Monday, September 07, 2009
Labor Day was Laborious
Among the tasks completed: house cleaning, laundry (thanks, Jason), photo matting and framing and hanging, walking with friends, and LOTS of PRINTING. Carrie and I had a print-in and spent 2 whole days working on printing our calendar. Exciting stuff! I'm going to wait a couple more days to post it. I want to take just the right photos, and we didn't finish tonight until it was dark.
On Sunday Mom and Dad had a cookout to inaugurate their new deer-riffic fire ring down by the pond.
Nothing like a roasted hot dog and deviled eggs to celebrate the end of summer. Sigh! I love Fall, but I hate the impending doom of winter and the passing of labor day means time to buckle down. As if I haven't been working my fingers to the bone all summer!
Oh well. Here's to a cooler than normal Missouri summer--it's seemed like Fall since about the end of July-- and looking forward to Autumn's crisp air and orangey sunlight!
Labels: country life, family, weekend
Thursday, August 06, 2009
The county fair
Jason and I went to the county fair in our town tonight. It was like a reunion for me--I saw a few dozen people I know. It's still strange to go places and recognize people.
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We stopped in the 4-H pavilion where all the 4-H kids enter their projects for the year. Last time I was in that building I was 13 and won blue ribbons for my gumball machine cake decorating, and for a red-white-and-blue basket.
There is an adult division too. I'm not sure what nationality this crochet doll is, but I love her.
I truly think 4-H is where I learned to be so crafty. I took classes in EVERYTHING. I'm sure my mom got sick of driving me around. I took photography, sewing, cake decorating (of course, that's the main event for all little 4-H girls) basket weaving, cooking, and strangely, childcare. I remember poring through the catalog of courses every year and wondering who I could find to teach me whatever outlandish thing I was into.
The main reason we went to the fair is because Jason wanted to see the demoliton derby. I was very wary, because I have a low tolerance for redneck crowds. My instincts were dead on in this case.
The derby itself was pretty fun, though.
You gotta love a good rattail.
And it's good to see the carnival prizes haven't changed much over the years. I bet this lady paid $5. Oddly, her daughter was married to and African American gentleman. I wonder how he felt about the rebel flag.
Labels: country life
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Scenes from my life (and photoshop stuff)
I've finally figgered out how to get my images bigger here in blogger. It involves me uploading them all to my flickr page, which I consider to be a painful extra step, but hey. I do what I can for you guys!
These are some photos that I took into Photoshop and played with. I started out by using some of The Pioneer Woman's (thanks, Ree!) Photoshop actions, but then I did some monkeying on my own as well.
Labels: country life, photos