filling in the gaps

I photographed the luminaria on Memorial Day.
















I went to a friend's graduation party...and realized it'll be my turn in two years.


I attended Timothy's bridging over--translation, he went from wolf scout to Webelos (the final level before he becomes a boy scout)


I found out that Lloyd Alexander had died on May 17th. It was a sad discovery.
When I was about 12, I read nearly all of his books. I've always loved fantasy. My dad read The Hobbit to me at age seven (Thanks, Dad!), and I read the entire Chronicles of Narnia at age eight. I was hooked. Lloyd Alexander's books only assured me that my love of fantasy was not to go unrewarded. Now I get to watch my brothers read them.


And finally, I entered two pieces in the teen art show at our library.

A postcard...of sorts

This last weekend, the boys were all of on a scout camping trip, so I got out my project, a skirt that I was wanting to make, and sewed away, all morning, all afternoon...you get the point--and now it is all finished--except the hem, which is being postponed #1 because I am too lazy (and too busy) to pin it #2 because I can't get the sewing machine to work at the moment *angry eyebrows* and I don't exactly know how to or feel like fixing it, so that will just have to wait.

Update

hellooooo.....? (can't you hear the echos?)

• Friday, the little girl next door had a birthday party. It was very sweet, little girls, all about seven years old, in brightly colored party dresses, giggling and feeding the catfish, tumbling around in the huge hammock, chasing each-other playing musical chairs, and screaming when it was 'cake-time' I had fun just sitting on our deck watching them, it was quite a sight.
• Saturday, dad took Caleb and Timmy to Quantico for a scouting event. Daniel and I played catch with a football for an hour. For dinner, mom took us two out to Vinny's for pizza, then down the same strip-mall to Rita's for frozen custard. The summer job idea has been ditched-I'll probably think about it in a couple of years though. I've just made the discovery that a mud room is not a personal mud/spa room you can have built into your house.
• Sunday was spring-cleaning day at Harvest-View, where we go once a month for Lord's Supper Sunday. The church looks great. The downstairs now has it's first coat of 'Confederate Blue' paint, the gutters have been cleaned, with new gutter guards put on, windows are sparkling, etc.=a lot of sore backs and a beautiful church.
• Monday night was Daniel's Court of Honor at Boy Scouts, and he got his Tenderfoot badge.

that's all till next time--bye!