My new camera...

I have been toting my new camera with me on the walks Tika and me take each day. I figure this way I can figure out how to use it. I am enjoying it alot. Although, I can't wait to get a better zoom lens. 

Anyhow here are some of the photos I took today!

Carolina Jessamine...this stuff is everywhere!

I thought these were cute little things...

These are miniature daffodils...these I thought were cuter than the purple flowers!

They were about the size of quarters.

A raindrop hanging on...

Next up are some photos of the sunsetting this evening...within a 20 minute span.

I thought the sky was beautiful.

The sunsetting....

The orange sky after the rain....

After the rain during sunset....

The beautiful sunset....

I hope you enjoy my photos as much as I enjoy taking them...:)

Long day...

During the end of last week, I have tried really hard NOT to come home and take a nap after I drop Sassy off at the bus. Getting up at 6Am is for the birds…. really! I am so not a morning person….

Well, this morning I got up at 6 and stayed up…mainly because I told my best friend I would start coming over at 8. That’s what I did this morning. When I got there she fixed breakfast and then we decided to walk.

I turned the speedview app on and we hit the road. We walked toward a friend of mines house. Altogether it was 2.4 miles. It was a nice walk…we chatted the whole way and I took a few photos along the way. It was a really nice day…. My best friend fixed lunch for us too, as well as, her mom, dad, sister and niece.

I so enjoy the time I spend with her… she is awesome. 

I tell ya, though, I am so ready for bed and its not even 7pm....lol! 

Anyhow, here is a couple of photos I took today!

This was a sign I thought was cool...I love the saddle leaned up against it!

Looks like she is smiling at me!

Here I come....Wait up!!!

Today, 3/5/11, Sammi and me went to a memorial for Louise Brooker. She passed away last weekend. It has been a very emotional day for everyone. Louise was our neighbor. There are two houses between hers and ours. She was a truly awesome lady. She was outspoken and feisty…yet loving and so kind-hearted. My girls thought of her as a grandmother. She used to help watch my girls when I was taking college classes.

It was a really nice service. The church was quaint and in the country. It was packed with family and friends who will greatly miss her. The preacher said his kind words. Songs were sung...The old rigged cross and Amazing grace, as well as one of Louise's favorite songs. Tears flowed in most everyone’s eyes. After the service we all went out to the small cemetery behind the church. We all gathered around and listened to few more words.   Then her ashes were placed in a hole and a pear tree was planted on top of it. It was awesome. I had never seen anything like it before. We all gathered in the fellowship hall to have a wonderful dinner. They said it was all Louise’s favorite foods. 

Most every year, Louise and her family host a Halloween party. Last year, she came as a cougar. Not the typical animal kind either. Granted she did have on a black outfit, kitty ears and a tail…but it was a metaphor in urban slang. The definition that urbandictionary.com listed is  "A 35+ year old female who is on the "hunt" for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. " It was cute…she had gloves that had long fake nails glues on them.A few years ago, she dress up and that comic picture of the lady that was looking for her dog and she had sat on. Louise had on a moo-moo type dress and had pinned a stuffed dog to her rear-end. 

R.I.P. Louise...you will be greatly missed by us...we love you!

French Toast...

Today, Sassy and me were tired of eating the same ol' same ol' for breakfast. Breakfast choices were looking slim in the house this morning. There is only so many ways you can fix eggs and bacon before it gets monotonous. We decided on French toast and bacon and peaches. For once, the French toast actually looked pretty…not burnt! Sammi said it was scrumptious!

 

Roller Skates

Yesterday was payday.... yay!

So I headed in to town to pick up a few things...I needed a sponge mop so I can wash the walls in the living room. I am gonna go get some paint in the next few days to paint. I figured I needed to wash walls before I painted. I got a few other things as well. I left that store and headed to the thrift store. This is my favorite store. Its a mess on the inside...really unorganized. Still it’s my fave. I have gotten many great things there for next to nothing.
Yesterday, my goal was to find some curtains for my living room. I know what I want and I don’t want to pay a fortune for them. Well, I ended up getting two flat sheets that actually matched. Well while I was there plundering through the mass array of junk, I found a set of roller skates. These skates took me back to my childhood. They were exactly like the ones I had. I remember getting the skates back then and I skated under the carport and on the sidewalks in Vegas. I had a friend that lived next door, Leanne, who skated with me sometimes.

There wasn’t a size in the skates at the store BUT I knew in my heart they would fit Sassy. I had to get them. They were a little dirty, nothing a magic eraser couldn’t take care of. They needed new laces. I really had to get them.

I walked around a bit more looking around and finding more treasure. I picked up the 2 sheets, a small white tablecloth with Battenberg lace and remnant of eyelet lace fabric. I went back and grabbed the skates. Like I said I had to have them. I spent a total of four bucks. I was proud.

I got home and set the skates on the back of the sofa…this is where I set all the “new” stuff I get for Sassy. When she got in from school, she seen them and her eyes got big and she was so happy. She couldn’t wait to get them on her little feet. I told her that she could wear them in the house and practice skating. Poor kid is 8 years old and never skated. Surprisingly, she is doing great at it. I told her that next time we go to town, to take them with us and I will let her skate at Grandpas house on this driveway or maybe we would go to the park and she can skate. She is tickled pink.

I think I got a great buy considering they were only a buck. The happiness in Sassy’s eyes is priceless. 

buzzards...

I just got around to unloading some photos from my camera. I try to do so about once a week. I mainly did it today because I wanted to see what Sassy photographed the other day while she was at Mamaws house. Well as I was looking at the photos…I realized I had taken some photos of a flock of buzzards soaring through the air.

Buzzards fascinate me…. well kinda! A few years ago…I was driving to town and seen a mess of these ugly birds on the road. I slowed up a little not for the birds but for the bumpy train track coming up. I figured these birds would fly away like they always do. I slowed down enough to give the birds some time to go to the side of the road…I knew that as soon as I passed they would be right back on the roadkill they were feasting on. Well let me tell ya…most all the birds flew to the side of the road BUT one! It decided it wanted to be on the other side of the road…it didn’t follow the flock…. as this rebel bird took off flying  (not fast enough) I had it with the pick-up! OH YEAH! I had hit it…this dang bird didn’t hit the grill or the bumper…it had hit right in front of me on the driver side of the windshield! I am telling ya there ain’t nothing like seeing a BIG bird coming at ya …I closed my eyes (I know a bad thang to do when you are driving) ducked my head and hit the brakes hard. OMG you should have seen themes on the windshield. I didn’t kill the buzzard…it had to have flown off. I didn’t see it anywhere around or the rest of them.

I put my foot on the gas pedal and moseyed on to town. I called my Honey on the cell phone…”You ain’t never gonna guess what just happened to me!” He tried guessing and was wrong…I told him what happened…I even told him that I didn’t see the bird anywhere and that it must’ve flown off. He laughed and laughed…then popped off with…”you don’t think it could be in the bed of the truck? DO YA?”

Now mind you I am already shaking from my traumatic experience…I don’t want to even imagine a dang ol’ bird dying in the back of my truck on the way to Wallyworld. I couldn’t see in the bed of the truck…we had Dodge quad cab at the time…I couldn’t just look in the mirrors and see…I didn’t want to stop on the side of the road either and look. So the WHOLE drive to Wal-mart, I was paranoid that there was a dying bird in my truck. I got to Wal-mart and thank goodness there WASN’T a bird there. I would have died if there were. My honey still thinks its funny...often when we pass a flock of them he will ask me if any of them are my friends.

The mess the bird left on the windshield stayed caked on for a good bit…I don’t wash my vehicles. It’s easier to pay someone else and quicker. I took the truck to Goo-Goo carwash and the kid there did a really good job. He did say some of the stuff was hard to get off and he had to use a scraper to get it off. I laughed and said thank you…I told him that it was buzzard crap and that I had hit one. EWWWWWW!

Like I said I am kinda fascinated by them…I wished I had had my camera on a different day though. About a ½ mile from where I hit the one…there were about 100 of them…NO KIDDING. There is this house that had an OLD ford truck out front for sale and some other odds and ends. This yard and truck was covered in buzzards. It would have made for an interesting photo.

Well the other day, Sassy and me were headed to Mamaws and above us there were a bunch circling above us. I grabbed the camera out of the Durango and snapped a few photos. I would love to have a lens that zoomed in better but I think I did decent considering they were on the move…

Blah....

Nothing much going on in my household...

It’s been quite boring....

BLAH!

Sassy started softball with a big ol' BUT in there...there aren’t enough 7-8 yr old girls to make a team. They are hoping by this week that there will be enough. If not then we will keep practicing through out the season so the girl will be on the up and up next season. I got me and Sassy new gloves, so we can practice here at home. I know she would rather have one of the cute pink or purple ones BUT those cost a bit more. She also is a lefty and finding a glove for a left-handed thrower is tough. 

I settled on the plain brown leather one, for her and me. I noticed that a lot of the gloves have synthetic materials on them. That is why I figured a leather one would be a better investment. I know she will use it for a few years and leather will conform to her and my hands. I know she will be excited when it gets here. I got a price on both of the gloves *pats self on back...hehe! I hope Sassy gets to play actually games this year. She loves softball so much. She doesn't care that they win or lose, she just like to play and enjoy the sport. 

My honey made it home Saturday, which was very nice getting to see him. Sassy and me had went to a friends house early that day...came home and then had to run over to Mamaws. AS we were leaving there, My Honey called and said he was almost home. YAY!!

On Sunday, He took us to town. We wanted to go to Lowe’s and get some paint but we ended up going to Shoguns and had a belated birthday dinner for Sassy. I know her birthday is in the fall but this is the first time since then that we had the funds to go. She got her some California rolls and some fried rice. She also ate red snapper, tuna, some other fish and OCTOPUS! She really liked the tuna and also said that the octopus was tasty BUT quite chewy! We had gotten a variety sampler and she sampled those too. To her there ain't many foods she wouldn't eat...I love that about her. 

My Honey left out today. :(

I hate seeing him go...I do enjoy him being home.