Dempsey’s Irish Pub, your one stop bar and burger joint in Lawrence, Kansas!  Great gourmet burgers on the regular menu, but the daily special burgers are fantastic.  My numero uno has to be the kobe burger, no wait…maybe it’s the black and blue burger, or……..maybe the ……DUCK burger (don’t tell you know who!!).

Well who cares, they are all great!  Then there are the fantastic fries…..regular, truffle oil fries (my fav!!), DUCK oil fries and sweet potato fries. 

My big girl, Kendall, shows off her kobe burger with truffle oil fries, yuuummmyyy!!

Check it out if you ever find yourself driving that lovely stretch of I-70 through Kansas, or maybe visiting the Universtiy of Kansas.  It’s just downtown, not too far off the highway on the south end of Vermont Street.  Well worth the stop!

We had a big weekend at our house. Our baby graduated from college, WOO HOO!! The ducks had to take a backseat to all of the weekend activities. Congratulations to daughter, Kelsey, and her fiance, AJ!! Happy trails ahead…..

I have the most beautiful clematis that bloomed this week, it’s called HENRYI.

The bloom can be anywhere from 5″ to 8″ across.  By mid summer they should be huge.  So far it’s been a no brainer to grow.  

And notice it’s climbing nicely on my FREE, handmade branch trellis!  (see older post on how to make these)

I transplanted it from my daughters yard in March after a few years of neglect.  It survived without extra watering, amongst weeds and probably a random leftover beer thrown on it (daughter, boyfriend, roommate, college, get it :-).

And a dirty duck thrown in today for good measure!

This is what helps me sleep at night……..fencing around everything that is green and lives in my backyard!

I have fenced anything that can be chewed up, pulled up, pooped on or trampled on.  Boy are they confused!

They just stood there, dumbfounded, while I worked my magic wire snippers…….

But then Kacey comes along and decides that things are just too laid back and too quiet and thus begins THE WALK!