23/365/2017 - Cryin' Smiley

We drive by this sign every morning on the way to take my son to school. Today this was my daughter's comment, "Non-toxic process says the crying smiley face."

It cracked us up so we took a picture to remember.

10/365/2017 - Ugh!

So tired of using this every day. Rainy weather = more asthma flares ups for me.

3/365/2017 - Just Call Me Old Fashioned

Why dirty the beaters when you can mash 'em the old fashioned way? LOL!

171/365 ~ Wax Lips

I don't even know where she got these but she had a lot of fun with them!

164/365 ~ She Hijacked the Camera #4

She loves the fisheye setting on my camera.

161/365 ~ A Little Front Porch Reading

Reading to pass the time while the food on the barbecue is cooking.

156/365 ~ She Runs the Store

She thinks she's gonna run the store all by herself someday.

149/365 ~ Tutti Frutti

This has to be one of the worst pics I've ever posted... BUT when you stumble upon a promotion for $1.00 frozen yogurt with all the fixin's you just don't pass that up!

Tomato Plants ~ 147/365

These plants were given to us a few weeks back. I finally got them potted last week and meant to take a picture of them then but time got away. They've nearly doubled in size since then!

She Hijacked the Camera #1 ~ 139/365

Admittedly this photo was not taken today, as I cannot seem to locate the photo that was taken today. Was it accidentally deleted? I hope not, but I am beginning to wonder if maybe I forgot to get a pic this day.

As you can see, she was having a bit of fun in the bathroom mirror, instead of brushing her teeth!

Cock-A-Doodle-Do ~ 138/365

This crazy rooster! Remember when I said he had returned? Yeah... Pluses and minuses to his return, that's for sure.

That's him on our fence, crowing at 5:30 in the am. He had been crowing since before the sun was even up too. And boy he sounded close. No wonder! He was right on our fence!

Yohn wasn't thinking and at 5:30 let the dog outside. Koda, our German Shepherd would love to have this bird for a snack so I shot out of bed to ask him if he had checked to see if the rooster was in our yard before letting the dog out. He wasn't, thankfully, but was on our fence and we were fortunate that Koda was merely getting a drink, oblivious as it were, to the noisy alarm clock. After photographing chasing him down we let the dogs back outside.

Later that day, while Yohn was locking up the campus long around 9:30 pm, he noticed something funny on one of the chairs in our multi use room. At first he was thinking it might be a jacket, but decided to investigate further when it moved and found that the crazy animal was all cozied in for the night on the seat of a comfy chair. Apparently he snuck in earlier in the day and no one noticed he was there and locked him inside. I'm sure he was enjoying his accomodations when Yohn rudely placed him outside.

UPDATE: Sadly the adventures of Cornelius the Rooster may have come to an end as he has disappeared once again and who knows if he is gone for good this time or not.

Dinner and a Show ~ 133/365

Using the trampoline as a stage, the kids put on a little show for us while we ate dinner this evening. They planned it for a few hours and even had a program to go with it!

The lighting was awful but the black and white is still fun!

Ouch! ~ 132/365

Spend most of the day filling in the bubbles on the test cover sheets and then fixing the students bubbles so they were completely filled in with no white showing and no marks outside. The callous on my finger got a definite workout today.

May the Fourth Be With You... ~ 124/365

Happy Star Wars Day!

The Return of the Rooster ~ 119/365

Believe it or not, at the kids' school (and our church) there was a rooster that showed up last May (2013) and had sort of become the campus mascot as he was ever present and always begging for a hand out. Then he up and disappeared around mid-March. No one knew where he had gone, but there was not evidence of his "demise" so we all hoped someone nice had taken him home and added him to their flock. Then today...

...there he was... crowing and attracting as much attention to himself as possible. It's like he was saying, "Here I am! Did ya miss me?"

#2 Pencils ~ 118/365

It's standardized test time... #2 Pencils are a must!

Tic, Tac, Tooth ~ 117/365

This silly kid wanted her picture taken with her replacement "tooth"!

Steam ~ 115/365

Well this was supposed to be a pic of the steam rising off the fence in the morning after a night of nothing but rain. But apparently I was wrong when I thought I had a great capture of it by looking at my little camera screen. Ah well, but it is the only picture I took for the day.

Squirrel! ~ 109/365

In our neighborhood there are many squirrels that run around, jumping from tree to tree and eating the leftover food the school kids leave laying around. While I failed to take an actual photo today, I'm convinced with as many squirrels we see around here daily, I must have spotted one!

Late Dinner ~ 100/365

Because the kids have track practice on Thursdays and they get home so very late, I either have to 1) have dinner prepared before we all leave the house, 2) don't leave and let their dad take them by himself or 3) go out to eat. Guess which option we chose tonight?