Week Forty-Three

292/365: Laundry

293/365: Fall Sunrise

294/365: Swarmed...by Japanese beetles.

295/365: Cornstove. Nightly fires are the norm again.

296/365: Rabbit Run Inn. The inn where Cass and I stayed last weekend in Sawyer, MI.

297/365: Wine Tasting. Lemon Creek Winery. Southern Michigan.

298/365: Concord. Southern Michigan grapes.

Sneak Peek...

...of my weekend so far. =)

We're Nervous at Cheeseburger Night

Another fun night at cheeseburger night last night! One of these weeks I'm going to get a picture of our group for my picture-of-the-day. I’ll have to get on it, since I only have 9 more weeks left in my 365 project after this week.

Last night was particularly entertaining as we had Norm, his dad, and their farmer friend Randy at our table, all especially bleary-eyed after a long four days and nights in the field. My stomach stills hurts from laughing, and I wasn’t ready to leave at 9:00 to get home and watch Grey’s Anatomy.

“I don’t know man, something about a guy playing an accordian hopping around on a chair…make me nervous!”

“If I’m a chicken…I’m nervous man.”

Check back next week to see what kind of trouble Cass and I are able to get into this weekend!

Yesterday & Today Week 4

Week 4 in Ali Edwards' online scrapbooking class, Yesterday & Today, begins today, and it looks like it will be a hard one. This week's topic is scrapbooking the challenging stories and difficult times in your life. Once I get my layout(s) done I'll have to decide whether I'll share them here, but I did want to share the quote Ali chose for this week. I think it's beautiful and inspiring, like the class itself.

Yesterday & Today Week 3 Layouts

Thought I'd let everyone see my most recent double layout for Ali Edwards' Yesterday & Today scrapbooking class. I'm loving this and trying to come up with six more random childhood memories to make a second one of these layouts.

Week 42/52...Holy Cow Only 10 Weeks Left!!

285/365: Loading

286/365: Oscar

287/365: Fallen

288/365: Homemade Popcorn. Norm found this on the corn stove...the field corn we burn popped!

289/365: Husband of the Year. Came home from work to find him making homemade noodles for beef & noodles!!

290/365: Guess What I'm Up to? And no, I'm not pregnant! The 'Knitting for Baby' book was the last modern knitting book the library had. Also FYI, teaching yourself to knit is HARD!

291/365: First Frost. There was "frost on the pumpkin" Sunday morning, as Norm says.

What I've Been Up to...

This poor blog has been neglected lately. I've blogged about Ali Edwards' Yesterday and Today class that I'm taking, and it is in full swing. I borrowed a big stack of old picture albums from my grandma on Friday, and spent the better part of the weekend scanning old photos so I have plenty for the class. I'm nowhere near done, but I thought I'd give you a little peek...


I LOVE these old photos. The one on the left may be my favorite old picture of myself. There are so many gems in these albums, and I'm so grateful to my grandma for taking so many pictures. They're not perfect, and I may edit them a little, but most of them I'm going to leave as is, with dust and imperfections and all. It definitely adds to their character.

And here is the first layout I've made. I'm sure I'll be tweaking it a little more, but for now here it is...

Week 41

278/365: Falling

279/365: Our Lovely Road. This is what our road has looked like all year. Oh, except now it's much worse, since it was grated in the rain this week!

280/365: Sugar Creek. One of the many fall views on my drive home from work.

281/365: Late. This is what happens when you realize at bedtime that you haven't taken your picture-of-the-day. =)

282/365: Smells Good!

283/365: Foggy Fall Morning

284/365: Bridge Festival. This is the crap we deal with for two weeks every year.

Week Forty

271/365: Sick...so my hubby made me soup and grilled cheese (and took my picture). =)

272/365: Another Good Mail Day. Two scrapbooking books and my Me: The Abridged Version scrapbook.

273/365: Burning Through the Clutter. If you were packing to move right now, what would you get rid of? Why are you hanging on to it??

274/365: Dave Ramsey!!

275/365: Pyromaniac. He loves to burn stuff!

276/365: Yesterday & Today Assignment One

277/365: Flying South. Norm: "do you know why one leg of a goose "V" is longer than the other? More geese!". =)