I’m seeing an uncanny resemblance between the old time star Victor Mature and the new Superman Brandon Routh. What do you think? I think Brandon looks more like Victor than Chris Reeve.

So much to chose from it was a difficult collage. I can say you like purples and reds. What’s here was posted on your blog over the last few months. Right click to make it as big as possible, then save. Thanks for letting me post it here. Over at Cosmo’s blog (sidebar) I made a kitty wallpaper to share. I wonder why my head is hurting today. Hmmm. ; )

I can’t seem to look at your blog and post. Here’s what I’ve been trying to leave you in the comment section:
I love your old photos and stories. You were a sweet little girl. I am one of 4 and the only girl and second oldest. My brother under me, whose only a year younger, were very close. I haven’t seen him in over 4 yrs as he lives in Florida.
I’ve been getting knocked off the internet every time when I come visit. I think it’s the Tom Petty video at the bottom.

Sean likes to check out web cams of the various beaches we go to. The first one is Ocean City, Maryland and the second one is Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. All I have to say is that I am so glad I was stitching in my cool family room last night instead of being hot and being herded like cattle in one of these places. At least they had some fireworks down at RB.

And a Ford Mustang one I made for Brian:

I’m taking requests! It’s just to hot to do anything outside.
We had steak on the grill-the panini/grill I just bought and it was good! Sean is working at Big Lots so much. He ran home for dinner and I had his food already for him. He now has a bank account and will be getting a debit card. Is he an official grownup now?

I made this for you, my pals in mind. Please feel free to click on this image to make it bigger and then right click to save it to your computer for wallpaper. I am totally hooked on making these! My mouse fingers were numb this morning! All the images below were obtained from Corbis.com.

New rose that the Japanese beetles started to nibble.
Hydrangea-this hardly bloomed last year and I love the blue!‘Easter’ lilies

This blooming was a pleasant surprise! And it smells heavenly.

We went to Wally World for more English box hedge. I am buying about 4-5 at a time. We planted the 8 I have previously purchased. They look good around the circle! I also bought millet-reduced to under $2.00 (I got 2) and some jasmine. I love that too. I don’t have much luck with jasmine and similar non-hardy plants, but for $6, I can enjoy it for a few months.

Sean worked from 2 and finishes at 10. He is going to the movies afterwards. Too late for me. Brian and I went up to the next town for a burger and a panini (Bri got pork and turkey). We ran into parents of an former classmate of Sean’s and they were very nice. Their daughter, who I remember as a 4-5 yr old is now about 14 with a boyfriend!

I can see why my blogger pal Zoey ‘admired’ you a few weeks ago when she first saw you on your new TLC show ‘Take home chef’. If you walked up to me in a grocery store and wanted to cook for me and my fellas, I would probably faint dead away. But you seem to chose woman in the age range of 25-30. What about the glorious women who are a little older in the same age group as Terri Hatcher and Nicollette Sheridan? Some of us have been cooking for a few decades and need new ideas. And why are you picking rich babes like the lady last night whose husband is a race horse trainer? I’m wondering if she has a maid.
Anywho, you are a dashing Aussy and you remind me of my son’s best friend, tall and good-looking. I like that you are a leftie too. So come on out to mushroomland and you’ll have your pick of grocery stores and hopefully you’ll find me!
Big hugs,
Dianne
PS-why is that lady going to spray you?

Today’s SBQ was suggested by Cheryl and is: What do you do with your charts once you’ve stitched them? Do you keepthem or dispose of them? If you keep them, do you organize them in away that is different from the way you keep your unstitched charts?
I just got this in my email today, though I have seen it answered already on a few blogs. I keep most of my charts-that’s if I like them enough to stitch again. I have sold some on eBay and given some away. I’d say most of the things I stitch are in booklets with multiple charts in them, so if I think I’ll stitch any of those, back in one of my crates it will go. I always tell my stitching pals to ask me first if they are looking for any booklet or chart and I will lend it or give it to them.

My plan is to get about 10 or so of the little box hedges and make a circle around the iris and gladiolus garden-for this year. I’d so love to knock down the useless grape arbor you see in the background that is covered now mostly with wild, sticky roses. Phase two would to make a ‘figure 8’ with the crop circle garden. It must be my English heritage coming to the surface as I love the neat look of the hedges surrounding the florals. Something like this:
Update Saturday: Bri and I planted 8 box hedges and need to get about 10 more. They are wee things, but it looks really cute and defined.
I did get to my mom’s today. That woman has too many clothes. She seems to accumulate them like crazy even though my brother and I have both gone through oodles of them in the last few years. I am sad to say I don’t think she can handle living there amd keeping it up in the condition that I saw it in today. I am praying that my brother Don will come up from Florida and help us get it in shape while living there ‘rent free’. Maybe he could save up money for his own home as he’s always lived in rented places and he’s in his middle 40s now. My other brother Ken came to cut the lawn while I was there and I told him we need to get her out of the house as she can’t take care of it anymore. He said no kidding. So it may be another phase in my mom’s life. We’ll all have to figure out what to do and what will be in her best interest. The straw that broke the camel’s back was her getting shingles last year when she was handling her sciatica so much better.