Thank you to Leeanne of Not Afraid of Color for reminding me to notice things I like.
Click on HER BLOG to see what positive things others like.
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| I like the songs this guy and his friends make every evening. |
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| I like home. |
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| I like going to amazing places. It's hard to pick from the bazillion photos that I've taken in the last couple of weeks! |
LeeAnne's conversation starter topics this month:
Do you enjoy podcasts? I do, but I don't know the trick of how to find ones I'd enjoy. Can you direct us to some you like? Dolly Parton's America was 9 episodes and so good. I love Dolly. I enjoy. I like to listen to Family Secrets. She interviews a lot of people who've written memoirs. I love reading memoirs.
Do you decorate at all for Thanksgiving? No. We just let Mother Nature decorate with yellows and golds outside in the trees.
Do you remember making construction paper turkeys in elementary school using your own hand? Coloring them in or pasting on cut out colored feathers? Taking them home and having a parent put them up in the house? Okay, going a little rogue to answer this one, but it's a fun story. I taught 4th grade for a few decades, so there have been many versions of turkey making in my time. One year we were going to make those turkeys where you fold every page of a Reader's Digest then fan them out. Well... I happened to have a couple of kids who were of a religion that didn't allow them to participate in anything holiday related. That year I decided we'd do the project anyway with a non-holiday choice for everyone. I told the class they could choose to make theirs to be a Thanksgiving turkey or an autumn peacock. It turned out that most of the kids chose to use blue instead of brown giving us a bunch of peacocks to line the hallway. The kids were all so proud. As it turns out, that very week our school hosted a group from the State Department. As they toured the building and commented on all the lovely autumn decorations and Thanksgiving art, they came to my end of the hall and had some very interested and confused faces over our decorations. Ha ha ha ha!
I had to zoom in to see Mr Frog. That's a cute story about the blue turkeys! I'm the same about Thanksgiving - we've celebrated on Friday and Saturday as well as Thursday. One year we found ourselves alone on Thanksgiving and ate at a fast food burger place - lol! My husband would rather have my food, and the kids like to come here for Thanksgiving, so it works out nicely. I've never made deviled eggs for Thanksgiving, but gosh it sounds good.
ReplyDeleteYou've never made deviled eggs??? Oh, my! We need to make some together!
DeleteWhat a trip you've had! I'm enjoying the photos. The peacock/turkey story is cute, what a fun memory!
ReplyDeleteIt was a great trip. We're trying to get jet lag out of our system and back to a normal schedule.
DeleteTravel is great but home is even better!
ReplyDeleteI agree! Perhaps traveling just makes us appreciate home even more.
DeleteHa! Love those peacocks! such a wonderful garden you have.
ReplyDeleteI do love my garden, but it was getting scraggly and tired. This week the temperatures plunged, so it was time to put it to sleep for winter.
DeleteHelen - I am so impressed with your collage that has all the vegetable photos - they are works of art! This would make a great poster!!! I loved your story of the blue peacocks - diversity in action!
ReplyDeleteI think it's fun to place my garden harvests for a photo. I like how the colors change with the weeks.
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