Well this was a fun and cheap project! Sean and I went to Wally World yesterday and of course I had to see what they had in the way of glass and things. I purchased the vase for $2.49 and about three bags of assorted glass at $1.97 each. I used mostly the squiggley pieces and a few round ones to decorate the clear vase. I had the clear adhesive and the flowers. Some are a week old from the grocery store. The others are bee balm, cosmos, hostas, snapdragons and butterfly bush flowers.

I guess these aren’t really mosaics. I just got a book where Sean works and you can make mosaics out of anything from squares of cork to paper. I am really getting inspired.
I am not feeling too great today. I have a pull and have iced it and am waiting for Tylenol to kick in and then I may venture down the now dry road and 23 miles to my mom’s house. Wish me luck.

This is along Route 1 on the 28th. To the left (you can’t see it) is the Brandywine River Museum and to the right is Hank’s Place, a little diner that the cast of ‘The Village’ frequented when they were filming the movie a few miles away from here. This is the road that I take to mom’s and Sean also takes to college. To think I actually planned to go there that day-what was I thinking?

My son and I recently saw you in ‘Firewall’. We thought it was a fairly decent flick, but HF, you look so beat! I think it’s time to take Calista and Liam to the ranch in Wyoming, kick up your feet and retire. I want to reserve in my mind the ‘youthfulness’ of you HF in Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Aren’t you at retirement age anyway-about 63? You will always be on the top pedestal of male actors in my book. I just hate seeing you trying to play the dad to an 8 and 14 yr old. I know, there are ‘older dads’, but in this latest movie, when you took a beating, you damn right looked like you weren’t gonna get up again. Hey, Harry-look at that sunset, it’s waiting for you!!!
Big hugs to you, (really)
Dianne
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Did you feel the earth move? Yesterday I listed 10 things on eBay and today there was one taken away. Seems a Corning ware perculator I found on a white elephant table was recalled back in 1979 by the US Consumer Products Safety Commission. Opps!!! I do research on some items before I list them and I did see others selling the same exact coffee pot a few weeks ago. Guess theirs got dumped too. I did write a note to eBay saying that I had no intention of selling something that would harm my customers. If I had known, I would have not even picked it up. I told Sean it’s going in the garden with some herbs planted in it’s little basket at the top.
I got this as a reply to my second note. I told them I was using the coffeepot as a planter! I will, darn it, I will!
You are correct in that you may list the lid and internals of the pot at
your convenience. I also hope you enjoy the plant you put into the pot
as well, but if it’s a big plant, remember that it might not be safe to
pick up the pot by the handle!
It is my pleasure to assist you, Dianne. Thank you for choosing eBay!

You may think you’ve had a run in with poison ivy, but wild parsnip may be the culprit. It looks like Queen Anne’s lace with yellow flowers. Don’t pick it or get any of the ‘sap’ on you or you may look like this. UGHHH! I saw an article about it in Better Homes and Gardens and have never seen it, or at least I don’t think I have. They say to treat it like a 2nd degree burn!

These photos from NBC10 weren’t labeled, but I have a feeling they are down near the Brandywine River as one looks like the picnic park next to it.
We had enough water in our basement for it to creep past the basement steps. Brian had the wet vac on at 7:30 this morning cleaning a lot of it up. I have two fans going and will probably be moving things and spraying Lysol around. I was going to go to my mom’s, but I have to cross over the Brandywine River, and I am afraid of debris, etc being left on the roadside. The Schuylkill River in Philly hasn’t crested this high in over 100 years.
Today is sunny and humid. I was surveying my flowers and most look so waterlogged. My lilies are droopy and I waited all winter to see the ones I purchased from Utah (eBay). The side yard where the chestnut trees are is covered with their fuzzy droppings. I have lots to clean up inside and out, that’s for sure!

I am so not sad about Star Jones leaving The View in September. There was speculation about whether or not she could stand to be at the same table with Rosie O’Donnell who is taking the vacant seat of Meredith Vieira. Starlet never came clean with how she really lost all her weight. Rosie said ‘come on sister, you had gastric bypass’. Star said ‘no comment’. Boo hoo. I happen to like Rosie O. At least she came ‘out of the closet’. Honesty is the best policy. Wonder what Star will do now? Please don’t give her her own show.
Update Wed.: I didn’t watch The View, but it was indeed Star-less today. Apparently the above was a surprise announcement to Barbara Walters and Star was asked not to come back. This is getting very interesting.

I got out the handy dandy handheld mixer to puree the 2 cups of cantaloupe-very quick and easy.

Next the wet ingredients were stirred and the dry added.

I used mini-loaf pans and I guess I overfilled them abit. Yet another recipe that didn’t say how much to fill the pans. Take note, if you have two leavening agents, fill halfway or less. Only one came out of the pan easily.

The pretty loaf with the brown sugar, butter and pecan topping. Better lay off this when I get my cholesterol checked! ; )