Day 154 ~ Yellow flowers

Last year I riped all of these out before they bloomed. I didn't realize that it was a plant. I actually think it is a type of ground cover because they have really spread out this year.
I saw this moth on the hollyhock while walking back into the house...cute little guy!

Day 153 ~ Blackwidow

We have a few of these in the garage. I usually set off bug bombs but after last year doing it four times and most bugs survived and all my things in the totes smelled like bug bomb, I decided not to this year. She is living in one of my speakers.

Day 152 ~ Igo California

Jaylene and I headed out to the middle of no where to locate Igo cemetery. After driving 30 miles outside Redding, 25 miles more than what Find A Grave stated, we found ourselves a little lost. We asked a local at the post office and three other people at the general store/bar with no luck. Igo is a very cute town and the people are pretty nice. We ended up in Ono, a town about 10 miles outside of Igo. We did find the Ono Cemetery, not Igo. I've been thinking about it and I bet both cemeteries are there. So, Jaylene and I will have to make another trip up there.

This grave hunting is pretty exciting! I bought Jaylene a little broom and dustpan, and a lot of batteries for my canon p&s. She seemed a little more excited about our adventure yesterday.

I am really happy with this shot. You know sometimes when you see something and you talk yourself out of stopping to take the photo? I almost did that with this one, I am so glad I didn't. It is a handheld HDR. I love this as my screensaver!!

Day 151 ~ Find A Grave

My mom has me hooked on Find A Grave!! Everyday I'm becoming more & more like her and it scares the crap-o out of me! LOL I love my mom.

I signed up yesterday and I've already found 9 out of 12 at this cemetery. It is a site where people who work on genealogy can build pages of memorials & family trees. It's actually pretty neat. Jaylene wasn't too thrilled about our adventure but I'm going to attempt to make it more fun for her today by giving her my point & shoot canon and she can help take pictures. I didn't feel comfortable posting the headstones I did get photos of so I posted this sign that was at one of the graves.

Today we are going to two different cemeteries. One has three, and the other has eight. I'm excited. I get to take photos and also help people with finding or completing their pages.

Findagrave.com

Day 150 ~

I found these cute little pink flowers coming up in the backyard! The wind was blowing and I was shooting handheld, I took about 30 of these before I got it crisp enough!



If anyone hasn't seen Avatar, I am highly recommending it! What an amazing movie, loved the graphics and special effects! I wish I was an Avatar there and had a camera! I'm hoping for a sequel!! Yes, I cried throughout the movie! I must be emotional lately, then again I cry when I watch the Brawny commerical! LOL

Day 149 ~ Chris' Redemption

Look at those nice lines!!

Chris was doing 'shopping cart' moves while mowing, cracking me up!

J and Chris pretending they couldn't move the mower!

After 12 hours at work, Chris came home and mowed the back yard for me. I am very grateful! I rewarded him with a cold beer and a shot of Bushmills. Thank you honey for doing an amazing job on the lawn!

Day 148 ~ Baseball Sunset

Happy Birthday to my mother-in-law!!!!!

Jaylene and I went out to Big League of Dreams last night to watch a friends son play ball. I was able to get a few good pictures of Holden. Since I haven't asked Tina if I can post a picture of Holden, I'm going to use the sunset pictures.


I'm late on posting this morning because I decided to mow the front lawn, definately not my brightest idea. For those of you that know me well, when I want something done it usually means within the next 5 minutes. I'm not the type of person to ask for help either, and I hate depending on someone else to do things. I am very anal about how the lawn looks and the lines. So, since I was such a nice wife (LOL) and let Chris do absolutely nothing on his last day of vacation, I decided to mow today. I really wanted the lawn mowed yesterday, or really even Saturday would have been great. My back is not thanking me now. It's been great being able to walk around the last four days with little pain & of course now I'm hurting again.
Chris is back to work today, and although I enjoyed the past 12 days with him, I'm happy he has returned to work. I don't think we've spent that much time together in almost 2 years. He will have to mow the back when he gets home though. Poor guy.

It's beautiful today, 10:30am and already 80 degrees!! Well I better get started on the laundry. I hope everyone enjoys the day!