the escapades of a Proverbs 31 wannabe
My super-fun visit may be over but it keeps on giving. I really like all the great pictures she left on my computer-the new header is from under the dam near the old power plant. These are the huge white Pelicans all in a row taking a break. I love that we land-locked upper mid-westerners possess these majestic birds for the entire summer.
You know…cause they are waaay good.
Howdy Ma’am.
Grab some straw bales and make a couch!
The armies are marshaling…
Strategies are coalescing…
And unbeknownst to all…
DANGER lurks, waiting in the shadows.
Kittty in the Kleenex
Feline Funnies
Boxed baby
darling distraction
purring procrastination
finish school already and stop stuffing the cat in things
They were sort of purply aand greyish and shiny and suctioncuptioney and in a big pan on the salad bar at the chinese buffet. They were smallish and roundish and very curlyish. They were marinating in Italian dressing and bits of red onion and green pepper. I took one. I put TWO on Scott’s plate. (I am really generous like that.) I wanted to name mine but I figured that would wreck the whole cosmopolitan I-am-the-type-to-eat-and-love-octopus-and-not-bat-an-eye-I-actually-do-this-all-the-time vibe I was going for.
We sat down with our food and thanked the Lord for giving us sustenance. We did not specifically mention the octopedal salad. I started with my crab rangoon hoping Scott would go first. He innocently picked up an eggroll. Resigned to my roll as leader I placed my fork over my wee widdle octopi and pressed down. I pressed harder. I pressed and wiggled the fork side to side. The little guy was, shall we say, ah, resilient? I needed to use the knife. I cut off 1/2 of the legs and (do you call it the neck?) It was a largish bite-I believe to really taste a new food you need to take a real bite. Plus one definitely canNOT pull off cosmopolitan sofistication when sniffing and nibbling like a 7 year old who thinks there may be an onion nearby. UH I’d have rather had the onion.
The flavor was someplace between calamari and scallops and rather nice with the marinade. The texture was to die for..literally GAG until death comes blissfully taking the feeling of suction cups off your tongue. It fought back. Like a super-bouncy ball. With tentacles. I did chew. I did swallow. I did not make faces. It took much self-control. And long minutes of my time to get it into small enough bits so I could be sure to avoid a flying octopus Heimlich scene.
But I did it. I don’t feel any more sofisticated neither.
O dearest Jesus, what law hast thou broken
That such sharp sentance should on Thee be spoken?
Of what great crime hast Thou to make confession-
What dark transgression?
They crown Thy head with thorns, they smite, they scourge Thee;
With cruel mockings to the cross they urge thee;
They give Thee gall to drink, they still decry thee;
They crucify Thee.
Whence come these sorrows, whence this mortal anguish?
It is my sins for which thou, Lord, must languish;
Yea, all the wrath, the woe, Thou dost inherit,
This I do merit.
The sinless Son of God must die in sadness;
The sinful child of manmay live in gladness;
Man forfeited his life and it acquitted-
God is committed.
O wondrous love, whose depth no heart hath sounded,
That brought Thee here, by foes and theives surrounded!
All worldly pleasures, heedless, I was trying
While Thou wert dying.
~Johann Heermann
Have you ever watched a 4 year old try to spin a gun on his finger like gunslingers do in westerns? A great big life-sized plastic 44 MAG on a stubby little chunky finner? If you have you are laughing as hard as I am at just the memory. The tears started when he clocked himself on the ear/forehead/cheek with one “spin”. By tears I mean MINE from laughter-they became uncontrollable when he brought it to me and asked me to show him how. 
I wish I had thought of sunglasses-he could have TOTALLY pulled this off if it wasn’t soooo bright!
(this photo staged just for Mary at Hope Echoes) link deally is fussing with me so google her if you need to.
I started another batch of homemade vanilla extract…I think it looks purty. In six weeks I will think it looks dark but smells wonderful!. And from the who-needs throw-pillows-when-you-have-me department…
Gratuitous Lizard…
The hazards of keeping a big melodious windchime in the tree outside your bedroom window year-round because you like the sound…
And because I feel like I should since I spent so long on it–the completed Quilting With Laura quilt–all pieced and quilted by hand from designs taken from and inspired by the Laura Ingalls Wilder Books. (FYI –the more “problems” I have with a quilt the more I embellish to try to “fix” or camouflage. You can readily tell how my first try at hand-piecing miniatures went! )
Uh–boys? When most kids build a fort they play inside it. And what’s the deal with the cat? Nevermind-don’t think I want to know…
Yes, if you count highschool! I was pretty good background filler in The Music Man (if I do say so myself)…I had a LOT more fun in my early twenties helping with costume creation and changes for a community playhouse though. Why do you want to know?
In celebration of the fact that our camera started working again (with the old batteries that were in it) after months on the shelf in lonely exile for poor performance–I give you my new bedroom paint!
I wanted a sweet, innocent, barely there pink. Not Barbie or Pepto or baby girl pink; but antique rose throats and old-fashioned cameos-that color that is in the little crease on the underside of new baby toes. You know? Menard’s did not have a baby-toe pink so I went with Tuscan pink…after (I kid you not) hanging 7 choices on my wall for a month to see them in differing lights and ask everyone except the UPS man their opinion (he looked busy-plus he was wearing all that brown-what kind of color sense would he have anyway) anywhooooo…I give you PINK.
Turns out I am not a pink person. I knew that but a sweet old-fashioned pink should be an exception-I do like baby toes after all. Do I give up and paint over it? Are you NUTS?!? That was a lot of picky work–I will make this work somehow, someway,some…what?
I used Laurel as a sounding board while we finished the trim work in there. sponging? nah-everybody does that. ragging-we like that but have done it so much. Wouldn’t it be cool to do an all-over stencil? ooo yeah-one that overlaps and is at different intensities! Yeah! SATURATION level! spray would work best for that-really light–ooooo through LACE! YEAH! Let’s try that! She brought some spray paint home from work-we tried a cre
am and a brushed nickle on a test board and went with the nickle. Here is a process shot:
You know you are homeschooled when you tell your daughter holding spray paint to flash a gang sign and she gives you “Live long and prosper.” We just taped an old curtain to the wall and sprayed through it trying to be random. Later we started trying to hit nearly every area-apparently “random” to our hands means “always miss the middle”.
This effect is soooo cool! Kind of a grunge meets victorian meats metallic shabby chic? (then they all beat each other up and my wall is the survivor of the decorating elements grudge match) The spray paint is a brushed metallic so just barely shiny-when the light hits it just right it looks white or pewter and straight on it is a silvery color so lots of variation from the light plus lots of variation from our painting technique (which was differing distances and speeds and spray-over amounts…AKA random with extra variables) It is really very striking and I love the pink now that it is not the forefront. It is NOT easy to photograph though so here are my few tries. The lace patterning shows up really nicely on the walls but it blends away when the flash goes off–so add more patterns in your imagination K?
Now lets add antique prints and kid pictures:
I really like how warm and romantic the room is now!
PLUS: bonus 2 YO cute from inside the camera–him was sooo widdle and waiting for supper took soooo wong!
I am pre-shopping for a camera and would like any recomendations…my requirements:
I want sturdy, and long-lasting and if you can tell me what to look at I can earmark the one/s I want to snag in January.
What do you use?
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