Thank You

To all our service men and women - We salute you!

Attitude...

Go out and dance~  Have a great weekend

Too many candles

You know you are old when.....
All your favorite music is in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart.

It takes twice as long to look half as good.

People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?"

Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

You consider coffee one of the most important things in life.

You constantly talk about the price of gasoline.

You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it.

Your childhood toys are now in a museum.

You can only "color" your hair to hide the gray

The Simple Life

Several weekends ago, I had the opportunity to gather up some of my girly friends and travel north.  We hit the road anticipating visiting a farm and learning to make some goat cheese.  A simple little day away, we were going to learn something new, check out some goats (my plan) and have a little lunch and come away with a new experience. 

I think we got more than we bargained for.  To this day, I’m not sure what all I experienced.  The whole day was woven together by an exchange of events that really made you think about how simple life really could be.  With all the madness in the world today, it gave us a glimmer of hope. 

After a hour and a half drive we traveled down a little dirt country road.  Following our directions we arrived at Melissa’s farm, a little early, but that didn’t seem to be an issue.  We were greeted by her neighbor, who welcomed us and said Melissa would be out soon, she was making coffee.  We tiptoed through the muddy pasture and we were greeted by a menagerie of farm animals.

Goats and their babies, a variety of sheep who were just days shy of getting their annual haircuts.   Horses, chickens, dogs, cats, bees…oh my!  I was giddy.  An instant calmness came over me and I felt like I was transported into a story book.  My only worry was keeping my patent leather loafers free of animal crap!  Soon the screen door slammed and Melissa made her way to us.  The instant the animals heard her coming they began to sing!  A chorus of goats and sheep calling her name, rushing for the gate, looking for their maaaamaaaa.  We introduced ourselves and she continued the tour of the farm by showing us her milking goats.  This, of course, is the reason we ended up here.  I thought it would be a good idea to learn a little about goats before I brought any home.  I found out I need a milking stand, a playscape for them to play on, and I think I need a little lamb!  She let us milk one, and I found out I’m a natural.  Ha Ha 

On to class….
We all gathered around the table in the old farmhouse to get down to business.  Today, we would learn how to make cheese, and we would make our own lunch.  So the 6 of us piled into her 10 x 4 kitchen and began to learn.  She gave us each a job and like little bee’s we just instinctively began to get it done.  It was weird!  As Miss T. said “she let us slip into her life with such ease.  It was like old friends of hers stopping by for the day”  and that we were, a bunch of friends who began to work our way around the kitchen.  If we needed something, we did not ask, we just opened the cupboard and looked for it.  We washed dishes when we needed to, put the scraps in a bucket for the pigs down the road and poured our own coffee, a very comfortable feeling.  After we made several cheeses, soup, vegetables and a salad it was time to head back to the dining room table to enjoy our feast. 

This was not a well oiled machine.  She was disorganized, missing ingredients and her DISHES DID NOT MATCH, but we all decided that was the charm and bemusement of it all.  A couple of bottles of honey mead, a sampling of cheeses, our lovingly prepared meal and we were smitten!  
Time flew by and as we said our goodbyes we gathered into the car and reluctantly ended our visit at Mej’s Mystical Meadows Farm.   We drove out of the handmade gate, that the neighbors made to keep the animals in, and down the dirt road.  The sun was shining and we were under the “spell”   We are not sure what we just experienced, but it was a delightful way to spend a Saturday….   


As we continued  towards home, the sky darkened up and the rain began to fall.  Ahhh, so close but so far away.  It was just another strange coincidence that things were so different on the farm than in our city lives.  I think I prefer the sun!

white (and Pink) trailer trash

It's been a good couple of weeks for me....  knock on wood.  After decades of wishing.... I have been bittin by trailer love bug!    Here she is-

This is her before picture!  The " after " is swirling around inside my head and it is about ready to explode.  I have so many idea's for her.  She is going to be my girl fort,  NO BOYS ALLOWED!  I have already been "pinking" her up!  Out with the brown plaid curtains, covering up the ugly cushions, dreaming of paint colors- it's crowding out any other thoughts in my head at the moment.  I can't wait until she is done.  Stay tuned.... I will send pictures as the makeover progresses. 

It's Official!

I'm Trailer Trash!!!!  She be comin' around the corner on Blackmore about 7pm tonight! 

Thursday Therapy

The leaves came out on the trees today.  A little thunder and lighting does wonders!

Some Thursday Therapy...... Dogs always put a smile on your face.

Enjoy

Rush Hour

Boy the streets of pickin are getting crowded.  I knew the scrappers have been out, and now that scrap metal is going up again, they seem to be loading up their trucks, strapping down the overflow and crusin the hoods.  But, I think the ultimate was, when my neighbor and I were admiring a vintage rattan couch and chair along the side of the road.  Parked, hatch up, drug into the street, admiring, deciding……  Up drove a woman in a minivan, filled with her recent pickin’s.  “Are you taking that!”  We were thinking about it.  “I was just going to drop off this stuff I just garbage picked and I was going to come back for that! “  I just live around the corner.  Look what I found… a nice wing back chair, a bird bath stand, this and that……”
Hmmmmm, I thought, she must want it bad if she stopped and decided to roll down her window to persuade us to let her have it!  It’s getting crowded out here on the streets!  My neighbor and I decided that she wanted it far more than we did, so we relinquished our grip on it and moved on down the road.   Circled the island traveling Monday’s trash day route.  Not a thing out there but trash.  Either we are not up early enough, or we are just too nice!  We have 4 more days this week, maybe we will have some luck.