Sunflowers...and Other News!

      What a great weekend!! At least it was for hubby and I! You can see what made part of hubby's weekend great by looking at the header photo! I'll tell you more about that in a minute...But first I wanna recognize that not EVERYONE had a great weekend!
     Here in Holyoke we're expecting to be rained out for a couple of days. And so are a number of other states along the east coast...AGAIN! Apparently we're getting some remnants of Storm 'Lee' that hit the New Orleans and surrounding areas pretty bad over the weekend. Truthfully...they just didn't need any more water issues to worry about! :-(  
       Also, there's a huge six mile wide wildfire in Texas right now!

 (WWLP 22News)

         It's so big that I saw an alert on Facebook last night begging fire-fighters to come and help!...And they have numerous other fires going on all at the same time too! Some of them can only be fought from the air!...*shaking my head*...Stay safe everybody!!

 (WWLP 22News)

        In our local area there was another bit of bad news too...The first person diagnosed {on August 27th} with the EEE virus (Eastern Equine Encephalitis)...{that humans get through the bite of the summer mosquito}...died yesterday. :-( ...With wonderful news like this, from here and all over the world, it almost makes you wanna run from the T.V. screaming, doesn't it?!!
      And if it was ALL bad news...we probably would! But there was also some good news!...There was a 21 foot long crocodile caught in the Phillipines!! Apparently it had been terrorizing a village!    

       {Although the claims that there's still another one loose, one larger than this one, may make the news of this one's capture kinda hollow!....NOTE TO SELF: Scratch the Phillipines off of your 'Friday Date Night' list for a while! ^_^}
       More good news.... The US Tropical Storm map is showing that hurricane 'Katia' looks like she's gonna make the turn away from us! YAY!!!! :-) They're not giving us the 'All Clear' just yet, but they're pretty sure what track she's on.
       AND my hubby's sunflowers survived the wind and rain from last week...and they're going to seed!

       Since me and the backyard, with it's allergic-enducing plants and flowers...and it's EEE carrying mosquitoes {just saying!}...don't get along, hubby brought one of them inside for me to take a look at. It was H-U-G-E!!!

       And it was so cool that I could see the individual little sunflower seeds in the head of it!! He popped one out so I could hold it!

       The seed was HUGE too!...Do they get smaller when they dry?!...I guess I'll find out! :-) In the meantime, I'll keep hubby and his giant plants outside where they belong!!!...

         Shortly after his coming in the house to show me his sunflower, I ended up with a pile of tissues from blowing my nose...and I had to take a nap! A nice LONG nap!...Once I got up I saw that he was still in the backyard. And wait until you see the photos I caught from the window of what else he was doing!! :-) I'll show you those tomorrow.
       In the meantime, tennis has been fabulous! All of my regular players that I like to root for (Federer, Nadal, Murray, Tsonga, Roddick, etc...) are all still in it...except one. :-( I was so sad that Marty Fish and Wilfried Tsonga had to play each other last night. They're both so good that I hoped they'd both be in the tournament until the end. But no...Tsonga won their match last night  and Marty had to say goodbye. Oh Well...there's always next year Marty!
      Also, YAY for Wuglyees!! I spent quite a bit of time in the shop yesterday, changing the SEO tags on my scarves. I didn't realize that my tagging was not sufficient enough to get them seen. And then, just on a whim because I didn't have anything else to do before I went to bed, I decided to check the shop to see if I had gotten any more views. And lo and behold...not only views, but I made two sales!!! :-)

        These two 'babies' are off to the big city!! :-)

       I'm so excited!!! Not just for the sales, but also because apparently my SEO work isn't in vain! It's really getting results this time! :-)
      And last, but not least today, remember I told you that I hate doing linings?! Well, I gave my YoYo bag to a friend, for her to put a lining in it for me. {I'm gonna crochet something for her in return. She apparently didn't want my money! :-)} And she finished it!! As soon as she brings it back, and I take some photos, I'll show it to you. And then it's going in the Wuglyees shop for sale!! :-)
      Speaking of which, this brought my sales total in the shop up to 148. Whoever buys the 150th item will also get a scarf from the shop for FREE!! They get to choose which one they'd like! I thought I'd just let you know that! :-)
      And, speaking of FREE,.....okay! So the last thing wasn't really the last thing...yet! ^_^...don't forget to enter the GIVEAWAY for my crochet dangle necklace. The simple rules are HERE! The drawing will be on September 15, 2011. 
     Okay, that's it for real this time! LOL Except for the poem!....Have a good day Everybody!! :-)


You Probably Don't Care!

I know you probably don't care,
but I will tell you anyway!
I mean, I have to talk about it.
It's what I do most every day!

I know you have your own things going,
and my things? You could care less.
But I have to spill it, talk,
share, converse, chat, or confess.

Don't you have some days like that,
when you just 'let down your hair'?
Well, today was that for me,
and it's okay if you don't care!