Simple summer pleasures

What's better on a beastly hot day of summer than playing in nice cold well water???

As it's been drier around here and I've been transplanting perennials, the kids and I have been doing some watering here and there, and Krassi appeared interested, so I filled up a can and set it next to him yesterday.

It was very well received. But, as you can see from the center photo, he tends to get a little over-zealous, and very soon the water is gone. And that's not so much fun.

But the hose, now, that's another story! The water doesn't stop. Such a simple thing, and yet to think that he's probably never, in a decade of living, done something quite like this, turns it into a pretty grand experience.

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(And, in all honesty, lest you think life around here is all smiles and giggles as these pictures and video suggest, I'll let you know that within 30 minutes of taking that video, I had four of six children crying - two of them pretty intensely - another one who was scowling, and a pot of water at a rolling boil waiting almost 10 minutes for pasta to be added for a nice supper that won't heat up the very hot and humid house too much. Sorry, no video of that! But those moments pass, too. And by supper time the pasta salad was nicely chilled, and five out of six children were happy. The scowling one, not so much. Maybe by tomorrow!)