#273/365--Date Night, in Parts, with Mikey

Part 1:  Where should we go?

(Red Robin)

Part 2:  Fender Bender

(wasn't my fault, all's well)

Part 3:  Trinity vs. Bell football game

(Trinity wins!)

Thanks, Michael, for a fun night!  Love you!

#272/365--Twilight

Went for a walk with Mikey around the park while Lauren had youth group...beautiful dusk-time...



#271/365--Blanket

#270/365--Fen Le Ren

Lauren--studying for Chinese test--that's her name in Chinese...

...and this is how it's pronounced in Chinese...

...and this is how she feels about studying.  :D

#269/365--Cooler

Nice temps...maybe I have recess duty this week...??



#268/365--Cats and Dogs

#267/365--Mommys and Daughters

#266/365--The Office

The water backpack...hilarious!

#265/365--Baseball Reader

Makes me smile in my heart.

#264/365--Amazement

Pictures just don't do this Beauty justice.  It was like a double rainbow inside a rainbow or something...it was thick and vibrant and just plain old gorgeous.  There were colors that I didn't even know existed...it was amazing. 

#263/365--More Sunrise to Sunset, and Some In-Between

Sunrise...

Not a good picture of a spider web outside of school...

...Glorious sunset...

#262/365--No Contact

I mean no malevolence toward anyone, but we found humor in this commercial today...do you see why we found it amusing?

#261/365--Washing

#260/365--From Sunrise to Sunset

#259/356--Literacy Night

#258/365--No.....Way......

Yesterday when I got home, Sandy had done very well in her new Kennel.  Today, however...was another story...

...not only had she gotten the door off and ripped her toenails off again, she had also torn up the slightly expensive, nice bedding I had gotten her.  All this after she had her "Dog-EASE" prozac treat.

I'm a tad frustrated.

#257/365

I'm counting this as a sick day--I didn't take a picture on this day because I wasn't feeling well all day.  If I had taken a picture, it might have been a used Kleenex, sinus medicine, a Neti pot, my chicken noodle soup can, my hot tea...or of the clock that read 8:30 pm the last time I looked at it before I passed out.  So, you at least have some images in your mind of what MIGHT have been #257.

#256/365--Dog Days

My doggie's dog days are numbered.  The older she gets, the worse her nervousness gets and  her weak excretory system is failing her.  I've used a crate before...but the crate I used may have been too big--and she clawed her toenails off when she was placed inside.  So I bought a new one.  This one has a "disc" inside of it that emits a "pheromone" --the same pheromone that a mommy dog emits to calm her puppies.  Apparently, a dog knows that scent their entire life.  This crate also came with a blanket that has lavender and chamomile scent on it. 

...and that's not all.  I also bought some calming treats which are also infused with chamomile and lavender AND tryptophan--for use when a known storm is coming--shoot the way things have been going I might just give her one daily--like a sort of valium/paxil for dogs.  On top of these things, I bought a special collar.  No, not a shock collar, although I was tempted, it's a collar that also contains the "mommy-pheromone" and lavender and chamomile.

My smoke alarms went off the other day when I lost power to indicate to me that they had lost their source of power--they are electrical.  I was at work. This freaked my dog out. 

Yes.  I am done with this dog.  I love her so much but one can only clean up so much pee and poop after one gets a little worn out over it.  If only urine and feces were the least of it...did I mention she tore my new blinds down again?  Or that she is scratching violently at the door frames--trying so hard to escape that she has rubbed her nose raw.

So.  I pray this works for her.  Our little precious Sandy.  We love her and want her to be well. 

#255/365--Rangers SWEEP Yankees!

...and it's always good for the soul to have...

...at a baseball game...!!

#254/365--Contrast

 

This storm blew up pretty quick...here was the cloud we saw on the way home from church...about an hour later, we had thunder and lightning and a freaked out dog at our house!   I love the contrast in colors...and what's more--this cloud was in the east, the sun was setting in the west, and you can see the reflection of the sun off of the clouds in the backgroud....

#253/365-Starbucks Sunrise

After getting Starbucks this morning, I paused in the parking lot at Home Depot and drank deep of the sunrise.  It was breathtaking. 

#252/365--Word Yahct

It's like Yahtzee with letters (you make words)...a game Mike and I like to play--one of our simple pleasures.

#251/365--Domo

#250/365--Thread

Oh Knight in Shining Armor, where ART THOU?!

#249/365--Good Group

#248/365--Workout Equipment

I just felt the need to post my workout equipment.  I didn't take any other pictures today--but I'm celebrating weightloss, will power, determination, and endurance...I've lost 20 pounds since January!!

#247/365--Bowling

Game 1...

Game 2...

Game 3...

Game 4...

#246/365--Joy in Grace

My dear friend, Tara's niece, Grace--in my class this year--doing our Bubble Palace experiment.

This is why I teach Kindergarten.  True joy is found in such simple things.

#245/365--And More Rainbows

#244/365--Wet Spot

No, it's not urine.  I would tell you the story but then I'd really feel like an idiot, so I'll leave you wondering.