A Birthday Greeting from Cardiff

Thanks Annie.

The 46th year.

Flowers given for my 46th year.
The sky this morning was a growing palet of watercolors.
The flora crispy with frost.

Mornings like this, my mind immediately goes to those who don't have a warm home, coat or meal.
The need to help those who don't have, grows within me with every passing year.
I wait only until my children are grown and gone from home to do more than what we do now.
Because in my mind, the need will still be there, even then.
In the meantime, helping to supply the food bank will have to do for my soul.

This week is filled with Thanks. We have three dinners in three days! Tons of food, conversation, laughter and family we haven't seen since last season. I believe we will all be in a food coma by Sunday! It will be a Harry Potter weekend and a sneak preview of the fifth movie will be shown. Not sure which day. But I'm sure we won't miss it.

We still have a day or two worth of leaves to get up. I Hope to get these out of the way this weekend so I can plan some kind of Christmas decor. My Christams shopping is almost done. Anything else we 'need' will be online or at the drugstore down the street.

My idea Christmas scene is walking down heavily decorated city streets and store fronts while large snow flakes float down. Maybe I should buy a snowglobe?


Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! and "Pass the cranberries!"

We'll do it all
every thing
on our own
we don't need
anything
or anyone

if i lay here,
if i just lay here,
would you lie with me,
and just forget the world


i don't quite know
how to say
how i feel


those three words
are said too much
but not enough


if i lay here,
if i just lay here,
would you lie with me,
and just forget the world


forget what we're told
before we get too old
show me a garden
thats bursting into life


let's waste time chasing cars
around our heads
i need your grace
to remind me
to find my own


if i lay here,
if i just lay here,
would you lie with me,
and just forget the world


forget what we're told
before we get too old
show me a garden
thats bursting into life


all that i am
all that i ever was
its here in your perfect eyes
they're all i can see
i don't know where
confused about how as well
just know that these things
will never change for us at all


if i lay here,
if i just lay here,
would you lie with me,
and just forget the world


~ Snow Patrol




Top News Headlines This Week:
Nov 22 - French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
Nov 23 - Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
Nov 23 - Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
Nov 23 - Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
Nov 24 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
Nov 25 - "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio

Top Songs for 1960
Running Bear by Johnny Preston Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Elvis Presley
Stuck On You by Elvis Presley
Teen Angel by Mark Dinning
It's Now or Never by Elvis Presley
Theme from A Summer Place by Percy Faith
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own by Connie Francis
Cathy's Clown by Everly Brothers
Save the Last Dance for Me by Drifters

US President
Dwight D. Eienhower

US Vice President
Richard M. Nixon

1960 Prices
Bread: $0.20
Milk: $1.04 gal
Eggs: $0.90 doz
Car: $2,275
Gas: $ 0.31/ gal

Academy Award Winners

Best Picture: The Apartment
Directed By Billy Wilder
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster
in Elmer Gantry
Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor
in Butterfield 8
House: $18,500
Stamp: $0.04/ea
Avg Income: $6,227/yr
Min Wage: $1.00/hr
DOW Avg: 616


People born on November 22
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack, Back to School)
1943 - Billie Jean King Cal, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75)
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis Los Angeles CA, actress (Anything But Love, Halloween)
1961 - Mariel Hemingway Ketchum Id, actress (Manhattan, Personal Best)

On TV in 1960

Gunsmoke Perry Mason The Twilight Zone
The Flinstones I Love Lucy Bonanza
Leave it to Beaver The Andy Griffith Show The Ed Sullivan Show
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Hot New Toys in 1960
Give-A-Show Projector Atomic Cape Canaveral Playset Aggravation
Etch-A-Sketch Hi-Ho! Cherry-O Mr. Machine

Top Books in 1960

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
copyright 1997-2006 dMarie Direct Inc

Amalgam

My time has been in the basement trying to keep it warm with loads of laundry. An assembly line of hummingbird feeders and a few jewelry orders fills my freetime. I had a showing last weekend at a church bizarre and another one will be December 3rd at a varsity club in town. I'll be in a row of vendors such as Tastefully Simple, Pampered Chef and Tupperware. Do you see a pattern here? I don't exactly fit in but it is exposure. I made reservations for a booth next year at Trinity's Christmas Bizarre. This year was already filled up. Too bad. With Trinity Christmas Bizarre, the Artbeat, Wild bird Unlimited and hopefully Artistic Touch, I should have a nice flow of sales and orders for Hummingbird feeders and maybe some jewelry by next year. Word of mouth is getting around at school and a want to 'see'/ 'shop' or 'make' is being requested. Not sure how to handle that. Somehow I need to get creative with this or just drop it. I can't deal with all the Chrsitmas Decorations going up already. The larger than life yard blow up decorations are so ugly!! I swear, people just don't have taste or dignity. Or maybe I just don't know how to have fun when it comes to the holidays anymore. I have no desire to hang up lights or drag out all the dusty Christmas crap I have stashed in the attic. My enthusiasum for Christmas lasted about one day when I bought a package of Christmas cards with the intent of actually assembling them and sending them out. They so suck! Why did I buy them?
I want to take them back and tell them to shove them! The ribbon that came with the kit is much shorter than the sample itself, making assembly impossible according to the 'sample'. So now I have to make my own alterations in order for it to work out. Man.... I need a fresh approach to this holiday. One that doesn't cause me to get into a funk. Having kids pushes me to perform where I would just prefer to let slide. With that said, Blue will be the color for this season. So blue lights it is! Okay..... now I have to go out and spend money on blue lights!! arrrgh.

Not one acorn has been seen this year. The squirrles are out of control with their panic to find a food source which includes all of my birdfeeders!!!!!!!!! To purchase a bag of cob corn will only invite critters that I don't want hanging out in my yard eye-balling my feeders when the corn runs out. What to do.........

We won't be having guests staying in our home this weekend for the Army game. The tickets that were promised to them were given to family memebers . The whole B&B has been a dissapointment except for all the work tha got done that needed to get done in the first place. But it is only the first year and we already have an 'in' with some of the local B&B's with their overflow. So lets hope Notre Dame wins this weekend so the crowd will grow for next years football season. Go Irish!!!!
( making a sour face because I can't believe I said that).


"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer: but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
~ Henry David Thoreau ~


~Amalgam (uh-MAL-guhm) noun
A mixture of diverse elements.

Happy Halloween!!

Frankin-Broom



Hallloween was cold but at least dry. We went to Corrine's neighborhood with the homeschooling group. We were the gang in that neighborhood. Trading candy, hot soup and cider and plenty of neighbohood friend filled the house last night. It felt like the party was geting started when we had to leave to assume our nightly routine.

popcorn amy:


Hornbeck's throw-up pumpkin:


Fortune teller Kelsey: free fortune with every piece of candy given.