I never thought I’d get used to a girl.  Girls are easier to get used to than boys. Look how used to Miss Farrell you are. She does all the work around here, and you don’t even know her first name.  I do, it’s Grace.  She thinks you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Annie - 1982

Yep that was my breakfast.  Slices of thin cut bacon and two slices of buttered toast!  I also had coffee!

Raining AGAIN!  Bradley was in our bed twice last night.  It was noisy and the light show was awesome, for me.

I have swaps to work on today and laundry to do!

The others were gracious and curious about the young man who had saved my life, but my mother looked at him like an insect. A dangerous insect which must be squashed quickly.

Titanic - 1997

Had to go outside to my lilies this morning to get this shot. These insects are always around and in my lilies. I have no idea what they are but they love my flowers.

Yesterday my allergies had their weekly flare up and I ended up taking two Benedryls and passing out. I guess I fell asleep while playing Call of Duty. I slept for a good 11 hours. I feel better today, mentally and physically! I have had my cup, or two, or three of coffee this morning. I wonder when it becomes too much? Let’s see if the Muppets can help me with this one.

My Space :

–Succulent. –You shouldn’t say that word. –What word? –That word you said. –What, ’succulent’? –Don’t say it. –What’s the matter wit it? –You shouldn’t say that word to a married woman.

Birthday Party, The - 1968

Yes, you have seen something like this before.  No succulent strawberries this week, just blueberries.  Everyone want to know how to make this.  Simple take a shortbread, large, cookie and spread the strawberry preserve on top and than top with you favorite fruit.

Blueberries: Belong to a flowering plant, you can use it to dye clothing, & blueberry juice will protect against scurvy. They have been known to help reduce morning sickness, coughs, and headaches.  The leaves are used to make  tea and thought to purify the blood.  Eating blueberries can help improve balance, coordination, and memory.  They have been used in cancer research.  They contain compounds that act like an antibacterial in UTIs.  They are heart healthy fruit!

Strawberries: They belong to a rose family.  They are the only fruit to wear their seeds on the outside.  Over 600 varieties exist.  8 strawberries contain more vitamin C than an orange.  They are rich in folate, potassium, and fiber.  They are linked in cancer research.  They are an anti-inflammatory.  They help in the battle of the bulge.  Can help control type 2 diabetes.  They are heart healthy.

Strawberry Jam

2 quarts fresh strawberries hulled, or any berry

1 3/4-ounce package regular powder fruit pectin

1/2 teaspoon butter

7 cups of sugar

place 1 cup of berries in an 8-quart heavy kettle.  Crush berries.  Continue adding berries and crushing until you have 5 cups crushed berries.  Stir in pectin and butter.  Heat on high stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a full boil.  Add sugar all at once.  Return to boiling, boil 1 minute, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat; quickly skim off foam with metal spoon.

Ladle at once into hot, sterilized half-pint canning jars, leaving a 1/4 inch headspace.  Wipe jar rims; adjust lids.  Let cool!  Enjoy!

Peppermint? And oil for my hands. Yes. I spilled a botlte. The carpet was soaked, and it forever smelled of peppermint. I used to lie there on that rug, and, oh, how I missed you when you went away. When you came here. To Paris.

Anastasia - 1997

Last night at 11:55pm it started…… the rain and it was hitting the windows pretty good. Than around 1am the lighting and thunder started and continued until 5am. I expected Bradley at several points in the night but it wasn’t till after the storm was over that he came and joined us in the bed. Everything outside was soaked and there was so many to choose from. If you have me as a Flickr friend they will be uploaded in a bit. This is a shot of my lower back deck, see the chair?

I am out of my bedroom today and I managed to get outside too. Things seem to be improving. I am drinking some calm tea. It has licorice root, chamomile, gotu kola, hibiscus, fennel seed, lemongrass, cardamom seed, orange peel, rose hip, english lavender flower, organic barley malt, and natural plum flavor. It really does help me to relax a bit and I should have taken it yesterday but couldn’t be bothered.

I am still reading The Magician’s Nephew but I plan on finishing it today. I have less than 100 pages and it is totally doable. I am also scrapbooking today as it will be my Tackle It Tuesday.

Please pass the tissues for this one………………………..

My Space:

Marigold from my front garden.

I finish my book this morning.  If you have never read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, please read it!  It is a fantastic book!

This is my mother and me!  It is one of my favorite pictures of us together!

Playing catch-up today!

My Space:

–I know everything that’s happening in my hotels. –So I should put the towels back? –No, the towels you can keep.

Ocean’s Eleven - 2001

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Casey Affleck, and Andy Garcia what a cast and what a great movie! Great movie and Ocean’s Twelve is good too. Ocean’s Thirteen is is my Netflix queue.

Ok, I am a fruity loop of a person! I went to Wal-Mart to exchange some binding and took my camera to get a shot of towels. Thank goodness it is a huge Wal-Mart (6 acres under the roof) and it was dead at 7am. No one saw me in the aisles snapping shots of towels! I would have hated to explain what I was doing and that I was not a Target Spy. I like these towels and I need new bath towels in the upstairs bathroom and I think these would work.

Weigh-in is today and I have my results that I will post here in a bit.

I am reading a FABULOUS book right now. Only about 200 pages but it is really hitting all the points it should hit. This book will make you look at your life and make you take stock. You should really read this book and as soon as I read it, my husband is going to read it, but after that I am willing to share this book with anyone who wants to read it.

A lot of professors give talks titled “The Last Lecture.” Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can’t help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave–”Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”–wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because “time is all you have…and you may find one day that you have less than you think”). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

British Word of the Day~

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My Space:

I’m not as drunk as thinkle peep I am.

Sliding Doors - 1998

I LOVE that movie!  Mostly I love John Hannah and his wonderful accent!  If you have never seen it you really should.  Watch it once and than watch it again to understand it.  It is a movie in two views, what is and what could have been.  You live both sides of this love story at once so you flip flop.  Great movie!

Kalleigh is my peeper, she is a major peeper.  This child is always caught peeping around corners!  This shot was taken last year and so it is a cheat.  Not feeling the best with my allergies and the air quality today will bring me trouble.  Gonna scrapbook today I think!

I finally finished my book yesterday, The Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory.  It was good, a bit long and drawn out but good.  You can see all my recent read and current reads on my Bookworm Page.  Sue, I add an iTines pages so you can see my music.  I am having a contest over at my main blog!

My Space:

…the blues are because you’re getting fat or because it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

Breakfast at Tiffany’s - 1961

Here is my red and it my Netflix.  I get 3 movies at a time at my home.  I pay $16.99 a month for 3 at a time and unlimited amount in a month.  My turn around time is about 3 days from when I mail in, they get it, and turn around a mail me my next movie in my queue.  I can even watch movies instantly on my computer.  Today I put the Dr. Who series at the top of my queue.  You evil people for getting me hooked.  And I don’t think I am watching them in correct order either!  They are on the Sci-Fi channel and it is a random luck of the draw!  I am trying to watch the 2005 ones first.

I couldn’t really decide on a red picture as I love red and have it EVERYWHERE!  Here is a mosaic I made ove at Big Huge Labs.

One last thing I wanted to share with you all I have updated my main blog, go check it out.  I have also been hard at work on 3 new blogs.  Please stop by and tell me what you think!  The last blog I just help with!

• Slimming Down the Squirrel
• The World of Little Squirrels
• Wonderful World of West20