16 posts tagged “nikon d80”
As you all know, Homebody and I hung out on Sunday, I drug her all over my town. Here are a few photos I took while we were out in my hood. Here is her flickr photo stream, she has a keen eye, enjoy! She took pictures of me in the super tall grass pictured below. Seriously, that grass had to be about 7 feet tall!
1. shower and get ready for day with sister in law
2. buy all grocery needs for the bridal shower
4. slice lemons, oranges and limes and place on cookie sheet to freeze for ice in water, makes a punchbowl of water look SO pretty!
5. dishes
6. one load of laundry, even though I have to put TONS away, maybe work on that a bit
Kiara, my neice seen here with bubbles, we bought her two books. She turned 9. Mr. Lavender choose these books for her. 1.) Alice in Wonderland and through the looking glass in one volume. 2.) Diary of a Wimpy Kid
We were going to get her a book made by a friends brother, but she must be the only kid on the planet that is not over the moon for Shel Silverstein. We bought her a light in the attic last year, and she was all "Meh..." But Diary of a wimpy kid, she excused herself from the rest of the party and sat down reading this. Good Choice Uncle Lavender! I got some fun tall socks, a free massage, and a few other really thoughtful and nice things.
We played outside in the yard because it seems in Washington we needed the official summer start to actually have some sun this year.
Chris, nephew who looks more like mr. lavender the older he gets, got in on the bubble magic, even though he is 13. We bought him the first installment of the Neil Gaiman Sandman graphic novel for his birthday last year, he really dug it and wants more. Cool! He will be easy for gifts now!
Oh, it is Tuesday, Time for some things.
Bad-
1)my sinuses keep swelling and draining at the most innappropriate times, why can they not drain when I am close to some tissue?
2)ran out of bottled water because the last 5 gallon jug has a leak
3) I have a scratch on my chin from little Luna, it is big. Looks really bad. She was laying across my neck and I scared her when I went to move her fur out of my nose, she peeled out on my chin.
4) the bridal shower is close, and I have nothing done
Good-
1) I have tons of good pictures to go through from my weekend
2) the sun is shining
3) I have everything I need, food (kind of, need to go grocery shopping) shelter, love, kitties, I have not always had these things. What else could I ask for? More would be overkill. ;-)
4)being able to show someone my neighbors ametuer taxedermy collection, and seeing Homebodies expression when she saw all the dead creatures next door. That was priceless. ;-)
5) I feel like I can get lots done today, and I hope I do
6) Did I mention the sun is shining?
Hello Hood! I had a busy weekend. It will take me quite some time to read all your posts, so I may not comment on all, I will read them though! I will start with Friday I guess. I got my hair cut as you all know, it is SO easy to do, I love it! Today I am going to let the curls air dry to see if it looks good or not, hopefully good because that is how I do my hair most days. I rode my bike around town, stopped in my fave antique shop and they gave me a small stack of photos, I will photograph my fave of the bunch later, it is gorgeous.
Saturday we went to the Zoo with Lucy the Poet and her lovely children. Her Son makes me envious of all his energy, her children are both such joyful beautiful kids. We also visited Camp long to take pictures of a certain mask that inspired Lucy to write for our book. It is starting to come together, the book, and it is very exciting. I have a lovely list of things to be on the look out for. After we left Seattle we had to find a Father's day gift for my Pop, I am lame. I was not on the ball about it.
Sunday, We slept in late and I worked on the book, while Mr. Lavender went out for a run in the woods. He always comes back so muddy. Then off to My sister's house for a fathers day BBQ. The kids are always so much fun. We had a good time.
It does not sound like much of a weekend when I write it all down. I wonder where all the time went!
2. Footprints in the sidewalk, they are just that. Permanently embedded in the cement years and years ago. They have been there since before I was in high school and moved into the area. They are much whiter than the rest of the sidewalk, they filled them in with a different color cement.
3. Hugging plants, they are coated in the cottonwood seeds. These cottonwood seeds cover the ground making it appear it has snowed. And making every eye red and irritated
4. Broken spire, someone broke my neighbors plastic fence post. That is it I guess. Haha! I mean, it is plastic for goodness sakes.
5. Holding hands, they skated by me holding hands. I saw such sweetness. Mr. Lavender and I were along the path for an evening walk and remembered we were not much older than they were when we first laid eyes on each other. It reminded us of our beginnings.
I just realized all these pictures were taken within a few blocks of my house. If I could throw a ball like a juiced up baseball player I could hit all of these areas with a baseball.
Okay, So that Flickr segment is going to air on NPR this weekend. In the show Weekend America. I will be on talking about how I love to photograph garbage, haha! It will be like a minute long. I am going to be Famous! Haha! Kidding! Here is a linksy that shows when this program airs in your area if you are interested. I am super nervous, I hope I don't sound strange, I will to me at least.
My SIL did not give me a massage last week, but she is today, so I have to go try to prime myself for her bionic fingers. Yoga, hot shower. Try to time it for the exact time she is picking me up. ;-) Have a great day all!
Oh Yeah, YAY Barak!
13 Things I need to do this weekend
1. Make my brother a graduation card and shove some cash inside
2. Get my hair cut off, I am officially sick of it
3. get some vegetarian dishes for the meat filled BBQ graduation party for my brother
4. make sure my camera battery is charged for this weekend, in fact, I should do that now. Seems like a detail I will forget if I don't do it now. Okay, charging, glad I did that.
5. do yoga and take a hot shower before SIL digs her massage therapist fingers of steel into my sore muscles. She says she will be here at 11, so it will be about noon.
6. get ink for the printer, I want to print some pictures of those sweet pups from yesterday and give them to the owner.
7. put newly made cat food into containers and put 2 in the freezer
8. Go to the farmers market, on our bicycles. Gas is expensive! The weather is supposed to be great too.
9. make zucchini lasagna for dinner tonight.
10. take a walk this afternoon after my massage / beating. The weather will be Lovely!
11. If I go out to eat with SIL, I need to stick with a big salad, no bad stuff! I am finally starting to see some thinning of my spare tire. NICE!
12. Get a dinner menu done and grocery list, then to the grocery store. yuck.
13. look for beauty wherever I go. Take deep breaths and don't let people get under my skin. There will be a lot of time with family, lots of hiding me inside because I just get so nervous with them. sigh, I mean Deep Cleansing breath ;-)
I will ease you into it, I warn you, the cute is BIG, but in such small packages. I took a walk around my hood, through alleys and gravel sidewalks. It was not cold, but it was cloudy. Nice weather. I enjoyed myself very much. So I am almost done, rounding my way down the street to my house, reaching into my purse to get my keys ready when I look down the road away from my house. I see teeny balls of something frolicking in some grass, I was unsure what they were, Kittens? Puppies? I could not tell. I walked over to them. OMG! I almost was killed dead by the cute! Scroll down to see who I met, My neighborhood just got a bit cuter!
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I slept in had plenty of yummy hot coffee, black.
Made myself a yummy breakfast smoothie, since I have been drinking these for breakfast (about a month now) I have been sleeping lots better, and I am not nauseas all the time. It is half a banana (I use a tiny bit more, then eat the rest of the banana) Half cup of OJ, two or three strawberries (if I have them) half cup plain yogurt, and a tablespoon of flax seed oil. BLEND, then I add a few chunks of frozen fruits, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, cherries, blackberries, mango. BLEND then YUMMM! SO good.
Now I will probably go to the park with my hubby to take some pictures. We do need to go to the store and get stuff for mothers day brunch. Sister in law just called and said we were in charge of bringing meat. Really? The two people who will not eat bacon or sausage are in charge of bringing pork? So she laughed and assigned us eggs, we will buy 3 dozen eggs and tons of veggies for a big batch of egg scramble. There are going to be a dozen people there.
Have a great weekend People!