Zucchini Bandit

 It's a very dangerous time of year you know.

 Keep your windows and doors locked at all times. Even if you are just running into the bank or post office.

 It can happen in an instant. Picture this scenario. You hop out of your car in a great mood. isn't it a beautifully day. Step into the bank to deposit your pay check and visit with the friendly teller a few minutes to long. You notice something very odd while walking back to your car. It looks as if your vehicle has turned green on the inside. You slowly open the door "creak" and scream. To your horror the car has been filled up with zucchini. Oh how you wish you would have taken the time to press that lock, for this is the time of year huge zucchini's are growing on the vine & the zucchini bandit is at it again.

 What is the most important thing you grab while heading out the door?

 The keys are in the Blazer. I grab my jacket & purse off the hook in the mud room, but I must have one more thing, my book. I hate to leave the house with out my book. You never know when a reading opportunity might arise,

 Waiting to pick someone up, or you arrive early & have a few precious moments to open the pages and escape into another world for a bit. In fact sometimes I leave early just so I can do this. The car is one of the best places to read. Nobody is there to bother you. You can't look around the house and see all of the unfinished chores you should be doing.

 I even carry an emergency book in my glove compartment. A small paperback mystery. Just in case I've forgotten to bring the current novel I'm reading.

Turn The Page Tuesday

  Yes, I seem to be a day late and a dollar short.
 My book this month is "The Year Of Fog" by Michelle Richmond.

 A great book to read at the beach, but would be spooky if you had children with you. You would dare not take your eyes from them for a second to read this intriguing novel.

 The first chapter starts like this "Here is the truth, this is what I know: we were walking on Ocean Beach, hand in hand. It was a summer morning, cold, July in San Francisco. The fog lay white and dense over the sand and ocean- an enveloping mist so thick I could see only a few feet in front of me."

 The ending is a surprise. It does leave you wondering "What happens next" since there is no sequel you are left to make up your own story.

 Check out other good books with Adrian

Happy reading!

Goodbye & Good luck Alfonzo

Alfonzo has grown up and flown away.

He tried out his wings and decided it would be more fun to be a bird then live in a house with humans. 

Here he is discussing travel plans with a friend.

                                                     We will miss you Alfonzo.
                                          I hope you come back for a visit every now & then.

Whimsy Jar Swap

Things have been a little bit crazy around here lately.

It's just been go, go ,go.

Dawn & I are both working at the hospital & I'm the driver most of the time so we've had allot of car time.

I did manage to do a "Whimsy Jar Swap" sponsored by Jessica 

You should check out her websight. Jessica is always doing fun swaps!!!

In this swap you decorate and fill jars with small objects, hopefully to your partners liking and send them off.

These are the two I made.

They where fun to put together and didn't take to much time.

I received this

one in the mail from Jessica

So cute with the lady bug on top.

It even has a tiny ice cream cone in it.

This one is from Michelle 

Isn't this the cutest tag Michelle has put on the jar!

I just love the colors and all the small little treasures packed into these jars!!!

Turn The Page Tuesday

Happy fourth of July!!!

This months Turn the Page Tuesday is of a partiotic nature. It is an American classic.

I picked "Two Old Women" an Alaskan legend of betrayal, courage and survival. by Velma Wallis.

This was a fast book to read. I enjoyed it & it made me think of things in a different manner.

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mother to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.

Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom.

The first paragraph starts out: "The air stretched tight, quiet and cold over the vast land. Tall spruce branches hung heavily laden with snow, awaiting distant spring winds. The frosted willows seemed to tremble in the freezing temperatures."

Tiger Lillie's

 Remember the Tiger Lillie's we transferred last fall.

The first flower is blooming.