Summer.

My favorite picture of them.....

Drinkware

Elle said...

What's wrong with those Kraft Pimento spread jars. My mom supplied me with a six-pack as a birthday present and I stinkin' love them. Between those and spaghetti jars, our glassware is well outfitted AND easily replaceable. I have a hodge-podge collection of glasses. I think there are 6 now. All mismatched. The only requirement is that they be some shade of blue. I love 'em. It's who I am. Mismatched and in varying shades of blue.

12:35 PM

Oh let me be clear....  I prefer mis-matched because it is easy to ID everyone's glass.

My mom finally broke all the glassware from Arby's (you know what I'm talking about... we had the entire Flintstone's collection....) and got lovely plain glasses... now she is spending all of her time trying to figure out how to designate them so we don't drink each other's booze-n-cokes and so we can each keep a water glass out all day....

I should photograph my current glassware collection.... just to make you laugh.....

Gun Control

For years I've resisted posting much of anything about guns or gun control.  But this one... this one you must see.  This is my bedside table.  Yes, I am armed.  But it is an "automatic" so you have to cock this weapon.... I kinda wish it was a revolver so I could just pull the trigger......

(Yes, it is for the damn cats that scritch and claw at the windows in the middle of the night.)

Yes, it really is 5:48 AM.  And, yes, I need to either get a new table or repaint this one.

Tequila Saturday Night

Apparently Tequila make me cook....

I won't lie.  I cleaned the pantry yesterday and found a bottle of tequila with just a tiny bit left in it.... so last night I made a margarita.  And then I made taco scoops for dinner.  And a potato casserole thing.  And potato soup in the crock pot.  (Yes.... I also found some almost-past-prime potatoes and onions in the pantry. 

And it was all lovely and meals are planned for at least a few days.  Musta been the tequila. 

At what age do you let kids start cooking?  I mean really cooking?  Last night Sweet was in charge of the scoops.... I browned the beef and chopped the cheese into big chunks but he used the salad shooter to shred the cheese and he lined up the scoops, filled them with meat & cheese, preheated the oven & put them in the oven.  I took them out. 

Then we played our favorite new game.  Cafeteria.  They get trays and line up and get food.  Scoops, apples & yogurt last night.  It was pretty fun.

All three kids were playing nicely.  I rounded the corner to grab a basket of laundry and found the girls, dressed in scarves & Great-grandma's high heels.  The big one had a nerf dart gun.  The little one had a flyswatter.  And they had their brother trapped in the wicker laundry hamper...

Welcome to my house.

Sunday Morning at my house.

Wake up with big plans to tidy the whole house and then work on the living room.  After several months of it being in a total state of flux I'm ready to finish the last bits of floor painting, make it cute with a fantastic floor arrangement and think about buying a new rug.

Make coffee.
Clean up dining room.
Clean up kitchen.
Put kids to work on crafts in dining room.
Start pulling paint tape in living room.
Take a break and make pancakes for breakfast.
Kids eat ALL pancakes.
Go back to pull more tape.
Turn around and realize the dining room AND kitchen are, once again, a complete disaster.

Wonder why I don't ever get anything done.

You yellow-bellied marmot....

Rockwell Charles.... Rock Chuck to you.....  Yes.... it is a yellow-bellied marmot.  My father-in-law was down this afternoon and said there were two rock chucks, a tiny zippy squirrel & a fuzzy bunny hanging out in my yard.  The poor house-bound cat (she's recovering from a rifle shot) was losing her ever-loving mind...... 

And the Caddyshack theme song plays.....name that rodent.

The other day I came home and saw THIS diving under my porch.  My first thought.... Jeez-um.... I have GOT to stain that porch.  My second thought..... is this Caddyshack?  I love that movie.  I wonder if we own that movie?  We should get that one. 

Yes.  I do have a bit of a focus issue....

I called my hubby at work.  I reported we might have a tiny mutant pigmy hippo living under our porch.  Go ahead... scroll up and check out that cute rump.  That's a hippo rump.  What does one feed a tiny mutant pigmy hippo? 

Or, possibly, it is a pack rat.  In which case it must die.

So I waited.  And I saw this.

Yup.  There s/he is.  Bonus points for anyone who can identify this little buggar.

Go ahead... guess.

Another Day at the Creek

Summer May Be Here

My Week.

Wearing jeans, long-sleeved grey or black t-shirts and a scarf to work EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Driving down the road, realize I forgot my go cup, cautiously peek around the car looking for the tell-tale brown streaks that indicate yet another smashed cup will be in my drive way when I get home.

Failure to put the car in the garage EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Frozen water bottles everywhere.

Mushy carved pumpkin on the table... open it up.... is that Don King's head in there??

Tangled cables, dead cell phones, lost credit card, missing mail.

Property tax, car license, pickup license and insurances due.

Bought a New Dog Bed.....

Pick-a-Nick

Last weekend.  

Instructions:  Grab a bag of chips, a water bottle & shoes you can get wet.

I packed a quick-n-fab lunch in our Custom Crop Care insulated backpack (courtesy of Auntie M).  Some bagel sammies, chips, rabbits, carrots, ranch, gogurt & some mini candy bars.

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Quick:  What freckle-faced and hangs from a tree?

Summer Baby Feet.....

The next Teva Ad:

I recall summer.....

February is not my favorite month.  (Apologies to Kae.... it is her birth month and I gotta tell ya.... that's pretty much the only redeeming quality....)

So I'm doing all the things I do in February to make myself feel better..... hair cut, nesting down with a book, making soup.  We had a Big Ski Adventure on Friday.... more to report on that later.

Part of my nesting included clearing the photos off my cell phone..... now THAT makes me smile.

ha-ha

If I was a good parent we would be spending the long weekend working on potty training.

Bliss

I finished up work today and am heading into a 4-day weekend of.... nothing.  Bliss

Let's Go Junkin'

Part of the plan for the long weekend was a bit of photo documentation of The 'Stead.  Because, really, most people just won't believe it until they see it.  So we wandered to the junk shed.

I think this was a machine shed long ago.  Both chunks of the front open up.  And that old pallet?  Stragetically placed to cover a giant whole.

We approach.  WTF is up with that tire?  I'll tell you.  I rolled it there from somewhere else and it is too f-ing heavy for me to get over the threshhold and into the shed. 

We enter.  Dude.  Scary. 

Seriously.  I open the door and just pitch shit in.  Yes, that's an old printer, a plastic liner for a whiskey barrel and two rose plant winterizers.

I keep thinking this junk should be tossed.... and then I need something and find it in here.

Oh, wait, back up.  Back to the door.  Do you see the remnants of an old hornet nest?  I was due-any-day with Tuff and I needed something from the shed.... and a hornet stung my hand.  Stupid hornet.  I killed him and whacked his house right off the door.

See?  There it is.... down there between the old picture frame and the old tv antenna.

The old picture frame was actually the point of this expedition.  But I decided it isn't quite right for what I want... so it stays in the shed.  Also note handy roll of flashing in the front.  Sharp as all hell but excellent as a magnet board if properly framed. 

Hee-hee.  Who doesn't need an old cake pan, a fossilized suitcase, a few bricks and a rusted coffee can? 

The "work" bench.  Oh look... more flashing.

There is a project in those old wooden boxes.... I just know it.  Also... see that grind stone?  I need another one and I'm going to make the coolest water feature EVER.

Seriously.... treasures.  And an old gate. 

More storm windows and more old oil drums.  And a basketball hoop.  Oh.... the stacks of tires are actually my father-in-law's....

Wh doesn't need an old tv antenna?  You laugh but I've used lots of those lightweight aluminum pieces for.... stuff.....

 

I was going to hang some baskets on this frame and put it behind the toilet.... but I don't know if it will work.  I thought it was smallish but now looking at this picture I might have to go get it and drag it in the bathroom to see.