Summer Vacation

It is that time once again for our trip to the beach with my husband's family, so I will be out of the blogosphere for a while. Not that I have been all that prolific lately anyway. I promise to return with beautiful pictures of the Gulf and our time there! Hope you all have a great 4th of July! Remember what we will be celebrating, our freedoms, and how precious and vulnerable they really are.

Makeover #2

Before: After:

Turns out the objection to being put on my blog was more about not liking the haircut rather than not wanting the world to see her! So, today she got another haircut, more to her liking, and NOW you all can see it. Isn't she cute?

What I Learned Today

I watched this video today and it blew my mind! I don't know how to convince every single one of you to take the 47 minutes to watch this video, but if I did, I would be doing it. Just when you think you understand something, wow! Are you curious enough to go watch it yet? Ok, let me say that it is about money and it will change forever the way you think about the world we live in. Until today, I had understood very little of what there is to know about the money system, but I thought I knew a bunch. Boy, was I wrong!

The ideas in the video point to the answer to how we can create a sustainable way of life. Not that it will be easy to achieve, but what thing worthy of doing is easy? Oooo, I'm excited, can you tell?

Now, please watch and then tell me what you thought, kay?

It Ain't Over, People

Ron Paul might have officially halted his campaign for the President of the United States this year, but his campaign for true liberty for all Americans is just beginning. I am proud to be a part of. Read his letter to supporters, here, and ask yourself, do I believe in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? If the answer is yes, please join us! The r3VOLution has just begun!!

If you want to know what I mean when I say Liberty, check this video out. It makes it VERY clear.

Makeovers

Before:

After:

Isn't she adorable? Oops, I mean hip. Or is it fly? Bad? Sick? Chic? Am I showing my age too much? Sorry.

I gave both girls a haircut the other night, but E did not like her pictures and asked me not to blog about her anymore. I am sure sending photos by email is out as well. Y'all will have to come visit if you want to see E's haircut, I guess.

Hey! This Isn't Kansas!

Yesterday afternoon, we had a tornado pass through our area. It was quite the exciting, terrifying ride you would expect. With practically no warning at all (my trusty NOAA weather radio is now sitting by me in standby mode!) we had to take shelter in the basement to ride out the storm. When the wind died down and the sky lightened, we went out to see the damage. Let me take you on a little tour: Here is our backyard from the side streeet. Notice the tree. Laying on it's side, on top of our power lines (it is still like that, btw, but now the power is on). See the blue circle? That is our power line.
Here is a wider angle view. Just does not look right, does it?

And this is what it looks like from the other side of the house. Notice the destroyed umbrella, not to mention the fence.

But we are counting our blessings. One, no one hurt. Two, no major damage. Three, it missed the trampoline...

And my brand new blueberry bushes! And four, no more black walnuts all over the yard come fall. Yeah, I know they are good to eat, but last time we lived here I tried to get into them for a nut and nearly went nuts with trying! Oh, and five, free firewood! As soon as the power company gets out here to remove said firewood from dangerous live power lines that are not where they are supposed to be.

One last shot for full effect. Yikes!

Too Long!

Yikes! My last post was on the 9th of May!! How does almost a whole month go by without posting here? Life gets in the way, I guess. BUT, I want to document the cool stuff we have been up to so I am going to be putting up a bunch of posts over the day as I file through my pictures and my brain for the memories. I will be putting them up retroactively as if I posted on the day it happened, or thereabouts, so scroll down till you get to all the new stuff. I won't go into the past beyond the post from the 9th though, so you can stop there!

The Farm

We belong to a great CSA farm that has U-pick opportunities built into our membership. So, the girls and I went out to the farm to get our share of strawberries, and then some. We made a full day of it and had lots of fun.

Here are the girls on the wagon ride over to the strawberry field.

E with some of the scrumptious berries. We picked a total of 6 quarts, and ate probably a quart between us. Ok, not really, but we did sample!

After we got back and paid for our berries, we stashed them in the van and went to explore the farm. First, we said hello to the animals.

These were the cutest bunnies, eva'! It was very hard not to steal one and take it home.

Then we played on the rope swings.

And jumped on the awesome Pumpkin Pillow. The other kids were there for a school field trip. When they all left, it was soooo quiet and peaceful.

E had to hop up on the lovely cow statue for a photo op.

Here, A is sorting out her gemstones that she panned for in the sluice. The girls each got quite a haul from the one little bag we bought. Not to mention the fun it was to see what the water revealed!

It was a good day on the farm and we look forward to going back soon! We are also looking forward when our first box of goodies from the farm is delivered!