Hello! I hope you're all having a quiet Sunday like me and hubby are. Fall is my favorite season. :-) Oh! Have I said that before?!....Sorry. *Teehee* The header photo was a shot hubby took from the back door yesterday evening...Ahhhhhhhh!...Before I tell you about the BIG package I got in the mail yesterday, let me show you a couple of the other photos hubby took...
He didn't even actually go outside to take this one. He took it right through the screen. He thought it was so pretty out there that the screen wouldn't matter! ^_^ What do you think?!
And he didn't want to be the only one enjoying it....so he stuck Tina out there! LOL
Poor headless Tina. Nobody pays her any attention until they wanna entertain themselves! ^_^ ...She looks chilly, doesn't she?! ^_^
Okay....enough fooling around! I really wanna show you the package I got!!!...*jumping up and down!* :-)
Oh Yeah! It's BIG! ...I got it from Nicole's Homemade Treats blog! I won second place in a blog Giveaway she had! :-) And I'm telling you right now...if this was 2nd prize I can't imagine what the first prize box looked like!!!!
There were so many goodies in this box!!
The prize: 'Goodies from 5 different Etsy shops and a small caramel & chocolate apple with your choice of topping from her shop.'...The truth is though.....there was waaaay more than that in there!!! :-)
It's gonna take me a few days to show you all of it! For today I thought I'd just share with you what was in the two "REFRIGERATE UPON ARRIVAL" bundles.
Oooooo! Anybody that hasn't eaten their breakfast yet is gonna hate me! ^_^
Sorry! ^_^ It's a chocolate and nut covered candy apple!!!! :-) YUM!!!! And I'm not saying yum because I ate it either. I actually haven't touched it yet! It's gonna be for a little bit later, after I get some food in my stomach!
I'm gonna have to find a friend to share some of it with me though, because hubby can't have chocolate. Anybody interested?!! ^_^
But wait! Remember how the prize list said there was " a small caramel & chocolate apple with your choice of topping"?!...Well, that wasn't all that came!! I also got this!!!...
Oh Boy! Oh Boy! White chocolate and caramel is on this one too!! :-] ...Thank you Nicole!!!! Thanks to you, somebody is gonna have a big smile later today....and probably a toothache the size of Texas! :-))
All of my goodies are inspiring me to get me some delicious hearty Sunday morning breakfast, a cup of hot coffee, and a quiet place to eat my apple and write! :-) Now you know what my morning is gonna look like!...What about yours?! :-]
Living Are The Words
All Poets through the ages,
from Poe to Maya Angelou,
have known the power of a word
and what the written word can do.
Words, alone, or in a sentence,
camouflaged or on their face,
are living breathing things,
occupying time and space.
Left within the mind
no one can hear them swear and curse.
When you release them by your speech,
their jab can go from bad to worse.
A complement is like the carving
of a golden apple's peel.
Falling gently on the hearer,
making shiny words a meal.
Cutting words are like a dagger
seeking out the mind and heart.
of the innocent and sure.
Pulling confidence apart.
Living breathing, in and out,
causing havoc every day.
You could be their vehicle.
So, be careful what you say.
Let good words inhabit spaces,
(which inevitably they do.)
And in receiving minds and hearts?
Let them flourish in there too!
Oh Yeah!...Don't forget to check out the Giveaway too!---------->
A little apple for the teacher?!....Nah! Not this time. This Yellow Distressed Primitive Apple by merritthyde is for the new visitors to the backyard! :-) I thought it was the perfect gift to share with you because it's a little unlike other apples. It's colorful, distressed a bit, and kinda square. Just the same way 'I' am!! LOL
Welcome to the backyard!! I thought I'd say a direct 'Howdy-Do' since I've noticed that so many of you are honoring me by your comments and attention. I appreciate it very much!!!!...So, pull up a chair, a blanket, a stool, WHATEVER! Get yourself a cold drink from the fridge. You might even find some cold chicken and biscuits in there! The microwave's in the kitchen. Help Yourself!! :-)
Just so you'll know your way around, on the right hand side-bar you'll find a little info about me, or you can click on any of the crocheted items you see and go to my Wuglyees shop and look around, or you can go and say 'Hi!' to the other visitors to the backyard!
I also giveaway something I've made twice every month. This month it's a hat. You can find a link to that on the side-bar too. If you're hanging around a while, you can enter the Giveaway to win it too! Just click on the pictures to take you to the directions...Oh Yeah!! There's always a poem at the bottom of the day's post too! Hope you enjoy those too!...Okay, While you go and finish looking around, I'll be over here typing. And again....Welcome!! :-)
I hope you all had a good weekend. The weather around our neck of the woods was exquisite! The robins were flitting around all over the backyard. I even thought I saw my Mama robin gathering more building material!!...I say 'thought' because unfortunately she wasn't wearing her pearls and high heels. And without those she looks a lot like the neighbor birdies! ^_^
Her pretty turquoise egg, from the storm time, is still sitting on the ground there. It's kinda covered up with some leaves and things now. I don't know if she did that or not, but it looked so 'purposefully' protected that I didn't dare bother it.
Hubby was like a 'hog in slop' this weekend, out there in the garden, with all that sunshine, blue skies, and time on his hands....After a whole lot of napping and catching up on sleep I mean. It was a loooooong week last week!...I'm not gonna bore you with a bunch of green bushes (that's what his plants look like to me now! LOL), but he does have these pretty 'babies' coming up!...
He was very happy to see these.!..and not so happy to see that something...he said 'mealie bugs', I think...had been nibbling on some of his sunflower plants! O_0 He was taking care of that, while I enjoyed looking at the beautiful freshly cut grass, and.....wait for it!!....HUMMINGBIRDS!!! :-)
I tried....Oh! How I tried...to get some footage of them. Yes, I said 'THEM'!! I had 2 or 3 different ones come to the feeder yesterday!! One of them had the most beautiful blue coloring under his throat!...I'm gonna try to get some video of them today. Don't hold your breath though. I sat there all day yesterday, holding my camera, waiting....waiting....waiting.
Every time I put the camera down, thinking 'Eh! They're not coming back!', they would pop in, take a sip, air dance, and fly off....before I could get my camera back on and set!!! It was so frustrating!! LOL And it happened like that about 5 times before I finally decided: "Go ahead!! Drink all you want!! I'm not taking your picture!!"...They must have heard me, because no more came back after that anyway. Imagine if I had sat there waiting!!!!
I had other things to do anyway! I started a new crochet project...Do you remember this scarf?
Well, it went off to a new home, to live in Mexico, back in November. I said I was going to put another black and white scarf or shawl in the shop to replace it because it got a lot of views the short time it was in the shop. Unfortunately though, I've been kinda preoccupied with Yoyo bags and hats and things...So, now that I have some time between projects, I decided to make another one.
I'm not making it exactly like the other one, because it was a little stiff to me...although very pretty!
This one is a bit more......Ummm....flimsy?! That doesn't sound like the right word either. Maybe free-flowing, or drapey. I don't know what the word is, but it'll be soft and easy to flip over your shoulder if you get chilled. Depending on how it looks, I might even make it a bit longer...width-wise....and let it become a shawl. We'll see!
It's pretty long, length-wise. Think Lauren Bacall, in Casablanca, or Ginger Rogers in ANYTHING!! :-] It's my nod to Old Hollywood...sorta! :-]
Okay, that's what my weekend was like. What about yours?! Wanna share?! I'd love to hear!
Remakes
Have you noticed all the sequels?
All the remakes from the past?
I guess I'm not the only one
that likes the shadow old shows cast.
Some are kinda silly.
And still others make me groan.
There are good ones, and some duds,
that, frankly, should have been left alone.
What I think is really funny
is kids today don't have a clue!
They think all these shows and movies
are creative, wild, and new!
I remember 'Charlie's Angels',
Yes, and 'Beverly Hillbillies' too.
What ever happened to 'Little Women'?
and Scooby Doo, where are you?!
They remade 'Leave it to Beaver'.
I think I'm gonna have to mourn it.
Come on, Is there nothing sacred?!
Even 'Spider-man', and 'Green Hornet'?!
Maybe it's just me!
Maybe I'm a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
But, please leave the old shows alone!!
I don't wanna think about what's next!!
