Saturday Photo Hunt... and Stuff...
Visit other playersToday's Theme: PLASTIC
I'm pretty sure I have a million pictures with plastic
in them... but none could be so precious as these...
Luz sipping tea
with pinky extended...
From her little pink
plastic princess tea set...
wearing Nana's hat.
Goodness, how I love that little girl!
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Today will be other pink fun, as Luz has her tap and ballet recital today!
Her tap performance is a solo!
I am one
EXCITED Nana!!!
Yes, I am!!!
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Krysti emailed yesterday and said that she has "survived" Amsterdam, Paris, Switzerland, and Germany! She now has 3 days in Austria and then hooooooooome! She said she has had a blast but that she is ready (oh soooooooooo ready) to come HOME! Tap your heels together 3 times Krysti, and repeat... there's no place like home... LOL! I will be happy to have her back too! Though I suspect I won't see her for long before she goes back to work! After all, she's been OFF for two weeks!
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Photo Hunt - Painted... and Yesterday....
The side wall of a little urban greenhouse/vegetable market
somewhere just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Yesterday...
Oh my goodness! I just returned from our Praise service to give thanks for John Fogleman's recovery, and it was fantastic! We had a pretty good turnout -- about 40 people. I was hoping for more - but 40 is more than usually show up for anything - so I was pleased!
My friends Sue & Cordell had put the whole thing together, and two other friends - Barb & Jim lead the music with guitar. Every single song we sang was one of my FAVORITE praise songs! Needless to say - I'd like to do this EVERY Friday night! We read about a dozen different sections of Psalms - and we did it in responses. I got to lead Psalm 89:6-8. Then 5 people stood up and gave testimony about either how John's illness has affected them ... or about how John has been a blessing to them in a specific way. And my friend Norm talked about how much John has grown in Christ since he joined First Lutheran back in '94. I know - because he's in my bible study - about how Jesus "rescued" John once before. But not everyone in the congregation knows his past. And of course, I didn't know him BACK THEN! But he was quite a character and was not - by any means - always in the Lord! He sure is now though! He's really amazing! God is sO good! And this was just a great praise service! I'm sure Jesus was smiling!
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Krysti has arrived in Amsterdam, and can not get over how BEAUTIFUL it is! I tried to warn her! I've never even BEEN there, but I still knew it would be beautiful! She says it is overwhelming! She and her little group of girls went to a "really really nice restaurant" that they didn't realize was THAT nice - but she said the wait staff was wonderful, and she thinks the food was Belgian - but she's not sure! But everything was FABULOUS! They had NO idea what they were eating - but it was all good! LOL! I soooooooooo wish I was there with her! Tomorrow they are going to the Van Gogh Museum and the Anne Frank house. *sigh* I wanna gooooooo.... I have NO idea what her schedule is. I know they go to Paris, and I know they go to Germany... but that's all I can remember. So... it will be a surprise to ALL of us what she does!
Today I got my next "thing" to be excited about! Well, two things actually --- I hadn't told you guys yet - but I'm signed on for crafts at VBS again this year! I've worked it out with Vada to come stay with Mom that whole week so that I don't have to take her with me this year. THAT was just too stressful last year! Not because she DOES anything, but because when she gets BORED her "thing to do" is use the restroom -- and of course, she couldn't go there by herself -- and I couldn't STOP to take her! So it WAS stressful. It will be better if I can leave her home this year! This year we're doing Gadget's Garage -- so it's all about building and creating! Crafts should be a breeze!
AND ... the other thing - the one I found out today is - Dennis (even though I told him he could say NO) said I CAN go to Women of Faith again this year!!! Whoooooooo hoooo! Oh I can not WAIT! And sO many of my friends are going this year! It's going to be a BLAST! I just LOVE having something to look forward to! It makes time go by much HAPPIER! I am dancin' on the clouds tonight, I'll tell ya! It's just been a GREAT day!
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Photo Hunt... and Stuff...
Dennis brought me flowers!
(from MY garden ... but HE brought them to me!)
LOL!
Well... I'm sure we'll see a lot of daffodils and other
flowers today! Spring is trying sO hard to sprung!
But for me, it was either this ... or my kitchen!
(and you've SEEN that!)
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Ohhhhhh Mom is really concerning me with this new "phase" she's moving into. Suddenly she does not seem to be able to dress (or undress) herself anymore. Clothing has always been a confusing issue... but as long as we keep things "simple" she's been able to handle it for the most part. But the last few nights Dennis has had to help her get her PJ's on... and I have had to all but dress her in the mornings. She HAS had this cold too -- and I wonder how much of it is that... and if it will come back... or if once it's lost, it's lost -- even if it is due to a cold. Somehow she ended up with two pairs of underwear on today, and she had an "accident" and I think it might have been because she pulled down one pair - but didn't realize she had another pair on... I don't know. I also don't know when she got that other pair on! Food is even more confusing now too... and just overall -- she seems "sadder"... even more withdrawn. It's as though she's more acutely aware of HOW confused she is. Before she didn't usually believe that she's confused. OH! And the bathroom! Oh my goodness! It used to be she would go to the bathroom a million times a day. Not now. Now she goes in there only a few times a day - but she stays for 20 minutes - and then we have to FIGHT her to get her to come out! She just goes in and sits. She forgets if she went or not. So she just keeps sitting there waiting to go again! We can not convince her that she's been in there for so long -- she doesn't remember it being that long! She thinks we've all turned into bathroom police! Oyyyyyyy....
We did get out for a little bit today. Got a bite to eat, and then I took Mom and got her hair cut. Cleaned her up a bit. She was gettin' pretty shaggy. Then we hit the grocery store to try to get a corned beef so that we could celebrate OUR St. Patricks Day Sunday... operative word here being we TRIED! There is not a corned beef to be had in this town. Or in this county. How crazy is that!?? I mean I knOw we just had Green Day - but I didn't get MINE and there should have been ONE left over for me! How sad... Well, we're going to have a meal on Sunday. It just may NOT be a St. Patrick's Day meal... *sigh* Krysti and I have to go over to Waldorf tomorrow. I'm going to try to get one over there! *crosses my fingers*
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Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt...
Visit other playersToday's Theme: ThankfulOf all things to come into my life within the past couple of years...
the absolute number 1 thing that I am thankful for HAS to be my wee
GRANDDAUGHTER! Labels: Photo Hunt
Photo Scavenger Hunt ... and Wordzzle... and maybe some stuff...
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Today's Theme: Scary
No one I know... I just happened to be there.
Very scary though!
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The Wordzzle Challenge is hosted each week by Raven
Ten Word Challenge: build-a-bear workshop, man bites dog, opulent, disparaging, lipstick stain, preponderance, smoky quartz, clothes pin, meticulous, falling leaves
October 25, 2007 - Chicago, IL - MAN BITES DOG! In a rather bizarre turn of events today, Martin G. Russel, the city's most opulent citizen, asserts that his dog, Bailey, was bitten by a man with a clothes pin on his nose. While visiting the Build-A-Bear Workshop with his granddaughter at Chicago Towne Center, the meticulous Russel stated the man, who was wearing black dress slacks, white button down shirt, and a smoky quartz suit jacket simply walked up to him, bent over and bit his incredibly rare snow white bullmastif. The preponderance of eye witnesses confirmed the story and even added that the man left a bright red lipstick stain on the dog. Bailey did not bite back. According to standers by, the man then ran out crossing the street and disappeared into a wooded area nearby. Authorities have noted that his tracks were covered by the Windy City's falling leaves. Mr. Russel said the entire incident was quite disparaging, and he is flummoxed as to why it occurred. Police ask that anyone having information about the alleged dog biter, please call 1-800-DOG-BITE. All calls will remain anonymous.
Mini Challenge: moisturizing, pickles, seat belt, flip-flop, Chicago
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Yesterday was the most UNproductive day I've had in a long long time! Knee was acting up horribly -- almost had me feeling a need to see a doctor! It hurt just to stand on it... so I didn't. Which meant I got nothing done - other than to write my Wordzzles... which we've GOT to get away from MY word lists! I am HORRIBLE at making word lists! Remind me NOT to do that again! Other than that - I got a good nap! Mmmmm.... I love a nap! Vada had Mom out, so I didn't even feel guilty about it!
In Ella news, she leaves Hawaii today and is heading to Dumas, TX! I wonder what in the world she'll find to get into THERE! I know she has had a grand time in Hawaii with Quilly - the two have become fast friends and I'm sure they will miss each other. It's always sad to say goodbye...
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Saturday Photo Hunt... Wordzzle...
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Today's Theme: Sad
This is about as sad as Jewl gets!
This puppy hates a bath!
Awwww....<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>The Wordzzle Challenge is hosted each week by Raven This Week's Ten Word Challenge: tattletale, homogeneous, flighty, cornucopia, plethora, militant, lovelorn, myopic, digitalized, mute
Oh, I am so MAD at that bratty little militant tattletale I could just spit nails! Do you know what she's done? We were having a perfectly fair and FUN little competition to see who could snag the most spewlies on campus... you don't know what a spewlie is? Oh! They are those homogeneous little bobble things they put in the mugs down at the pub! You know... after a few too many (or even one) they're fun to toss around and play with! But it was just for fun! Ya know? EVERYBODY has them! So anyway... I just happened to mention it to the soccer team after Tuesday night's win and they all saved their spewlies for ME! I didn't ASK 'em to! They just did it! Well, little miss flirty flighty is rather lovelorn at the moment and has her myopic eye set on Chad - you know - captain of the team! It doesn't seem to matter a fig that HE hasn't even noticed she exists, while Brandon's tongue is practically hanging on the ground every time she walks by... she won't give him the time of day! So now she's all snarly at ME because Chad gave me his spewlies! It's not like she caught us under the bleachers or something! So... what'd she do? She went to the DEAN! Now mind you, she DIDN'T tell on the soccer team! Just on ME! So of course, MY dorm was searched and they found my plethora of spewlies spilling out of the cornucopia on my shelf... Sure, I coulda made up some canned story about "finding" them all or how they were all given to me or something, but it just wasn't worth it - ya know? I mean, EVERYBODY has spewlies! What's the big deal? Well... I'll tell ya... the big deal is that NOW, since she tattled, spewlies are no longer allowed on campus! This is sO juvenile! Next they'll be installing digitalized breath analysis on campus or something! The whole thing has just left me MUTE! (can't you tell?)And for the Mini Challenge: washing machine, cholesterol, blatantly, Birdman of Alcatraz, poltergeist
Did you ever have one of those days where nothing goes right? Today was one of those days. It started out with poltergeist in my washing machine, moved on to a bat in the basement about the size of the Birdman of Alcatraz! How it got in there, I have no idea! Then the doctor called with my the results of my blood tests. My cholesterol is sky high! Satan is blatantly messing with me, and I'm going back to bed and pray! Maybe when I get up again, it will all be over!
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Bridging The Gap - Day 7... Photo Hunt - Beautiful ... and stuff...
I soooooo did not find a bridge yesterday. Life got complicated... but I did find some other things I'll share later! So I've been scouring my archives and I came up with THIS! I had forgotten all about it!
This is a bridge I found by accident. It is up in the woods near Keuka Lake, in New York. I had seen a little stream that I wanted to photograph, but I didn't have time at that moment... so on the way back, I was pretty much stopping at each and every one looking to see if it was THE one - cuz of course I couldn't remember a landmark to help me find it! I never did find the one I was looking for... but I stumbled across this little bridge - waaay hidden away! When I found it I really FELT like I was tresspassing... but at the same time I was sO intrigued by it! It was sort of like finding the "Secret Garden". If you look close (and you can big it) you'll notice that there is wire fencing to keep people like me out! I did honor that! But I got a picture! Again... never knew I might need it! Just wanted it.
And I've been holding this one back until the end - as an extra!
Little Luz doin' the Bridge in her gymnastics class!
YAY!
Thank you SO much Alice!
Bridging the Gap has been great fun!
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I'm sure we're going to see a g'zillion of these today...but you can't deny it's beautiful!I love this peach beauty with the pink blush on the edges!I found it at the Brookside Garden's (same place I find my butterflies)
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For those of you who were still working on sending me rain yesterday - THANK YOU!!! We did get a good ground drenching! Of course, I didn't get to stay home and read a book and enjoy it ... but I got to be out IN it and enjoyed it just the same! As a matter of fact, the rain was the highlight of my day!
No papers were picked up at the old lawyers office. The new lawyer is HOPPIN' mad! We all knew the papers wouldn't be there... but technicalities and formalities are the things Law is made of... So, I did my part. Now the battle begins! I'm just a cheer leader in all this... except when Dennis needs to write a letter. Then he sweet-talks me! But from here on out, it should be Julie writing the letters, I believe.
We had an "incident" with Mom last night. We don't really know what happened, but she either got up and fell, or she fell out of her bed. We're really not sure. Dennis had already gone to bed, and I was working on photos when I heard a THUNK! I went flyin' up the stairs, and into Mom's room and she was kneeling on the floor by her bed, and her little table was cockeyed. I asked her what happened -- but ... oy! Once she's had that blue sleeping pill... communication gets ROUGH! Her explanation was that she was talking to that couple over there - and she pointed to her lamp! Dennis came runnin' in, and we got her up and sitting on the bed. She had her pajama top unbuttoned. I have a feeling she had been UP. She had some blood in the corner of her mouth, and she's got a new abrasion on her arm. Other than that she seems okay. 99% of the time that sleeping pill knocks her so far out she couldn't get up if her life depended on it. But every now and then... something goes haywire! Last night was one of those nights!
Dennis left this morning for a week in Pennsylvania. Mom & I will have left for the beach before he gets home next weekend -- this means we aren't going to see him for 4 whole weeks! WOW! We've never been away from each other for THAT long before!
Wordzzle will be up a little later today. I was too tired to finish it last night... so I gotta do it this morning! Y'all have a great day!
Labels: Bridges, Photo Hunt
Photo Hunt ... A Mom & Me Meme.... Project Black
Today's Theme: What IS that?
I really wasn't sure what to DO with this photo hunt this week. I don't know if we're supposed to be playing a guessing game or if we were supposed to find some kind of object that NOBODY knows what it is... I know there ARE no "supposed to's" in the Photo Hunt... but sometimes it would be good to have some sort of definition of what we're doing here! I couldn't find any unusual stuff... so I opted to go with the guessing game... I don't think this one is really too hard -- but daughter Krysti did NOT see it for what it is at all -- so I decided to go with this one! :P
The answer is further down in today's post.
What IS that?
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And Yet Another Meme
1. Do you like blue cheese? Yes I do! I don't think I ever ate it. She hates it!
2. Have you ever smoked heroin? Ummm... NO! NO!
3. Do you own a gun? Only by marriage... No.
4. What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic? We don't HAVE Sonic here... What's that?
5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? SOMEtimes. No. She sweats bullets if she knows she has a doctors appointment! I don't tell her anymore until we get there!!!
6. What do you think of hot dogs? Occasionally ya just gotta have one! But ONLY occasionally! I think they're good to eat once in a while.
7. Favorite Christmas movie? Miracle on 34th Street - original version. It's a Wonderful Life. (I had to give her a list to choose from)
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? coffeeeeeeee... Um... I wanna say coffee.
9. Can you do push ups? yep! Don't think I've ever tried. (and so she DID try! It was hysterical!)
10. What is your favorite piece of jewelry? My cross necklace. My wedding rings. She wears 6-8 rings every day all on two fingers and doesn't have a CLUE which ones - if any - are her wedding rings!
11. What is your favorite hobby? Photography & Blogging. I ain't got no hobbies. That's for sure!
12. What is one trait that you love about yourself? My generosity. That I was good to my kids.
13. What is one trait you hate about yourself? My cowardice. That I can't lose weight.
14. Middle name? *gag* Clare Harriet
15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment?
1. I need to go clean the potatoes. What are we gonna do today?
2. I need to get them in the microwave for dinner. Who am I gonna see today?
3. I wonder why Krysti always needs to make HER dinner while I'm in the middle of making the one that she WON'T eat? I don't know what another one is. We were lucky to get two - it was a struggle!
16. Name 3 things you bought yesterday.
1. Twelve more leather bracelets for the middle schoolers. Nothing. White Crocs.
2. glue dots Tan canvas shoes
3. glitter sparkle sun catcher paint
17. Name 4 drinks you regularly drink. coffee, water, pepsi, milk ... Coffee, iced tea, milk. (if I tie her down and pour it down her throat, water.)
18. Current worry? No worries at the moment. Got a lot of worries... but couldn't think of one!
19. What do you hate right now? Television ... but I always hate it. I don't hate nothin. (cuz I'm not trying to wrangle her into the bathtub!)20. Favorite place to be? ALMOST anywhere else. With my family & friends.
21. How did you bring in the New Year? At Amanda's house toasting the new year with Water... with Luz! Watched television til they showed it, and then went to bed. ( today she thinks it's 1920)
22. Where would you like to go? LOTS of places but Greece first. I guess New York.
23. Name two people who will complete this? Family? I'm the last one. Friends... I dunno... Complete what?24. Do you own slippers? NO! How did I end up the only one in the family without a BIG pair of ANIMAL slippers??? Uh... no, I don't think I do.
25. What shirt are you wearing? Turquoise t-shirt. A green one.
26. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? No. I always slide off! They are gross! I never slept on any.
27. Can you whistle? barely ... *giggle* no...
28. Favorite color? All of them. Blue29. Would you be a pirate? No way matey! Aargh Aargh! No. Where are you getting these questions?
30. What songs do you sing in the shower? I do not sing in the shower... I THINK in the shower! It's one of the few places I get some peace! I don't sing NO songs!
31. Favorite girl's name? Amanda... I mean Krysti... I mean Amanda... I mean Krysti... Carol
32. Favorite boy's name? Mathew... I mean Derek... I mean Mathew... I mean Derek... Charles
33. What is in your pocket right now? I dont have any pockets right now. Nothing. She doesn't have any pockets either or else there would be at least one tissue and a toothpick!
34. Last thing that made you laugh? Mom came home from being out all day with Tammy and introduced Dad & I to her "new" friend! Again. Right now! All these questions!
35. Best bed sheets as a child? Um... when I was a child sheets ONLY came in white cotton. Period. WHAT??? Gawd! We didn't have no special kinds of sheets...
36. Worst injury you have ever had? I s'pose when I stuck my heal in the spokes of a bicycle when I was only a year old. I don't remember anything worse than that... unless you count when I ripped a billion layers of skin off my calf while shaving... Oh Gawsh... I don't think I've had any injuries.
37. Do you love where you live? No. I like it... I don't LOVE it... but I like it. Does she KNOW where she lives? Noooo...
39. Who is your loudest friend? I am the loud friend! (hey! Amanda said that too! But she's my daughter - well... my friend too... but my daughter first... ) I can't think of a friend. That's just sad :(
40. How many dogs do you have? one. none. we live together!
41. Does someone have a crush on you? I have really serious doubts about that! I have NO idea!
42. What is your favorite book? The Bible! I don't have a favorite book.43. What is your favorite candy? Milky Way Dark peppermints
44. What song do you want played at your funeral? I have NOT thought about this yet... but I'll make my play list... one of these days! Whatever one they want to!45. What were you doing at 12:00 am? coloring... nothing... I just woke up and got up. She was sleeping. (thank God!)
46. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Good morning God! Coffee.... What was we gonna do today.
Oh, by the way, the answer to my photo hunt is HERE!
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Project BLACK -- Take 10
Chew stick anyone?
Project Black is Hosted by Anna
Labels: meme's, Photo Hunt, Projects
Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt -- Bad Hair
Today's Theme: Bad Hair
THIS was the hair that prompted Mom's haircut!
But honestly... who CARES about HAIR when you've
got
THIS in front of you???
I guarantee you she didn't!
Mmmmm...
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Luz sipping tea with pinky extended...
