Happy Father's Day

I want to wish my husband

a very Happy Father's Day!

So put 

your feet up and relax!

Community Picnic

Twice a month

a bunch of us

Facebook Junkies

get together 

and have a face to face chat

Depending on who is available

sometimes there area few as 3 or as many a 14

We've been doing it for 15 months now

Out of it has come a lot of community events

some political

some just fun

Many in our community say there

is nothing to do

so it started out

with a talk abt 

a bike parade record

and morphed into a bike parade

and community picnic

It is bring your own pic-a-nic baskets

and if you want to share 

do that too

Many of us 

are on different committees

and groups

and many of the events

 overlap

WEll the rain put a damper on some of it
but the hard core group came out!

A lot of ppl said they
were going to go
but I believe the
 weather hindered a lot
of them

of course
we had many members
 of the duck family

Calling all Procrastinators

The past 2 summers

I have done this challenge

and got more done because of it

sooooo if you would like

 to link up and challenge yourself

start making your list 

this week

of 10 things

you want to accomplish

in 10 days

 and link up

next Friday to:

sit relax and read

You can have fun with this

(it doesn't have to be chores)

even if its something like 

reading that book

 you have been 

meaning to get to

or planting those flowers

 that never seem to get in

or just go to a movie

or try a new recipe

See you there!

Gone Wild

We decided to plant

mostly perennials

in our side flower bed

We also threw in a bag

of wild flower mix

so now we are enjoying watching

 what comes up everyday

 I love these

 but don't have a clue

 what they are

I can't wait for these to  open up..

Linked to....

Bloggerette Garden Party

Summer Lei wreath

I got the idea for this wreath

at Dollar Store Crafts

They got it from Madigan Made

The full instructions are at 

I found mine at

 Dollar Tree in the kids section

I got 2 bags of the plastic balls

They are smaller than you think they will be

I got 2 leis also at Dollar Tree

but in hindsight I would

get a 3rd one

 strongest hanger ever

Poked a hole through the ball

with a wooden skewer

then strung them

I did have"help"

when they would roll off Iz

would graciously

 attack and play with them

Once strung 

I attempted to twist the ends

instead of taping

If you have thick wire 

I would cut and tape

I cut the lei

and knotted the end of each

together

Then began wrapping pulling twisting

and adjusting

until it was covered.

You may need to add a little

bit of glue to keep the flowers

in place

Add a bow

and you're done

1000 White Women....

I don't usually write book reviews

but this book sort of grabbed me 

and days later I'm still thinking abt it

Back in the '70s I read

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

and in many ways this hit me the same way

According to the author - 

It takes a historical fact -

while in Washington DC to receive the 

Presidential Peace Medal in 1868

Chief  Little Wolf 

of the Cheyenne asked

President Grant

 to trade 

1000 white women

 for 1000 horses

The thought being

 that children born

 of these unions

would make it easier

 for the tribes to 

learn the white man ways

and would allow

 the white man to accept

 the "savages"

The talks fell apart

 and there wasn't any trade

However, this novel

takes the what if ...

approach

There were many parts

 that were revolting 

but that time period

 in our history

 the Indian Wars were

disturburbing

There is humor, 

 happiness, sadness

cruelty and kindness

There are many subplots 

It was a book I could not put down

All I kept thinking was

what if our government allowed it

...crazier things have happen....