I really haven’t taken many pictures I LOVE this summer…

But this one…

I LOVE.

It makes me think that a good topic for PPS10 would be horizon lines…

We are busy sucking every last second out of the summer!

Three of the best dollars I have ever spent. These butterfly nets have caught frogs, tadpoles, toads, minnows, grasshoppers, and beetles… Ironically enough, no butterflies yet though!

A toad in hand….

 The ground in the woods during the summer is like an alien landscape, I love the things I see there.

If it rains you will find a tiny me sitting under this mushroom…

The kids start school in less then two weeks, I am going to miss them, but I am really looking forward to the freedom. I can’t remember the last time I went to an adult  movie in the afternoon… I think I liked that… In a couple of weeks I can and I’ll let you know!

Is there anything coming up that your looking forward to?

I have Delia, my camera back…

*SIGH*

I feel SOOOOO much better.

How do YOU feel?

Last week was the Perseid meteor shower… I love meteor showers BUT…

Every time one comes around I start thinking about apocalyptic events…

I know, I’m weird that way.

It all started when I was in Middle School and I read…

GREAT book.

I haven’t seen the movie, but I remember the book very well, obviously.

I think about what I  would do if the world as we  know it were to change tomorrow…

If technology were gone, no phones, no internet, no power…

If looting and vandalism were rampant and there was no trusting in your neighbor…

What would I do?

 We have food storage in case of job loss or natural disaster, (or a zombie attack )

BUT

We have no contact plan…

How would I contact our extended  family? How would I know if they survived? If they needed me?

I’ve never asked them, or made any plan for the obvious reasons I suppose..

 Like I don’t want anyone  to think I’m a nutcase!

Now that I am going through withdrawal and have no pictures to post  I thought this would  be a good  time  to reveal what a flake I am and to ask…

What did you have for breakfast?

I’M KIDDING!

If there was some sort of apocalyptic event tomorrow would you and your family be prepared? How would you prepare?

Would you feel comfortable discussing your zombie shelter with your family members? or do you think they would think your a nutcase?

I worked the farm market today! I LOVED IT!

I took  150 loaves with me and about 100 sweets and came back to the bakery with only 15 loaves…

I did good.

Working the market was so different from shopping it. I love shopping at the farm market, but working it I get to talk to so many interesting people. I can tell I’m going to have fun.

 I am still going through camera withdrawal.

I have been informed that my little sister has my baby  and will be coming up Friday… I just have to make it through two more days, or one and a half if I’m lucky.

In the mean time, Al-son has very generously offered to lend me a couple of his pictures… since I like the pictures and I like him… I am taking him up on his offer!

One of them even qualifies as a CIRCLE…

Why HE hasn’t posted it I don’t know!

We caught a bird with a broken wing the other day and the kids fed it a couple of these little fellows…

I can see a few faces in this one too… It’s easy to find faces in wood…

These both qualify as CIRCLES…

Thanks for trying to help me through my withdrawal Al-son…

The bad part about working the farm market is standing on my feet for five hours without a break… I didn’t feel it then, but I’m sure feeling it now! OY…

Hope you all  aren’t  suffering withdrawals of your own!

This weekend Ben and I made a whirlwind trip to Detroit to pick up a car we inherited from his older brother and his Dad. I was a little distracted with the time crunch to get home and the mild stress of towing a car… Long story short, I forgot my camera in Detroit!

I can’t believe I left it! Normally it’s like an appendage, always on me…

My sister is coming up this coming weekend and will bring it with her… in the mean time, this is DAY ONE of WITHDRAWAL!

I can’t even show you a picture of the new car…    Well, maybe because I’m crafty I can find a way…

What is something in your life that you would go through withdrawal without?

Today is a good day for me, in fact August 16th has probably become one of my favorite days of the year.

Why? What’s so special about August 16th? You ask. (I know you did.)

Well first and foremost it is the day that THE LOVE OF MY LIFE was born.

That alone  makes it a great day…

But then it got even better because…

Here on Xanga I found my BEST FRIEND…

and this is the day the world was blessed with her too!

SEEDSOWER

AND

To celebrate her day I’m swipping a few of her  pictures and posting them here.

Because I wanna !

She’s SPECTACULAR…

Yeah, it’s a great day

Happy birthday to two incredible individuals. YOU make my life better and I feel blessed to know you.

Took my Crew to the NWM Fair yesterday!

It was pretty empty while we were there, the Buckley Steam Engine Show is going on now too.

Everyone was probably there.

Have to get the yearly shot.

MY poor mom, I know she was bent in half because she didn’t want to get her white pants dirty…

She’s going to hate me for posting this BUT I LOVE IT!

Gotta go! Fishing Tournament to help with and then off to DETROIT!

What’s on your schedule this weekend?

Sunflower Circle

I HAD to put something else up, that last post was making me hungry every time I looked at it!

I can’t wait for this weekend!

 I haven’t done one in awhile. This isn’t exactly recent, it’s from a few Detroit trips ago.

One of the things I love about Detroit is the FOOD options.

Here in Traverse City there just aren’t that many  options… if you like meat and potatoes your covered.

When we go to Detroit I like getting takeout from The Sushi House. 

My favorite sushi place in Michigan.

This time we went in though… and we sat down… at a table… and we ordered!

It was hard to make a choice, everything there is SO GOOD!

I even like the sides.

 I love me some Miso soup!

We finally settled on two rolls.

The Farmington  roll

(crab meat, cucumber, unagi and avocado)

The House Special Roll, my favorite!

(shrimp tempura, cucumber, unagi, avocado and crab meat)

I have a close up of this one, it’s cute caterpillar design… but it kinda looks scary close up.  

Yeah,they were very alike.  We didn’t realize we had ordered almost the same thing until they came, they just sounded so good!

To finish up we had a bowl of Sukiyaki Beef… 

We were too stuffed for desert.

I suppose I’m reminiscing because Ben and I are off to Detroit again this weekend for his birthday.

I am sure that we will be going out to eat somewhere… somewhere of his choosing… The possibilities are endless.

Will it be Greek food? Mexican? Indian? Sushi again? Thai… I’m pretty sure it won’t be Thai as he’s allergic to peanuts!

What will it be I wonder… Whatever it is, it will be an adventure in eating!

If you could eat any kind of food right now, what would it be?

Is anyone else hungry?