Month: October 2010
Straight out of the Camera
One of my goals in the 101 in 1001 is to learn Photoshop. I haven’t mastered it yet. I need to find time to sit down and work with it! That wasn’t the case this weekend. This was the same day as PC and my dad cleaning out my dad’s fence row to fix the fence so the cows couldn’t get over on my grandpas. I was in photo taking mode! I photographed everything I could.
Peace, Love and my critters!
Nicole
One Sunday Afternoon
2 weeks ago we had quite the Sunday afternoon. My dad was pulling tree/logs out of the woods so he could build fence between us and my grandpa. Our cows needed more pasture and we wanted to keep them on our place so we went to work cleaning out the fence row. And I use We very loosely here.
Yeah this was photo heavy! Sorry. I was having fun playing with my new lens. And it’s not that new but still 2 months is new to me 🙂 It was a wedding present.
Peace, Love & “Lazy” Sunday afternoons
Life
I had a completely different post that I was working on today and just a few minutes ago I found out that a man that I worked with died last night from a massive heart attack. When I came to work for the company 4 years ago I met this man. He worked in our IT department. Now when you say that at my company, that’s over half the building, but still… This was the sweetest man you would have ever met. He always spoke to me in the halls, even after I left the AP department (where I actually worked with him) to come to my current department. He would walk past me heading to Accounting. And always asked how my cakes were doing and if I’d taken any more classes. In fact I used to take him a small piece from when I did take classes. And his granddaughters, they were the cutest thing! He and his wife would have his son(in law) and daughter(in law) bring their kids out at Halloween time to trick-or-treat.
Ok and this is a very discombobulated post I realize, but I think I’m still in shock. I just recently talked to him. It just makes you realize how short life really is and that it could end in a minute. And unfortunately the world doesn’t stop just because one person died. I mean I guess I can’t recall another time in the building in the 4 years I’ve worked here where someone has passed away, truthfully I’m not sure anyone has and if they have I guess I didn’t know them but wow, just wow.
I’m so sorry this is so dysfunctional. I’m just in shock. I guess my message from all this, tell those you love how much you love them because you never know when it’ll be the last chance you get to tell them.
Maple Leaf Parade – Part 2 – All the rest
Ok here were some of my other favorite photos/floats in the parade. There were close to 200 entries (give or take) and so I obviously can’t show them all to you. If you missed the first edition, I devoted it just to our Hometown Hero’s! One of my other 101 things is to get PC’s uniform quilt done. My goal is to have it done by next years Maple Leaf Parade so when he rides on another Hometown Hero’s float he’ll have it to snuggle up with 🙂
Peace, Love & Parades!
Maple Leaf Parade – Hometown Hero's!
One of the things I have on my 101 in 1001 was to attend the Maple Leaf Parade. Now that isn’t something new and it really isn’t something I couldn’t accomplish especially because when I did the 101 list, the Maple Leaf parade was only a few weeks away, but it’s something that is so cool to go and watch you can’t help yourself. And this year PC was in the Parade on our companies Hometown Hero’s Float because he is a veteran. I got a TON of pictures but have narrowed it down to a few to share, but I’m breaking them up into 2 posts. This post is just to the Hometown hero’s floats. It’s because of our veterans that we are where we are today. That we can believe what we want to believe. That we can act the way we want to act. That we can do anything we want to do! Never forget!
Peace, Love & Hometown Hero’s
Chicken Sketti
So last night I went through the Pioneer Woman’s cookbook and made another tasty dish. This time we had Chicken Spaghetti. I actually made this as my first recipe when I got her cookbook so I wouldn’t have had to make it again for my 101 in 1001 but I figured I would anyway. It’s good and we needed dinner… plus I made it in the time frame of my 101 🙂 I would highly recommend that if you haven’t tried this you run right out to the store, buy the ingredients, and indulge yourself!
I’m getting closer to making it through her book but still have quite a ways to go. It’s all good.
And I swear, I have other things I’ve done for my 101 in 1001 but I have so much I want to blog about that there are times I’d swear I have to write 12 posts a day (ok that’s a bit of an exaggeration) to be able to get them all blogged about before Christmas. hahaha! Happy Tuesday and seriously, this is delish!
Peace, Love and Good Food!!!
Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!
I know, not a creative title! I couldn’t help it!
So for my first give away, I think I had fairly good turn out! Thank you to all that participated and I just want to know, I wish I could give every one of you a present. I went and tried out the random.org site. It is the coolest when coming to this, otherwise I’d have thrown all your names in a hat, but it saved me!
Gracie Allen Cooking Lessons
Ever heard of Gracie Allen?
Yeah me either!
But I like her cooking lessons!
Cooking the Perfect Roast
1 large roast of beef
1 small roast of beef
Take the two roasts. Put them in the oven at the same time.
When the little one burns, the big one is done 🙂
Hey makes sense to me 🙂 Don’t forget you have until 11:59pm tonight to register for the Gift 🙂
Peace, Love & Perfect Cooking Lessons!