A Favorite Picture and some questions...

This is one of my favorite farming pictures that I've taken. The light was just glowing and the beans were looking all golden. You can even see the litte hairs on the pods. Cool. I remember the evening well. Emily, Carter and Casey were playing house along the edge of the field and up in a little tree. It was cold enought to have jackets and small gloves on. We had brought Al something to eat and decided to hang around a while. I was just taking all kinds of pictures. I was trying to capture a sunset and a combine at night with the lights on.  I was freezing my fingers off taking pictures and loving it!!

I haven't had much chance yet this fall, it's been too wet. Next week is looking up...Perhaps I can get some then.

I haven't been posting in a while...seem to have lost any creative flow I had going....oh and Carter and I got strep throat...sorry about that...

I do write 1 to 2 times a week on a blog for the library, if you are interested...http://waverlypubliclibrary.blogspot.com/ Check it out!

Anyhows, I dropped in to a blog I read the other day and she had put some questions out there. They were kind of fun and I thought I'd try a few here...

What is your least favorite thing about laundry??? Mine is putting away. I have no problem getting them clean, can usually fold in front of tv and then they sit in the laundry baskets like a dresser!!! Our house would seem so much less cluttered if I could just get those darn clothes put away!!!

What are you reading right now? I am reading a book called Veil of Night by Linda Howard...Not my typical book, but I am taking a reader's advisory class on mysteries and am supposed to read and review a mystery before class in October! This one happens to be mystery romance. I am not sure I could do it if it was just straight mystery!! *smile*

Name something you love about your "honey". I love the effort he puts forth in everything he does. He works so hard at everything, loving me, possible plans for moving, farming, his work at the city, he always goes that extra mile!!

What's your favorite part of your job? Mine is helping people find a good book!!

One more before it gets to be too much! This is a question Carter keeps asking me....

What's your favorite animal?

I am not sure that I know...I have always loved horses so that's what I am saying today, but being out west this summer I realize I really like a lot of wildlife. It was such fun seeing bears, wolves, coyotes, fox, buffalo!!

So there are a few thoughts to get us started this week!!

Life

I called my sister in law this morning as a bribe for Casey. He loves to talk on the phone and he loves to talk to Aunt A. We needed to get going out the door to the doctor's office for his 2 year check up and so I told him if he hurried and came with Mom we could call Aunt A and he could talk in the car. He talks, translate to listens, with an occasional uh-huh thrown in there for a little while, then yells, Mommy talk! and hands the phone to me.

We were talking about how I had finally gotten around to making Casey's 2 year check up, 2 months later. My sister in law has 3 children also, so she can totally relate. We started talking about laundry, dishes, life, etc. and she says,

Sometimes, life just overwhelms me!

Can any of you relate?? Boy howdy I can! Emily's birthday is in less than a week...Do you think I have anything planned, bought or ready? Nooo! I have piles of laundry all over my floor, clean and dirty, dishes in the sink, in the dishwasher, on the counter; I have piled stuff that needs to go upstairs to the kids' rooms at the bottom of the stairs because I am too lazy to take it up and put it away and so are they! Al even mentioned that I should work a little extra and have someone come and help me that's how bad it is!

Carter has 2 days off of school for kindergarten round up. We'll have to pick up a little, because we have to to survive. But I know we will play instead of clean, because the mess will always be there, long after they are gone.

Besides, which would you rather do....

Laundry and dishes

or

Play trains with two adorable little boys that still think you hung the moon?


CHOO-CHOO!