Red hat Bingo luncheon

Had lunch with my Red Hat sisters today! Love those awesome ladies. One of our ladies made all of us beautiful round potholders, so pretty! I hope you are all enjoying your day.

More butterflies (caterpillars)

Today was movie day at mom's, we watched THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, very good, better than the first ones, then HOT PURSUIT, with Reese Witherspoon and Sophia Vergara , very, very funny, loved it! Always enjoy my Tuesdays with mom so much. Then I was out in the garden and found these caterpillars all over my carrot/weed patch. I took a wild guess, and when I googled found out I was right, the yellow swallow tail butterfly caterpillar...it seems we always have them around here each summer...they were eating the leaves off of the carrots, but I don't care, looking forward to having these beautiful butterflies around the garden....I hope you all had a great day!

Sweet tater wedges

I made these sweet potato wedges for lunch and they were so good! They were easy too! I found my new favorite way to eat them.

• 3 small sweet potatoes (about 2 pounds)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons garlic-flavored olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
• 2 teaspoons minced fresh rosemary
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
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Preparation

Preheat oven to 450°.
Peel sweet potatoes; cut each potato lengthwise into 8 wedges. In a large bowl, combine sweet potatoes and remaining ingredients; toss well to coat.
Arrange potatoes in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake potatoes at 450° for 30 minutes or until soft and lightly browned, turning wedges after the first 15 minutes. Serve immediately.

Brad's 50th Birthday

We had a great time at my brother-in-law's 50th birthday party, lots of the Halterman's were there, some we hadn't seen in a very long time. The food was awesome, and there was lots of laughs all around. It was really hilarious when I spilled a glass of water right in my lap, so my butt and everything was all wet...lol you can imagine the comments....Mom came along too, we sat outside until the locusts started singing, such a nice evening, we all enjoyed it so much, thank you so much Glenna Halterman and Steve Halterman for having us to your home, we appreciate you so much, you sure know how to throw a party...

Lots of good food, as always.

Who gets 3 birthday cakes?   Brad, that's who.

The photo boards

William Jack and his mommy

Grandpa Ben and William Jack

My and my beautiful mommy

Bill got Brad a new gun and Steve got him a gun case.

The brothers.

Monarch chrysalis

I was checking on my caterpillars and what do I see? One of them is in the "J" position and attached to a leaf. I went back out a few hours later and he had already shed his skin and was in his chrysalis. Then I found another chrysalis attached to our fence, looks like it's getting ready to become a monarch butterfly....isn't this chrysalis beautiful? It actually has gold on it, looks like metal. If you look closely at the last picture, you can see the butterfly wings through it....so amazing.

She's Back.. :)

The monarch was back today, this milkweed is full of caterpillars, and I think she was laying more eggs! You can see several caterpillars in the second picture..

Monarch butterfly caterpillars on our milkweed...

Hello friends! Mom and I had movie day today, we watched THE LONGEST RIDE, which starred Clint Eastwood's son, Scott, who is gorgeous, it was a pretty good love story, it was actually two love stories in one, then we watched HOME, the animated alien movie, which was very entertaining as Jim Parsons was the voice for the main character ,"Oh". When I came home I was out looking at my milkweed plant, since I had seen some monarch butterflies on it numerous times, and I was so happy to see these caterpillars on there! This means I will have monarchs hatching right in my back yard.. I have bread in the breadmaker and am watching some old black and white movies from the 40's, I just love the old movies. I hope you have all had a great Tuesday..

Paul's hunter-gatherer diet we can all live with in modern times

I just wanted to save this page, very interesting take on a Paleo type diet.
Paul's hunter-gatherer diet we can all live with     

Stormy Monday...

Good Monday morning, my friends! We just had a nice thunderstorm here in Kinmundy town, cooled it down about 10 degrees, now it's a perfect 72. Time to take a walk....the buzzards were sure enjoying the air currents. I hope you all have a great day! It must be pretty cool to drift arou

nd on the wind.

Happy Anniversary .......21 years and counting.

We celebrated our anniversary today, since we were busy Thursday. We went to Lebanon to Dr Jazz Soda Fountain & Grille for lunch. It is a great (small though) place with a 50's theme, and jazz music playing. It has an old fashioned soda fountain they they actually use. Love it! Then we roamed around town for a while looking in the antique and gift shops. We sat on the corner and did some people watching. Soon it was 92 degrees, so we went to Brewers Bar and grill for a frosty mug of beer. A nice place with quite a lot of people in there for a Saturday afternoon. Spent some more time around town and then drove to Breeze, where we stopped at the Dairy King and had a blizzard...so we won't be eating any food for.....about 4 days...lol...stopped in to visit our friends, Don and Brenda Gordon in Sandoval for a couple of hours and now are back home...what a fun day spent with my sweetie...I hope you all enjoyed your day too.

A really cool 50's theme and jazz music playing, loved it!

Also there were lots of antiques from days gone by.

They even had a working phone booth

Chicago style hot dog and fresh made fries

Emotional bananas

Lots of antiques were in the display windows of Dr. Jazz's as well.

We found a beautiful mini-garden in the center of town too.