Photo of the Day admission and Dumbass of the Day for 9/3 (I think)

I have been meaning to make this post but obviously I have been caught up in my busy schedule lately. I've fallen off the photo of the day bus (sorry!) a few weeks back. I can honestly say, it is a project that I have to undertake and stick too at some point, but right now it's just not going to work. My schedule is too hectic to be posting every night and I am sorry. I have missed some great pictures from not having my camera along my side at every moment. On Patriots Day, I missed a red white and blue hot air balloon right over old town Gilbert when I went to work in the morning. I also missed all the beautiful flags up and down the street that day. Each light post in old town Gilbert has two flag holders on each side of it and on this day, the had put them all out to commemorate the 9/11 event. In addition, the American Legion across the street had all their flags up, which when I counted was 9 that I could see, and they had tied big yellow ribbons all the way down the little iron fence around the building. It was beautiful! Sorry that you could not all see it.

In addition, I have missed photographing some great clouds, my family and friends and some other odds and ends type stuff that I have seen while I have been out. I saw the strangest thing going to school the other night - a man riding an electric cooler. Yes, I said cooler! I saw it and was like 'man, I should have my camera right now! No one will believe this one!"

Truth be told, I want one of those things! It was cool. I decided to research it on the internet. Turns out there is such a thing! It's called the "Cruizin Cooler" and costs about $500. The guy is making a fortune off of these! I had some flashbacks of this being the perfect ride for NASCAR races. Screw taking the tram back and forth in that large parking lot - just ride your cooler to the bar! You can drink along the way!

Personally, I like the 'Cruisin Cooler Wagon', which I think is the ultimate redneck ride. It has the wagon fer yer kids or yer dog. Oh, or yer guns.

See what people come up with? I swear, one of these days my inventions are going to fly. Anyway just wanted to share that little story with ya cause I could not believe my eyes when I saw it.

Now on to my families "Dumbass of the Day" story. This happened 3 Thursday's ago and I have been meaning to post it, but well, you know, I got kinda busy. Anyway, I was briefly checking in on Facebook and my sister had posted this note: "I spent the day thinking I was going to make enchiladas. What I came home to was an ordained minister husband and news that I was hosting a wedding in my back yard. Interesting....". Of course this comment was reason enough for me to pick up the phone. Turns out the neighbors, we won't mention any names but will just call them "the bartender and the sheriff", decided they wanted to get married. And not in the future but in the NEAR FUTURE. Like now. So Drew went online and became an ordained minister. Then he set up the backyard with candles and added some lights to the bar. And then Mandie came home and was thrown into the mix. So she went to the store, bought a cake and some flowers, dug out her wedding glasses and cake topper and got ready to host a wedding. In her backyard, after work, with 6 people and the dogs in attendance, on a Thursday night. But THEN Drew wondered how legitimate his training was in ministry. So they called up a friend who is an ordained minister and she came right on over and performed the ceremony.

Huh? My family seems to be moving more towards the 'redneck' status than I thought. And at a quicker rate of speed than I thought. Anyway, on to more productive things. I gotta get some homework done. I have a test on Thursday and have not read a thing. I'll check back in in a few days.

Peace and Love and all that crap!

Photo of the Day for Friday, 8/28

I tried to get some photos at the dog track last night (haven't been there in years) but apparently they don't allow flash photography due to scaring the dogs. Just to keep up with my photo of the day, I took pictures of Mo picking the first of the fruits of her labor (literally) out of her garden. Why she decided to pick them at just about midnight is beyond me.

For centuries men have been obsessed with shootin guns, titties and beer. Fortunately in today's world, we have video games. Men still get to go shootin and still get to see titties (ever played "Backyard Wrestling"?) but as far as the beer, well that's still real world style. It's not beer with your horses anymore. Today it's beer with your video games. So, last night when we came home from the track, it was cold beers and a round of "Big Game Hunter" on the Wii. Here's a photo to prove men never grow up. A pic of my biggest kid playing his videos. :)

A little catching up

So it's been a few days since I have posted and it is because I finally have a life again! New job, new semester at school, car breaking down - I'm a busy girl. To catch up a little, I am making one post for the last few days. I have managed to squeeze in the Photo a day and am still on track as far as taking one a day. My postings are just a little late. With that said, here we go.

Saturday morning it was pretty much a boring day and I really had nothing to photo. I managed to take a few of my sisters garden in the day light and of my sisters dogs - Remy and Winnie - Remington and Winchester to be exact. Yep, you guessed it, named after the guns. Perhaps that is because since Andrew moved from Torrance to Phoenix, he has gotten way into shooting and has become a redneck! They even have a 'bench' made out of a log (of course) with braces on it so that they can mount their clay shooter when they go out. Waaayyyy to into it if you ask me.

Her garden is also swarming with wasps. While they are not the best of the bugs to photograph, I did find them quite interesting and caught a few good ones. 

Onto Sunday. Sunday was also a boring day. I caught a few of my dogs and of the Barbie's that I finally convinced Will to put up in our bedroom. Yes BARBIES. I love Barbie and have collected them since I first found out I was going to have Jessi. I kept telling myself that they were for her, but truth be told, half of them were given to ME as gifts. I started with buying and "Air Fordce Thunderbirds" Barbie when I was pregnant with Jess. Then for her first Christmas she got the Christmas Barbie in 1991. Then my dad showed me something he probably shouldn't have. My dad had a neighbor that collected Barbies in a BIG way. He took me down to her house and they took me out back. She was probably in her 40's and her dad had built her a detached garage to keep all her Barbie's in. It had shelves from floor to ceiling and Barbie's everywhere. She had glass cases with Barbie 'scenes' in them. I remember seeing Barbie's on Vespa's, in living rooms and driving Corvette's. That was it. That was all it took. My goal is to someday have a Barbie room like that. No matter what anyone says!

Yesterday was the first day of my new job. I had a wonderful morning that started with seeing the sun rays beaming out of the clouds at QT when I stopped to get my energy drink and some gas. Then on a little smoke break, I caught some photos of the building, the courtyard area inside underground and the internal area of the office itself. My little office is a an office of little "suites". You can see all the little offices going down the hallway. Strangely enough, there are probably 8 of them that are all rented to some attorney. Why not rent a regular office?

Last night, I was lucky enough to catch a few of this dragonfly. We never get to see them up close and for some reason, he got stuck on our patio by the light. After flying around and dodging us, he finally got wore out and collapsed in to my craft bin. Thank goodness Will got him out :)

Today, nothing eventful happened. We are loving Miranda's 'Dump Soup' recipe (Thanks Miranda!) so I took some photos of that. Quick, easy and delish. Perhaps I will post the recipe soon. Right now it's on to homework.

Anyway, hope you have enjoyed this little journey. I'll catch you in a few days!