Back to School {hello monday]

Feast or famine. Lots of pictures or not very many!

Hello to lots of photos I want to post this week! Some of them aren’t anything that original, but somehow I enjoy photos of this and that around the house showcasing daily details.

And I’m a little more thankful for daily life and the everday part of every day.

Last Monday evening, my brother stopped by. His day ended up anything but ordinary. He was driving a semi truck and trailer, hauling asphalt, at his job for the county. As he was making a left-hand turn off of the highway, the big rig with a reefer trailer following him, attempted to pass him on the left and plowed into my brother’s truck. He hit him right behind the driver’s door. Like, right behind, pushing both trucks into the ditch. Both trucks looked very much bad. Praise be to God, my brother was fine. If the hit would’ve been forward by not too much, I think the outcome would’ve been much different.

Here’s to something happy and totally mundane. Hello to loving this new bottle of lotion from my sister-in-law! Not only do I love the lotion, the happy orange bottle makes me smile!

Hello puzzle! Hello school! Hello time to start! Hello fresh new schoolbooks! Hello pencils and erasers! Hello schedules!

Happy first day of school, Renae!

 Happy first day of school, Tucker!

Tired of Mom snapping pictures, maybe?????? 🙂

Hello cute potatoes from the garden, cooking in the crockpot!

Hello sweet corn! Yay! We’re happy to have a second planting.

Hello time to bake! Hello Raspberry Pie!

Hello racetrack time!

Hello Mr & Mrs. Piglet and baby! My daughter and I had the best chuckle over this trio.

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Hello impromptu dance recital!

Hello telehandler!

Hello lunches to go to my farmer man and my brother!

Hello mess from getting said lunch ready. For some reason everday scapes like this fascinate me and having me shooting photos for fun and embracing the textures and colors and contemplating how a photo implies a story or a happening and creates a mood.

Hello tractor in the field!

Hello new-to-our farm tractor! My husband needed something else to work on he says! 🙂 I told him “LTD, man, LTD”! We went white-water rafting in Colorado and this is how our raft guide greeted his friend who was guiding another raft.

Interpretation, in case you need it like I did. LTD=Living the Dream

And you know? I want to embrace my life in an LTD kind of way, even when there are interruptions and many bumps that don’t feel like they’re part of the way I would write my LTD kind of life.

And speaking of interruptions, I enjoyed reading this post about interruptions by Jeff Goins. It caused me to reflect on how much life is made up of interruptions. My job as a homemaker, mother and farmwife basically revolves around interruptions. Too often, I don’t have the right attitude about it. Schedules are tools and need to flex, instead of being rigidly in place.

I also loved all the beautiful hydrangea pics in this post by my sister at Sew a Fine Seam. I also was wishing I could’ve attended the Pixel Party she was involved with. Absolutely darling and I would’ve loved to pick up a photography tip or two!

In other news, Dillons is no longer doubling coupons. I am much saddened by this news, but not surprised. They have some terrific sales and have offered some great deals between their sales and double coupons.

Hello to pickup trouble and tractor trouble and Suburban battery trouble!!! Sigh…

Renae took a walk in the woods one afternoon, but she cut it short. She happened upon a black snake close to a water hole. She thought maybe she’d try to kill it. Horror of horrors! Her mama doesn’t even want to attempt that. She {so far} doesn’t seemed as bothered by snakes as her mama is. She hunted for a shovel and till she found one and went back the snake was gone. Mr. Tracker Beagle Dog, Cooper, never even saw the snake.

We chuckled at Cooper this week. We have had rock hauled in and have different piles of it in the driveway, waiting till we have time to get it where it needs to be. One evening Cooper was curled up on top of one of the piles looking like he thought he was king of the mountain!

We got to see baby Alayna several times this week! She’s so funny and dear and growing so quickly. Her mama pulled her around their living room in her pink, plastic wagon. She made the cutest picture, sitting up big and clutching the sides with her tiny, baby hands in her black and white polka-dot dress and her pink headband. Just darling!

And another chuckle………..

My daughter shared her rhyme of the week with me and we giggled!

Oh give me a home where the big, black cows roam,

And the kittens, the dogs and birds play,

Where always is heard a good farmer’s word,

And the allergies are here to stay.

Home, my home is Kansas,

Where the flowers and trees are quite rare,

Where there is grass, though it doesn’t last,

But, there sure is plenty of air!

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Lisa Leonard

A Proverbs 31 Wife

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