Just a little ramble

So, I assumed today would be another beautiful day.  I dressed the youngest in shorts.  So fun!  Yesterday was beautiful.  It was not so hard to believe that today would be too. But we live in Texas and you know what they say… “If you don’t like the weather then wait five minutes.”  Hmmmmm. 

That’s really not good enough.  Should have been warned that it was a “Rainy with a chance of hail” kind of day. 

Poor Beau Hiney, you remember him…  (Here is a photo of him apparently rethinking his life which he doesn’t do enough of.)

Beau Hiney was out there when I heard the first “plop plop”, and not “pitter patter”, of the “big enough to be weighed on my kitchen scale” raindrops.  Which for no good reason then turned into hail.   On life’s Probability-O-Meter I’m guessing today was probably supposed to be a beautiful day. 

So back to Beau Hiney…  I heard his pitiful caterwaul and looked out the back door to see him cowering under a chair.  

And that was unfortunate, as it was a hole-y chair.  He’s not so bright, that one.  Bless his heart.

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Looking through my backlog of pictures I ran across lots of pretty flowers from last summer.

Which made me want to start planting new things for spring.  Because it is spring, right? 

I bought these this weekend…

See the little bee?  I tried to get a better pic of him but there’s a reason they call them “busy bees”. 

And also looking through those pictures I was reminded of why things really don’t get done, proceed, stay on a dependable schedule.  It’s because of things like this…

No, this is not some new way to get picky eaters to eat their dinner.  (Notice the nose plug)  This is my last and final 3rd grade Science Fair project investigating whether an individual can recognize the food they are eating while blindfolded and nose plugged.  All of that of course written in “3rd grader speak” because we all know she’s really the one doing the project.  Side note:  “Lovey, have you finished graphing and typing the youngest chilies' Science Fair project yet?  Make it snappy, we’re on a deadline.”

Which brings me full circle to what I’m really trying to accomplish here.  I want to tell you that I am on a somewhat, kind of, schedule-y type of thing.  (Calculate my actual working time, then add a year!)  I’m trying to open my Etsy shop and share with the whole, wide world all the wonderful little things I find on my wanderings. 

Wonderful little things like this hand painted bamboo purse…

But sigh…  now I have to go and do that other job that people seem to be expecting me to do.

Happy “Rainy with a chance of hail” day.

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Fun in a box

Fun, fun,fun!  Don’t you just love boxes on the doorstep? 

I was skipping around on the internet and saw something too cute. 

It was OUT OF STOCK!  Ugh.

I ordered it anyway.  Backordered actually.  In the era of instant gratification, backordered is a naughty word.

So I waited.

And then, it came!

A rather big, and plain, brown box. 

Open, open, open!

Surprise!  A small, beautiful, red box!

Filled with the cutest set of nesting Babushka measuring cups you’ve ever seen!  Will my cookies and muffins taste better because of them?  We’ll see.

Do you want some too?  You can see them here and here. 

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Recent trip to Houston

Just thought I would pass on a few fun things to do if you are in the Houston area:                                                 

Eat breakfast at The Breakfast Klub. 

I’m going to go on the record and say that I had the best French toast and fried chicken wings in my life at this place. “Chicken wings?”, you say.  Yes.  The Breakfast Klub is famous for their waffle and 6 piece fried chicken wing breakfast.  My sister in law, pictured above, was kind enough to share one of her chicken wings with me.  After tasting the wings I can’t say that I would have done the same.  My French toast was other worldly.  How they do it?  Maybe it was deep fried.  I don’t know but angels sang with each bite.

This may seem like a lot of hoopla about wings, but seriously…  How to describe the fried chicken wings…   a dream perhaps, never tasted anything like it.  Made me wish for a bigger piece, a thigh maybe, battered and fried the same way.  Wishes and dreams. 

If you go, be prepared to wait at peak breakfast and lunch times.  The line wraps around the building and rain or shine people wait.  And wait.  We waited about an hour on a cold and damp Saturday at 11:30 am.  We were cold and damp with lots of other TBK hipsters.  What to say about that?  It was worth it.

Found a great thrifting place, Blue Bird Circle Resale Shop.  One of those secret little places the collectors and vintage crowd like to keep to themselves.  But you won’t tell anyone will you?  Check their hours before you go.  By the time we left TBK I only had about 20 minutes to look around.  So sad.

Here are some more fun photos taken while antiquing on Westheimer:

   

     Houston is a great city for graffiti art.  It’s kind of fun to think of someone perusing their vast graffiti stencil file for the best sample to go on a city pole.  Very crafty.

     I’m kind of a cupcake-o-holic.  And kind of figure that good brakes on a car are for coming to a screeching halt when the word ”cupcake” is spotted on a building.  Sugarbaby’s is a Cupcake Boutique.  The inside was just as cute.  I have to say that the cupcakes were just “okay”.  But in Sugarbaby’s defense, in addition to my blossoming mini cake addiction, I am slipping into becoming a cupcake snob. 

Oh wow.  Why does she take these pictures?!  I don’t know.  Some people collect postcards on vacation and others collect salt and pepper shakers.  I collect  photos of city sewer lids.  Hmmm.  What do you collect?  Leave a comment and let the world know.

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Happy Day After Valentines Day!

 To Live content with small means;

to seek elegance rather than luxury,

and refinement rather than fashion;

to be worthy, not respectable; and

wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and

birds, babes and sages, with open heart;

to study hard ; to think quietly, act

frankly, talk gently, await occasions,

hurry never; in a word, to let the

spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,

grow up through the common --

this is my symphony.

                                        -William Henry Channing

More Snow!

Guess what I did again today?  Took more snow photos! 

But not just any snow photos.  It’s…

Sponge Bob Snow Pants!

He said to say “Howdy Ya’ll!”

Here are some photos I took yesterday…

Because we got more snow.  That’s 10 inches!

  I think she was having fun!

Stay warm.

Snow

So, what did you do today?

I took some photos.  See?

Don’t you worry about this kid.  He’s a teenager and this is karma, dude.  He’s got his IPod so he’s good for awhile… 

Oh my, but that’s funny.  

Pretty pictures taken in the snow…

That’s a lot of snow! 

This is DR’s clubhouse.  She decorates it with hope, happy thoughts and pretty little things!   It’s been told that if you find your way through the “twinkling charms” and ride the slide to the bottom you’re certain to have one wish come true.

Somedays I ride that slide two or three times…

Snow still falling…

A penny for a kitty thought.

Spaghetti Tacos?

Other things that might be eaten at our table…

This is one of my better parenting moments and it is what it appears to be… a spaghetti taco.  One little chillie begged and pleaded because “They made them on icarly!”… and we were having spaghetti for dinner anyway… and we did have taco shells… and as a parent, when you’re given the opportunity to be the best parent on the block and it’s this easy, you take it.  :)

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