Does This Seem Weird To You?

We got a special "Back To School" section in our newspaper this week. I thought it would be full of what I think back to school stuff is. Like the latest book bag styles, study tips, maybe lunch menus. But it wasn't, it was full of classroom assignments and bus schedules. That means that virtually every school-aged child in the county is listed under his or her classroom/homeroom. Which i thought was kind of strange. But then I kept looking through it. I got to the bus routes, which turned out to be detailed schedules of which bus is where and at what home at a specific time (ie: 7:43 Montgomery farm). So, I don't know...is this normal? Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it seems a little scary to me.

Sorry Sam's Club

I'm sorry Sams's Club and everyone who happened to be shopping at your Butler, PA location yesterday afternoon. Sorry for bringing a tired 2 1/2 year old into your doors, strapping her to your cart and allowing her to unleash her blood-curdling scream. However, in all fairness, we were trapped in the car with it's screaming for well over 30 minutes. So I suppose we got what was coming to us? ok, maybe not.

Costumes

On my way back to PA from IL, I stopped at my parents house. While I was there, my mom gave me two red boxes. Guess what was in them...my costumes! So I got them home and washed them up, and here they are hanging on the clothesline.

If you can tell, they consist of the following:
*one gold dress I wore in "Brigadoon"
*one Scottish-looking dress I wore in "Brigadoon" (which my mom made)
*one green tweed suit which I wore in "The Man Who Came to Dinner". An actual vintage 40's dress we got at a thrift store and my mom altered.
*one silly purple dress which looks like it may have been someones prom dress in the 80's (but makes a good "Gone With the Wind" costume.
*two dresses, vintage 60's yellow and light blue, that belonged to a friends mom (who passed away some years ago).
*one Indian dress (I don't know where that came from, or how I came to possess it)
(oh, and one pair of pants belonging to Elinor that got included in that load of laundry)

Random pictures

Zucchini and stuff

Corn

Lettuce

Tomato (I want to try them fried and green)

Zucchini



Val put her recipe for zucchini crumble on their blog...so i thought i would put some pictures of my zucchini (and some other stuff too) on mine. It's been really fun watching everything grow, but I really can't wait to eat those tomatoes...yummmmm.

Photos from "Shades of Grey 4"

So, for some reason I forgot to post the photos that i had in that show. These are the four I submitted. Three of them got in--the one with the window didn't get in, which i thought was funny, because it was probably my favorite out of the four. Also, two of them are featured in cabin 3 at Rock River Bible Camp :)

July 2

Apparently they don't really celebrate Independence Day on July 4th around here. That being said, these photos (of some church members) were taken at our July 2 celebration. I understand it's kind of a tradition for the church to have a little song/devotional time followed by a potluck and fireworks. Not that we set off our own fireworks. We just have a good view of the Cranberry fireworks from the church lawn. I had my tripod set up and my external flash on my camera to practice a few things...didn't really work out that great (at least with the flash) I guess I need more practice. (by the way, that's Daisy with Mel Graham)