Dare I own up to this incredibly bad pun? Sure, why not. Because who among us hasn’t had the sad realization that the back end of a beloved pair of pants has become threadbare? And no, I’ll spare you the pictures of that.

Instead I’ll show you how this wonderful $2 thrift store prize of a fine-woven cotton skirt …

provided just the right weight of patching material upon which to darn a repair to the back end of my 10+ year old cotton linen capris …

Wildflower Season continues to delight us … the current display of Prairie Sunflowers being worthy of Sting’s Fields of Gold as a background melody (click to enlarge images) …

And then there’s this from Don, who put a sealer on the discarded acrylic paint brush water he has liberally applied to the back porch over the course of one year (dare I call it the backsplash?) …

And some grandkiddo pictures, of course …

Notes:

For those who might wish to indulge, here’s the recipe for snack batch cookie dough, which Griffin made with a friend after learning the ropes during a visit to our house.

And here are the “rules” for Scrabble played my way:

• The object of the game is to use all the letter tiles … there is no scoring.
• Each player gets 7 tiles and picks up new tiles after each move, as in traditional Scrabble play.
• Trading tiles is encouraged. Example: “I really need an R … can anyone trade for a vowel?”
• The Official Scrabble Dictionary can be used before any move to confirm a word or even to get ideas on how to use the tiles at hand.
• When seven tiles remain amongst the players, the tiles are revealed and everyone works together to use them up. A letter can be swapped within an existing word on the board as long as the swap leaves a valid word in its place. Example: swap out the T in RATE and replace it with a Z to make RAZE.
• Celebrate by taking a picture of the completed board … everybody wins!