Tolentreasures

I'll bet you look at these lovely pictures and wonder... How to lose what? Pounds? Inches? Wrinkles? No.. MONEY! This is how to lose $2K in two easy steps. I am looking at these peaceful pictures taking in the priceless beauty thinking, "Really?  It's just money, they make more every day." So here are the two steps. #1.  Jump on the Facebook hype and buy 100 shares of stock. Bought at $41, this morning... $28. A little over a thousand dollar loss, but really who is counting? #2.  Back your husband's non-insured truck into another vehicle. Other vehicle $1000 deductible JWS' truck...well let's just say we might be fixing that ourselves. And now, I'll just go back to looking at those beautiful FREE sunsets.

After the pace of the last month, I thought it was time to stop and smell and photograph the flowers.  Soon to be the last we see of the school bus for awhile! Purple and Yellow, perfect complementary color contrast. Peonies, among my favorite! Snapdragrons that came up on their own. Even the flowers on the chives are pretty!

That is my pondering of the morning. Where did the month of May go? Honestly, I had to go over my texts on my phone to figure some of it out. And so, I have a tally. Not in any particular order. TWO Rocking horses painted. TWO Embroidery Classes TWO Times I was picked up for moving violations by police. (Both times granted a pardon) ONE Preschool Graduation ONE Gun Raffle to prepare for which sucked up about FIVE days. FIVE Birthday Parties A Three Year Old A One Year Old A Five Year Old A Twenty-Nine Year Old (Really Thirty-Two) and a Fifty Year Old. FOUR  Weekly Fair Mowings and a ton of yard work around my house. And the latest. ONE Vehicle Accident. Yes, I backed JWS' truck into a car. Not one of my finer moments, and made me stop and think about how distracted am I? No wonder there has been no time to blog. One birthday party turned into quite the wate

After a visit to the tooth doctor aka, dentist, but don't tell the boys because for some reason they like the name tooth doctor, we headed to the Pittsburgh Children's Museum. What a fun day! Logan cutting his stencil to screenprint. I think these boys could give them some pointers on screenprinting. After all, the first 5 and 6 years of their lives have been spent in a screenprinting shop. Logan has the motion down pat. Then they made paper.  Now Jenn and I think we want to make some paper also.   Logan climbed the ropes. Higher and Higher.... He made it! He loved the BMX track. And Tyler really liked the marble maze. Even Mom got in on the action! And a giant Lite Brite! It was a great day for everyone to play hooky from work and school!

First,  my porch is CLEAN! A little embarrassed that it had to be done on a Sunday.  I have a whole misguided theory of work on Sunday.  I don't work outside. This theory has evolved over the years.  When I didn't have a job outside the home,  I didn't even do laundry on Sundays or run the sweeper, or heaven forbid... gardening.  Then, when my girls went to school, I started working,  and all of a sudden, Sunday  was  laundry day. (well so were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...but most of you get that scenario) but still,  heaven forbid, nothing  OUTSIDE! Over the years,  I have still held to the  Nothing Outside  Rule.  I would not hang clothes, pull a weed, hose something off,  or heaven forbid... MOW!  But a lot gets done inside, and  sometimes I even go to work at the shop on Sundays, just to get a little jump on  Monday.  I am not proud of these confessions,  but sometimes, after

Saturday was Logan's birthday party.  Those boys sure love their  Halloween costumes!  They use them a lot. Logan always had to be Mario.  The costume is tattered and worn.  He has a brand new one from last years' birthday.  He won't wear it.  He dressed his cousin as Woody. And Gracelyn got to be Nemo. I think Wyatt was just trying to keep cool.  Saturday morning had us at the Strip District.  A restaurant supply house where JWS  had to buy this huge cooler.  Excessive?  Yes.  I had to remind him that this little Playmate cooler  used to hold everything he needed.  Sunday, Kendall got a day at the farm.  Sheep,  Cows, Horses,  Chickens, Assorted Dogs.... And even a snake. She calmly explained that her Daddy just  "Booms them" I thought this one was a little too close for comfort.  But I assure you, it got  BOOMED!