Can you tell what this is?

We found this cute salt and pepper shaker set a few years ago and I realized I had never shared. We don’t use them, but I think they’re so cute.

No wonder we bought them, huh? But we’re not in Wisconsin right now, we’re traveling through the warmer weather of Florida – ah, sunshine, at least I hope the sun is shining. My husband is taking me swimming with the manatees for my birthday. :0)  I’m a wee bit excited! Since we’re traveling this post was prepared before we left, I sure hope it publishes without a hitch.

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My dad is the kinda guy who eats every single thing with a fork, yes, even bacon and french fries! So when we stumbled on this fork in a kitchen gadget store we absolutely had to get it for him!

Do you see what I see?  Yes, it’s a piece of popcorn, but what else is it?

Did you say, ‘frog’?  Well that’s what my aunt saw while eating her bowl of popcorn years ago.  SO she promptly wrapped a piece of popcorn in tissue paper, boxed it up and sent it from Texas to Missouri to my mother (her sister).  My mother loves frogs of all kinds so this piece of popcorn has been sitting in her china cabinet for many years now.  It looks freshly popped doesn’t it?

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THANK YOU to each one of you for playing along!  I love seeing what you come up with each week!

Remember my parent’s quail from this summer?  Well they’ve gotten rid of many of them but they still have some left.

While we were visiting they laid a couple of eggs.  Fresh eggs – it’d take several of them to equal one chicken egg.

That’s a teaspoon!

Dennis managed to crack one open, the membrane was very thick and hard to puncture.

He poured it into the teaspoon.

Mom cracked open the other one.  It was very difficult as well.

I had fun snapping while they got gooey, lol.

Things have been a little crazy around here lately – that happens sometimes, it’s in the name, “chaos”, duh! – and I feel like I’ve been somewhat neglectful of my blog and my bloggy friends and I’m very sorry for that but I also think it’s going to continue for a couple more weeks.

The tufted titmouse from yesterday and these birds here were taken a couple of weeks ago at my parents’ house in Missouri – it was an impromptu trip, long story, but anyway, this female cardinal seemed a little different shade than the others, more yellow(?), I liked her colors!

They are such regal looking birds! But back to the chaos, we had our quick trip to Missouri, Oklahoma and back, Camp Angel all last weekend (such a great program!), trying to help a dear friend with wedding planning (they are marrying April 10th and I’m matron of honor – still trying to figure out how to hold my bouquet and the camera, maybe I’ll just strap them together), trying to keep up with my photo-a-day diary (hard copy, not electronic, but I’ll post all about that at some point, promise), diet/exercise/frustration/lack of motivation (ps I have posted over at our weight blog), and I’m sure there’s more, but, drum roll please. . .

We’ll be leaving towards the end of next week for Florida! Yay, warmth! But, I’m also going crazy with all the pre-trip what-not’s. While I’m gone Macro Monday will be on semi-autopilot, but that’s about all that will be here, I will post my photo a day via facebook (link to me at the bottom of the page) like I did for our Maine vacation.

So, please know, I’m not turning my back on you, I love you all! Things will calm back down, just a little time – ps, did I mention that I’ll be swimming with manatees on my birthday (Feb 8th)?! Fun!

Hopefully, I’ll make it back from the trip relaxed and refreshed and ready to take on the world. :0)

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