Happy Next-to-last-day-of-the-year & other Randomness.

I'm sitting here at my desk, looking out the window at a bunch of barren trees. The sky is bright winter-in-North-Carolina blue and it's almost 60 degrees out. Drinking my second cup of coffee of the day (nice and strong!) and listening to my ds and older dd playing "Jesus Take the Wheel". Older dd bought herself a bass guitar with Christmas money added to funds she's been putting aside for a while. Kind of fun to hear them playing together... reminds me a bit of my family growing up. (Minus the two amps. Oh, and we'd have been playing "Blowing in the Wind" or something like that.) I did a little bit of garden cleanup this afternoon. The hydrangea was especially in need of help. Here's a photo of a sweet (out-of-focus) phlox (shamelessly copying my friend L).

I think I'm going to be modifying the rule "every post needs a photo" to "every post needs a scrapbook layout". Here are a few more from that Productive Weekend. (BTW, I'm sure you know this already, but you can double-click on the photo if you want to see it bigger.)

Back in '01 (same time as the visit to the hospital mentioned below) we spent a week on Boston's North Shore at our alma mater. Along with visiting all our old campus haunts (including the spot where we were married... I say "spot" because the chapel itself was torn down and all that remained was a plaque attached to a large rock), we spent some time with a friend of mine from back in the day. Our day at Good Harbor beach on Cape Ann was way fun. And actually kind of chilly. I mean, it was only the end of June!

I especially love the photo of younger dd standing with her feet in the water... looking exceptionally cold. So cute.

This 2-page layout uses "Fairy Tales" paper (CTMH & no longer avail) and some Basic Grey letter stickers. CTMH cardstock, eyelets, and ribbon. The design is based on "Silver Screen" in the CTMH idea book Cherish.

(OK now they are playing something else that I don't recognize. Dd is really rockin' the bass.)