Full moon alert! This was Tues night... LOVE the smoky clouds swirling around it!
reflection shot
believe it or not, this is my shadow shot this week.... it was strong in person
it was a high bunny count nightime last pee for Alfie, so he may have forgotten the purpose of going out altogether in the chase
He said it was his like this week, and gave him a head rush
Loved this sky view
but it was hot on this walk causing my poodleboy to just.... lie.... down
oh NO you don't, we are not setting up camp here, come on!!!
okay, mama, done at slow speed
lastly, LOVE the sun on this rose... looks like a painting doesn't it?
conversation starter this week:
did you look forward to starting school (either elementary, junior high,
senior high or Uni ?)
I think I always looked forward to the new school year, new teacher in elementary, new desk, new notebooks, new books to cover in brown paper bags.... new school shoes!!!
Of course there were also new PE uniforms that made even the skinny among us look fat, new KEDS to write our names on, new musical instruments to carry around all year in band and heavy wool uniforms in band complete with hat plumes that have been worn by hundreds of students (don't worry they were probably dry cleaned)
Did I tell you this was in sunny Florida?
the real excitement came in starting University.... setting up my own schedule, buying books, getting a USF t-shirt, and highlighters to ruin my new books with... good times!
A highlight for me was going to the church school out of state which meant staying in a dorm, whee! My second year of Uni was spent in TN and i loved the dorm experience! Remember it was a church school so they watched us like a hawk, we went to chapel every morning, and they frowned on wearing make up and jeans in the 70's. Still... I liked sort of being on my own, no parent to wake me if I didn't have an early class to attend, no parent to remind me to brush my teeth or not wear jeans.
I always liked learning, and was successful in it, so aside from coping with snotty students who made fun of a girl with big feet to grow into, I enjoyed school
OMG this is brilliant... if you have a drill bit like this and know how to use it!
I am totally depressed about things I can't really discuss here, but if you have a prayer you're not using, I am at an all time low about home life.... sometimes you just keep putting one foot in front of the other hoping it will eventually work out.... but I am at my all time low... still love y'all, still trying to see the good in life....
Please visit these folks to see what they liked this week
with all the upheaval in my current life, I sleep and eat less.... one morning about 6 AM I saw the sun reflected on this house .. very Edward Hopper like, while waiting for Alfie to pee.....
for this week's list of likes, the only post I am sort of able to do these days, I have a few items to show
Hiya! want to see some things on a walk with me? come!
pretty orange flowers
early ducks on the pond
what's that?!!
I'm the bunny finder! I stop and watch even when Mama doesn't see them right away
there are a LOT of bunnies here right now
I feel like a shadow of my former self and look how large alfie looks!
but we're together and he is a godsend
He has become quite the dog lover, we've walked with Tango and his dad, Oliver and his mom, and last night we met a couple who just moved here from Atlanta with their beauty, Mable a corgie
She batted her eyes at Alfie who melted in love Sorry no pics
conversation starter this week
what back to school supply would you like to have now as an adult?
Fresh new notebooks? markers or new crayons? fat pack of ruled
paper? lunchbox? LOL tell us your fave
I love a fresh new notebook, new crayons with their distinctive scent! with the sharpener on the back of the box, picked out a special lunchbox each year with thermos of course.
Actually I would love lunch tickets, and lunchroom ladies to make me a hot lunch each day! We used to buy them for the week and keep them in a flip top bandaid box in our gray metal desks
l made sausages for dinner, so I also made hot dog buns. Used my lovely perfect hamburger bun recipe that makes 8 buns. Instead I rolled half of the dough into 4 hot dog buns and it worked.
have you noticed when your life is changed, it's comforting to sort, organize, and reduce some things?
welcome to this week's short list of likes... there is a reason it's short but I am not comfortable explaining right now
My list as most do, contains a brilliant sky photo above
I'm not sure why I took this photo of sniffing...
despite the high temps
we still walk. In fact I walked with a neighbor this weekend and the two dogs got along great!
My friend Tiffany has a labradoodle and he looks like Alfie's brother. Forgot to take pics, sorry
loved this grouping (not mine) the puff balls confused me....
Alfie and I did a bit of porch sitting despite the heat
He was tired from life, but Mama knows how much he likes yogurt so I tucked the lid under his nose to wake him up
shadow shot
I trimmed a tree that has been hitting me in the face at night when I take Alfie out back
I've been slow to do everything this month, so the library snatched two books back in the middle of reading them and no list to go from... If only I'd mentioned the one here!
sadly this is one they took
Conversation starter this week
when relaxing in summer do you like a magazine?? or novel?
what magazines do you like and what novels have you enjoyed this
summer?
BOTH! I like home magazines and art magazines, quilting arts magazine, smithsonian but don't get it now. At the beach or outside I tend to look at a magazine. I read on E Book now so glare outside is a factor.
Tell me about your preferences so when I can think again maybe I can read them!
still love sewing and was just headed up to try a video I saw when the power went out.... when we moved to Colorado the agent said don't worry about power here, never goes out! hahahaha
It's been a bad week but Alfie is still awesome and getting more comfortable each day.
He always wants to say hi to people, dogs and is fascinated with workmen in the hood.
the conversation starter this week is
ice cream or snow cones?
I liked snow cones as a child but now it's all about ice cream
a quick memory, DH and I visited Ben & Jerry's factory in VT the first time we went. They gave our labradaughter a cup of her own of vanilla and the three of us sat in the patio and enjoyed our treats!!
Chelsea had never had her own before, so she'd pick up the treat roll it around in her mouth spit it out. Look at it
I worked on projects in progress this week. But, then I looked ahead to Saturday's post on RSC but a color had not been announced.
oy vey, it's generally too late to post your color work on the day it's announced and we only have 4 post days so I tried to reason out the probability and decided chances are it will be yellow or purple.
so I worked on both!
this was one of last year's yellow scrap quilts and I like it so much I hung in on my studio door
I start by organizing the scrap bin by shape and size. This time I took out squares of certain sizes to put in my growing squares collection boxes. Then the tiniest scraps are put by the machine to jump start my month.
not knowing, I chose to go thru this process with both purple bin, and yellow bins
I did start the border choices for last week's piece, and thought I might surround this yellow block with purples but stopped here since I like the way this looks now
It's satisfying to use little bits just as color but to also see them turning into something... a tote? a table topper? book cover?
speaking of books I ordered this but haven't looked through it yet
as I mentioned earlier I also worked with purples... the tiniest scraps became another cutie needlebook
pieced then machine quilted with metallic turquoise thread, the inside
batting scraps become the needle beds
then some embroidery stitches by hand or machine
and beads put on with the hand stitched buttonhole to close the edges
squee! my friend Cindy sent me a box of beads in the Swa---eeeetist little boxes. SO thoughtful, and what a fine mix of turquoise sparklers to use. PLUS
I did the hand work while chatting with her so it was a double gift!
(I also sewed all the buttons back to my pink shirt while chatting)
french knots with size 8 perle cotton in aqua
it's been so very hot, which drains me of energy and causes sleep disturbances, so I am just glad to be doing much of anything but necessities like cooking, laundry, dogwalking
how's about a walk Mama?
and the calendar monthly flip reminds me of time passing by
welcome to this week's list of likes... starting with the blue skies of colorado
but less a like but something to discuss are our brown dry brittle lands. We are under strict watering rules and neighbors now ask, does your yard look as bad as ours?
(the only acceptable answer is "YEP" )
we spent weeks around 100F but the last few days have been merely in the 90's F.
Alfie always wants to go for another walk but the sidewalks and street are so hot. We ordered him some doggie crocs so we'll let you know how they are.
some yarrow in the community garden... I see a dog like a spaniel looking back over it's right shoulder do you see it?
red hot pokers in yellow in our neighbor's yard... she zeroscaped so no mowing for her now!
passed by this unusual sight (we live in a golfing neighborhood) and I started laughing at a hole in one limb
(Alfie peed on the trunk)
After 10 drops of rain, this sight was so gorgeous one night
Fine Dining:
I had some scrambled eggs with mushrooms left over, and some boiled potatoes, so I made a really yummy lunch for us this week.
The potatoes became sort of hash sauteed with minced onion + bell peppers
the eggs went into a quesadilla... if you melt butter in a hot pan, put in a tortilla with fillings, the tortilla crisps up...
this time I used leftover turkey bacon crumbled and cheddar cheese with the eggs.
It was so good!
and quick to make really. I had cut up the citrus on Monday making ambrosia a la my family
grapefruit and orange sections, coconut, cherries, pineapple chunks with banana slices
we had that for a sweet finish.... I love it when the stores have food to buy here
speaking of that, my four cucumber seeds are leafing out and I have one (!!!) tiny half inch cucumber on one... hope it makes it!
reading on audio book
A family of Native Americans tells their story which is very intriguing. Sad to hear the way people used to be so prejudiced against them... have you noticed when one group treats another badly (like taking their lands and livelihoods ) they then run them down to further punish them. I think it comes from the bully feeling a teensy bit guilty so they act like the group deserved it?
disgusting really
Mama all them 25 dogs in my first house bullied me too....SO glad we all found each other!
Mama: well, you are our boy now and you are adorable! Now we need to make sure you stop vomiting in the morning from stomach acid. Do you like me giving you a cup of kibble before bed to help with that?
Alfie, sure do! I also like that miniature golden doodle I met this week. You and his mama talked a long time and he was cute but seemed afraid of me, can you believe it? I never hurt a fly! Still I looked my cutest and hope he plays the next time we meet.
our conversation starter this week... feel free to use it with your spouse or children too
vivid memory of a family vacation you'll always remember... when you were young? or after you grew up, either. What made it stand out and memorable? People, place, activity, etc
When I was 5 my mother, aunt and uncle, another aunt, the woman who watched me, and I went cross country from Florida to LA, California!
I got my first barbie on my birthday that trip, got to see so much country including the painted desert, and Disney World at the end! We even went to Mexico. Our AC went out while crossing the desert with all those fat people squeezed in one sedan!
Regular family vacations included going to local beaches, or to our mountain getaway in Maggie Valley NC. I loved both. At the beach I fondly remember blow up floatie rings, eating sandwiches with sand in them! the scent of coppertone lotion. At the mountains, I had so much freedom and hiked a lot, picked blackberries by the side of the road, went to dances, auctions, amusement areas... and it was cooler than Florida which I loved.
I took a vacation to Europe as a young adult, my friend worked there as a nurse on base but lived on the economy in Frankfurt. I had a Eurail pass and went all over Several countries by myself and it was just wonderful.
