Wordless Wednesday...The Mighty Hunter

Shh! Be vewy, vewy, quiet... 

Linking up with Parenting By Dummies,  Live and Love...Out Loud and Project Alicia.

Wordless Wednesday...What IS this thing?

I found this in the basement of the old house before we moved.  Darin loved old, unique, interesting things.  And I do too... I just wish I knew what exactly this particular thing is!  I have asked a few different people but nobody seems to know what this thing is or what it was once used for.  I even tried googling it but that proved to be a little difficult seeing as how I don't know what it is!  

I think I used the search words, old tin bottle with lid, old tin milk jug, old tin water can and several others I thought fit but found nothing similar which tells me I must be way off the mark.

I've tried rubbing it thinking maybe a genie would rise up and grant me my three wishes...No luck with that yet but I'm not giving up, unless one of you bursts my bubble by informing me that you know it's something else.  

So do you?  If so please enlighten me, oh wise one!  

Wordless Wiener Wednesday....Ladies' Man

WW....When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you hang my 

first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately 

wanted to paint another one. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you feed a 

stray cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind 

to animals. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make my

favorite cake for me, and I learned that the little 

things can be the special things in life. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I heard you say a 

prayer, and I knew that there is a God I could always 

talk to, and I learned to trust in Him. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make a 

meal and take it to a friend who was sick, and I 

learned that we all have to help take care of each other. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you take care 

of our house and everyone in it, and I learned we have 

to take care of what we are given. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw how you 

handled your responsibilities, even when you didn't 

feel good, and I learned that I would have to be 

responsible when I grow up. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw tears come 

from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things 

hurt, but it's all right to cry. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw that you 

cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be.. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I learned most of 

life's lessons that I need to know to be a good and 

productive person when I grow up. 

When you thought I wasn't looking I looked at you and 

wanted to say,’ Thanks for all the things I saw when 

you thought I wasn't looking.'  

~Mary Rita Schilke Korazan

WW...Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

For more Wordless/Wordful Wednesday posts, visit Amanda at Parenting By Dummies, Angie at Seven Clown Circus, Alicia at Project Alicia, and Kristi at Live and Love...Out Loud.

Wordless Wednesday...After the Storm

Turns out we got luckier than I realized during those 'hailacious'  storms that rolled through here Monday night. 

These photos were taken at my inlaws' house. 

There was another  huge tree down over the creek in the woods behind the house but we were about to be late for baseball practice so there was no time for a traipse down through the woods...

This is right behind their house, that was thankfully spared.

I don't even know how that picnic table is still standing.

The truck miraculously seems to be spared too.

Cleaning up!



And the swing remains unharmed...
 Sweet.



Linking up with Alicia at A Beautiful Mess,  Angie at Seven Clown Circus,  Amanda at Parenting By Dummies, and Kristi at Live and Love Out Loud.

Wordless Wednesday...Brothers

A brother is a friend given by Nature.  ~Jean Baptiste Legouve

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.  ~Marc Brown

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see.  I sought my God, but my God eluded me.  I sought my brother and I found all three.  ~Author Unknown

Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb 

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. ~Antisthenes  

Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long.
 ~Susan Scarf Merrell



It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea  ~Dylan Thomas



The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. ~Garrison Keillor  

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew

Friendship Flashback, 80's style



Christine, Me, Christy, Michelle, Jeannie



I believe this photo was taken in 1988 (11th grade) on a band trip to Carolina Beach. We were colorguard/flag girls and let me tell you, if you had lit a match in the room we just got ready in, it would have gone up in flames from all the Rave hairspray fumes floating around in there.

Christine was one of the best friends a teenage girl could have asked for.  She and her sister had cars and I didn't so thanks to them, I was spared from riding the bus to school my junior and senior years because they gave me a ride every single day.  Oh, the bus horror I would have faced had it not been for her!  I reconnected with her on facebook a couple of years ago.  She is now a NICU nurse and a mother of two toddlers, a boy and a girl. 

Christy is now a CPA and a mother of three (two girls and one boy).  She and Jeannie, and I were all pregnant with boys at the same time in 1999.  I know I have a picture of  the three of us in all our expectant mother glory around here somewhere though it will probably never make this blog because I was not a cute pregnant, at least not the first time around. 

Jeannie is a fellow mom of two boys and is now a senior director for Thirty-One Gifts. She's been telling me she's going to start coming to pilates and zumba with me soon and I'm patiently waiting.  ;)

Michelle is still my best friend to this day.  She is a stay home mom to two beautiful little girls and although we don't see each other often, we have always been there for each other when it has mattered the most.  For 25 years. 25 years this August since we met.  Good Lawd, that makes me sound old!

But I don't feel old and I could not be more okay with turning 40 with all these lovely ladies this year.  Well, I think Christine turned 40 last year, in November, but close enough. 

Happy 40th Birthday Year, Ladies! 

 

Linking up with these lovely ladies for Wordful/Wordless Wednesday...

 Alicia at A Beautiful Mess