Those Flowers Came From Where?!!

       I wanted to show you the beautiful flowers we found to give to my friend! :-) Are those blue daisies?!...I don't know. That's what they looked like to me...But those are definitely white roses, and baby's breath! :-) I even loved the blue and white ribbon tucked in the front of them!

      Yes, I know you've seen flowers before!...*Teehee*... but I thought I'd share these with you because of a story I saw on the news just the other day about the best place to buy flowers. The grocery store! :-) ...Yep! The grocery store!...And I 100% agree!

     It's a little known fact, until right now, that over the years, for the birth of new babies...or when someone was in the hospital for surgery...or to bring with us when we were invited to someone's home for dinner...or to send as a little "Thank you"...or just because we wanted to let someone know we were thinking of them...we have 95% of the time gotten our flowers at the local grocery store!.."Stop 'N Shop" usually. :-)

    Yes, we could afford to get them at the florist...and we've done that on occasion too. But, frankly, the grocery store flowers have always been fresher, arranged in a more thoughtful way, and waaaaay cheaper!...In fact, the roses I've bought from "Stop 'N Shop" were the ones that lasted me the longest!

     I was so pleased with the bargain they were offering at the time, 30 years or so ago now, that I took a chance and ordered my whole wedding package from...you guessed it..."Stop 'N Shop"!! I'm talking the bridesmaid's flowers, the groom and groomsman's boutonnieres, the arrangements for decoration, and my wedding bouquet that I carried down the aisle! They even made a holder for my bouquet! :-)

      And I'm not talking silk or fake flowers either! I'm talking fresh roses, carnations and baby's breath. And they were beautiful!!...and very reasonably priced....VERY! A whole lot cheaper than if I had gone to a florist that does wedding flowers for a living.

      I almost didn't want to throw them on my wedding day!...By the way, where did that tradition get started anyway?!...It probably was some single, over-pricing florist trying to make a buck! LOL...If I had it to do over again today, those flowers would never have been thrown. They'd be with me until they dried into a rose petal fumed pink and red potpourri sachet! :-) Live and learn! :-) ...The mind reels at the ideas I could have come up with for that gasquet and the ribbons!

(Trinket Dish by DotDotSmile)

     Oh Well...that was a long time ago! My anniversary is coming up later this month. Maybe I can put in a request for a new gasquet! ^_^ A 'Keeper' this time!

      Speaking of which, I could put in a request for these two cuties I recently ran across too! :-) ... 

 (Teacher Chalkboard Brooch by DotDotSmile)

 (French Silver Perfume Bottle by scarlton1011)

       I am a teacher after all. :-) And even if I can't sniff on any perfume right now...silly hormones! Grrr!...I can still appreciate a tiny flower covered bottle! ^_^ ...Now, I just have to figure out what to get hubby!...No! I still haven't!

      As an update:

--> 1. My friend loved the flowers! :-) ... 

--> 2. I'm still not really sleeping normally...{It's 1:45 a.m. right now, if that's any indication!}...I received a C-Pap unit that I'm suppose to be sleeping with on, to test whether my machine needs an update rather than having to go through the whole 'sleep study' thing all over again. But because the pressure inside of it is not what my regular unit is, and it takes waaaay too long for it to get there, I can't go to sleep with it on! I lay there thinking about every breath, with my eyes wide open! ^_^ It feels sorta like trying to breathe, relax, and fall asleep with a paper bag on your head!!...NOT happening!

--> 3. Serena Williams won the women's singles match at Wimbledon...

         ...and then a few hours later, her and Venus together won the women's doubles match too! ^_^ 

        (You can click on the photos to go and read all about it!)...How exciting, right?!....Congratulations Serena and Venus Williams! 

       The men's final match is today! I can't wait!!!!...Roger Federer against Andy Murray!...Be there or be square! ^_^ It's gonna be another day of contentment...Have a good day everybody! :-) 

Merrily Content

I've got lots to do today.
I hope the sun shines down on me.
But if, instead, the rain comes down,
I'll still be singing merrily.

Whatever happens I'm content.
I know how worse my life could be,
than watching hummingbirds and robins
flit around my backyard tree.

The news of shootings and disasters,
on my mind can't make a dent;
Because I'll focus on my backyard,
and I'll be smiling and content. 

"Backyard....He Wants To Hold Your Hand"

         It's official....he's in love. Yes....my hubby, who will be celebrating 29 years of being married to me at the end of the month, is in love with another...........and I'm alright with that! ^_^

           Now, you know that if it was some flitting, flirting , female.....I'd have a problem with it!! LOL But he's in love with his sunflowers!!!....Well, technically he's in love with the whole backyard this morning!!

        He's so smiley and happy!!! He's out there talking to the flowers...

         ...and to these little guys...(And in case you can't really see it from this blown up picture of his....*Teehee*....this is a cardinal!)

            And this is a little frog!

            Oh Yeah! He's in giddy love!!! He's whispering sweet nothings to frogs and birds this early in the morning!! And what is he whispering to them?!.....It's about me!! He keeps trying to convince the backyard that I love her too!!

         But Uh.....My love is strictly for the inside, non-sneezy words on paper, written by one Miss Jane Austen, this morning! :-)
        I 'do' get why he's 'all about the Beatles and Paul McCartney' this morning, however. The concert Paul McCartney gave in Montreal, the one he almost went to in 'the Paris of Canada', was this past week....and Mina, from ...sending postcards blog,  just did a blog post about the concert with all of the details. You can go over and read all about it HERE!! But here's a few of the photos she shared!!...

           "Sunflowers and Paul McCartney, you have made my hubby so happy this morning....that I wanna hold your hand!!!" :-) Can't you just hear a 'Beatles' song playing in the background?! ^_^        

      I think it's gonna be a pretty good Saturday! ^_^ I hope it is for all of you too!

The poem represents hubby this morning! :-)

Merrily Content

I've got lots to do today.
I hope the sun shines down on me.
But if, instead, the rain comes down,
I'll still be singing merrily.

Whatever happens I'm content.
I know how worse my life could be,
than watching hummingbirds and robins
flit around my backyard tree.

The news of shootings and disasters,
on my mind can't make a dent;
Because I'll focus on my backyard,
and I'll be smiling and content.

P.S. I just got a notice from Heather about the Giveaway earrings she received. Wanna see?!... Click HERE!!  :-)) So nice! Thanks Heather!!!

Hummingbird Contentment

The nicest thing happened to me yesterday! A fellow Blogger, nature and wildlife photographer extraordinaire, did a blog post that brought a little tear to my eyes....Okay, a lot of tears to my eyes! ;'_';
It was Mariann Rea of the Nature and Wildlife Photography Blog. Wait until you see! Then you'll know why I was teary...and you'll be reaffirmed also, in the knowledge that a good deed doesn't go unnoticed! :-)
Okay, 2 things this morning. One, no more hummingbirds showed up at my feeder yesterday. But I know why too! There was just too much activity in my backyard!...The lawn had to be cut....Rrrrrrrrrrr!...and the edges had to be trimmed.......Rrrrrrrrr rrrrrr rrrrrrrr!...People were riding bikes past the woods. Robins were chasing other birds all over the place. A big bluebird came and flitted around the tree where the feeder was. He wasn't a 'Bluebird of Happiness' for my hummingbird sighting! LOL
So, I guess the little hummingbirds thought that maybe this place is too nerve-racking on a little fella! ^_^ Maybe tomorrow!!...But just so you will get to see a hummingbird today, I found a video on Youtube, a promotional video I think, for the Saltery Lodge in Alaska. The story about what happened when they were filming a little hummingbird is extraordinary!!! I loved it! I hope you do too! :-)

Please let me know what you think of it!!
Lastly, more Yoyos!!...I finished the ones with the red in the center, then brown, then green...

Then I worked on some more!!!...These had green in the middle, then red, then purple...

And then...PHEW!...I started some more! These had red in the center, then purple, then white!

I've only done about three of these so far, so guess what I'm going to be doing later today?!! ^_^ I'm gonna be Yoyo-ed OUT by nightfall!!! LOL
Okay, I hope you all have a good weekend! If the sun shines, take advantage of it! Tomorrow is not promised to you...remember! And if it rains, dance in it!! :-)

Merrily Content

I've got lots to do today.
I hope the sun shines down on me.
But if, instead, the rain comes down,
I'll still be singing merrily.

Whatever happens I'm content.
I know how worse my life could be,
than watching hummingbirds and robins
flit around my backyard tree.

The news of shootings and disasters,
on my mind can't make a dent;
Because I'll focus on my backyard,
and I'll be smiling and content.