when we moved into this house, there were flowers everywhere, one of my favorites is the geraniums of many colors in the front and back yards. i am not a huge fan of pink, usually avoiding it if possible, but i do love these geraniums.
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i love snacks 🙂 i especially love snacks that have a healthy element and a junk food element 🙂 i had a get together with some friends to watch Downton Abbey Season 2, it was a marathon session starting at 11am and going on until around 9pm. we got through the whole season and the Christmas episode. Now we just have to wait until January for season 3… but anyway.. this was my snack using some of the leftovers from that gathering. Dill Pickle Pringles are truly proof there is a higher power and he wants me to have tasty snacks 🙂
and for the record, this is a proper snack..
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Happy Mothers Day to my mom, over at Oldentimes.wordpress.com. she raised me up, taught me right from wrong, then at some point had to cross her fingers she had done it all right and stand back and let me make my own choices. hopefully, i have made more good choices than bad, and she is as proud of me as i am to be her daughter.
i took this picture when she was out to visit me in california last spring. hopefully she can come back soon, cause we have a lot more trouble we can get into 🙂
Friday Fictioneer
Wrapped like a mummy, nothing visible but a nose. Rustling sounds outside keep us awake. We know it is nothing dangerous, a chipmunk or squirrel, but the sounds are foreign, just enough to keep us alert. Time passes, a few whispers, a few giggles, a shush from the next tent over. The cold seeps in the tent flap, we scoot together to stay warm. Oh no! The cold… We have had too much soda as we reveled in the freedom of the first long summer camping trip of the year. Thank goodness the moon lights our way into the trees.
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A circle of sorts, the old sawmill blade spinning as it chews through a log. this was taken at an old manual sawmill in the Missouri Ozarks… i spent an hour or so there on a cold February day with the snow spitting. it was a fascinating process to watch especially in these days of automation and computer guided machinery.
one man rolls the log over and lines it up using just his eyes and years of practice, starts up the saw and sends it through. men at the other end take whatever comes off and sort it into the right pile, sometimes manually shaving some bark off here and there.
it was really an interesting thing to watch, maybe some day i will visit them again.
Comic Con , i got to meet Dean Koontz, the writer of one of my series… The Odd Thomas Books
I remember this as a gate to be opened and closed if you wanted to go past our barn. More often than not it was just climbed over, unless we were hauling trash to the dump. Funny now that taking the trash out means rolling the bins to the street, it is a hated chore. I remember when we fought to load the truck and drive down the road. A passenger had to open the gate; no driver would ever stoop so low. Once there it was fun to throw the bags farthest down the hill into the family dump.
not very mind blowing, but nevertheless Looking Down… hmm maybe i should go back and do Stairs too… is that cheating?
anyway… this is a photo looking down the stairs in my house and hanging there on the railing is a quilt, my mom made that for my grandma and when we lost my grandma last year, my aunt sent the quilt back home with me to california. i knew as i unpacked it that it would be living there on my railing. i see a slightly modified version of this view from my office as i work each day, and on even the worst day i can look at that quilt and it connects me to so many family members, even though they are all far away in one way or another. some day if i have a bad enough day, it could even come off that rail to be wrapped around me, but so far just the thought of those hugs are enough. i don’t really have a lot of bad days 🙂
it is an extra bonus that the quilt is purple and teal. those are my favorite colors and the quilt my mom and i made for me as my first foray into quilting is also purple and teal. and as a parting thought, a picture of my grandma with her quilt, i love that face 🙂
