Egg Hunts Are My Favorite!!

The End of a Season

Most people mark the end of fall by the calendar - December 20. I however mark the end of fall by the date that all those darn leaves are cleared from the property!! You see, we have about 3 acres with about 20 mature trees and it takes us pretty much a whole month and a half to clear them off! Many of my friends comment on how beautiful our home and property are but are soooo happy they are not the owners of all those leaves that fall each autumn! So when they are finally off of the trees and off of the lawn we have our ceremonious picture taking event. I had to have Grams and Gramps get in on the action. After all they have been raking these leaves for --oh, about a 40 years! (not sure why they wouldn't sit down in the pile though, party poopers!).
Anna and the pup were next to have their picture done. It was a hot fall day. Can't you tell by the 12 inch tongue hanging out of the dog's mouth? She's probably dripping slobber all over those leaves that Anna will jump in later!!!


Even that crazy couple below stopped long enough for a photo-op!

Now this is the only remaining pile in the yard! Yahoo! We will leave this one as a drop zone for Anna's zip line and a place for the pup to lose all of her outdoor toys!!

Now that the lawn is clear - Bring on the Snow!!

This and That

It is Labor Day. All the kiddos are home. All the cupboards are becoming bare. Tomorrow the older two will go back to college and I will be going back to the grocery. It is a pattern. A pattern that I will gladly fall into because I enjoy having them around - even though they eat us out of house and home. Where did that phrase come from anyway? Probably from the mother of college kids.
A very low key day here. I made spaghetti sauce and Bill made salsa. We have an overabundance of garden produce. Go figure. So we are coming up with every imaginable way to use tomatoes and peppers. Bill has become quite the salsa maker. Actually, Bill is a very good cook and could easily take that job away from me if he wanted to. But it is one thing that I do rather well and I like leaving him the jobs that he is especially good at. Like the one below.
Gotta love a man that would take on this responsibility. Bill, I appreciate all the little and BIG jobs that you do so that I don't have to. Thanks, Buddy!

A Day in the Life of our Border Collie

"Hey, Lady. Let me tell you how this works. You throw the ball, I fetch the ball. You throw the ball, I fetch the ball. You throw the ball, I fetch the ball."

"Kind sir could you please help this workaholic dog by giving that little ball a toss?"

"Excuse me. Excuse me. You need to throw this thing."

"Nice flip flops. Throw the ball."

Ransom Note

EASTER BUNNY:
We have your friend, Peter. We will peacefully release him under the following conditions:
The following items will be left in the purple basket by the fireplace: Lindor Dark Truffles, Reece peanut butter eggs, Cadbury Orange Creme Eggs, Starbuck Gift Cards, and Multi Color Milkbones.
Refusing to comply or leaving cheap substitutes such as Peeps, Necco wafers, jelly beans, or Palmer chocolates will result in the gradual destuffing of your friend.

Doggie Clothing

Do you dress your dog? I have friends who dress their dogs. They buy them clothing and hair accessories (I mean fur). Now, don't think I'm judging those of you who do but I don't see myself ever getting into this hobby. I have my reasons.



1. I don't have a lot of extra money to indulge in buying pet clothing. Any extra cash here goes for the all important java runs - Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Tim Hortons.



2. I have very little fashion sense for myself. How would I know what to put on a dog? Do you match their eyes, their season? Someone tell me.



3. My husband would think I had lost my mind.



4. My dog is a redneck.



I have to admit that for one week when Savvy was young we did put clothing on her. It was the time we had her fixed. We needed something to keep her redneck teeth from getting to that incision site. So, practical fashion diva that I am, I came up with this.




The hand-me-down Hanes t-shirt!! Like how I added the hair tie to hold the outfit together? Actually, my redneck dog looked kind of cute. I think the outfit matched her eyes.