Alabama the Beautiful

I am on a business trip with Carl. He is in meetings all day and I am left to my own devices.

Here is a picture of the fruit I had today. It was very good.

This was lunch today. Wonderful chicken salad and a pot of decaf hot tea. I sweeten the tea and pour it over ice and drink it the rest of the day.
The maid cleaned the bathroom and organized all our toiletries. I felt a little like we were at WDW.
I sat on a swing for about an hour today with this as my view.
Carl getting ready to go to his meeting.
The desk with my handwork. I work here awhile, then read ( I meant to get a picture of the books I brought) then get on my computer. The only down side is 'they' fire off a canon every afternoon at 4. I jumped a foot yesterday. Today I plan to get under the covers and pillows!
Lunch yesterday. That was the best hamburger I have ever had!
The sunset on Sunday night.We are on the coast of AL. No oil but there are three sets of booms to keep the oil away from the land. I love being in Alabama. I love hearing southern accents and seeing cars with AUBURN tags. I really enjoy how friendly the folks are here. Feels like home.

Carl, I'd like to bring the whole family here sometime!

How do you get ready for VBS?

Wow! Read this and then pray for our VBS. Ours is June 21-25. Thank you

A book plus...

If you need to give a gift and want it to be a book and something else here is a very clever list for you to use.

National Spelling Bee!

Onomatopoeia, schadenfreude, pffeffernuss

Get your morning chores done and grab the remote the Spelling Bee is on ESPN this morning at 9AM til 12:00 and again tonight on ABC at 7. I can't wait to hear Dr Bailly pronounce all the words.

Spelling Bee Info

Even more Spelling Bee Info

What's in a name?

Do you ever wonder where nicknames come from? I thought this was fascinating

What's in your closet?

Kaitlin cleaned out the pantry one day last week. She found lots of interesting things like 10,000 bags of stale chips, well ok, maybe just 10 bags.




I think I need to do some baking, some fudge maybe.

There is a show on the Food Network called Chopped. The contestants are given a basket with some random ingredients. They have to cook a certain course of a meal with said ingredients. With all our random pantry stuff we joked that we should give the guys in our house a certain set of ingredients and see what they would come up with to eat!


I think Kaitlin did a wonderful job!

I've been to Kansas

Marisa and Robert added their pins to our US map. We each have our pin color and we put our pins in the states we have visited.
Papa has been to the most. He has been to the 48 contiguous states.
Thanks Aunt Marian for starting this wonderful tradition for us.