Lunch

I just had a wonderful lunch!  I sponsor 2 Japanese flower arranging groups at church, and today they had a cooking demo instead.  We learned how to make Miso soup, gingered pork, cucumber salad, tofu, and apple bunny garnishes!
I enjoy these groups so much, and it was so nice to learn something new.
Happy day!  :)

Ronnie's sign

After storm 2/27/2011

Postcrossing.com postcard swaps

I've been a member of Postcrossing for about a year or so, and have enjoyed sending and receiving postcards from all over the world. I have posted most of them on my other blog, but will post a few of them here. I am so glad I found out about this site, because I used to have penpals back when people wrote real letters, and sort of miss that. Sure, we all have cyberbuddies from all over, but this is something special. It's a great way to add to my postcard collection as well!

These are from private swaps.

Purple irises

Purple irises from the garden in honor of Oct 20.

Remember the recent gay suicides.

Classy!

Yay! Phil's back!

Check out the rest of the videos on the site-lots of favorites!

Karen enjoys her Lambrusco!
We had a lovely dinner at Buca during the Longaberger Bee. We hooked up with a couple of really great consultants from Nevada for lunch, and asked them to join us again for dinner.
It's so much fun getting to know other consultants, and networking!

Funny Sean Bean interview

Great shot, huh? LOL Obviously, this is a shot of the jumbo tron screen at the show. We were just a little bit too far away for my camera phone. Those rat bastards at Livenation/Ticketbastard said "no cameras," so we complied. More fool me, eh? There were cameras flashing all over the place! It was a great show, but frakkin hot, let me tell you. :P

Donald Marler

We pay tribute to a Marine who lost his life in Afghanistan a week or so ago. He was one of my Cub Scouts at Beasley, and a really nice kid.
Telegraph RD is lined with people and flags, ready to pay tribute to a fine young man.
Prayers and thoughts are with his family.

Japanese Iris

Nice, huh?

Killen, AL

Dock, with boats attached, floats downstream and hits dock. All the excitement caused by propane tanks on boats.

Pharr Mounds

Natchez Trace Parkway

Science center socks!

Robert Moses

Long Island beach after big storm. Waves are breaking farther out than normal since the waves have dragged the sand out to sea.

NYC

Transportation: $40
MoMA tix: $40
Lunch at MoMA Cafe on 5: $53.27
MoMA bookstore: $101.54
Dinner at Maxie's: $52.64
A day out with Nathan in NYC: PRICELESS!

Seriously....how overdone is that phraseology? LOL But it definitely applied yesterday.

We took the LIRR from Babylon to Penn Station yesterday morning, along with 1000's of St. Pat's revelers on their way to the parade. I'd said that the only day I didn't want to go into the city was St. Pat's, but that was the best day for the Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). As soon as we got to Penn Station, we saw a couple of guys puking their guts out! Remember, it's not even 11 am yet! There were lots of people with beer on the train.

The museum itself hadn't changed much since last time we were there, but the special exhibit itself was pretty crowded. We really enjoyed seeing his sketches and several items from the Disney archives and various movies-costumes, Jack Skellington heads (which we'd seen at DisneyWorld), maquettes, etc.

Lunch at MoMA consisted of a small thai noodle salad, three 1/2 hard boiled eggs with American caviar and prosciutto ham, flatbread with ricotta, a coke, and iced tea....all for the princely sum of $53.27! Welcome to New York City! LOL. Needless to say, we were still hungry!

After shopping the bookstore and picking up the exhibit catalog and some postcards, we walked back towards the station. We had eaten at Maxie's Deli (7th Ave and 48th St) before, so thought we'd stop there again. Two pastrami sandwiches, fries, coffee drink, and a "local" beer-Brooklyn Lager!-was pretty pricey. Not surprising since we'd done the city several times before.

We had an eventful ride home, except for the woman sitting next to me and the dimbulb girl across the aisle. The woman next to me picked her nose the whole trip!! Ewwww-what are you? 3? And the girl across the aisle yammered on her cell the entire time. I was reminded of Cybil Faulty and her "oh I know" on the phone.

Like I said, it was a great day with Nathan, and worth the blister on my heel! :D

Flatfeet KAL

Little shell

Buhbye

Sad to see my Saturn dealer go away...