Thimbleanna

Month: May 2011

Photo Scavenger Hunt: April

24 Comments / May 3, 2011 / Photo Challenge

Once again, I’m late for the photo scavenger hunt hosted by Kathy. I’ll try to do better next month. Really. I will. ;-D

A Church:

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A Cross:

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A Statue:

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Keys: (I was on the same wavelength as Jane.)

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An Unusual Shop Name:

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My Camera:

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April Showers: I wasn’t ever home to catch actual showers, but I heard today that it rained 23 out of 30 days here in April. April showers made our little pop-up pond and the ducks are loving it (even though they can stand up in it, they seem to think they need to float.) Yay! Our spring ducks are back!

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Breakfast: Certainly not my everyday breakfast, but my idea of perfect!

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Eggs:

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Something to do with Shakespeare: What’s a girl to do? I went to the internet.

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Something to Mark St. George’s Day: Ok. I really tried. Please don’t make me dig through all those Beanie Babies again. I know there’s a dragon in there somewhere but I couldn’t find him. I’m pretending St.George slayed a unicorn.

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Something Yellow: Whatever happened to red?

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Now I can finally go have a peek at the list for May!

XOXO,
Anna

The First Day in May

22 Comments / May 1, 2011 / Chat

 

May Day

I know…for some of you, it’s not May Day anymore, but just pretend.  Technically, I’m just squeaking in under the wire here.  Did you all have a good weekend?  And watch THE wedding?  {Swooooon}  Start the weekend with a gorgeous, fabulous wedding and end it with the pretty flowers of May Day — what a way to uplift ye old gloomy end-of-winter spirits, huh?

In between those two happy events, we drove a few hours for our last counter top viewing.  I deemed it would be the last time we looked at stone — a decision would be made, one way or other.  My number one choice would be a gorgeous creamy limestone, but it’s an unknown, so I chickened out and went with the safer choice of granite.  Truth be told, as long as it’s not ugly green tile, I’ll be happy.  The stone place we visited was amazing — they had an unbelieveable selection of marbles, travertines, granites, you name it if it’s a rock.  There were even samples with fossils in them just to remind us what we’re dealing with here.  Here’s a picture of one such example — it was so pretty — I wish you could see it in person.  Needless to say, at ~$35k, is won’t be coming home with us!

Shell

So, back to nice, happy thoughts. Stacy Julian shared this video on civility on her blog today and I thought it worth repeating.

Have a great week and let the market countdown begin:  5 more sleeps for me!

XOXO,
Anna

P.S. Here’s a little tip: Don’t name a blog post Dirty Little Secrets. It was innocent enough, but I should have known LOL!