While computers are joyous creations - all my friends live in here ;0) - life sure is diffcult when they act up.  I am spending today trying to get caught up on some blog reading left over from our trip, and reinstalling things on my computer to make it more better.  Dang I depend on this thing a lot for my memory and when its memory got wiped so did mine and I am spending tons of time trying to remember the important stuff that is now lost to me and to it.

See you back here tonight for Macro Monday.  I try to put the linky list up every Sunday evening at 7:30 pm Central.

I love Queen Anne’s Lace in all of it’s glory.

In every stage.

From every angle.

Time to mutter, I say. . .and you think. . .?

1. Zoo ::
2. Neighborhood ::
3. Salute ::
4. Immortality ::
5. Dominion ::
6. Rhonda ::
7. Parties ::
8. Prince of Darkness ::
9. Garbage ::
10. Standard ::

My answers:

1. Zoo :: zebra
2. Neighborhood ::house
3. Salute ::hand
4. Immortality :: vampire
5. Dominion ::werewolf
6. Rhonda ::cafe
7. Parties :: bonfire
8. Prince of Darkness :: dracula
9. Garbage ::trash
10. Standard ::regular

Every week I play along in Storyteller’s comments with her “mutterings” and I thought I’d like to give Unconscious Mutterings a shot.  You can mutter along with me in the comments or on your own blog, if’n ya ahnt ta.

1. Insight :: vision
2. Irksome :: annoying
3. Maybe :: might
4. Confirmation :: nod
5. Bib :: baby
6. Stop! :: Now!
7. Lobster :: ocean
8. Boys :: sons
9. Fire away :: shoot
10. Give up :: surrender

You don’t have to give one word answers, you can have a longer response (it’s encouraged) but I tend to just have one word. Your turn.

Do you know what kind of car this is? As we looked around the car show I was pleasantly surprised to find this one. And even more happy that it was black!

When I was a little bitty girl, my mom had a Comet, a black Comet. It’s the car she had when she was driving down Main Street and a man in the car next to us stuck his tongue out at me.

Her interior was white with red carpet and hers was a different year but it was a car very similar to this one. I was a three year old little blonde sitting in the passenger seat when that mean man stuck his tongue out. I promptly told my mom and she advised me to stick mine back.

Two years later they were married and that ‘mean’ man became my loving father, yeah the father who would tie my knee socks together while they were still on my feet and drive me crazy. The same dad who has always insisted that I stuck my tongue out first. This month they will have been married 36 years.

Dad never liked mom’s car; he always wanted to bury it in the yard. But I’m not sure why, since he met two of his favorite girls in that Comet. Honestly, I do not remember what happened to the car, maybe it IS buried in the yard of my childhood home.

I used to have a huge desk (this photo is 4 years old). I loved that old thing, but as nice as it was to have the huge work surface, it was not so nice to move.  It was heavy!  We moved it three times but decided to sell it before the last move.  Now I use the small antique library table I showed you Monday and I absolutely love that table, but I quickly run out of room on it.  You saw it in rare form, typically I leave it neat but you caught me in the middle of creativeness and soon as the cards were done it was cleaned up again.  One weird thing I must do is straighten my work surface before each use.  Sometimes, I get so caught up in the replacement of objects to their rightful places that I never get to start on the new project because I’ve moved on to the kitchen cabinets, closets or the garage. . .

I can’t decide if I prefer the one with more depth of field or less? Which one do you like? I know that neither one makes you jump for joy - they don’t me, but I was just playing with settings and such and just cannot make up my mind if I like more or less in focus.

Anyway, you may have noticed that I’ve been using Thursdays as my little update time. The one day a week I set aside to talk about me and what’s going on in my life. It seems to work for me, I have tons of photos and things to show but really not that much to say so one day a week works. Don’t really know why I just told you that, but I did so there.

Now, update time: First up, Marissa - we’re still waiting. Believe me, I’ll tell you as soon as I know. She’s feeling totally full of baby and is just as anxious as we are for him to come and see the world. Any day now, he will decide to.

I just love the long tassel thingie on these flowers and think the outside looks an intricately unique as the inside.

Britney had a check up today to see how her baby is baking and the doctor couldn’t get a good measurement, so they sent her for another ultrasound. The ultrasound showed that she is right on schedule, she’s just not going to be an 8 lb baby like Tristan was. She will be a tiny little petite girl coming into the world around Christmas (probably with a huge snowstorm). So all is well there.

Don’t the little threads inside make you think of pumpkins and leaves turning and fall? We just had a few really hot days - we actually hit 90 degrees for the first time all summer and then we crashed down to 57 overnight. We’re nice and cool again.

We found a cute welcome sign to put by the front door, but while we were looking we came across this. . .

I know the photo’s not the greatest (it was taken with my Blackberry) but, huh? I really liked the leaves, the sign, but they only had this misspelled one. So it stayed at the store.

A couple of searches that people have some to my blog by have me giggling.  ‘lisa quit looking here’ - I know I’m weird but that one totally cracks me up, here I am looking at search terms and someone is telling me now to!  I find it hilarious.

The ‘Swimming at Jolly mills’ search makes me laugh because the post they would find would be the one with the cottonmouths.  I wonder if they ended up going swimming after that.

‘english majors do it loquaciously’ - sounds like the kind of people I would like hanging out with.

On a totally other topic, some girls have gotten together to throw an event they are calling ‘Reunion of the Brides’, here in the Stevens Point area. Basically, it’s like the reception you had after your wedding, except everyone there will be the brides and grooms. It sounds like loads of fun, and since I know I have a few Wisconsin readers I thought it would be worth sharing. You can check out the details on their website, or email me if you have trouble with it loading (it doesn’t seem to like Firefox right now, but they’re working on it).

Yoo-hoo, anyone out there? I would like to meet some of the bloggers reading me and ones I read. I know most of you are too far away but some of you are close, or at least in the same state. We should do it. Maybe even several of us could meet up together. Anyone interested? I’m sure we could coordinate something that would work for all of us.

Many years ago I bought a plant at a garage sale that the lady called an Ornamental Onion. It grew and thrived and was like nothing I had ever seen. Then, like I often manage to do, I killed it.

A couple of years ago, I managed to find another one, again at a garage sale. I love the unique look of the leaves and I planted it in one of the planters we bought while living in Texas. In the summer, I love to set it in the antique baby swing we found at another rummage sale.

When I decided to share this plant with you, I did some searching on the net for Ornamental Onion and saw nothing like this. So maybe it’s called something else? Do you know? Whatever it is, it loves to bloom in the summer.

It sends a few stalks out of little tiny purple blooms. They are so small (smaller than a popcorn kernal) and easy to overlook. But, they always delight me.

Today I’m playing ketchup, er, um . . .catch-up.

• Although our vacation has been over since the first of June, and I have all the supplies I need, I have not even started the scrapbook for it. I hope to get at least one page done today.
• I’m behind on blog reading so I hope to make the rounds.
• I want to spend a few hours playing with my grandson - he’s going on vacation this weekend and I won’t see him for a week!
• Hubby might appreciate some clean clothes, so guess I can run some laundry while I do all of the above.
• The feeders are nearly empty so I better run and get some birdseed.
• I’m only a couple of chapters from finishing my book so maybe I can get some of reading done today too.  Hmmm, I do need to shave my legs, maybe I can soak in the tub, read, and shave - yeah, all at once.
• There are several folders of photos that I haven’t even looked at, so I’m thinking I better take some time to do that.
• Send out a few ‘thinking of you’ cards, make a couple ‘thinking of you’ phone calls.
• Bathe the dogs - they really need to go get their nails trimmed, maybe I can fit that in.

Sounds like I may be up all night trying to accomplish a check mark for each item.

I had so much fun with Monday’s post, reading all the comments about the various tattoos people have, some of you would never dream of getting one and some of you have a bunch, 8-10.  The comment section is a pretty good read if you find my to do list too boring or unfulfilling.

The above photo was taken by my husband.