I think this ring-billed gull wants to go home with me.

Or, maybe not. What do you think he’s saying?

Is that so?

Boy, he’s almost as loquacious as I am! Too bad I don’t speak ‘gull’.

One more yell, then. . .

He turned and walked away.

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Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and tell me about it.  Words, no words, it’s up to you.

The truth of the matter is that I don’t often have opportunity to doodle. But this past week, something occurred, and later I felt the need to make some scribbles. The moment was scary, and sad, and we’re really, really sorry, but my interpretation of the moment had us laughing like silly school girls for quite a while. Please note the sizes of the raccoon and the mini-van - that’s no exaggeration!

Gas around us has dropped to $3.19, which makes us very happy. And the floating head is how I used to draw myself, when I had a perm - I was showing hubs, since he always laughs at my onion-head version of myself.

OH, and when Dennis crawled under the van to check things out he discovered a smily face on the oil filter - left by our mechanic. Seems everyone doodles.

Thanx for a fun Fun Monday iPost!!

Well Rayne, I wish I could tell you that I save the nail clippings from all of our guests, or all my dogs’ hair shavings, or some sort of fabulous oddity. But I can’t.

I throw twist ties away as soon as I can, I hate those little boogers! And I don’t really save anything that I can put my finger on. I generally pick up extra napkins from places we go but they always get used, not just tucked away for safe keeping.

I am guilty of saving various papers to use when scrapbooking, but I don’t really call that a collection either. Sorry, to be so boring. We’re on the drive home today from taking tons of photos of the newest grandson. I’ll get some up as soon as possible (probably in a couple of days).

Do you know that I am not romantic at all? Do you know that I will happily watch a B Thriller over a Chick Flick any day? How about that I ♥ LOVE suspense books but would never pick up a romance? Do these things help you understand how hard this week’s “Love Story” Fun Monday was for me?

Limber and graceful she clung to him.

The moment she touched his firm bark she knew that she must have him in her life for all eternity.

She tried to impress him with her twig imitation. Long and lithe, a perfect blend, she held on through the strongest winds.

When that failed to impress him,

She began to plead. She begged and she begged and told him her need. He simply hung there, with his leafy hair blowing in the breeze.

She used the only tool she had to make a permanent announcement of her love for him. Their names carved in a heart.

‘Love you ~ Rider + Merit 93’

Sorry A Monkey in the Wrong Tree, that’s as mushy as I can get. I found the carving on the birch in the Upper Whiting Park in Whiting, Wisconsin and I am curious about who Rider and Merit are, and if, 15 years later, their love is still as strong as the carving. Just one of Wisconsin’s little mysteries.

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Colton Scott was born September 5th and weighed in at 8 lbs.

Sorry for the quality of the photo but at the moment it is the only one we have of our newest grandson.  And I thank our son, Bryan, for snapping it with his cell phone and sending it our way.  If all goes as planned we will be snapping photos of him next weekend. :)  And yes he now has a name, although they plan on calling him Cole.

I was happy when Gattina jumped in and said she would host the next Fun Monday because I was starting to panic, worrying about who was going to host and if I should just maybe go off on my own and start posting a “Macro Monday” like I have thought about doing.  Then, she goes and asks us something so revealing that I still almost didn’t sign up.

By Sunday, I am sitting here thinking, ‘Wow, where did the weekend go?’ and ‘What the heck, I’ll reveal what a disorganized mess I am.’  Honestly, I blog from many, many places.  My husband travels with his job and I often go with him.  So I might be blogging from a motel in Door County or a Starbucks in Lake Geneva, I might be offline preparing a post or photos while sitting in the car while hubs is in a plant.  Sometimes, I prepare a written post on the PDA while waiting for him.

Often I sit in bed and blog, or if I really need some place to concentrate I move to a chair in the yard.  The yard is great place to think, communing with nature while my wheels turn.  But there is another place I blog and read blogs and scrapbook and make cards and . . .

So there it is, in all its glory, my desk!  I’ve made a few cards this week and trusted that you wanted my desk as it set today, no preparing it, scrubbing it down and cleaning it off.  Yes, my laptop does still fit on it.

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Guess what, hubs updated our Newdae Photography Website, if you have a chance maybe you can pop over and check it out?

I was not really sure if I could come up with any little bits of trivia as the ladies over at Mama Drama requested. I can’t remember my name half the time so I really don’t remember anything unimportant from school. It took me quizzing some family members to come up with a few tidbits to share.

Years ago the kids and I gave my mom some fire bellied toads and mom has found out that only the males makes noise and it’s a barking noise. Also, they typically mate during storms.

Did you know that butterflies smell with their antennae and taste with their feet?

Did you know that flies can buzz without wings?

I also found out that the plastic (or metal) thing on the end of shoelaces is called an aglet, or aiglet.

With the exception of the aglets, I dug into my archives for the photos and they were all taken before my life with a digital SLR, in my days of point-and-shoot.

Update: I remember something from grade school - ‘Able was I ere I saw Elba’ - said by Napolean and a sentence that if you flipped it over would still read the same.

Also - 8 times 8 fell on the floor, picked it up and it was 64.

9×1=09
9×2=18
9×3=27
9×4=36
9×5=45
9×6=54
9×7=63
9×8=72
9×9=81
9×10=90

And to multiply the 9s all you have to do is write 0-9 all the way down, then come back up with 0-9 and you have the answers, 09, 18,27 - make sense?

I’m hosting this week’s Fun Monday, welcome aboard!

I know, I know, I was the one who came up with this question thing, but boy it was hard!  See, hubby suggested ‘20 Questions’ and I told him that would be too much work for the people coming over to comment, so maybe 5 would work, but wow, we have so many players that that would still be a lot of work, so I cut it down to one question.

‘Only one?’  I whine!  I have a bunch of things I would like to know about my readers but since I gave the limitation of one question I guess I need to abide by my own rules.  Maybe I’ll ask a question periodically until I’m all questioned out, but for today:

Question: If you were going to get a tattoo, what would you get, and would it have some significance?  Feel free to tell about any tattoos you do already have. (Notice how that isn’t a second question - I’m good! *wink*)

My Answer: I have been wanting to get a tattoo for a few years and I think it would be really neat to have something small, that I could add onto each year on the anniversary of my cancer survivorship. I just can’t figure out what to get, nor where to put it.  I would welcome any ideas.  PS - I’m really scared it will hurt.

Since my question wouldn’t be complete without a photo, here’s my step-daughter, Marissa, and her friend showing of their tattoos. (I have shown this photo in the past).  Marissa got her tattoo to honor some of her friends who have died.  She’s currently very pregnant with our second grandson and I wonder what her tattoo looks like right now.

Let’s go see what everyone wants to know and try to give some answers.  Or maybe we’ll get to learn about a new bird, guess we’ll find out when we get there.

• RDH Mom
• Mama Drama
• Dungarees Ablaze
• Ramblings by Reba
• Sallad Says. . .
• Hootin’ Anni’s
• AOJ and the Lurchers
• Ms Cellania
• Small Reflections
• A Florida Journal
• Beyond my Slab
• My4Kids
• A Spot of T
• Heaven in Belgium
• Sandcastle Momma
• From the Planet of Janet
• Wisconsin Candy
• Crunchy Bits
• Nine Acres: 20 miles North of Nowhere
• The Prytz Family
• Tiggerlane
• We Start and End with Family
• Karisma and Kids
• Sayre Smiles
• Are We There Yet Mom?
• Anecdotes, Antidotes and Anodes
• The Name Was Over The Door
• Mama Rhema
• The First of Six
• Summit Musings
• Judysteapot
• Return of the White Robin
• Growing Older But Not Up
• Clintonville Big Momma
• Bucket List
• Writer Cramps
• Hineykapoople
• Dreaming What Ifs. . .
• Grand Life
• Jo Beaufoix
• Mommy Wizdom
• Candid Karina
• Mamalang
• Fond of Snape (late addition)
• Single Mom Finding Herself (late addition)
• did I miss anyone?

Min, Stephanie and Margaret over at Mama Drama have eagerly volunteered to boss us around next week.

Thanx for playing!