"Hamming" it up!

Every Family Has a Show Off!!


Yeah.. it's right, every family has a show off, don't they? Any EVERY family member can BE a show off once in a while, not all the time. But EVERY year, this grove of trees, this ONE tree shows off first EVERY year! How is it a whole row of trees of the same type can have one tree that turns red before the rest? I just look forward to it every year, it makes me laugh.

Not to be left out, here are some pictures of the show offs in MY family!
As you can tell by the following, some members of the family are more comfortable hamming it up then other. Oh, and not that you wouldn't get it but I felt "Hamming it up" was a good title following the Swine Flu post prior to this one.

SUEY!! Here Pig...pig..pig

Just call me a sow I suppose, cause I have a litter of piglets for children. So far all three of them now have had the flu, wonder who's next.
Oh fun, fun... At least this one I can be with and try and nurse back to health the other two are on their own in this big world.

So... to kill an hour and a half I had to sit in the waiting room with a 17 year old wearing a face mask... LOL, he just LOVED that!

I was knitting MORE socks. I won some sock yarn a while back from Garden Lynn

and hadn't been knitting much this summer, but just finished the cascading leaves socks

the other day and I guess the sock bug bit me again and now I want to knit more. [hey, lets hope it's the only bug that bites me, huh?]

As I was sitting there knitting, I happened to notice how well the sock yarn matched the lining and accents of my bag I also won in a different blog contest held by Calico Daisy a while ago. Pretty cool, HUH?

Makes me realize how far out of the loop I have let myself get in the blogland I have so loved for 2 1/2 years, well.. for 2 years anyway, the last half a year is when I have been missing in action actually. I used to hold blog contests and join in when someone else held one and spread the word when ever possible when there was a cool one going on.

Maybe I will get it back one day, but even now as I type this I know that this entry is not with the usual bloggy love feeling I have had in the past when I posted. Not that I am not enjoying posting it just that it's not feeling like a rich, rewarding experience as it once did. I just spend so much time in face book now and keep in touch with people that way more. Everything has it's season, I hope my blogging time hasn't passed completely only laying dormant for a little while. Hugs all! Nannybird

I love being a Grandma!

Channon and Joe's Baby Shower for Julia

One of those days...

So.. you wanna know how my day went?
This is one of those ... Don't you hate it when moments we have shared in the past on my blog.. this happened yesterday. Here is some of the conversation I had with a friend on chat on facebook.

Friend: so what have u been doing all day ?

Me:OH MAN!
are you sure, I mean POSITIVE you want to know?

Friend:
okay !! maybe not .LOL sure go ahead !!
I have time

Me:
your sure you wanna hear this? it's almost dinner time!

Friend:
start

Me
first off, I had to take Robbie to school
because the car he drives ... an OLD 87 Mercedes
we have had for about 4 years
went on the Fritz

That is IT"S name btw Fritz.

Friend:
aaaaa

Me:
not why you think though!

Friend:
well why then? !!

Me:
we got the car the same day that my Dad's best friend Fritz Joss died, he was the German man that owned the Heidelberg in Warsaw, so we named the old German car after him.

Friend:
ohh okay !!I do remeber

Me:
so anyway, I kid about it now and say it was the right name now since it's been "On the Fritz" a lot lately.

Friend:
LOL

Me:
So... after taking him to school I had to run to the store and ...
when I get back... MY car didn't want to start!!

Friend:
opps

Me:
after about 10 tries I got it to run and hurry home to walk with Cindy. So...
I walked 5 miles with Cindy and some how pulled a muscle in my arch of my foot


Friend:
crap!! OH!!!

Me: I get home I get my shower and get ready to go to the bank, but
I dawdle and put off going to the bank until it's getting late, I was waiting for the laundry to finish washing. After I get that done I hurry out the door
get in the car and about half a mile down the road kept smelling dog "poo"
I pull over and sure enough I had stepped in some

Friend:
hahahahhaa

Me:
NOT
NOT, NOT funny!!!
lol

Friend:
ur funny

Me:
I try to scrape it off as best I could since I was late to get to the bank and tried to continue on but kept gagging I had the windows down and it didn't help so I turned around and went home . I
got out and found the area that my "dang" neighbors dog had "messed" in and piled pine cones and stuff around it so no one else would do the same

Friend:
hahahaha... ur full of it!

Me:
wait a minute.. "I'm" full of it huh?

Friend:
well ru ?

Me:
maybe I WON'T tell you the rest of the story

Friend:
this better be true

Me:
It is man it's how I live, one episode after another of the darnedest stuff happening to me all the time so I go and scrape my sandal as best I can off in a weedy area then
go in the house and wash them... gagging the whole time and thankful I hadn't eaten lunch...
then the fun part comes of cleaning out my car
my son in law had vacuumed my car back in July while he had it for a week and took my rugs out... of course that meant the CARPET had dog poo ground into it

I get that cleaned out and move on to the gas and break petal.. gag... gagging the whole time because of course you KNOW they are textured and the "Poo" has now been embedded into all the nooks and crannies of the stupid things

Friend:
still laugh out loud !!

Me: Gee ..... Thanks.... anyway,
I have to go and find an old tooth brush to get the rest out and get it finally all clean and I take the stuff back in the house to through the things away and put the carpet cleaner back under the sink

Wash my hands probably THREE times


Friend:
they make rubber gloves for that kind of thing you know !!

Me:
shut up

Friend:
Why
what's wrong with that!!

Me:
you wanna hear the REST of this story or not? I mean... lol it's not done yet!

Friend:
okay , LOL

Me: What's wrong with that?
I meant dont remind me that if I had taken the time to go out to the garage I COULD have found some rubber gloves that Cal uses for working on the car.... so ... shut up!

Friend:
haha

Me:
ANY way

Friend:
OKAY

Me:
man.. I am shaking my head now
WHY.. didn't "I" think of that?
I didn't even consider it till you just mentioned the rubber gloves darn it!
where were you when I needed your input?
huh? LOL
you were waiting and holding all that good advice till after the fact weren't you?

Friend:
Well..
yes LOL

Me:
So... I get the gagging done, got my hands washed. all the cleaning supplies put away and NOW I am REALLY late for what I was suppose to do
I go out the door, see my car door is open and remembered I had just left everything in the car because I was going to be leaving again and pull the door shut... just as it clicks I remember darn it!! the keys!! I had taken them out of the car to open the door and they are NOW laying on the kitchen counter

there... NOW I bet your really laughing

Friend:
yupper
got tears in eyes

Me:
to top it off... the spare keys we usually have hung out in the woods in our back yard had begun to grow into the tree and Cal had taken them down to replace the way he had them hung up... guess where they were? yup.. laying on that SAME counter

LUCKY for me, it was cool and breezy out today

I have no way of going anywhere

no way in to the house

Cindy had already left to take her mother to the doctors

I live in the middle of no where,

we aren't on very good terms with the next door neighbor because of the dogs in the first place and ALL of this happened because of their darn dogs

so I sit in my car, lucky I had still had the window down because of the smell and a breeze was able to come in

Friend:
man when it rains it pours .. u have had the worst luck !! but funny ....

Me:
I text-ed Cal, and he's an hour away at work. [Lucky I had left my phone in the car!]
he gets to where he can call me and finds out what has happened

I was upset and in tears but laughing about it all too. so frustrated!
He gets home in record time because Norfolk traffic hasn't started to slow things down so he's my hero and I am so glad to see him! he saved me!
from 3 hours of waiting for him to get home
there... end of story

Friend:
yeah hip hip huraaa

Me:
see I told you it was a bad day

Friend:
nope a funny 1

Me:
if you like to read funny things that happened to me go to my blog and find on the right hand side the heading 'the stories on this blog' and read some of the funnier ones, there's some that aren't funny though.

Friend:
but this was very funny !!

Me: So... I've got to go but
have a good night

Friend:
k byee

Sock-toe-BRRRR!!!

OK, in the world of sock knitting October is known as Socktoberfest month, the month to get the sock knitting for the winter underway and get your toes warm and ready for the cold.

Being a slacker in the craft posting department recently, because I have so many baby items that I have made that I don't want to post because Channon's baby shower isn't until NEXT Saturday and I don't want to show my hand at what I am making for the event... I have decided that I am done, DONE I tell you.. with baby blankets, bibs, wash cloths, burp cloths, and sweaters. OK, I'm NOT done with booties, hey... isn't that funny, I haven't made the foot coverings yet? Since it's October I mean and it's the time of the year knitters get busy with socks? See the correlation? Anyway, it just occurred to me as I was typing that, must be I need to sock toe brrr up some baby booties next after all.

So... ANY way, I have some socks I had wanted to start last spring but it got warm and I got lazy and I lost interest in my knitting pursuits and the yarn and pattern have been in my knitting box next to my chair for the past 6 months so I pulled it out and got reacquainted with it over the past couple of days. I am a good way into the first sock and being a true fall project that it is, I think it's cool that the pattern that I am using is named cascading leaves! I'll post pictures and a link to the pattern in an update. But... just wanted to announce I am still a slacker but I have been working on some things behind the scene and they will be featured as soon as the baby shower is passed.

Still a Slacker

Today is again Wednesday and I have had some pictures I have planned on posting for this fun day but here it is almost 9:00 PM and I am just getting to it.

I asked permission first to make sure it was OK to post pictures of my friend Cindy's little great niece she is raising. Now.. she's not related to me but I have to say she is one of the cutest darn kiddo's out there that ISN'T related to me! Of course they will always rate first in Gramma's heart but Jessica is wiggling her way in there with a great fondness.

She loves to be silly and to me that is right up my alley, cuz I love to be silly too. No.. REALLY... I DO!! I've been on the not so silly side recently but that doesn't mean I don't still enjoy getting my silly on.

One day I had Jessica over while Cindy went to an appointment, and we made brownies from scratch. She loved it and to so into measuring and mixing. Of course she was a typical little baker and enjoyed the creating part but not the cleaning up part, she felt her part of that was done after she had licked the spoon and bowl and the rest I could handle just fine.

On this day I mentioned, she was her Puppy self she loves to play. She used to have very long hair and then Cindy would put it up in 2 ponytails and pin the long hair up on top and she had floppy ears. This day was shortly after she had her first real hair cut and then realized that the puppy ears were no more. Cindy being the greatest Momma she can be found a cute set for her to be able to still play as a puppy dog. I actually had taken several pictures but can not for the life of me find them in any of my files so I sadly have none to post of this cute day.

So I move on to the next silly day of Jessica fun! Cindy had a doctors appointment and I wasn't doing anything that day so I said she could spend the time with me while she went in for her appointment so Jess wouldn't have to sit and wait in a boring doctors office. Since I know she loved making the brownies the first time I spent some time with her, I decided we should use some of out time together to again create some fun dessert. I didn't really want to turn the oven on that day since it was in the mid 90's so I set to work with her to make chocolate dipped pretzels and peanut butter cracker sandwiches and when those were done we stirred in some peanuts into the last of the melted chocolate and dropped them [or as she called it, 'glopped' them] onto waxed paper to set up into goobers!

After the clean up was done, she set out to explore and find fun things to do we worked on a bug book, a domino village, complete with a road that was fun to knock over and she showed her silly side when she discovered Cal's magnifying glasses he had bought to have now that we both are getting to the point that our arms aren't LONG enough to read fine print any more. Here's Jess getting her silly on with those.

Happy Birthday to Olivia!

Today is my grandaughters 7th birthday! It can't be possible, but it is. It feels like just last year I was there to witness her birth and let Channon squeeze the life out of my hands!

On Saturday we went to her birthday party. Here are the pictures of the happy event.

If You Look Closely....

I was looking at some ultra sound pictures of my next Grand Daughter. Julia Renee by the way, and the one that was a 3-D image of her face [a beautiful one might I add] was difficult for me to see because all I kept focusing on was what looked like to me a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle [you KNOW the kind, from the movies, not the cartoon version] and this Ninja Turtle has on sunglasses.

I have been told that no one else sees this in the ultra sound picture but me! Huh? Come ON... it's so very obvious!! Look at it with me now and tell me what you see!

If NO ONE else SEES what I see, then I will do an update and explain what it is that you look at to see this said Ninja Turtle, but do and I REPEAT DO... be sure to look beyond that Ninja Turtle face and body and look for that sweet face of my Julia Renee, OK?

Silly post huh? After all... it IS wacky Wednesday. I know I have been missing in action but school starts back up again next week, might be I will get caught up then. Umm... let me repeat... MIGHT be, if not, I will continue on and just forget about trying to catch up with all those posts that had been ignored, the things that have been happening, and just start off from where I am at the moment.

Pink it is!

About 2 weeks ago, I decided to just start a sweater for the baby and went with PINK... just a feeling but since Channon has like 7 other friends who are now expecting I figured if we ended up needing blue, there was bound to be someone who could use a pink baby sweater, right?

I did the same thing when she was pregnant with Olivia, I just had this 'feeling' I needed to work in pink, and then when she was expecting Mitch, I made a green, blue, and yellow afghan that was all boy looking before I knew for sure then too.... LOL, oh well, wish I could guess the winning numbers on that mega millions lotto, last I knew it was up to 170,000,000! Don't know if there was a winner yet, but I guess I can't expect to win if I refuse to play, right?

Baby Hall is now Showing...

Here we see He/She is growing!


There was a time I used to blog and blog a lot I did.
I used to tell about my crafts, and post pictures of my kids.

I have been told most recently my blogging days are missed
by readers of those silly posted about all my crafting bliss.

Desire to create is gone, I can not get it back.
Enthusiasm is what is needed, but is what I lack.

It's been 6 months now since I was working at it yet.
I had thought "a new baby coming will bring it back I bet!"

Till 8-18... I will not know the color I should use.
So far no luck in getting going on baby patterns to chose.

One day soon I hope to say "It's back! Come see what I've made!"
Till then I'll focus on pink or blue and darn it.. what shade?"

Headache

Headache, headache... go away
I couldn't even exercise today.

I didn't get to see Cindy Lou
It's so bad, I can't even talk to YOU!

It's amazing I can think
but as you can tell, my rhyming stinks.

July, The Month of Reunions

A slide show of some of the pictures from our trip to visit family in New York State.

See What I Deal With?

THIS is what I deal with EVERY time I try to work on a project! Ugh... Darn cats! You can't set it down for a minute with out one of them claiming it as a new sleeping surface. And... look on the floor, like I'm suppose to be able to get to the sewing machine now? Sigh... Gotta love 'em though, cause they ARE my babies after all!

So... THEN... I decide they just look too cute and comfortable to disturb, right? I figure I'd go and sit down a bit and maybe read one of those magazines I have stacked next to my chair and encounter THIS!!!!



BIG, BIG SIGH!!!!!!
What's a Nannybird to do? I know, let me go harass the Bunyaboo!

I Have Become A Beach Bum....

I can't seem to get back into crafting, I have made a few items for friends who are or who have someone who is, in the baby making way... Daughter included, but I just wanna have fun and not be creative to have that fun, just be lazy and soak up the sun kind of fun is what is on my menu lately. Channon and the kids came over last week so we could spend some time together before they had to go to their fathers for a month. I am going to miss them, but I don't normally see them as often as I have recently anyway, so I will be able to endure it but poor Channon, I can't imagine how she must be feeling to have her babies gone for so long at one time. Here are some pictures from my latest "Grand" Adventures!

Mitch's Birthday Party

My first adventure to a water park, well, it was Mitch's celebration and his first visit as well, was rained out. We were there for 2 hours when it started to rain, the rain wasn't too bad at first, but they closed the rides because of thunder and lightening, so we went out to the car to have our picnic lunch, of course all the other park attendees did the same thing so the very few available for use picnic tables were already grabbed up by other so we had to make do under the lift hatch of Channon and Joe's SUV, and then moved into the cars as it began to rain more.

It was my plan at the time to just play and ride on the rides for the first part of the day. Do the picnic and cake thing and then take the camera in for some photo's of the kids in action and just watch them and let Channon and Joe go and do some of the few things her pregnant condition would allow, of course best laid plans get spoiled.

We had our lunch and cake, ugh.. yes, out of the trunk of the car... those selfish people wouldn't give up there hold on the picnic tables under the trees for a little boys 4th birthday party!! LOL, anyway, after we ate, the rain had slowed so we headed back to the park, it had been an hour and we thought since the rain was less the storm might be moving out of the area soon. We get back in to the park, find seats by the pool, mind you, this IS a water park and we are ALL wet, the seats out IN the rain are all but abandoned while EVERY one else is huddled under the covered areas of the place. COME ON folks, the lightening was pretty far away, and there wasn't any danger, just some light rain falling. Ugh.. so anyway, we sit there for another thirty minutes, and they made the announcement that since the rides have been suspended for 90 minutes and the rain has not stopped and more was predicted that they were going to close the park for the remainder of the day.

In other words, I didn't get the pictures I had wanted to of the kids at play and we received rain day passes so we can go back some time in the future any day this summer. But here are the pictures I did get to capture for the birthday events that were celebrated.








Of course I was the one behind the camera taking the pictures so fortunately there were none of me drenched and looking like a drowned rat. ah ha... that's the way to avoid the unflattering pics, be the one holding the camera!!!

Birthday Fun

Tomorrow we are going to the water park to celebrate our Mitch's 4th birthday, tonight I am working on a cake with a water theme... I got this idea from Family Fun Magazine on line feature, here's what it's SUPPOSE to look like, but of course it's not going to because I couldn't find ANY of the gummie things or fruit ropes and candy rocks or sea shells, I will be winging it, but hey, I'm "NannyBIRD" so hopefully my winging it will work out.

I have baked the cake part and am waiting for it to cool so I can start playing. I'm tired, I had a busy day today myself, first off getting up at 4:15 and walking for 5 miles, but that walk took right about 15 minutes longer this morning because of several factors, one... Cindy brought out this most yummy 'pie' for me for my birthday today, it's a candle pie that she makes and sells, it's PECAN!!!! My FAVorite... [Did I sound like Mitch?]

So we walked back to my house so I could put it on the steps, and that added 2/10ths of a mile to our 5 mile walk, the second reason we were slower is it was warm already and of course humid, making the walking less enjoyable, but the MAIN reason we took longer was all the lost time stopping and swatting deer flies off of us and from around us.

They were HORRIBLE this morning, I know we each got some bites even with the efforts of shooing them away. OFF doesn't work on these guys. I figured we also we felt more exhausted from the adrenaline rush and let downs we dealt with for the 3 areas that we had to fight with them so hard. Oh, and that means it was 6 times we were attacked, because dreading it as much as we did, we HAD to turn around and walk back past all those nasty spots that were infested with them.

So anyway, tomorrow we shall have pictures of water fun and I will post them soon, I am so tired today, I wonder what a day in the sun and water will make me feel like tomorrow! Off to bed I go, Good Night all!

"Hey Gram-ma"

I have had the joy of having Mitch come spend the night with me last night, since we picked him up, I have heard "hey Gram-ma" soooooo..... many times! That and "guess what?" "I've got to tell you something" "it's my FAVorite!!!"

He has wanted to go to Jessica's so he could use the "jumpaline" and he has wanted "nashed ta-tay-toes" with his grapes, chicken and piece of cake. I'm the best cook, you know that? LOL!

This morning it was "smokey" out side, and he KNOWS its really fo-ah-og. "I can't tell you Grandma, cuz I got hick ups" "What is fog grandma?" "hey, UnCKle Robbie, fog is NOT smoke its a cloud on the ground, you know that?"

"Hey Gram-ma, I've got to tell you something, guess what?" What Mitch? "Why'd da nutcracker cross down the road?" I don't know Mitch, why? "I don't know, cuz he died." Oh, does that crack him up? Uncle Robbie says, "Ma.. that's dumb" Hey, I thought it was funny, so did Mitch, he said so, he said "you're funny Gram-ma."


"Hey Gram-ma, it's a whist-er-ly fish" [Dora said so, actually she called it a mystery fish, but Mitch said it was a whist-er-ly fish and I like that better]

"Guess what Gram-ma? I'm HUNgry! I want some froop loops" "these can be crabby patties!" Oh.. and "Can I have some pren-zils when I eat my crabby patties all gone?"

"Hey Gram-ma... Livia has a dance re-size-al" an she "throwed her dress off, up in the air and then catcheded it." An almost 4 year old can sure talk a Gram-ma's ear off you know that?

It's a Boy

Well, we don't know yet since Channon is only 9 1/2 weeks along and it's too early to tell yet, but I made this for a friends daughter who IS having a boy and thought I'd show it off since I have been so slack in the crafting department lately.

Another Beach Day

I have lived in Virgina for almost 3 years now and until yesterday had not been the famous Virgina Beach. I mean, it's not that far away, and you'd think I would have just gotten in my car and gone by now, but I am not adventurous like that, it's not something I would want to do alone, but now that I have Peggy and Cindy who both like the beach scene to share it with me, I have been 3 times to a beach in a short amount of time. Soon it will be too hot for me to care about going, not that because it's will be hot, because yesterday was right on up there in the hot factor, but because I am the kind of person who doesn't like a LOT of big crowds and as the summer moves in on us when kids get out of school etc, I will be less likely to be willing to be going and fighting the crowds.

So until then, I am going to be enjoying any outings I go on, since school lets out on June 12th here. [My birthday] I know my desire to continue to go on beach excursions will probably be diminishing as the crowds grow in size and the amount of school kids increase as well.

Here are a few shots from our trip yesterday, we had a good time and kept the SPF 30 rubbed in freely and neither of us ended up with any burn in the 3 hours we were there soaking up the sun. Oh and HEY!!! I actually went into the ocean yesterday!! It was so hot that the cold water felt so refreshing that I actually went far enough out to be up to my neck in the ocean water, that's the furthest I have ever gone out into the water. I have really only gone out to my knees before that. Fear of the unknown drop offs, the crabs biting my feet, and sea weed wrapping itself around my legs as well as fear of jelly fish have always kept me close to shore before, but this area was much better for swimming then the other ocean fronts I have ever had occasion to visit. It was very pleasant and I can say I would do it again!

Cindy Can't Be Still

I went to the beach yesterday with Cindy, she showed a side of herself to me that made me laugh and had me imagining her as a little girl in school, getting fussed at for not sitting still.

She isn't used to much "CINDY" time... that much was obvious, she didn't know what to do with her self! She had to fiddle and play around to keep herself entertained!
She fidgeted and wiggled and watched all the activities all around us, watching the life guards, the other families, the seagulls, the geese, the cars on the bridge, you name it she was watching it and commenting about it!! THEN... I suggested we turn over in our chairs and work on our backs some to get some even sun exposure.... The girl was at a loss for what to do now!! She couldn't see the water, she couldn't see the birds, she couldn't see the bridge, she could see the life guards and a couple of the other people, but she was bored with them by this time.. so she created her own little miniature desert island!!!


We were non threatening to these parental pair of geese as you can see how close they let their babies get to us, one even tried to peck my toe and when I pulled my feet back onto my chair they moved on to Cindy's and then decided to all settle down for a well earned rest at her feet, one decided to taste her flip flop while Mom and Dad kept a watchful eye out for threats to the babes.


I got a text message from my husband and I was trying to read it, I can't read the screen on my phone in good conditions, but put me outside with the sun glare and brightness on the screen, forget it!! I can't read it to save my life!! I discovered... by Cindy's suggestion mind you, that if I covered my head with my shorts, it would darken the screen enough so the back lighting of it would be able to be read... OK, I felt foolish and silly putting my shorts over my head to read my text, but imagine my chagrin when I down loaded my pictures to the computer and found that my "helpful" friend thought it was so funny she borrowed my camera and took a picture of me as I was doing WHAT SHE SUGGESTED, mind you, so I could see and read my text!! THANKS A LOT CINDY!!!!! LOL [yeah.. that's me, wearing a two piece bathing suit! I never thought I'd ever show myself at a public beach ever again in my lifetime in a two piece suit, yeah... flab and all.]


Here is who entertained us for a good part of the first half hour we were there setting up and getting comfortable. This little cutie [yes I got permission to take her picture before hand] was so into the sand and this sand pit she had to play in.

See, both Cindy and I are not used to not being aware of the children around us, me because of the years of my day care as well as my own kids and now grandchildren, and her because she has her grand niece she is raising and she is always alert to what is going on around her for that reason. So we both just had a great time watching this little sweetheart enjoying her first day ever at a beach. Oh.. and that look on her face? It was the look HER grandma got when she told her it was time to pack up and go so they could get some lunch... I don't think she wanted to go, she ignored her for awhile after that look was captured on my camera.

Now here is the interesting cloud I had to take a picture of, it did get out of shape a bit before I got it captured, we had just lost our geese friends to the water when 2 young boys came running down the beach toward them and one was throwing sand out of a bucket at them... not very nice children actually, Daddy goose was hissing and threatening the older one and the boy was not phased or scared and who ever was in charge of him didn't stop him... SOME people... sigh... so the Momma Goose got the babes out to the water and then Daddy followed after they were safely out of harms way [read... away from the screaming monsters that invaded our space!!]

So after loosing our entertainment of the geese, I looked up and saw what was to be our afternoon fun spoiler moving in on us pretty quickly, I thought that the cloud actually looked like a goose...

tell me, what do you think? It was better formed before I got the camera out and got it to zoom enough to capture it, but I think you can still see it's shape.

The clouds moved in and poured down on us, even though the weather men said there was nothing to worry about, there was not going to be any storms to spoil our day.. yeah.. .right!!!! We got dumped on and soaked before we got packed up and raced, as fast as two "old ladies" can, [while in flip flops in the sand] carrying beach chairs and coolers as well as bags and towels, to the car. It was fun, and since the water was too cold for us, at least we got wet at the beach even if we didn't get in and go swimming!

The many faces of beauty

Here are the expressions I captured on my granddaughters face as she got dolled up for her dance recital yesterday. Some of them are priceless to me, a couple of them I borrowed from my daughter, the ones with Livie and her friend from the night before at the dress rehearsal. It was a lot of fun to see her make the faces as the 'beauty' process progressed from start to finish and the look of surprise and awe on her face as she saw the finished transformation of her little girl look to a stage ready dancer. Momma said, "there, now that's enough make up to last you till you turn 25, you can't wear it again till then." [or something similar but you get the drift of the comment]

Can you believe this?

This morning my husband offered to go to the grocery store with me, I usually do it alone but we are trying to do more things together, even the boring every day things and I appreciate his efforts in doing his part!

Any way, we were at the check out and I stood there enjoying the bonus of having him there by letting him unload the basket and put the items on the belt. He turned to me after he finished unloading the basket and said "So... how much to you think this is gonna cost us?" I looked at the items, and guess, just out of the blue.... 189.00

The cashier works on ringing the items up, packing the bags and again I enjoyed the perks of having him with me and let him do the task of reloading the cart with the bagged items. The cashier was all done totaling the cost and turns to us and says "That will be $188.99" Cal looked and me and said "Oh my God!" We had a turn laughing at that and I explained to the cashier why we thought that was so funny, because I was just one penny off from the total.

My husband says to me "If you could pick numbers like that, I'm taking you to Vegas" but I pointed out to him that if I did go, I would always be one number off!! How funny is that?

Letchworth Park

When you grow up just a few miles from something so awesome as Letchworth Park in Western NY, you tend to take it for granted. While I was visiting my family last month, my sister Jan and my niece Mary took me to the highlights of the park for a much needed reminder of it's beauty. I hope you enjoy these pictures I am going to share and if you have never been and are interested after seeing the pictures, you will consider visiting the area if you are ever in the vicinity.

I'll take one of each please

The last thing on my list of discoveries from Saturdays "tour your own town" adventure is actually the second thing we visited, first we went to the tourism building and got maps and flyers and the art center is in the same building now so we took a tour of it.

Many, many impressive things to see and admire, here are a few of the pictures I was allowed to take at the time. I said "I'll take one of each please" but the price on one was more then I would pay... not that it's not worth it, I am just too cheap to buy something like that, so I will admire the work in the images I was able to capture on my camera and I will feel the peaceful smile that creeps on my face when I look at the work of these artists in my own way!




There were many more to admire but these are the only ones I took pictures of.
The following was where I got my NannyBird fix, there is no actual bird I consider my logo, I just say any bird is me in a nannybird kind of way and here is some cute little thumbprints made into bird, then of course the pink flamingo!! Wow, it was so cute!!