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Friday Meanderings

August 19, 2016August 19, 2016 by KTgreen

I ALMOST forgot that it was Friday.

Phew. It was a close call.

At 7:30 pm Thursday I remembered I had to meander.

And I had been to a Festival meeting. Good meeting. Bad meeting. (Typical meeting.)

Here’s our committee.

(not pictured, Kathy Green cause SOMEONE had to take the photo!)

And we do allow minors on the committee. That’s my buddy Dylan Watson in the front. I almost want to take him home with me then I remember how much work little boys are. (And most of them have a distinct odor!) But he is definitely one of my favorites.

I’m going on vacation! So, unless I go out and get some photos today, I’ll not be posting until next Friday. Yeah, I can meander from any location. And I’ll be updating the Project 365 when I get the chance.

Terry’s not going. Too much Festival stuff going on. But I’m outta here. I’m headed to North Dakota to see the family before the snow flies.

Think I’m safe from snow the last week of August! Adley just had her second birthday, Piper is headed to her first day of kindergarten while I’m there, and Riley’s a sophmore and I’m hoping to spend some quality time with him. Can’t wait to see them. Oh yeah, and their parents, too!

Today starts early voting so we’ll be hitting the polls to make our well informed choices. (And how many political calls are you getting every day? We don’t even look at the caller id anymore. We are one of the few homes that actually have a landline phone so we are just prey!)

Went to a garage sale today.

Let me preface this with, I’m not into garage sales. All I can think is that this stuff is really grimy and if you don’t want it, why do I? (And I love thrift stores and antique shops and Extravaganzas so I don’t understand why I have this mind set about garage sales!)

But we walk by this house every morning and say hi to this lady cause she’s always on her front stoop with her cat and she called us in to see her garage sale.

And I bought some cute things. (Some seasonal rugs actually and I left them hanging outside to get the musty smell out and we had a HUGE thunderstorm so they might not be in very good shape right now!)

I also bought these fairies. Thinking that the grandkids could use them in their fairy garden.

And I left them on the countertop in the kitchen until I could give them a good scrubbing.

And they kinda pulled me into their weird fairy vibe.

And I kinda think they are just weird enough that I might have to move them into my office and have them appear in some of my DIY blog stuff.

Whata ya think? Weird? Scary? There’s a slippery slope from fun weird into crazy old lady land.

Hmmmmm.

Friday Meanderings

August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 by KTgreen

It’s been raining occasionally and next week the temps are supposed to be under 90 degrees. Woo-hoo. Not long until the weather will be perfect again!

And now I just want to talk about my new plumeria bloom.

My wonderful neighbor that is so kind to share plants with me gave two branches early in 2015. I stuck them in a pots of dirt. And one finally bloomed today. I knew that they were a reddish-pink but thought that they were probably the same ones I already had. Not so!

I took this snap of the red plumeria I already had. The blossoms are a different shape!

How cool is that?????

Took these photo from my other two colors of plumeria.

Then I was sad because I found one of the branches from a potted plumeria had broken off. How did that happen? Who came here and broke that off? Hmmmmm?

Terry said “stick it back in the dirt”.

And I said oh yeah, it will grow. Or not. But I already have to admit that I already have a lot of these plants.

Plumerias are great. So easy to take care of and I get to share them. I had a friend show me a photo of one of the branches I gave her that she was raising in water. And it was blooming! (I asked her to send the snap to me so I could post it and she didn’t…..sheesch!)

Alright. Not much going on again this weekend other than scalloping.

On another subject, I had already heard that the Homosassa River Raft Race was cancelled this year. It’s usually in September. This would have been the 34th year!

Talked to a rep from the radio station that sponsored the raft race in the past and she had no idea why but it’s definitely not happening. She said that we have the Crystal River Raft Race and pirate invasion in May so the Homosassa River doesn’t need a raft race. What????

This is not Crystal River. So why does one have anything to do with the other?

There is supposed to be a cleanup on the river instead plus a big “Party with a Purpose” to celebrate “Save the Water” week on September 24th which the radio station is supporting. Guess the radio station is running the show here now!

By the way, September 24th also happens to be the last day of scalloping. Should be interesting how we do a big cleanup on the Blue Water with all of our visitors there.

Anyone else think something is wrong with that scenario?

Hey, have a great weekend! Get outside! The temps are dropping!

Kathy