The Maisie Days Of Summer

It's not quite summer yet, but it sure feels like it.

I think Maisie's been feeling a bit neglected lately.  Oh, she has several friends now, lots of things to do and places to go, but summer vacation has not gone like she'd planned so far.  She's been in a fair amount of trouble - breaking and entering, food stealing, fence testing...  If you tell her not to do something, she just tries all the harder to do it.  Even Hank lost his patience with her once. 

"Nobody understands me."

The sky has been interesting and busy all day.  Small wispy clouds in the morning, big sweeping clouds this afternoon.  The cloud of white fuzz in the foreground is Hank's.  He's finally started his big shed out and stands next to me and lets me pluck out big hunks of undercoat.

And as long as the sheep want to stay out, he will too, but he finds himself a cool, shady vantage point.

But he's happiest when he can crash in the barn.  Maisie came in with him, but wasn't ready to settle in.  I sat down in hopes she'd sit down with me, but she doesn't really want to hang out with her mom right now...but she doesn't really want not to.  Teenagers...