Camera Critters 10.11 - The Zoo

Another trip to the zoo this weekend. This time we went to the Minnesota Zoo. I took 157 pictures total... I don't think I'll post them all today :)

Sorry... I like the cats!

But I did get some fun shots of the grizzlies... (I think they were my favorites)
I think this was a red panda.... a bald eagle who had a broken wing.....sea horses. They are so fun to watch. I never knew they held onto things with their tails!

Friday Fun

1. What is your idea of a perfect relaxing day? - A day out at the lake fishing... not one fight from the demons... the lawn already mowed and everything fixed so hubby can fish with us.
2. Your first real boyfriend/girlfriend,… do you look back fondly or do you get the shudders? Where are they today? I can look back and smile. We had some great times. But when I think about what he's turned out to be it makes me really sad and a lot disgusted. Never in a million years would I have imagined him, of all people, to become what he is today.
3. What was your favorite subject in school? English composition.
4. What is your favorite show on TV? Favorite book? Favorite song? Favorite TV show? I have to pick one? Days of our Lives, I suppose. Or Little House. Favorite book? Thats easy - Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel. Favorite Song? Probably Uptown Girl by Billy Joel.
5. My husband’s only real competion is Wentworth Miller from Prison Break. Who is your celebrity crush? do I really have to answer this one? Ok, for those of you who don't know me, I'll tell you. For those of you who know me you can say it along with me - Mel Gibson. My lesbian crush is Angelina Jolie, though.
6. Since I got my first gray hair at 16, Miss Clairol and her friends are my close, personal friends! What about you? To dye or not to dye the hair? If so, what color is your natural hair (if you remember!) and what color do you dye it? my natural color is med/dark brown. I usually highlight it with dark blonde.

Food 4 Thoughts

Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions

Breakfast
Would you rather be really hot or really cold? - I guess really hot? Who would want to be cold?

Lunch
Name three things (modern conveniences) you could not live without?
1. Indoor Plumbing. An outhouse wouldn't bother me so much. We use one when we go out to the lake in the summer... it's not that big of a deal. But I could not handle taking a bath in a big tub that had to have water boiled/warmed up... and then share the water. Nope, that I wouldn't want to to do. Send me down to the lake/river and I'd take a bath there first.
2. Fingernail polish remover. I hate waiting for it to wear off by itself. It takes months sometimes.
3. Peanut Butter Cups. Need I explain why?

Dinner
If you were the eighth dwarf, what would your name be? - Cutey

Midnight SnackWould you rather live to be 100 and sick, or live to be 50 (dying from a freak accident) and healthy? - depends on the sick. Am I sick, miserable, needing to be taken care of? Then kill me off at 50. Am I sick, just feel like crap all the time but still have moments when I can enjoy my children, grandchildren and friends? Then bring on the germs.

Recipe for this Week (instead of your recipe for life - what is it for just this week?) - there's nothing you can't do, some things just take a little longer.

PLEASE PLAY !!!! Come on you know you want to!

To play along go here.

Socks with colored houses, princesses and pictures

play here!

1. How long do you keep unmatched socks before you get rid of them... and how do you dispose of these socks? Years. I'm afraid to throw them out because I know that when I do.... I'll find the other. I still have socks the girls wore in kindergarten that are still waiting for the matches.
   
2. If you could paint your house ANY color you wanted and your friends, family & neighbors would love the color from the moment they saw it, what would it be? Bright yellow with pink shutters & baby blue trim... and a purple roof.
3. Which Disney prince/princess would you want to be and why? Snow White. Live in the woods with all those animals? Heaven.
   
4. What was the last thing you took a picture of? I took a picture of a picture.

a day out with Saki

Wordless Wednesday - 10.8

Shhh I know it's supposed to be wordless, but I just have to brag --- yesterday I put my leopard print flannel sheets on our bed for the first time! I love flannel sheets and finding leopard print was a huge bonus for me!
Fall is in the air... and I'm nice and warm at night now.

Deer & guns & t-shirts, OH MY!

It must be the leaves falling... the red, orange & yellow all over the ground.
Maybe it's the cooler temps or maybe it's the pickup trucks with people in camo driving around.

It's hunting season.

And I just can't seem to do any designs besides hunting lately. It's kinda sad. Anytime I open my graphics program to work I want to open up deer and gun images.

The husband is going hunting this year - it's been a few years. Someday I'll go again.... not this year though. I'll just stay home and make deer hunting tshirts.

Camera Critters 10.4

Our Oliver - Mr. Personality.
Who has new friends... Demon #1 got fish for her birthday last week and Oliver seems to enjoy them more than anyone in the house!

Friday Fill-in & Food 4 Thought Friday

Trying out a new meme today :)



1. October always makes me think of orange and I'm not sure why. Pumpkins maybe?
2.You Can't scare me! (total shamless plug here -----> click )
3. Leaves are falling all around, it's time to get my kids and the dogs out into the woods and take some pictures!
4. My favorite horror movie is A Nightmare on Elm Street because it's the first movie I watched and wasn't scared (Psycho was the first) and now our oldest demon is named after one of the characters in the 3rd movie!
5. Those years when I was still young enough to go TorT'ing = good memories. (this is October related afterall!)
6. It was a dark and stormy night when my anxiety would boil over when we lived in the trailer house. Now that we have a house, doesn't bother me.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to hopefully getting the demons to go to the Homecoming game (why won't they go to football games?? Thats the BEST part of school!), tomorrow my plans include sleeping in and Sunday, I want to go to church and not have demon #2 be antsy and drive me nuts!

and..... another meme!



Breakfast
What actor/actress would be most believeable to play you in a movie? It's not because I have this huge lesbian crush on her, either, but I'd have to say Angelina Jolie. For so many reasons. She's beautiful and would make me look better than I actually am, she has a rough exterior but you can just see the softness beneath her skin.... plus she plays a kickass mental patient so she could really do the crazy part of me in the best way.

Lunch
If you were stranded on a lonely beach, what are the five things that you would want to survive? Ok, reading this question it could go either way... what are 5 things I want to survive? Well, one of them would be ME! I'd want me to survive... then I suppose all of the vegitation so I'd have something to eat... um... if I'm stranded by myself then nothing else would be there besides me & the vegitation.
but I know where this question was going so.... 1. a big knife 2. shelter that would withstand a hurricane 3. a good supply of some type of food.. plant life, whatever 4. a big ball of baler twine 5. my husband.
Not my kids - they would drive me to leap off a cliff or something. Just my husband.

wait... nevermind. He'd probably drive me to do the same thing. #5 is Saki. She can fight off rats and stuff for me anyway.

Dinner
What terms of endearment does your significant other call you? What do you call them? Honey. Thats about it both ways. We NEVER call each other by our first names, though, it's funny. It's always "honey".

Midnight Snack
If you could be a fly on the wall, where would you go and why? Mel Gibsons shower. Need I explain why?

Recipe for this Week
(instead of your recipe for life - what is it for just this week?) Just like any other day - don't sweat the small stuff. If it won't matter in 10 years - don't worry about it.

Someone wants to be my friend

and I don't want to be his friend.

I wish he'd get off my laptop.

Flies are icky.

I wish he'd hold still so I can squash him.

He'll stay still for a picture. Go figure.

How come if you go at a fly who is on your laptop screen he'll fly away quick as a cricket... but if you put your cursor underneath him he won't move? Can flies not see things that are on my laptop screen and they are only able to see my hand coming at them in a murderous rampage type fashion? I think its silly. Don't they have like a million eyes or something like that? They should be able to see under them, too.

I'm mad at this fly.

Thusday Thunks... wet socks, super powers, baby oil and fights

Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?
I'm gonna have to go with a wet sock. You could stick toothpicks and wires in the sock to make it more sturdy. I think toothpicks and wires would go right through a banana peel. Plus, bananas are gross.

Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?
Move to the moutains, adopt a cougar, a raccoon and a herd of deer and become a female Grizzly Adams. Won't have to worry about talking to people. Animals don't have the ability to lie.

Create a tagline for a new line of plastic bedsheets.
The most slippery things you will ever sleep on. Just add some baby oil and hang on!

If the Pillsbury Dough Boy got into a fight with Mrs. Butterworth who would win? And would anybody get hurt?
Mrs. Butterworth, of course! Anyone knows that that mama would kick that little puff boys white ass.

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