I was sitting in my parlor which I hadn't done for a while. I was checking on my face book friends and catching up on some blogs. Then I started gazing around at the room.
Where did that dust come from? While I had been busy with life- canning, cooking, shopping, going to the pool party last night with my hubby and the kids, doing laundry, etc. etc., the dust has been collecting! If Horton were here, I wonder how many Who's he would hear?
I did stop procrastinating and start my daily chores, dusting was on the top of the list, but isn't it interesting to stop and ponder about things that automatically go on and on all by themselves. Dust, time, clouds passing overhead, children growing......
Speaking of children growing, we are traveling to Maine later this month to visit our son N and his wife and our grandson. We will be meeting our daughter in law's parents who are Japanese, straight from Japan.
Mrs. O speaks no English. Mr. O speaks very limited English. I will be interesting to say the least.
My sister, who has traveled to Japan a couple of times on business lately, told me that the Japanese do not touch! They don't hug and kiss the cheeks like the Europeans do! She said they don't always shake hands. So we shouldn't stick out a hand to shake unless they do first.
We had our last event for our church's Wacky Wednesdays. It was the mud fest! The girl who planned it rotatilled an area of the back lawn way out behind the church. Then she and some friends who were working on it, watered it down to make it muddy. When the kids arrived they played tug a war over the mud! Everyone got very muddy! It was lots of fun! Next we had a contest. Who could throw a whipped cream pie (actually a paper plate full of whipped cream) in Pastor Dave's face! Dave was such a good sport!
The kids had a blast. Afterwards we had grilled hot dogs and hamburgers.
I would add a few of the great pictures I took, but blogger is being weird. It won't let me add pictures from "my pictures" on my computer. Only from Picaso and only a limited few from there. Also I can add pictures that I have used before on different blogs here on blogger. I don't know what the problem is. I will have to investigate!
Today we went out, despite the terrential rain, and had lunch at Applebees and then went to the mall and bought a backpack for our son J. He starts school on Thursday. He has most everything else. I probably will pick him up some folders and spiral notebooks, but I heard that they give him a list of what he needs on the first day of school.
Well- right now I am suffering from MANY mosquitoe bites! I went out in the back yard for no more than 5 minutes and picked a rosebud to put in a pretty colbalt blue vase (son N made for me) and when I came in I discovered that the mosquitoes had bit me in about a hundred places on the back of my legs and a few on my arms. I didn't feel them when I was out there!
Oh drat! Son J just came in and said he knocked one of my salt shakers on the floor in the kitchen and the bottom of it broke off! It was one of my chicken salt shakers! His sister had used them and left them on the edge of the counter! Now I have to go try and glue it back together but I don't think I have all the pieces!
Drat! Oh well- I guess I have a purpose to go to Smithville- a little historical village on the way to the shore- to replace the salt shaker!
Have a good day friends!
I did stop procrastinating and start my daily chores, dusting was on the top of the list, but isn't it interesting to stop and ponder about things that automatically go on and on all by themselves. Dust, time, clouds passing overhead, children growing......
Speaking of children growing, we are traveling to Maine later this month to visit our son N and his wife and our grandson. We will be meeting our daughter in law's parents who are Japanese, straight from Japan.
Mrs. O speaks no English. Mr. O speaks very limited English. I will be interesting to say the least.
My sister, who has traveled to Japan a couple of times on business lately, told me that the Japanese do not touch! They don't hug and kiss the cheeks like the Europeans do! She said they don't always shake hands. So we shouldn't stick out a hand to shake unless they do first.
The kids had a blast. Afterwards we had grilled hot dogs and hamburgers.
I would add a few of the great pictures I took, but blogger is being weird. It won't let me add pictures from "my pictures" on my computer. Only from Picaso and only a limited few from there. Also I can add pictures that I have used before on different blogs here on blogger. I don't know what the problem is. I will have to investigate!
Today we went out, despite the terrential rain, and had lunch at Applebees and then went to the mall and bought a backpack for our son J. He starts school on Thursday. He has most everything else. I probably will pick him up some folders and spiral notebooks, but I heard that they give him a list of what he needs on the first day of school.
Well- right now I am suffering from MANY mosquitoe bites! I went out in the back yard for no more than 5 minutes and picked a rosebud to put in a pretty colbalt blue vase (son N made for me) and when I came in I discovered that the mosquitoes had bit me in about a hundred places on the back of my legs and a few on my arms. I didn't feel them when I was out there!
Oh drat! Son J just came in and said he knocked one of my salt shakers on the floor in the kitchen and the bottom of it broke off! It was one of my chicken salt shakers! His sister had used them and left them on the edge of the counter! Now I have to go try and glue it back together but I don't think I have all the pieces!
Drat! Oh well- I guess I have a purpose to go to Smithville- a little historical village on the way to the shore- to replace the salt shaker!
Have a good day friends!
I enjoyed the wanderings of your mind here.
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