Purses

This line-up in the church basement before last Sunday's potluck caught my eye. We teach them young--the owner of the little red purse is 5 years old!

My turn to "confess"--"What's in my purse?" Several pens, lip gloss, ibuprofen, bandaid, comb, cell phone (usually), kleenex, extra keys, pocket calendar (that's my "brain" or I wouldn't know where to be when!), church ladies' booklet, a CD (probably could replace that with a thumb drive, or just leave it out), checkbook, emery board, nail clipper/small tool set, mints or hard candy, dental floss, chapstick, billfold (coins, credit cards and cash, plus insurance cards, driver's license, and every store seems to want you to have a "discount card" or a "punch card"), mini-flashlight, misc. coupons, shopping list, . . and sometimes I squeeze in the camera!

I've always liked a purse with a long shoulder strap, and with lots of pockets and compartments, preferably zippered or snapped--so I can keep track of where everything is, supposedly! :-) I remember one white purse with an exceptionally long strap in 5th or 6th grade. Hmm... I probably I wasn't very tall at that age. Do you suppose that's why it was so long?

I feel lost if my purse isn't hanging from my shoulder when I go somewhere.

An Update

• July

• It wasn't our turn for a great wheat harvest. Happy for those in the western Kansas county where I used to live--their crop was super this year!
• T took top gold in her project at FCCLA nationals! She spent the next week at our church camp (where K was a counselor this year.)
• B entered two "old treasures" in the county fair, earning blue and red ribbons.
• We helped some good friends load up and move/lost our best renters ever.
• T went with a friend to the friend's church camp for a week.
• K, for the first time in her twenty years, visited the emergency room and had to have stitches (seven on her chin) after bouncing too high on our teeter-totter! : o
• Canned over 100 quarts of dill pickles.
  

• August
• We actually found a few days on the calendar available for all five of us, so took a short family vacation to Missouri.
• Table Rock Lake-B's sister and brother-in-law were wonderful hosts, as usual, and we had lots of fun time on and in the water.
• Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun-a great, though long, day. We ALL did the Ripcord this year! What was I thinking--180 feet up, with only one way down?! It was awesome!!!
  
• My mom visited for a week! We took part in the Relay for Life, hung new dining room and living room curtains, got those rooms cleared of clutter just in time to host a neighborhood ladies group, and just had a good time!
• T- started her senior year in high school!
  
• K-headed back for her third year of college.
• Had my church circle and hubbies here for (an indoor) picnic/farewell for our interim pastor.
  

Coming soon...

to a blog near you (this one!)--An Update--but I don't think it's going to happen today.
Just wanted to let you know I'm still here--enjoying summer and some good time with my family. Thanks for checking in, and I'll try to post by the end of this week.

Sorry, Stacey, It's Not Red!

I don't think I ever mentioned or showed what carpet we finally decided on this spring. Here Ching is checking it out before we moved the furniture back in. This isn't the greatest photo... mostly it shows vacuum cleaner tracks... but you can see it's much lighter than the "gold tones" carpet we had before. And it's not sculptured... hooray!

Oops-sorry if you have sculptured carpet and like it! : ) But like I said before, our old carpet had done its duty! This sure brightened up the front rooms and hallway, and I love how it feels to walk on it!

Day Lily Fun

Summer Lunch

Corn, cucumbers and tomatoes from the garden. Green beans for supper!

You Never Know What You'll See

These are just some of the things that caught my eye during the trip to Oklahoma last week.

And we're off!

T left on her California FCCLA trip this morning.

K has been home from her summer church camp counseling job since Tuesday (Fourth of July break) and goes back in the morning.

I leave in the morning too--headed for Oklahoma with our church youth group on a service trip with YouthWorks!

B and M will hold down the fort here--finishing up the wheat harvest, putting up hay, etc.

Now why didn't I figure out how simple that making links business was before this?

In case anyone is wondering, I did find that lost to-do list a couple of weeks ago. It was, well, uh, it was in the bathroom closet. (she said peevishly, with a slight hint of red on her face!) Isn't that a perfectly logical place for a list?

Sorry no pictures. Need to finish laundry, paying bills, packing, ............ Will update sometime after the trip.

Neighborhood Celebration

We celebrated the Fourth on the 30th. A friend is licensed to use the big fireworks, and puts on quite a show to honor our independence. Sorry I didn't get a photo of the flag flying proudly that evening.

Eenie, meenie, miney, moe

T and I made cake mix cookies the other day. Thanks, gmj, for the simple recipe!
Threw in some mini chocolate chips and some toffee chips in the last batch. Tasty!