Scarecrow's overtake our city

We live in a small town? city? We actually have a town square that's very small. Each year they host a scarecrow contest. Anyone can participate, but it's usually businesses. There is a prize for the winner. One morning after we did some errands, the kids and I went and look at all the entries. There were some very creative ones.
I think these were in honor of the big statues at the State Fair this year.

A very non-traditional scarecrow.

I find this one somewhat disturbing. The face is somewhat real looking. But then look at the hands. Strange.
I love K's smile.

This one was actually made by our neighbor across the street. Good job, neighbor!

Hopefully no one will be offended at this next one, but I found it hysterical! Talk about plumber's but.

Putt-putting

Remember when Daddy took the kiddies putt putting while I was gone? One night we had gone out to Plainfield for dinner. On the way home, on a whim, I said "Let's go!" The kids had been wanting to take me ever since I got home.

Notice the total on K's is blank? Yeah, she had too many to add.

September 9, 2010

I have so much "back log" of blogging. I'm hoping to get caught up in the near future!

These pictures are from a spontaneous visit to the park. I can't remember if school got cancelled for the rest of the day or not. Probably. We still have only done like 3 full weeks of school. Pa.The.Tic.

It was very "dew-y" that morning. I took a towel to help dry the slides off. C still wasn't too pleased.

As we were driving out of the park, we saw these deer in the field across the street from the park. We stopped to watch (the kids wanted to stay longer. I'm not sure why; they were just eating). While we were pulled over, some guy zoomed past (between me and the deer) in a little bit of a hurry. Slow down dude and enjoy the nature!

The end result

Did I ever show you the end result of my garden? Next year I plan on doing a much bigger one. Especially more tomatoes.

And here is my "un-gardened" garden.

And even though we didn't purposely grow him, this caterpillar and a friend grew very well in my garden.

Let it snow!

We went from this on July 10th (which doesn't seem like that long ago).......

......to this today. I saw on the news that we got 2.6 inches of snow. When we went to bed Friday night it wasn't snowing at all. When we got up in the morning there was quite a bit on the ground and it didn't stop until late afternoon. (BTW: K girl took this picture. Pretty good, huh?)

And here is how I shovel snow--from the safety of the garage as the supervisor!

When K came in her feet and hands were a nice bright red. (Poor thing doesn't have boots) C has nice boots so his feet were OK. His hands were a little pink but not like K's. She said the warm shower made them sting and itch. Poor thing. Guess I need to look for boots and real gloves.