Randomness

Some random thoughts...

I am not ready for winter.

I'm never ready for winter.

 I feel it coming...

Magnolia Moose is getting restless.  He's roaming.

Apples are on the trees.  They do that in the fall you know.

So I stayed home and picked apples today, among other stuff. 
I'm hoping Mom will make some apple dumplings.
I always freeze them, and save them for a special day.  A day when I just need an apple dumpling.

 I can't bear to see the food go to waste.  When I was a kid I was made to clean my plate because people in China were starving.  Ironic isn't it?  China is richer than we are, people there are still starving, and I'm fat.  But, I've lost ten pounds, and I can pull my pants down without unzipping them, which makes it nice when I first walk in the door from running errands (or picking apples).  Because when I first walk in the door, I always have to run to the bathroom.  Do you do that?  What is the deal with that anyway?  It's like...walk in the door....gotta potty.

Anyway, here are some more random things I felt necessary to post about.

 

 (shitload of honey)

 I've decided to have less hives next year.  I might start selling bees instead of honey.  Maybe a little of both.  I don't know.  I have decided I don't need a dozen hives.

It's just so much work.

 I might set up a booth at First Friday, on Friday evening to sell some honey. 

And I am setting up a table at the yarn store THIS Saturday, and she is having a sidewalk sale.  It's a secret though.  So don't say anything.

 And these bears...they are up to no good.  I can tell.

Just like this dog, who is cute...adorable even...but also up to no good. 

 

 He pees on stuff. 

 See the yellow spot.  

 

That's the bottom of our bedspread.  It's just enough to make him think he's boss, and make me have to wash it.  He changed.  When we went on vacation back in June, and then came home and had kids stay with us the week....he changed.  We've been having problems since.  I think I get him back on track, then bam, I find something like pee on a bedspread. I know I will never get rid of him.  I also know I'm never going to have another male dog in the house.  I've said it before, I'm saying it now and I MEAN IT!
NEVAH YOU HEAR ME!

The diet...it's hard peeps.  When you are 55 years old, dieting is hard.  I'm lucky if I lose a pound a week.  I'm doing My Fitness Pal which is an app on my Iphone.

 I'm eating a lot of healthy stuff and as I said, I lost ten pounds.  You can't really tell when a person that weighs what I weigh loses ten pounds.  Maybe at 20pounds.  The other day I took some oats, chocolate chips, and almond slivers and drizzled honey on them and ate them just like that.  Yum.  Kind of high in calories but it felt healthy.  You should try it.  It's a good honey recipe.

 I eat a lot of oatmeal for breakfast with a few walnuts, cinnamon, honey, and fruit.  Yum again.

 Even though you can't tell I'm losing weight, I feel so much better. These berries came from our neighbors bushes.  Shhhh, don't tell them!  

I'm KIDDING!  

They went on vacation and told us we could pick from their garden.  We were so busy that week that we went once.  By the time we went back, they came home early and they picked all the berries!

 And even though I'm on a diet, if I go to Logansport, IN, I will get a custard.  It's a smooth ice creamy type thing, for those of you who have never had one.  And Sycamore custard stand in Logansport is the best.  I used to have a lot of relatives in that town and we'd visit often when I was a child and We always got a custard.  It's tradition.

 

We had an accepted offer on our house in town, and at the last minute, it fell through.

I will tell you the story  on the neglected house blog....tomorrow.  So much of our spare time last week was spent talking to realtors and sprucing up our house in town....dusting....getting rid of the spiders that took up residence in the bathtub...stuff like that.  {sigh}

  This book is fabulous....

 

she is one of my favorite authors...and during the wedding reception at the end, I was laughing out loud.  Get the book, read it, it's summer fun reading.  Who cares if it's fallish outside. It's officially still summer, and I'm still carrying my summer fun purse!

  Remember this friend...

who helped me move 4289 bricks, and wrote PLEH on my husbands truck when we got stuck in the mud?

 

Well I had another friend paint a Kokomo brick for her.

 I took her to lunch and gave her this brick as a thank you.

 Cute huh.  You can read about the brick moving fun here and here.

 

 This is the easiest, quickest meal ever.  Take this ravioli,

 cook it, drizzle olive oil and parmesian cheese on it, and it's done.  Side of salad and it's a meal.

So, where did summer go?  Who knows....It is September already.  I haven't even posted about the Haynes Apperson Festival in July, or Hortons in July, or weaving at the Howard Co. Fair, or the State Fair that we went to for the first time in ten years.  I think I will save some summer posts for the winter...and survive on summer pictures and sunshine!

And talking about summer sunshine...
A friend bought all of these flower seeds for me!  

She said they were on sale at the dollar store for 3cents!  

 I will not count on Jasmine to help plant them.

 I found out this year....she is the worst gardener.  She didn't pull one weed.

Cindy Bee

 PS....he's trouble I tell ya.  I turn my back and he has been chewing on this ear of corn he removed from the compost bucket.  Deeeeeep cleansing breaths.  The floor is a mess.

 Where is his Mom and why isn't she paying attention to what he is into?

Buh bye...I got work to do.

Happy Labor Day!

 My Sister in Law is happy because she traded me a bag of apples for this Vera Bradley purse.

(I seriously have got to stop buying purses-it was like new)

 

So, my Sister decided to have a Labor Day, end of summer family gathering on Saturday night.  The plan was to have a cornhole tournament.  Names were drawn and Mom kept reading the list to everyone...'cept no one was paying attention.  You had to be there...it was funny.

 

The tournament started and I threw the first bean bag and it felt like my lower half of my arm came right out of my elbow socket.  I've had "tennis elbow" since last April.  It started from lifting bricks, then lifting beehives, and whatever else.  I thought I was almost healed.  OUCH!

As the evening wore on, Ava got a little bored with not being the center of attention!  So she planted herself right in the middle of our game.  Who's kid is she anyway?  She Looks like our family, she is not!

 

 After we ate....

 we celebrated Joey's birthday.

 He is my oldest niece's husband, and such a good sport.

 It was a bit windy out and his candles wouldn't stay lit, so we told him to pretend to blow them out!  He did.

And wish him luck.  He just finished law school and took his test in July.  He won't know anything until the end of this month.

Joey got this beautiful shot glass necklace to go with a bottle of some sort of alcohol,

 

 which he and his Dad did not bother with the shot glass, I noticed.

 

 My niece took off with my camera and took some pics...not bad for a ten year old.

 My Shug!

Trent (my Sister's husband, and Andrew, our nephew)

 My Bro

 Ma

 My Sis

 Pa

 

 Then the hula-hoop came out.

 

And Anh and Chee (and the boys, but no pictures!) showed up...finally! 

Oh  noooo....they went to our house, instead of my sisters house, and none of us answered the phone because we were playing corn hole and left our phones inside .{sigh} Lesson learned.

  

 And I'm sure you know where this is going....and this isn't any of our kids either!

So I guess it was a family, and then some...gathering!   He does have the blond hair though so he fit right in!

It's not really a swimming pond....

 But he was begging his parents to let him swim!

 The kids had bubbles and made their own fun....remember rolling down hills like this when you were a kid?  Simple, non-technological fun.  No i-pads, no phones....

as a matter of fact, we didn't have our phones out much at all that evening....

 Until the weather started getting bad....then we were all watching our phones!

The wind picked up and the clouds rolled in.

Some people left trying to beat the storms home,

 Others stayed until they blew over.

 Trent and Joey were trying to light a sky lantern before the rain started and the wind kept blowing out the matches.

 

So Trent got the "big guns" out!

 And we have lift off!  (you can order these online and they are really cool.  Kind of a miniature version of hot air balloons)

Everyone stayed outside until the last possible moment,

 Then we came in...had a little bit of thumb-war sumo style wrestling....

said our good nights....

 and went home.

Happy Labor Day everyone!

Did you do anything for End of Summer fun?

(it's not really over yet...is it?  Summer I mean?  Is it?  When is the last day of Summer anyway?)

Does this mean I need to get my Fall purse out?

Cindy Bee