Summer Sizzle

Wow, here it is July 12 already and I still haven't posted about my birthday! I've been kind of... okay... really obsessed with a story I'm writing. Nearly everything else took a back seat for awhile. (Sorry sisters, Allegro, Bingo, and my HI2 horses...) 

But anyway, I did have a birthday back on Sunday, June 30. The insta-summer weather that Lily talked about in her last post hasn't gone anywhere. The high on my birthday was a toasty 86 degrees. I'm so glad we weren't trying to camp in the backyard!

I didn't play HI2 for long that day, but Ghirardelli and I did head out to Bend Isle to flute my birthday wild.

Felicity's Swedish Warmblood mare has some serious competition in the profile pic and avatar categories. This stallion is one handsome dude!

And here's the June horse on Mom's work calendar:

(Mom apologizes for how horribly un-centered this is.
She snapped this quickly around 7 am, so we're cutting her some slack.)

Well, their bodies match! The rest not so much. XD

As great as these both are, what really made my birthday was the June 29/30 dog on Mom's page-a-day calendar:

At first glance, I thought it was real too.
=^)

No other big HI2 happenings to report. Like I said, I've been ensconced in my story, and I don't think my sisters have been very active on the game lately either.

I did find an awkward screenshot Lily took of a recent flute, though:

Also, earlier today, Bethany and Volante found this pretty Standardbred dipping her toes in the water. (I guess it must be hot in HI2 too, at least on the non-snowy isles)

As much as we'd love a pinto Standardbred in the herd, this one didn't stand a chance with those stats. Oh well, this isn't my favorite tobiano spotting pattern anyway, though I do love the 2-tone mane and tail.

I will leave you with 3 random recent photos that Felicity found while perusing Mom's phone, sorted by increasing impressiveness.

a splat of bird poop that sort of looks like Squidward

a defective pop tart: nearly half crust!

an extraordinarily neon pink June sunset over Lake Michigan