Cleaning Pictures Off My Phone

Miscellaneous pictures taken here and there.

This sign was on a office door at work:

I promise not to DISTRUB you if you promise not to DISTRUB me!

These are someones panties hanging on the bar in the bathroom!


Shauna's boyfriend, Brad, won a trip to Las Vegas on the radio and they are there this weekend. I went to her apartment to check on the grandkitties

This is Stash.

And this is Wiggy!

They miss their mama!

These are hummingbird feeders we saw at a craft fair a few weeks ago. I thought they were pretty!

Went to a sweet estate sale on Friday. Got some great stuff that I will be showing you soon!

Garage Sale And Cider Mill Weekend

It's Wednesday, Hump Day, and while I am waiting for dinner to cook I figured I would tell you about our weekend.

Friday was a very busy day for me because I was  getting ready for a Saturday garage sale.

I made some signs

Gathered together a bunch of  crap stuff.

My friend Marie and her sister brought some of their  crap stuff over to sell, too so Saturday morning at 9:00 we opened for business!

We didn't have too much business though, and after the full day, we only managed to make a little less than $100 each!

Everything that was left we packed up on Sunday and took to the Salvation Army, and I donated the books and magazines to the library. It was nice to clean out my cupboards and closets! Makes room for me to buy more  crap stuff!!

Sunday morning dawned bright and beautiful so after breakfast we decided to go to the:

The Franklin Cider Mill in Franklin, MI is the only working cider mill in the area that I know of. They actually make the cider right there, instead of importing it from outside.

There's a huge water wheel working the presses

And presses squeezing out all that delicious apple cider!

First they process the apples

The the press comes down.

Squeezing out all that cider

Actually it's not pasteurized so it's more like apple juice..but so good when combined with a cinnamon sugar donut!

The cider mill sits on a little burbling stream

Such a pretty place to enjoy a beautiful day drinking cider and eating donuts!

The Brenda Photo Challenge-The Dog Daze Of Summer and 9/11

It's that time again for another Brenda Photo Challenge. The theme  is Dog Daze of Summer. Before I  get to the pictures, please give good thoughts to Brenda from Whats Up Down South and also our gracious Photo Challenge host as she unexpectedly lost her husband this week. You're in our thoughts, Brenda.

Now on to the Dog Daze of Summer

All the baby ducks are grown. 

The clematis blooms are dying out. 

The sun is setting a little sooner every day. 

Plants are dying out. 

And leaves are beginning to turn colors. 

And one more thing before I go....

I was working at a church that day and all I remember is just wanting to get home and hug my husband and kids....

Tomorrow,  this blog will be silent in memory of all those lost on the day, and  in memory of the country that we used to be...

Vacation Recap Part III Caroles Place

The last weekend of our vacation we spent at my cousin Carole and her husband Tearl's place on East Tawas. Her house is right on Lake Huron and it's wonderful!

This is part of her deck right on the water. We spent a lot of time sitting out here!

Friday night we got a visit from an eagle! I do believe this is the first eagle I've ever seen in the wild! I put a circle around it but you may have to click on this picture to see it good.

She has three dogs, one of whom is Maya who only has three legs! She sure doesn't let that keep her down, though!

Besides and eagle, they have lots of hummingbirds coming around, too! They even named them: Hummer, Hummy and Hummus!

This was the sun rise on Saturday morning....Beautiful sight to have with your morning coffee.

Saturday we went into town for a little while and hung out at the public beach. Here's my SIL Debbie...the only one brave enough to go in the cold water!

We took our metal detector (of course) and Carole loved it so her and Rich went all over the place looking for treasures! We have future plans to do some more metal detecting with them!

But mostly we just stayed at the house and gazed at the water!

In the evening they were letting off sky lanterns over the lake. Too cool and look at their palm tree that lights up! You probably can see it from pretty far away!

This is another of their dogs, Susie, posing for her picture!

We had a wonderful time of food, family and fun!

Vacation Recap Part II-The Cities

After we went to the UP and before we tried to watch the sunset, we hung out some in Mackinaw City.

Walking the beach in front of our hotel room we saw that someone built this gigantic house since the last time we were there!

We thought it was a resort at first!

And we walked the marina in town. Check out this gas pump.

Would you look at the price of that gas? $45.00 per gallon!

We'll never get our boat in the water at those prices! Actually, we'll never get our boat in the water period because we don't own a boat . Good thing, because putting gas in our cars is expensive enough!


After dark I spent some time trying to get a good picture of the bridge lit up...this was the best I could get, which isn't great but kind of cool, too!

The next day we headed south to Traverse City, which is about 2 hours southwest of Mackinaw. 

On the way there we stopped here to do some metal detecting. 

Love those dunes!

And Lake Michigan!

Stopped in Traverse City to check into our hotel and then took
a drive to a little fishing town called Leland...very pretty.

It had some cute little shops. I love the Dam Candy Shop!

We just walked around and bought some magnets for me and Shauna, and some fudge of course!

In the evening we met Rich's sister and her husband and their friends for dinner at Turtle Creek, the local Indian casino. Had a nice dinner, played a little video poker then back to our hotel for the night.

Wednesday we headed home for a day of rest until the next part of our vacation.

Coming up: Cousin Carole's place.

Vacation Recap Part 1-Under Bridges

Well, that was a quick week of vacation even if I did extend it by one day, today, due to this nasty cold that I picked up somewhere!

Before I get in our little vacation I want to put a quick thank you to Wenn from Experiences for sending me this tiny little magnet...it's barely an inch big and so cute! All I had to do was tell her three places she traveled to, which was easy because she travels all over the world! Thanks, Wenn!

Now on to the vacation. We left on Monday morning and drove all the way to the upper peninsula, to the Cut River Bridge. The Cut River is not really that big but it's in the bottom of a gorge that the bridge goes over. It was a little freaky being under the bridge, though!

Then we walked down approximately 20,658 steps to get to where the Cut River flows into Lake Michigan.

See the bridge way up there?

It was worth the hike!

Then we crossed back into the lower peninsula and stayed the night in Mackinaw City. We hung out under the Mackinaw Bridge to try to see the sunset, but it was too cloudy!

This is underneath the Mackinaw Bridge facing north. To the left is Lake Michigan, and to the right is Lake Huron. Can you see the difference?

Ha Ha just kidding, there is no difference, obviously!

Coming up: Part II The Cities.