Doing Our Part to Stimulate the Economy

As good Americans, doing what we can to help stimulate the U.S. economy, we went out & made a few purchases this morning. We found the Tulsa coffee cup at Starbucks in Barnes & Noble (also talked w/BR while there). Dad (finally) got himself a set of new golf clubs, & I picked up a Columbia blouse (on sale, of course) and new, upgraded binoculars for the OU games. All of this was a completely unselfish, sacrificial, altruistic act by us to SAVE THE ECONOMY!

My 21st Year

My room & I are all set to start a new year!

Good News Bad News

Last night when I went to pick the garden, there was 'good news,' and there was 'bad news.' The good news was I found this one, lone pumpkin. And I found a nice, big zucchini. The bad news, though, was the hundreds of bugs (aphids?) I found on a couple of the small yellow squash and a zucchini. Since we've had lots of good zucchini this summer, Dad decided it was time to get rid of the squash plants. So sad.......

The New Entryway

I painted the entry this week (with the help of Dad's awesome pre-tape job). The navy blue is gone, and it's now a khaki color.

The Sweet Potato Plant

This is the sweet potato plant that Sugar started for me. I stuck it in this pot & off it went, growing like crazy.

Look What I Did

This is what I learned to do in my embroidery class last weekend.

Finally

Dad & I cleaned off the patio last weekend, & he hauled off a truck load of JUNK!

Totally Random & For No Apparent Reason

OK, Dad has finished painting the whole house white. So I decided the newly-painted, snow white breezeway needed some softness and some color. And....since I need to still do some 'practicing' on my new sewing machine, I started digging for the ugliest fabric that I have in my stash. I say "the ugliest" because I know the quilt will get faded from the sun. The only problem now is that I kind of like the poor little quilt!

My New Dress

I LOVE this new dress Dad got me this weekend -- I wore it to church today.

Our Mini-Vacation/30th Anniversary Celebration

Dad & I took a short trip to...B'ville, of all places! It was kind of a belated celebration of our 30th wedding anniversary. Anyway we stayed at the Price Tower, the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building. It was awesome! It's one of those places I've driven by for years and never really cared much about it. And I never thought I would find that sort of building & furniture design very appealing, but it's so cool. After spending the night in our room with a million windows, that all open out, we went to the museum/art gallery & took a guided tour this morning. Here are a few pics. I'll be glad to tell anyone who's willing to listen everything I can about this building!!