone that owns a gallery, he was looking for someone in a mask willing to pose for a picture in front of the iconic Las Vegas sign. I said I will and how about if I am sitting on my sweet ride? The rest as they say, is history.

Biking is very sporty, and so is running.  As a digression, this morning we all got a text from L2 saying, "Once again ran a half without training 😂 paces better this time. Last run was March 24.  Wasn't sure if I was going to finish so I didn't tell anyone".  She picked up the pace toward the end; the last mile or so were 7-ish-minute miles.  (So, um, my friends weren't available, so I skipped my own 4 mile run and slept in today, thank you for the comparison. )

Somewhere between sports and driving comes whacking at golf balls, trying to hit the wheels on the green, as L2 demonstrates so aptly.  And then we have the back seat dogs, and the driver dog ("In the drivers seat ready to go back to Starbucks for more pup cups"), and the driver B-child.   I think somebody needs to start checking licenses a bit more carefully!

Wheels also play roles in craft and construction: I-daughter says,

I'm hanging out with my wheel (her name is Christy Burgh). . . also, Different angle so you can see more of the stickers.

(She says, "hanging out", but I think she's really "taking her for a spin").   And me, I love sticking wheels on existing things.  Here, I'm showing you "Adding wheels to a purple trunk that holds wooden train tracks.  Wheels inside the trunk, wheels under the trunk!"  And A-child and B-child love playing with their color wheel.  So crafty!

I love the Las Vegas photo so much I'm going share a more generous-sized version:

And although this doesn't have anything to do with wheels, I just want to say it's a lot of fun to "go" to church on Sunday and get to see my favorite Future Doctor banging away at the keyboard, keeping us all on tempo and in tune.  Screen shot!

Earlier this summer, I got to go cherry picking with K-daughter and my two grandchildren, and this week I found reason to be extra glad we did that when we could:  there will be no peach picking this year.  Our local orchard says, 

As you recall, we had very mild temperatures early this spring. Due to the warm temperatures, our peach trees bloomed almost a month earlier than normal. Unfortunately, after the bloom and fruit set, we had several frost and freeze events which damaged some of the small fruits and caused them to fall off. Some varieties survived with half a crop while others lost the whole crop. Fruit trees only get one chance a season to produce a crop and if there is damage we must wait until the next year for another crop.

While we would love to open and share the Pick Your Own experience with you, at this time we are only offering our peaches ready picked at our Orchard Outlet Store.

I am, I admit, both saddened and also wondering what I'll eat in February.  Last year, we picked 75 pounds of peaches.  Now, my fruit shelves are almost bare, except for 1-2 dozen jars of cherries.  I might have to break down and go to a [shudder] store.  sigh.

But even though my life isn't all peachy keen right now, it's still wheely nice.  And that's all I got for you from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our adventures.  May you and yours stay safe.