Enjoying life

Our weekend delivered lots of togetherness time. Extra hours wrapped in our high thread count sheets. A well detailed brewery tour. Over an hour long, thoroughly enjoyed conversation with a complete stranger, while we sipped on our flights. We are strangers no longer, thanks to facebook. There were moments with friends and family. A little skateboarding. And much time spent at our local movie theatre.

A lot is wrapped up in that last sentence. Our church is currently in transition mode and actually had service at the theatre Sunday morning. In the evening, we went with a couple friends to watch "Cowboys & Aliens." Upon exiting the movie, it was pouring down rain and apparently had been for much of our movie-watching time. The parking lot was crowded with cars trying to get out, but the firefighters did not deem it safe to do so, as the only road coming into the theatre was flooded with water knee deep. We sat in our cars for thirty minutes, heard that it was going to be nearly two hours before anyone could cross over, and took it as a sign to go watch another movie with our friends. Haha. "Captain America" was our second choice and paired well with twizzlers. :) About an hour later, our movie was abruptly stopped and we were told that we had to go ahead and cross the flooded road as another line of thunderstorms were on the way. So along with lots of other cars, we drove through the knee deep water and made it safely to the other side. It was all very exciting! :)

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In other news, we've been pet free for most of our married life. Several years ago, we found three blind baby mice under the stove. We didn't have the heart to kill them, they reminded me too much of the pet hamsters I had while growing up. We instead tried to feed them milk. They ended up passing away within a week... which I guess is a good thing. ;) More recently we had about a dozen baby black swallowtail caterpillars in our garden. Although they're maintenance free, they felt like pets as I went to check on them each morning. One by one they've disappeared - either taken by their rival wasps or in my mind they snuck off somewhere and built themselves a cocoon. While they were here though, I captured some photos and video with my phone, as my stand alone camera is still not working.  :(

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I saved a variety of sunflower seeds from my garden. Soon, everything will be cleared out and we'll be adding some fresh compost to our garden beds. Can't wait!

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Mint Sorbet nail polish has been my favorite the past week.

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Last night we had a mid week adventure and decided to let our creative juices run. Pictures will be posted when we're all done. Blank canvas + cheerful paint + specially selected wine + music playing in the background + homemade bacon cheese fries = = a wonderful time with the man I love most!!!! You, my dear readers should try it sometime. ;)