If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

June 22 - catching up

Hello everyone! Here are some highlights from the last week or so .........
We found these 18 ounce Pfaltzgraf mugs at the base exchange for just $3.99.  We would of bought more but they only had 3. 
I bought 3 sets of nails to be more than ready for Fouth of July.  One set is royal blue glitter, one set is red and I planned to mix and match those 2 sets and then I found the red, blue stripe and white with anchors set.  
Patriotic things are always appropriate as far as I'm concerned.  


Fathers Day- most all our family was here- 20 of us 😍
Lunch was tossed salad with tomatoes, onions and radishes from our garden, 
Garlic bread, our son made pasta salad and I made doubled eggs.  
My husband smoked brisket and a turkey breast, our daughter in law brought a potato casserole and I cooked green beans with tiny red potatoes. 
Fresh fruit 
My dad baked a blackberry pie with wild blackberries he picked near their retirement home and our daughter in law also brought a Texas sheet cake. 

The entertainment was a water balloon war with those new fangled quick and easy to fill balloon kits. 
It was messy and the main participants were the oldest 5 grands and the 4 young men.  They had a great time.  

It wasn't easy but we managed to get a decent group photo of the 7 grands,  they are wearing the dye shirts made with kits that Elizabeth got for her birthday.  Those squirt bottle tie dye kits work good too - but wear gloves if you use them.  I didn't and it took several days for all the dye to disappear from my cuticles. 


Our town has 2 brand new municipal water park splash pads. 
One is not too far from our home and has no admission fees.  
I took 3 of the grands this week and they had a wonderful time playing in the water for 2 hours.  


Then they had lunch in a pavilion next to the water park.  The summer lunch program, which I believe is a federal funded program operated by the school district, serves lunch there every week day to all children 18 years or younger.  
That day's lunch was a turkey and cheese sandwich with a fresh pear, baby carrots and a choice of white or chocolate milk.  
The grands were hungry after their water play and they gobbled down their sack lunches.  

Then we came home and they were all asleep within a few minutes.  
And I had a nice bowl of leftover salad from Sunday for my lunch and ate in peace while they all napped.  
I expect we will make more trips to the water park this summer.  


Granddaughter Andie stayed with us a few days.  She especially likes to "do crafts" which means she wants to cut and glue. She doesn't really care about structured crafts so I just spread the table with an old disposable tablecloth and gave her child safe scissors, a bottle of glue and scrap craft paper and a few stickers.  She was happy all day Tuesday just glueing and cutting away and making nothing.  

I think she is a good at drawing for a little girl who just turned 4.  
Can you guess what this is? 

A banana getting ready to swim in the ocean 😂

Have a good rest of the week everyone!  I'll be catching up on some housework and staying inside as much as possible.  It is hot here in Oklahoma, just like it always is in summer.  

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

June 14 - morning sky

Genesis 9:12-16

To the east, I was looking at a beautiful sunrise sky.


And when I turned to the West, I saw a huge rainbow.
The rainbow is so big and I couldn't get it all in one photo.  

Thank you God, for this rainbow as a promise from you to never destroy all life on earth with water again.  


comments turned off for this post- 
This is not a political or social discussion blog, 
I just want to share this mornings photos and some of my favorite Bible verses.  

Sunday, June 12, 2016

June 12- church breakfast, CVS and bracelet information


We attend a tiny church. One man always cooks a big church-wide breakfast but he is away on vacation. ( the normal menu is eggs 2 ways, hash browns, biscuits and gravy and breakfast meats. )  We agreed to do the meal in his place but we did something much simpler.
Fresh fruit and assorted sweet rolls/ doughnuts all from Aldi. We also heated up precooked bacon and sausage.  One man grumbled about the lack of his favorites but everyone else happily ate fruit and doughnuts and meat.  
This little church building is rather quirky.  Can you tell from the photo that the serving bar is covered with floor linoleum?  


CVS today with no Extra Care Bucks.  
I only used coupons from recent newspapers and from the CVS red box scanner.  

The dropped from $134 to $41 
I got back $19 in ExtraCareBucks and should get $10 in BeautyBucks within 2 days.  


I had some questions about these bracelets. 
And the black with stars one is made almost the very same.
Yes, the beads do move around and are supposed to.  
I could not find the glue on end clasps in my town or from any USA store.  I ordered them from a very low cost EBay seller in China.


Good night 
And Good Bye weekend. As always, you go by so fast!