T Stands For Drinks With My Friends

 

I want to apologize for all the photos.  I got a bit carried away, and yet, you have no idea how many of these I didn't include.

Today I'm joining my friends Joseph, his two sons, and Scott on my back patio.  You can see this is before I placed the black plastic on the ground to cover and smother the bamboo that is trying to return with a vengeance.

Initially the table on the patio was in full sun, so Scott moved the extra two chairs I had cleaned for the Neighborhood Night Out event, but never put back, to a shady spot under the trees.

It didn't take long until Joseph's oldest was out back with Scott.

I had to lighten the image so you could see both of them.

I realized all I had to do was move a bit closer

and I didn't have to lighten the images at all.

Bored, he left his water bottle on the chair and went chasing after his brother

who didn't seem too excited to join him.

Joseph doesn't seem to mind the sun.  Note everyone is drinking water in those containers.

I kept hoping the house would soon shade the table,

so we would all be out of the sun.

I love this photo of Joseph's youngest.  Look at those eyes!

Then they decided to join Scott by the back fence.

Scott had found some berries he thought were poisonous, so he looked them up on the internet.

By this time it was nap time for the youngest.

However, when Joseph decided to put him down for a nap, he got his second wind. 

Scott was telling a story in which the boys became engrossed.

 

Just in case there weren't enough drinks showing, I actually captured my ugly Wichita State mug.

 

Then Scott showed the boys how to play a game he had found on the internet.  It was similar to Rock-Paper-Scissors, but with a twist.  Then the boys both showed their karate skills while the three of us adults talked.  I actually forgot to take any photos at that point.

One final bit of humor you might appreciate.  Note the phones.  Scott has two since he moved to a different city that doesn't have the same carrier as he has here in Wichita.  Joseph's is on the left.  I'm the only one without a cell phone (still).

It's now time to share your own drink inspired post this week.  It can be gifts you received, photos, a place you visited, movies, postcards, mail art, junk mail, catalogs, books, sketches, mixed media, drawings, paintings, tags, scrapbooking, or other art that is digital, hybrid, or traditional, as long as it in some way relates back to a drink, any drink.  Regardless, please share below and Bleubeard and I, along with the rest of the T gang will be by to visit.   Please link only your T post and not your blog in general.  Bleubeard would like to remind you that old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday and not just this year.