off to the cock fight

Me and my dad pulled up behind this guy on our way home from texas, outside kit carson. And at the exact same time we turned to each other and said "That's a rooster!"

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busy busy bee

I have been crazy taking photos of all the cool stuff I bought down in Texas and then editing the photos and now I am starting to list everything on etsy. Whew! On top of that I have stores wanting to order jewelry, I have a BIG magazine wanting to do an article on my silhouette necklaces (eek) and of course there's all the normal life stuff like laundry and dishes and dog hair everywhere...
But life is good. I can't complain. I like being busy. I have a crop of new ideas rollling around the old noggin for christmas stuff!


I got my first taste of winter last weekend. We went up to my cabin in the woods and stayed the night and when we woke up in the morning there was 6 inches of snow!! It was GORGEOUS!

My brother, Taylor in the canoe.

My husband fishing.

My brother fishing.

The boys ended up catching a brookie and a rainbow (trout that is). We took them home and I cooked them for dinner the next night and they were so good. Even my husband liked them and he hates fish.
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heroes and ribs

I apologize for not writing more often but I cannot express to you, my lovely audience, how dadgum hot it is down here. By the end of the day we stumble back to the hotel, take cold showers and fall asleep. I would love to write little bits about funny things that happen, funny things that people say, funny things that people wear, but my brain has been seared by the unrelenting Texas sun.

But tonight I will tell you a story (or two).

Last night we ate dinner with Sharon and John at the lovely sack lunch airstream. They grilled up some delicious p.i.g. and chicken. With fresh vegetables and salad, and artichoke dip and cowboy candy dip. It was so much fun. We ate good food and sat around and told stories and laughed.

Tonight we were lucky enough to get some of Shorty's ribs before they sold out. He cooks them up out behind the office, only on Fridays and when they're gone, they're gone. He doesn't charge anything for the food but takes donations. We're going to pig out (pun totally intended) and watch the first season of heros.

Every night on the drive home we count the frogs and toads that jump out in front of the truck and last night we made it to five when we got bonus points for seeing a momma raccoon and her 4 babies. The frog record is fifteen.

We have a huge spider that lives at the top of our porch, I think her name is Charlotte and every morning and every night we have to disturb her web to put up the rain guards (tarps) and I think she's starting to get mad. We don't know what kind of spider she is but she huge and very brightly colored. Some people call her a banana spider.


We have a new colony of fire ants that just sprung up in the lawn out front of our porch. They are evil.

I met a lovely pair of gentlemen (not like that) this afternoon. I bought a bunch of old pictures from them and while I sat there and sorted through all of the tubs they tried to guess my name. They still haven't figured it out.

I've bought all sorts of wonderful things to sell on etsy and make jewelry with. I came down here with my resin pendants and some old opticians lens pendants and my usual recycled vintage stuff and I've almost sold out!! Thank you Texas!



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trick or treat

Halloween is right around the corner. Well, maybe down the block and to the right
but I digress (I've always liked that phrase).
I need a good costume. I haven't really gotten into Halloween for years even though it is one of my favorite holidays.

In the past I have been a ballerina, a cowgirl (more than once), a person who could dance with themself (I was half girl, half boy) I was wearing a suit and half a tie on one side and a pretty pink dress with tights on the otherside, it was awesome! I've been a pixie, a farmer, and a frozen vampire. But this year? I need something good...

I wish I had photos to go with this part, but here are some of the best costumes I've ever seen or heard about:

Glowstick stick person. (you can search youtube for an example.)
Last year I saw a guy wearing a wrapped box with a big tag on it that said "To: Women From: God"
I just read about a guy dressing all in grey with cotton balls glued to himself and carrying a squirt bottle, he was "partly cloudy with a chance of rain"
I saw a woman a few years ago who was dressed in black with numbers all over herself, she was "somebody you could count on"

Who are you going to be?

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welcome to giddings

We have arrived.
11:21 pm
A balmy 76 degrees.
Giddings high won their football game tonight.
And we only got lost a couple of times on the way here.

Here's a photo I snapped in Memphis, Tx along the way.
It's a cool little town where you could spend all day taking pictures.


Time to sleep, no more drivey...

xo

on the road again...

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denver, oklahoma, texas

Here is the coolest picture I took today. We were stopping at some construction in the middle of the night in the middle of a wind farm and my dad stopped the truck and then backed up about 30 feet so that we could play around with this shot while we waited for traffic to start moving again.



This is the second coolest picture I got today. His name is Dozer and he guards this car.


More tomorrow.
xo