Showing posts with label Wordless Wednesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wordless Wednesday. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
I hate Wednesdays...
Sarah said this is what I should title my blog today. That was my first thought when the alarm went off way too early this morning. Seeing as I'm running around like a chicken with its head cut off, I will leave you with my Wordless Wednesday and take me and my bad attitude (and the children, I guess) off to classes.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Wordless Wednesday and a note of despair
First, the photo, because it's so cute:
Rachel took this yesterday. As much as I like the photo, the fact that she took it means that she was not doing what she was supposed to do, namely, her schoolwork. She is days behind in grammar & writing already. As I told Friend Husband this morning, I'm pretty close to done. I'm sick and tired of the spirit of entitlement that I see in 80% of my children. I'm tired of the battles, the huffiness, the sullenness and the nastiness. I would happily trade them for the relative quiet of the insane asylum right now. I would insist that they award me a padded room. I hear those are quieter.
Friend Husband has implemented draconian measures to attempt to get the two educational slackers back on course. I hope they work, but I deplore the fact that they seem necessary. I would no more have slacked off on my work in school than I would have shown up in my skivvies. What is it about them that makes them think it's ok to slack off and make us angry?
No, I'm not really looking for solutions. I'm hoping that we have some now, by removing the things they want most if they don't work. I guess I'm expressing my anguish that this is happening. I'm tired of my dreams shattering and leaving shining shards behind.
Rachel took this yesterday. As much as I like the photo, the fact that she took it means that she was not doing what she was supposed to do, namely, her schoolwork. She is days behind in grammar & writing already. As I told Friend Husband this morning, I'm pretty close to done. I'm sick and tired of the spirit of entitlement that I see in 80% of my children. I'm tired of the battles, the huffiness, the sullenness and the nastiness. I would happily trade them for the relative quiet of the insane asylum right now. I would insist that they award me a padded room. I hear those are quieter.
Friend Husband has implemented draconian measures to attempt to get the two educational slackers back on course. I hope they work, but I deplore the fact that they seem necessary. I would no more have slacked off on my work in school than I would have shown up in my skivvies. What is it about them that makes them think it's ok to slack off and make us angry?
No, I'm not really looking for solutions. I'm hoping that we have some now, by removing the things they want most if they don't work. I guess I'm expressing my anguish that this is happening. I'm tired of my dreams shattering and leaving shining shards behind.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Less wordy Wednesday
First, here are the pictures as promised.
The top one is the yummy beets and lettuce that I pulled out of the garden yesterday. Friend Husband and I love roasted beets, so those will be yummy and the greens I cut up and freeze for gumbo. Excellent and healthy too. Pretty soon I'll be harvesting part of the Swiss chard that I grow pretty much exclusively for gumbo use. A few summers ago I used to cook it as a side dish but no one was thrilled about it (except for me) so I just freeze it now.
The second picture is of me in my sun getup. This outfit embarrasses Rachel no end. But, as noted, the hat keeps the sun off my face and the shirt keeps it off my arms. I also wear sunglasses but those weren't on for obvious reasons. This was right before I went out and finished weeding the tomatoes, which I described yesterday. The heat index was 93º F (about 34º C for those of you on metric). I'm sure my face was as red as the beets when I came back in.
The third picture is of me this morning, after I got caught in the rain while picking peas. (That's what I'm holding rolled up in my shirt front.) I was already pretty soaked (you should have seen the back side of me) so I just finished pulling up the pea plants and a few other weeds that ticked me off. I don't know how the weeds get so out of hand. There have only been a couple of days that I haven't gone outside to weed and it feels like a losing battle. I've got to get to my other gardens sometime but I sure don't know when I'll be able to.
Ok, gotta go feed the little people (and myself) so I'll close here, abruptly. I hope y'all have a swell day!
The top one is the yummy beets and lettuce that I pulled out of the garden yesterday. Friend Husband and I love roasted beets, so those will be yummy and the greens I cut up and freeze for gumbo. Excellent and healthy too. Pretty soon I'll be harvesting part of the Swiss chard that I grow pretty much exclusively for gumbo use. A few summers ago I used to cook it as a side dish but no one was thrilled about it (except for me) so I just freeze it now.
The second picture is of me in my sun getup. This outfit embarrasses Rachel no end. But, as noted, the hat keeps the sun off my face and the shirt keeps it off my arms. I also wear sunglasses but those weren't on for obvious reasons. This was right before I went out and finished weeding the tomatoes, which I described yesterday. The heat index was 93º F (about 34º C for those of you on metric). I'm sure my face was as red as the beets when I came back in.
The third picture is of me this morning, after I got caught in the rain while picking peas. (That's what I'm holding rolled up in my shirt front.) I was already pretty soaked (you should have seen the back side of me) so I just finished pulling up the pea plants and a few other weeds that ticked me off. I don't know how the weeds get so out of hand. There have only been a couple of days that I haven't gone outside to weed and it feels like a losing battle. I've got to get to my other gardens sometime but I sure don't know when I'll be able to.
Ok, gotta go feed the little people (and myself) so I'll close here, abruptly. I hope y'all have a swell day!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Wordless Wednesday: What I've been doing today and a question
Today was the first day this year that I hung laundry out on the line. I so love hanging laundry out. I love the savings of it and I love the way the laundry smells when it's finished. It makes me happy. It's indicative of how very nauseated I was when pregnant that I couldn't abide the smell of line-dried laundry. It would literally make me puke.
So anyway, it's warm and I'm finally inspired enough to hang clothes out (no, nothing in my house gets done without my being inspired to do it...got a problem with that?). Because we are klassy with a capital "K", I have my own homemade laundry lines. I tried to find a picture of Friend Gina's beautiful lines for comparative purposes but couldn't locate it. Since we don't have a gorgeous laundry line in our backyard, I improvised.
Oh yeah, I know my mama's proud.
I also decided to wash the quilts that Friend Husband and I had used on our bed all winter. You might not think that this would be that big of a production, but it is. The main one that we use is ginormous. It almost hits the ground on both sides of our double bed. I call it the "quilt that ate Cleveland". That one has to go into the washer all by its lonesome.
The washing of the quilts necessitates that I clean my porch. No, that was not a non sequitur. Stick with me. When I wash the quilts, I hang them out on the porch railings to dry (unless it's the middle of the winter and someone has just urped all over them). So I had to clean the porch railings and sweep the parts of the porch and front sidewalk that would touch the damp quilts. I also had to threaten the twins and the neighbor urchins that if they touched those quilts I was going to have to hurt them. Severely. The girls learned long ago that you don't mess with Mama's quilts. So here they are, in all their clean glory:
And here are all the urchins in their unclean glory:
Only the brown ones are mine. The other two ostensibly live next door, although they spend a fair amount of time over here.
BTW, the quilt on the porch swing is the huge one. I made it my ownself and it took something like 8 years. It's a memory quilt with blocks from folks we knew (and liked) in Columbia, MO before we moved. (Yes, people we didn't like were not invited to participate.) The pink quilt is one that my Mamaw made years and years ago. It's a modified Ohio Star with a Glorified Nine Patch in the center. You probably can't see it but the setting triangles around the Nine Patch block are floral fabric. From curtains. I remember those curtains. Those of you who are quilters are shuddering now. I'm surprised, given how delicate that fabric is, but it's held up well. She had two of them on her beds in her house in Brady. I'm tickled that I have them now.
I also took time to smell, if not the roses which are not yet in bloom, the flowers.
These are from Abby's garden. And the ones below are from mine.
And now for the question. For the last few (five, maybe, hee hee), I've wanted to repaint the shutters on our house. I've cleaned them and cleaned them but I think it's time for a new look. The problem is that the brick on our house is sort of a funky color for brick and I'm not good with warm colors. Here's the house, or at least some shutters:
I was thinking at first about a soft, mossy green (because I love green so and I thought it might look ok) and then an electric blue (because I'm weird that way). But now I'm thinking that something like a barn red would look better. What do y'all think? Here's a Klassy superimposition of the colors for your perusal.
At any rate, all the shutters, the side of the garage, the porch, etc. need to be pressure washed. I think my daddy should pack up his new dog, his pressure washer, and himself and get on up here to help me, don't y'all?
Seriously, though, I'm decorating impaired so tell me what you think about the shutter colors. And have a wonderful Wednesday!
So anyway, it's warm and I'm finally inspired enough to hang clothes out (no, nothing in my house gets done without my being inspired to do it...got a problem with that?). Because we are klassy with a capital "K", I have my own homemade laundry lines. I tried to find a picture of Friend Gina's beautiful lines for comparative purposes but couldn't locate it. Since we don't have a gorgeous laundry line in our backyard, I improvised.
Oh yeah, I know my mama's proud.
I also decided to wash the quilts that Friend Husband and I had used on our bed all winter. You might not think that this would be that big of a production, but it is. The main one that we use is ginormous. It almost hits the ground on both sides of our double bed. I call it the "quilt that ate Cleveland". That one has to go into the washer all by its lonesome.
The washing of the quilts necessitates that I clean my porch. No, that was not a non sequitur. Stick with me. When I wash the quilts, I hang them out on the porch railings to dry (unless it's the middle of the winter and someone has just urped all over them). So I had to clean the porch railings and sweep the parts of the porch and front sidewalk that would touch the damp quilts. I also had to threaten the twins and the neighbor urchins that if they touched those quilts I was going to have to hurt them. Severely. The girls learned long ago that you don't mess with Mama's quilts. So here they are, in all their clean glory:
And here are all the urchins in their unclean glory:
Only the brown ones are mine. The other two ostensibly live next door, although they spend a fair amount of time over here.
BTW, the quilt on the porch swing is the huge one. I made it my ownself and it took something like 8 years. It's a memory quilt with blocks from folks we knew (and liked) in Columbia, MO before we moved. (Yes, people we didn't like were not invited to participate.) The pink quilt is one that my Mamaw made years and years ago. It's a modified Ohio Star with a Glorified Nine Patch in the center. You probably can't see it but the setting triangles around the Nine Patch block are floral fabric. From curtains. I remember those curtains. Those of you who are quilters are shuddering now. I'm surprised, given how delicate that fabric is, but it's held up well. She had two of them on her beds in her house in Brady. I'm tickled that I have them now.
I also took time to smell, if not the roses which are not yet in bloom, the flowers.
These are from Abby's garden. And the ones below are from mine.
And now for the question. For the last few (five, maybe, hee hee), I've wanted to repaint the shutters on our house. I've cleaned them and cleaned them but I think it's time for a new look. The problem is that the brick on our house is sort of a funky color for brick and I'm not good with warm colors. Here's the house, or at least some shutters:
I was thinking at first about a soft, mossy green (because I love green so and I thought it might look ok) and then an electric blue (because I'm weird that way). But now I'm thinking that something like a barn red would look better. What do y'all think? Here's a Klassy superimposition of the colors for your perusal.
At any rate, all the shutters, the side of the garage, the porch, etc. need to be pressure washed. I think my daddy should pack up his new dog, his pressure washer, and himself and get on up here to help me, don't y'all?Seriously, though, I'm decorating impaired so tell me what you think about the shutter colors. And have a wonderful Wednesday!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Wordless Wednesday
Seeing as this is performance week and I have approximately 29 more costumes to do by tomorrow at 3:15, I thought I'd put this up tonight.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Wordless Wednesday
We're on spring break this week, so I'm playing with Friend Husband and the children a lot. Last week's "massive" snowfall is gone but here's another pic.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)