A SUNRISE STROLL THOUGH TOWN…A DIFFERENT WORLD….

First of all a big hello to Judy and a woof to Emma for being brave enough to follow this crazy blog….Hang on with both hands (and all 4 paws)…it can get pretty bumpy!!!

  This morning Den had to get up at 5AM to take Eddie, one of his buddies, to a job site in Wilmington IL.  Eddie owns a cement conveyor business and left his big truck at the job…Dennis loves to help out..Did this mean that I had to roll my lazy butt out of the nice snuggly bed too??…Well, I didn’t get up at 5AM, but I could see that it promised to be a pretty nice sunrise, sooooo…up I jumped..(well, maybe I FELL out of the sack).  It was still pretty dark when I passed the “bottle tree” just down our street, but I noticed it was growing , and almost in full bloom…It only lacked one “leaf” from being  considered a true bottle tree…(I need to get one of these started in OUR yard….which means I need to switch from the box wine to the bottled stuff…)

My reward for peeling my sad self out of bed at 5:45AM was some pretty nice sunrise photos….

 

  I took a few other photos of some interesting stuff in our little town….like this old Hearse that sits outside the Beverage Funeral Home….It’s an old Packard..I have no idea what year it is, but definitely a classic…

 

…I  never gave much thought to the name of that place…BEVERAGE Funeral Home…Is this, perhaps, the place where all the poorly mixed, horribly bad drinks end up??  HMMMMMM…I thought not….

  Later in the day I did a drive- by past the restaurant/train car to check the progress.. I recognized my bald, devilish friend on the roof of the train, hammer in hand…There were quite a few other carpenters there, and someone was taking photos with a camera that had a huge ol’ lens on it…makes my little Kodak look like a Brownie (if you remember those cameras, you are a “boomer” ….)

 

…Check this out, Rick!!!! I am quite the little seamstress, eh???   Thanks for the info about the Auto-Stitch program…This is as close as I want to get to a needle and thread.. The workers at the train car are busy as bees, sawing, hammering, cementing,..I will keep posting progress as it  continues to change….

This afternoon I went out and picked some tomatoes….Dennis and I had both had been reluctant to dive into the  buzzing jungle of vines…Every time we try to get close, a swarm of nasty mosquitoes comes out in a V formation, and they take turns doing kamikaze runs at us.  I really should get a bee keepers outfit to protect myself…or a burka…or just put a sheet on…At any rate, I managed to pick a LOAD of very nice tomatoes to make  some chili sauce and spaghetti sauce….

….Yes….You are correctomundo!!!..It is yet another panoramic shot!!  I just LOVE these little sewing projects…I may have to join Auto-Stitchers Anonymous….I sure wish this program had existed when we went to Alaska in 2002…Heck, we didn’t own a digital camera OR a camper back then…Den and I have been accused of being a little slow out of the gate (mostly by our children)… After my act of bravery amid the stinger armed air raid, Dennis was the next to brave the Garden Squadron of blood suckers…..He went out and dug a couple potatoes….

 

A COUPLE of these is all you would need for a family of 4!!!  Or….you could stuff it and have enough to invite the neighbors….I guess I can take potatoes off my grocery list for a while!!!

Well, this has been a blog of few words…and QUITE  a few photos!!  Our weather here is going to get into the low 90’s again…big woop….I guess the good thing is the fact that the heat should be short lived…Hey, come’on already!!..It’s nearly September…and….almost time for the Dekalb County Fair, which happens about 1 block from our house , beginning the first Wednesday after Labor Day…..I should be able to get some great “fodder” for my blog that week!!!!

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