Chick weekend at a glance

This is the cabin we stay in for chick weekend. We've been going for the past seven years? I'm sure it's seven.
Okay, let's unload the van......



I know I repeated your photo Annie. Sorry. But it was imporatnt to the progression.

Can you smell the cabin smell? We all know what that smell is don't we?



The altar and headboard:







Guess who this is trying to save out butts because I locked us out of the cabin? Such a Lucy.




The Black Madonna, Falafel, Gyros and Oompah!



Peaceful creek walk on Saturday





Saturday Night Dinner:





Sunday In Nashville & Yellowwood: (don't run over the turtle!)







I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
till the landslide brought me down

Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail thru the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life

Well, Ive been afraid of changing
cause Ive built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
Im getting older too

Oh, take my love, take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down

If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well maybe the landslide will bring it down

Life is full these days with Soccer practice, dance classes, guitar lessons, selling script, walking with my chicks, wendy's bunday at school, 8th grade meetings, 6th grade meetings and 8th grade pizza parent bunday. All this while fighting off a cold. I took yesterday and napped and layed around in order to feel better today. A hard task , but I had to.

I look forward to some down time to transfer plants in the garden before the chore of leaf raking takes over. Fall is in full swing and the hickory nuts are everywhere!


After filling the birdfeeders It's been a bird sanctuary here these days. The hummingbird feeders need to be put away and other seed feeder put in its place. I would love bird feeders at every window.


This weekend would have been chick weekend. We are not able to make it this year due to circumstances out ouf our control. I will miss it immensely.
I would like to send out an inviataion to go out and at least have some flaming saganaki as a toast to our lost chick weekend.

oompah!! girls, I miss you.





Lorine's Bracelet:






Japanese Chainmaille:

Blood Sisters

Do you remember being blood sisters or just hearing about it?
I remember becoming blood sisters with two other girls whose names and face escapes me now. But, I do remember the details. I was the only one who actually poked their finger with a needle, while the other two just picked some old scab to get it to bleed again. We did it anyway dispite the legalities.

Just this past weekend, my daughter Amy and her two closest friends at school decided they wanted to become blood sisters. They took this very seriously. I asked the parents if they were on board with this ceremony and they were!!! We ended up exchanging stories about our experiences with names remembered or not, we did remember the act of poking ourselves with something sharp and producing blood at the sacrifice of others. Your not going to forget that.

To me this act of sisterhood gives the currant friendship a more sense of committment, responsibly and loyalty. This is the respect that should be given to all our sisterians....agreed?

The event took place at our house with dinner and a sleepover. After playing soccer in the front yard for hours and dinner, they were ready. They requested candles, sterilized needles and fingers then off to bedroom.
I closed the door behind me and waited. Ten minutes later, they came out and said the 'pins' I gave them were not workng. The skin on thier fingers were picked up just a bit. just enough to make it look like they tried.

"LOL!!! Okay...now what?"
"How about we try knives?"
"What? your parents are going to kill me!"
"No, no...it will be okay, were just going to prick our fingers. it won't take long!"

Knives all around. I closed the door behind me and waited.
Another ten minutes or so and out they came having accomplished the deed. No knives were needed. barely any needles either except for one girls who managed to poke herself with it and produce blood. The other two PICKED A SCAB!! Hello? Isn't that freaky? History was repeating itself!!! I laughed so hard I needed Depends or start up the kegels again!!!.

I hope Amy remembers names and faces thirty years from now. I've yet to find out what words were spoken during their ceremony. I hope to find out soon. I 've known these girls since they were in Kindergarden. I like them very much. I even love them. "We are related now!" they said. " We were already" I said.

Fall Equinox:

In a few days the Fall equinox will mark the first day of fall. Fall has been here for weeks now I swear. This is my favorite time of year so I'm glad it came early.

After dropping off the girls, I was driving down Riverside on my way home and the sun came out for the ride . A new front on the horizon threathening rain with the clouds rolling up like mountains in the distance making me feel, for just a few seconds, that I am somewhere else. At the same time the sun's angle changes the once familar landscape into something new and unfamilar adding to the sense that I am somewhere else just briefly. Meanwhile, I have sun for the ride home. Not only the sun but a huge rainbow. I believe the pot of gold this time was Saint Mary's Church.
Hello Fall.



The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive,
Well-honeyed hum,
And I cut
Chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze.
- September, John Updike

I had square to spare

I enter photo type themes on occasion at Flickr. This month for the" lilie 3 a day" group, the theme is lilie with raindrops. Well, this is technically a lily, so I am entering it. No prizes, just for fun.






Okay, between the aggressive bees and these spiders I am so ready for the first frost. ewwwww!!!!


Sweet little woolie.

My Oh My

"This concrete road used to just be dirt
We'd drive out here after work
Every Friday night when I was eighteen

This parking lot used to be a field
I parked here in my Oldsmobile
Long before the Sonic and the Walgreens

Not no more
Not no more
My, oh my
Look how the time flies
Look how the world changes
In the blink of an eye
My, oh my
Look how the years have flown
Turning around before you know it
Up and gone
Oh my, oh my, oh my

Times have changed and so have I
I once was young and starry-eyed
Now I have these bittersweet memories

Songs were long and gas was cheap
No cell phones and water was free
Daddy paid and I never had to worry

Not no more
Not no more
My, oh my
Look how the time flies
Look how the world changes
In the blink of an eye
My, oh my
Look how the years have flown
Turning around before you know it
Up and gone
Oh my, oh my, oh my"
~`The Wreckers

Dale Chichuy & Lampwork

The Art Beat

This was my booth at the Art Beat this year. It was very exciting and fun being there. The weather was perfect. I was so glad to have my friends Corrine and Cheryl here to help out. All the hummingbird feeders went first thanks to Cheryl's sales technique.
I'm not quite sure where i want to go with jewlery, but I'm sure it's not sitting in a booth every weekend. Two or three times a year will do.

Thank you to all my friends for your encouraging words and support. I needed the push.
Love you.

You can view some of the jewelry that was in the booth by going to my Photo site .

Pink Turtlehead, Lyon's Turtlehead "Hot Lips"

~"But now in September the garden has cooled, and with it
my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of
beating on my head ... The harvest has dwindled, and I
have grown apart from the intense midsummer
relationship that brought it on."
- Robert Finch