I love my little fish pond

It is a little spot of nirvana in my suburban life. I love my little fish pond. I feed my 13 goldfish each morning while shaking the food container and talking to them. They come to the surface even at 5 a.m. and love me for feeding them the little nuggets.
Such sweet backyard moments.
I am so in love with my backyard and porch from which I throw the food down about 10 feet.
Such simple pleasures.
Life is good.

Porch sitting and summertime fun

Lots of porch sitting and other summertime fun going on.
Like sunrise walks, and finishing landscaping, picking the first red tomatoes and weeding my back yard and most of all sunset watching from this porch every night.
We are so glad we did the messy renovation and demolition of the tiny cement slab that existed before we put up this porch last fall.
Fun to be finishing our lawn seeding and landscaping and actually able to sit and enjoy the view sometime.
We are in the process of finishing two new cement slabs with laying slate.
It's a tedious but somewhat gratifying task.
So far we've been keeping busy and have not yet made plans to take a summer vacation.
We are going to try and sneak in a few days away here and there, but for now we are enjoying our morning sunrises from the front of the house and the dark pink/purple sunsets in the evening.
How are you spending your summer?