welcome to this week's list of likes, summer edition! Brought to you on a heat wave!
I started with another neighborhood lawn ornament... cute red truck with strong sun lighting it
I like the view out of our sliding glass door to the patio, Milo's toys are still here, I miss him so
On a walk this week I startled a robin ahead of us,
I said, don't mind us we'll be walking straight ahead on this sidewalk
Robin: what? I don't speak human!! I need to catch a worm so stay back!
so she stayed 6 feet in front of us down the sidewalk, just walking ahead and stopping til we almost catch up
Robin: ARE you kidding me? still coming this way
Me: well we don't want to walk in the road Missus
Robin: (hopping forward another 6 feet) Yikes! why are you chasing me?
Me: hop in the grass so we can go by then! We don't plan to hurt you, and we had breakfast already
Robin: FINE! I'll have to fly to the fence, and don't chase me again
Then we come around a corner and see this
BWAaahahahaha, a herd of dachshunds dragging a man. They were adorable and all went a different way around the light pole on the corner, causing the guy to do a lot of maneuvering to get them untangled. They were a happy group and made me gleeful
loved these roses in full bloom along the way!
we baked last weekend,
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lemon blondies, chocolate chip/oatmeal/pecan cookies, and croissants
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Recipe for cookies is in Gasparilla Cookbook, lemon blondies (
jenny can cook) whole foods for croissant dough
I much prefer our own baked goods to store bought full of corn syrup and soybean oil
created a summer mantel scape with a pretty silk garland, a pathos cutting in water in a vase, some glittery butterflies, and little white lights
garland from Lowes
I love to paint....
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| one of my index card paintings |
REALLY enjoying this book on audio
beautifully read, wonderful plot and characters, mystery of a friend group, and the family figuring it out
LOVE these wall stickers
Flower stickers at amazon
Love to finish art quilts this one is done and lovely to see... Spring Green Leaves
Our conversation starter this week
do you like picnics? Are you a sit on a blanket on the ground person, or
a table outside? Tell us about some picnic that stands out in your
memory ( who was there, foods, time and place, etc)
I remember many beach picnics where my food was coated in sand, and a couple as an adult where you put your blanket on the ground, to listen to a concert while you ate.
as a child, we had some birthday parties at Lowry Park in Tampa in the pavilions on concrete picnic tables.
Then there were
I remember a lot of pot luck picnics growing up, such as family
reunions, church groups, and always a great
variety of food to share.
We loved taking car road trips where we would often grab a lunch to have along the way at roadside tables, with our dog. I like eating outside but roadside picnic tables can be dirty, people being what they are, leaving trash.
I am not one for sitting on the ground now.... but have some fond memories especially sitting under the stars, drinking wine, and listening to an orchestra while having fancy snacks
Please enjoy these fine folk's list of likes this week and let me know if you also wrote a post to include
Mindless sewing of tiny rectangles got this one going and I might not have a vision of the finished piece but I quite love the pattern and colors that are emerging from a pile of tiny scraps
along the way I found this painting in my purple scrap bin.... I think it's from a playdate with gelli printing on fabric with my bee mates in Maryland. Which means it's very old. There is a lot more to it
