A Re-run

SouleMama has a "Friday from the Archives" thing going for her, so I looked back on my posts last year for an entertaining one to share. This is the one I found. Background: Steve & I had gone to Park City, Utah for our anniversary and roamed around the shops and musuems.

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My favorite shop (other than the art galleries) had hilarious door mats and plaques.
Here are just a few:

I take life with a grain of salt, a wedge of lime, and a shot of tequila.

Go braless . . . It'll pull the wrinkles out of your face!

We've been through a lot together . . . and most of it was your fault!

My husband and I have different religions. He thinks he's God, and I don't!

Friends are like thighs, always sticking together.

I smile cause your my sister. I laugh because there's nothing you can do about it!

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!

You'll always be my best friend . . . You know too much.

Shopping with your husband is like hunting with the game warden.

Around here, "normal" is just a setting on the dryer.

The mats were funny too. I only remember a couple, but one simply says, "Hi! My name is Mat."

And,

"I love my vacuum.
I've found God.
I gave at the office."

We visited a lot of art galleries. I am amazed at the talent those people have! Here are some of their websites, so you can look at the some of the art without even leaving your home:

West Light Images www.westlight.net

Stanfield Fine Art www.stanfieldfineart.com You'll have to keep reminding yourself that these are paintings, not photos!

Hope Gallery, Inc. www.hopegallery.com

Scanlan Windows to the World www.scanlan.com It is too bad that they didn't post the description of the picture on their website; it is as much art as the photos themselves.

There are beautiful, beautiful pictures at those sites, so I hope you get a chance to look.

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BTW, I edited it. I didn't retell the entire post, like the part about the CT scan I'd had. If you want to see the full post, you can read it here.

I plan on having an absolutely wonderful weekend, and I hope you do too! :-)

Silent Sunday - November 15th

I was playing with these photos again. I think these are some of my favorite landscapes. Just by cropping, the entire picture changes. I don't think I could ever tire of this scenery!

I made them clickable (they will open in a different window; just maximize the screen to see the enlarged pic.) so that you can enlarge them and enjoy them even more.

Seeing the world through rose colored glasses. And purple. And blue. And...

Please don't mention housework. Especially not laundry or dishes. Because I'd feel really guilty about sitting on my bahookie playing around with pics if you do. I'd love some warm, homemade brownies... and the only thing standing between me and those extra five pounds is this stupid pain in the neck. No really, a pain in the neck. Really, a pain in my neck, not some euphemism.

I've already done one blog post today, so if you've missed it, be sure to back track so that you can get those recipes and see the real life Hobbit House, okay?

Okay, so anyway, here I've sat playing with colors for the past hour or so. The first pics are about a lone leaf on my tree just outside my window. I've loved watching that tree all fall: its brilliant golden leaves framed in the bluest of blue skies. Until two days ago, when all of her leaves are gone but just a handful.

The leaf that has intrigued me most is the one that's way out on the limb. One sole leaf, framed in darkened skies, waving on the limb through all of the gusts that stripped his brothers and sisters away. He is "Tenacious". (it is the same pic all 4 times, just with the color played with. the first pic is the original straight-out-of-the-camera shot.)

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This morning it happened to snow. As I looked across the valley I noticed clouds covering the foothills of the mountain, leaving the peaks looking fairytale-like. All that was missing was the castle atop. All of these enlarge if you click on them.



















I think I'm going to go make those brownies now. My children and my tastebuds will thank me. Then I'll bribe the kids to do the dishes. And maybe I'll throw in a load of laundry for good measure.

(P.S. I'm curious which one of the four leaf shots you like best. When you comment, will you just tell which one you liked best? Thanks!)

Places I've Been and Interesting Things I've Seen This Morning

I've enjoyed reading your blogs today! Along with reading interesting and funny things about your family and lives, I've also seen a real life Hobbit House and added a couple of new recipes to my recipe book. Take a look at these!:

I saw a really beautiful and interesting Hobbit Home from a link Tracey put on her blog at Life in Sugar Hollow.

She also gave a link for Sweet Roasted Butternut Squash and Greens Over Bow-Tie Pasta that I'd like to try.


From beauty that moves I learned how to make homemade chicken nuggets. My family will be delighted to eat these. They look and sound scrumdiliumptious!

As for me, I can only look right.... I mean, to the right. If you were standing behind my left shoulder I'd have to turn my full body around to look at you. Even sneezing, which I'm doing a lot of, is torturous.

There are some beautiful photo opportunities this morning: from the nights dusting of snow to a picturesque mountain scape with the peak shining above the clouds. But I don't want to go outside... because it's cold and because my neck hurts. It is terrible when photography becomes a pain in the neck! Maybe I'll just have to toughen up, though, because these sights are too good to not capture!

So I'll see you (hopefully more easily than today!) tomorrow. I hope to show you the beautiful scenery that I'm seeing today... over my right shoulder. ;-)