Brainstorming

Pete-o just came over this afternoon for a visit before he went to work. He heard I'd made a HUGE batch of vegetable soup and a good portion of it with organic vegetable broth just for him. We had a wonderful visit while he taste tested and have come up with the best idea...you all remember that I am learning to play the violin, right? Well, if you had forgotten, just come by the house some afternoon about 1:00 and it will be very apparent that I am LEARNING (very slowly). Anyway, as my sistah would say, I digress. I also have for many years been praying that the people next door to me would find a wonderful job in another town (preferably Siberia or outer Mongolia) and move there where they would be infinately happy and I would therefore also be infinately happy (because they would no longer be my neighbors). So here's the idea. I need to find a quiet spot to practice my new found bow skills (hee hee) and the spot I choose will just happen to be right under the window of the next door neighbor. I need to practice for a LONG time because I am bow challenged (to say the least). It may sound like cats dying to everyone else, but I know that I am in fact playing Mary had a Little lamb. I figure a few days of my wonderful violin concerto should pretty much seal the deal on outer Mongolia. I'll let you know how it works out! :)

Why do I do this to myself??

There are just some things that should never be purchased by me. This is one of them. I LOVE candy corn and it is fat free and it is little and I just think I should have only one or two (about 29 times a day). So now that I am having a sugar high I think I'll see if I can locate the Polo player (see blog below) and see if his pony needs any candy corn!!!

A beautiful day in the Neighborhood...

Just have to share the wonders of North Rockwell with you all this morning. I just came north past grocery store row and coming down the street was a man... wearing white jodphurs, a billowing white "blouse", hardhat, and cowboy boots. He appeared to be using a Swiffer mop as a makeshift walking stick/polo mallet. Not sure where he was planning to play polo or where he had his pony tied up, but he was ambling along whistling a happy tune and enjoying the sunny morning. The flock of Canadian geese across the street all raised their necks in wonder just as I did! It's going to be a great day!! Have some fun!

Just a preview

  This is the Elodie Lily. One of several varieties of beautimous flowers that I ordered yesterday. Grannie's and my gardens are going to be fabulous next spring if we can just get it all in the ground this fall!!!

It is the Centennial after all...

I know, I know, I just DON'T go to the state fair. It is dirty, crowded, stinky, creepy and all those things. However, it is the Centennial Expo and I'm trying to really do as much celebrating as possible this year. Also, as you can see from the ticket stubs, it was only $1.00 to get into the fair yesterday. (100 pennies, get it? Yes, so did the man at the ticket booth. He was so-o-o-o happy to see three one-dollar bills!!!) Anyway, back to the fair. We arrived with the other twelve billion and two (cheap) people who wanted to be there on opening day. We had corndogs, ice cream (Ethan),and more corndogs (Ethan). Cause that's what you do at the fair. We checked out the "flea market buildings"...amazing what you could buy at the fair should the urge strike. Daniel played one carney game and won an orange rubber bracelet. He had fun so it was worth twice the price of admission! And best of all, we went through the Made in Oklahoma building and saw First Prize jelly, cookies, candy, amazing decorated cakes and of course MANY QUILTS! Beautiful Centennial quilts with almost watercolor backgrounds, lots of waving wheat, covered wagons, cowboys, indians, surries with fringe. I was transported back to teeny girlhood and going to the fair with Grandma Pat who loved to do the buildings, all the buildings, until we thought our legs would surely fall off and she never got tired. It was worth dealing with the stinky port-o-potty, corn-dog grease all over my jeans, semi-intoxicated (well, not so semi actually) people dressed in various renditions of fair clothes...think, shirts unbuttoned halfway down and 3 chest hairs showing(eek) or short skirts and high heels (it's the fair...). Barkers yelling, "Hey, doll, c'mere" (not a chance)to see the kids having a blast, a fabulous fireworks display and to remember what it was like to love the fair. It was the fair, the Great State Fair of Oklahoma. Go, it's fun!

Yes, those are teeth!

Yes, those are Dano's teeth...eight of them! And this is what Dano looked like most of today!

It's Back!!!

So, it's a good thing there were none of my children around when I went to the grocery store this week. I did have to do a major happy Peter Pan Peanut Butter dance!!! I know it is silly to get excited about such things, but I do!! A new jar of Peter Pan and a new box of Ritz Crackers...heaven!!!

While we're doing the ooky things...

Your Aura is Blue

Spiritual and calm, you tend to live a quiet but enriching life. You are very giving of yourself. And it's hard for you to let go of relationships. The purpose of your life: showing love to other people Famous blues include: Angelina Jolie, the Dali Lama, Oprah Careers for you to try: Psychic, Peace Corps Volunteer, Counselor

What Color Is Your Aura?

Vanquishing Guppies

Today is the day for vanquishing "guppies"--Not a day for changing the world, but rather to get to all those little picky things that never seem to get done--like sorting out the spare sock basket, mending that tiny hole in Patterson's favorite shirt before it unravels completely, sweeping the dust bunnies from the baseboards and vacuuming them away. All those little things that eat at my spirit every time they pass through my sight. No sharks today, just guppies. Today is the day for me to vanquish the guppies...maybe you have some to vanquish too?

90 Days

 

We began this series yesterday. 12 pages a day. Doesn't seem like alot, but it is. Please keep us in your prayers as we commit to this project!

I Thank You

i thank You God for this most amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginably You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~ e.e.cummings


Still, in my humble opinion, one of the best poets ever.

inspire and encourage

This is video from a site I visit called Square Peg People. It isn't fancy or dancey, but I was encouraged by it and I hope you will be too. By the way, should you visit their web site you will see that "Dawn from Oklahoma" won a contest! I'm not sure I remember what I did (I think I commented on something), but I guess they liked it! Hope you enjoy the video. Blessings on this Thursday!!

Indeed!!

Very interesting since this was one of my "enlightened reading" choices in high school. Maybe I should read it again now that I'm even more enlightened??

You're Siddhartha!

by Hermann Hesse

You simply don't know what to believe, but you're willing to try
anything once. Western values, Eastern values, hedonism and minimalism, you've spent
some time in every camp. But you still don't have any idea what camp you belong in.
This makes you an individualist of the highest order, but also really lonely. It's
time to chill out under a tree. And realize that at least you believe in
fairies.


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Item on Life List...check!

"Why?", you may ask, "would there be a violin on dawn's blog?" Good question!! Could be because yesterday I signed up to take a beginning VIOLIN CLASS! I told Daniel that the Philharmonic wanted me to play with them...he said "really..." in that 13 year old boy tone of voice!
Really, this has been one of the items on my "Life List" for a long time (since Pete was 4 if I remember correctly). The opportunity presented itself and I jumped on it. So if my family asks if they can come to your house while I practice, please be kind. I don't start until September so everyone is safe for a few more weeks! I'm excited! Can you tell??!!

Here is the way to spend your 23rd birthday, or the day after and the day after and the day after. In case anyone needs to know this is the cool, Eco-friendly (tree hugging, I think...)hammock that Pete-o's wonderful family gave him for his birthday. So if you need some relaxation while waiting for a train, go to Pete's house!!!

A thought for Tuesday

* We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.

Yes, they are oldies, but goodies!!

We saw a great concert by AMERICA in Wichita this weekend. They are old (Eliza's observation), but they can still rock!! Sang everything we ever remembered...You can do Magic, Ventura Highway, Tin Man, Horse with No Name, Sister Golden Hair and much more! A very fun weekend. And, just a side note, this was a community concert given as a gift to the people of Wichita by Cox...Concert and parking/busride free (we scored some parking passes, but the general public could ride in from various parking all over the city.) Good for Wichita!!

Just in case you miss me...

I'm almost finished with the book I started BEFORE the newest H.P. came out. I will then be delving into the world of Hogwart's and probably unavailable to the real world!
Last week was a "vacation" at home for me. Boys (all of them) at summer camp. I cleaned Patterson's room (yes, he's mad at me...huge surprise), went to Tulsa with Elizabeth to see Oklahoma! (really good!), mowed yards and cleaned out the garage. Let's just say the Goodwill Man and I are getting to be really good friends!! As soon as the camp laundry is completed I will feel totally entitled to a day or two full of magic with Harry and Ron (Yes, Erin, I love Ron too. He is so cute!!) So enjoy and I'll get back here soon!

Happy Ice Cream Sunday!!!

I have to say that this is my new favorite...No, it's not low fat, low sugar, low anything. But, in moderation (like when no one else is here to see me...)it is great!!!

I Scream!!

Just a reminder....Tomorrow is National Ice Cream Day!!! I've created a little art in honor of the day. Join me in the celebration!!! I-Scream, You-Scream, We all scream for Ice Cream!!!!