Stylish Blogger Award Received!

Wow! What a nice surprise today!  Two  Three of my bloggy friends have nominated me for The Stylish Blogger Award!   So first, a big THANK YOU to my friends over at Guiding Light Homeschool , Sister Tipster’s Tell’n It!, and The Blessings Pour Out!

But the biggest reward for this fine award, is that I now get to do some “awarding” of my own!  Of course, if you are nominated there are a few rules of acceptance that must be strictly adhered to!!

First,  thank and link back to the person who has given you this award,

Second, award 15 recently discovered great bloggers, or 10…

Third, share 7 things about yourself, and

Fourth, don’t forget to contact your nominated award winners to let them know!

So without further ado, I would like to introduce you to some of my favorite bloggers:

Applie’s Place, Mess and Happiness, Harmony Art Mom,

Lessons Learned on the Farm, Jennaissance, Central Florida Gardener,

Life on the Hilltop, God Made…Home Grown, School Daze, 

Home is Where You Start From

And now, I’m expected to bore you with seven extremely interesting things about me that you never wanted to know!

Fixin’ to Move!

So, there we were….not planning to move and making an offer on a house up the road a piece!  Really, we weren’t thinking about moving.  Sure, we have dreamt about the bungalow on the beach, but that just doesn’t seem too realistic!  Plus…if we really want to go to the beach, we can just take the boat! 

Anyway, back to the house up the road…we noticed it was for sale.  We got curiouser and curioiser!  We took a look and made and offer, or rather three offers before we came to an agreement. 

Now we will be the proud owners of a few things we have never had…

First:

a fine home for an armadillo or if we’re lucky a nice family of armadillos…

Second:

 one of these…no idea, really rusty thing with

a wooden thing attached and barbed wire

Third:

 really big Oak Trees…far enough from the house that they won’t smush it in a storm

Fourth:

 a sweet little “yard hamster”, some people call it a Pocket Gopher

Fifth:

 barbed wire…we have never owned barbed wire before!

Now this does not mean I am going to start listening to country music or anything, but I can see all sorts of opportunity for nature studies!   Who knows, maybe even a farm animal or an outside cat?

 

Good Bye, 2010!

This a collage to represent a few of the things we did this year, some new, some old.  One for each month….

January – Alafia River Rendezvous, a favorite field trip

February – #1 Girl’s final cake project for cake decorating class

March – Find this cute, but very naughty dog

April – #1 Boy learns to install memory in a laptop

May – little Red Corn Snake climbing the wall

June – Small cute dog hanging on by a thread!

July – a second round of Monarch catepillars

August – first day of school

September – first time to Night of Joy

October – Scary Halloween kids

November – Travel up north for Thanksgiving

December – a Christmas Day trip to Busch Gardens!

Wishing you all a Happy, Healthy New Year! 8)

New Day, New Look

Last night while I was out with #1 Girl and my Mom-in-law enjoying the Moscow Ballet’s presentation of The Great Russian Nutcracker, my husband traded monitors with me!  I really don’t mind, but Mindful Ramblings had taken on some kind of putrid green glow!   So I thought to myself, “Wow, if any single visitor to Mindful Ramblings gets ill, I don’t know how I could live with myself.”   (My apologies if my past green glow has caused you  distress of any kind!  It really was a lovely shade on my previous monitor!) 

So this is the new simpler look for the new simpler year!  Or possibly a new simpler look…for this week or this month!    Here’s a splash of color from my new camera to liven things up a little:

A friendly Lorikeet from Busch Gardens, no telephoto lens required.

Please excuse my dust while a re-arrange a few things and figure out how this template works.