small town parade.
As much as I love being in a big city, I also appreciate living in a small town. A place where you run into neighbors when you go out. When the chief of police gives you a hug as does the fire chief. Where you can volunteer and feel you have a hand in making
snapshots from gooney road – 4 jul 2016
Today is Independence Day and National Country Music Day. Up early to clean and work. Chloe and Isabelle went to Kroger for strawberries. Once I was done with work, Chloe and I went out to run a whole slew of various errands. She then made us grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. After lunch, we worked
celebrations: week 27 (4-10 jul 2016)
Oh well, no celebrations again this week. Too much other stuff going on! Coming up this week: 4: Independence Day and National Country Music Day 5: Workaholics Day and National Apple Turnover Day 6: First Picture Postcard Made and National Fried Chicken Day 7: Chloe’s Birthday and Chocolate Day and Tell the Truth Day and
snapshots from gooney road – 3 jul 2016
Today is Eat Beans Day and National Chocolate Wafer Day and Build a Scarecrow Day. I managed to sleep in past 7am. After cleaning up around the house and walking the dog, I had a nice breakfast and got busy with my to do list. Chloe came home and helped around the house. I worked
bandon beach.
THough it ended up putting us behind schedule, I love prolonging our stay in Bandon!
snapshots from gooney road – 2 jul 2016
Today is World UFO Day and I Forgot Day. Up at 6:30 and tackled the long list of things to get done. After filing, cleaning, organizing, walking the dog, and all the rest, I was finally done with the bulk of my list by 2:30. Chloe left around 10am to go to the MLK Center
clean and organized!
After two weeks of scrubbing, purging, shopping, and making piles, the house is once again organized! As careful as I am to try to keep things organized all year long, piles grow. Things accumulated. Organization turns to chaos. Clean gets dirty. For the start of the school year, I like to have a clean, organized
snapshots from gooney road – 1 jul 2016
Today is Canada Day and National Ginger Snap Day and National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day and International Joke Day. Up early to read and take care of chores. Barbara walked Phelix. Chloe had an eyebrow appointment, so I took her to Fabu while Barbara took Phelix geocaching. When we got back, we went to
photo friday: seattle houseboat
As we sat down to plan our family/college tour trip to the Pacific Northwest, I had it in my mind that I really wanted to stay on a houseboat during our time in Seattle. While it took a little searching and was certainly not the cheapest option, we found a very conveniently located houseboat for
GBK Gwyneth