Showing posts with label M. Show all posts
Showing posts with label M. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2009

Life Updates in Pictures

So how are things in my life? I thought I'd give you a little tour in pictures:
We're still preparing to re-roof the house next month... one of our helpers has bailed, we have to make sure the other one can be there or we may have to try and find a way to budget a professional to come do it. For now it's patched up, and we're ripping out moldy ceilings and such (well, sort of... long story, which will require way more pics.) to try and keep any biohazards out. Anyway, note the light gray patching which I did, and later covered with black roofing patch... much less water is leaking into the bedrooms now!

Sarah-doggie, pictured here looking perplexed at a doggie treat, is loving being an indoor doggie but shedding like CRAZY!!! What hte heck?????

M, the unofficially-adopted daughter, had her 18th birthday in May! Here we are celebrating at Red Lobster. Behind us, you might notice, is the huge aquarium with the large crabs. We ate some of their cousins during our meal... I was not too impressed, but James and M liked them! I enjoyed the shrimp, and shockingly... I enjoyed the stuffed mushrooms, which DID contain both lobster and crab meats.



Here are greens and brocolli growin in my garden, along with weeds and the impossible-to-remove poppies.


My husband has decided to grow a goatee. HOT, is he not? it's getting longer and fuller these days too.

Yes, I did build a trellis completely out of bits of leftover yarn and discarded yarned creations. I planted two very-cool types of beans that climb this year... I forget what kind these are, but the others are called asparagus beans and the instructions tell you to pick the beans, for best flavor, when they are eighteen INCHES or smaller. I kid you not... the things should be huge! How fun is that?!


As always, poison ivy is attempting to steal my soul. Here it is growing in my garden/poppy patch.
Sarah-doggie, looking cute like always.
And last but not least... a pic and poem.
bowed
imperfect
Beautiful

Friday, April 11, 2008

Weekend Adventures - Part 1

Okay, so here is the first set of pics from our fun adventure last weekend


James & I had "custody" of our unofficially-adopted-daughter M on Sunday, so after going to church in the AM (after eating a McGriddle, which was yummy) we dropped James off at his church and the two of us went to print off WEDDING PICS!!! (yeah! FUN!) 3 hours later, when James got out of church, we all decided to go hiking at Turkey Run State Park, which helped my progress on two of my 101 in 1001 goals:


20. Hike every trail at Turkey Run State Park (1/10)
64. Hike at every state park in IN (1/24)


We decided that since it was our first hike of the year, we had to do "the trail." Only one trial at Turkey Run is ever talked about... Trail 3. And why is it so famous? Is it famous for it's interesting views?



(I was laying down on a log, when I spotted this cute little leaf in the tree above me. I grew attached to him after a while.)

No, although there ARE plenty of scenic views, that's not why we all try trail three....

We try trail three for the ROCKS and the LADDERS!

(Waterfall alongside of the ladder #1) The ladders here are like regular ladders... like ones you would use to climb up to an attic or the loft of a barn. The ladders come after you hike up and down a million freakin' steps, and before you climb up and over a crapload of rocks with water rushing over them.

This is the view from the top of ladder #2... my cousin Heidi fell down half of this, and scared us out of our minds when she was younger... scawy!!

And this is the view from before ladder #3! This waterfall is our sacred hair-washing site... many moons ago, when James and I had just started dating, Melinda and I went with James, and some wierd friends of his, to hike this trail. It was SOOOOOOO hot that day!!! When we got to this point, we put our heads under the waterfall and let the freezingly cold water cool us down a bit. Melinda just let it go all over her, but I was wearing a thin light pink shirt, so I tried to keep it dry.

But I'm clumsy.

And the rocks I was standing on, were wet.

This is NOT a good combination!

I slipped, I fell and landed on my glasses (whew, not broken!), and my shirt was SOAKED!!! I was SO annoyed!!!!! James seemed to enjoy the view though! ;o)