Grandmas are the champions

Last weekend, we went up to Bastrop (the hoppinest little city in northeast Louisiana) for my grandfather's 80th birthday. The party was at my aunt & uncle's house, and at the party, we played bocce ball. I'd never played it before, and usually my cousins are better at this kind of thing that I am, so I didn't expect to do that well. We were divided up into 9 teams and played a single elimination tournament. There were five teams made up of each of the five grandchildren and their wives, a team for my parents, my aunt and uncle, my grandma and (80 year old) grandpa. Then the last team was my other grandma and my aunt's mother. I'm really glad that Mamaw and Mrs. Lukey decided to play. I just hoped they would have fun.

Long story short, Mamaw and Mrs. Lukey mopped the floor with everybody. They won the whole thing! And it wasn't that we were being easy on them. In the last round, Uncle Carl knocked the jack out of the way so that he and Aunt Mary K were ahead, so I know they were trying to win.


Honor your grandmother.

Our new pets - kinda

We have two hanging ferns on the outside porch, and I noticed yesterday that there's a bird's nest in one of them.

Anybody know what kind of bird this is? It's definitely not a house wren; the beak is too small. Maybe it's some kind of finch?

This is a picture of the female. Last night there were two birds, and the one that I assume is the male looked somewhat like this, but he had a red head and was red part of the way down his back and chest.




The birds' names are Fred and Ginger.


***UPDATE: 2006-05-13 11:11 CDT***

After searching on whatbird.com, my mom found out that our birds are House Finches. Also, the wikipedia entry.

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