A Salute to My Heroes and Eye Candy

During this past Memorial Day weekend, hubs was busy at our local stores along with other veterans distributing Buddy Poppies. He's done this for years now and loves doing it. He is a vet. That money collected, and it's all donations from pennies to 20 dollars and more, has been donated as they never set a price for the poppy and even give them to kids for free. It is used to help our local vets. Each city in the U.S. uses it locally to help vets who need help with utilities, gasoline, food or whatever is necessary. So he donates his time and I stay at home doing nothing. It's something I don't really mind doing because I know it's worthwhile. So, I found this video for you to watch. And if this doesn't make you proud of the men and women who protect this great country and the ones who bring them back to us on their final journey, then I'm not sure what will. I honor them now. It's dedicated to the friends and relatives we've lost in wars through out this great country of ours. We've never, ever conquered countries; we've helped them to live freely while wanting just a few plots of land to bury our fallen heroes who couldn't come home on an Angel Flight. Please watch it to the end. They're on the Angel Flight, coming home for the last time. If this doesn't touch you, then I can't think of anything that would. And let me thank any of you who are here now watching and have lost a friend, hubby, wife, brother, sister, uncle or anyone else in a war, you have our heartfelt condolences. They are truly heroes in this house. Truly!

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I love this pink and yellow kitchen. I bought a yellow Teflon frying pan recently as hubs’ request and he wasn’t crazy about the color. I loved it! It fit our criteria in that we wanted a big one and a good heavy one, and the yellow one fit. I may try to do more yellow in the kitchen along with the pink but I doubt I’d ever measure up to this beauty.

Another quaint cottage probably in Carmel.

What a lovely setting for a luncheon for friends. I especially love the top tier of the cake stand with the pretty pink teacup.

I think this home is lovely even if it’s not pink. It reminds me of my youth when visiting with relatives and their homes.

I absolutely love these fuchsia cabinets.

This darling little scale would look wonderful in my kitchen. I wonder if Williams-Sonoma sells them. I’ll check next time I go to the mall.

The pink walls, white cabinets, window and the view caught my eye more than anything.

The pink Kitchen-Aid mixer and curtain on that window is adorable.

Who would have thought this dark blue and sage green would look this beautiful together?

This is somewhere in the French countryside.

Another small cottage in France.

This is a shopping area in Carmel.

I know you’ll love this rusty circular staircase. ;-)

Cute little patio. Just imagine sitting there in the shade every evening.

Remember these from the 50s? I do. I doubt we’d find them anymore, and if per chance we could, they’d cost a small fortune to buy now.

Remember girdles? I do! I can’t even believe we wore them, but I did a couple of times to hold up my nylons. Torture comes to mind now. But I know there’s something new out called Spanx, which I’ve never seen and have no desire to but somehow the description brings to mind those girdles. Never again! However, this homeowner was very creative in using them for decoration. Personally, I’d never want them hanging on my wall. Nope. ☺

I used hankies for a window once. These look darling over a piece of lace curtain.

These windows are adorable also but not secure enough for me. Burglars could break the glass and unlatch them in a heartbeat.

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Random Thoughts 6/7/12

If you don't like ads on websites or blogs, there is a application you can use to obliterate them. I've listed a website where you can go to download this free or shareware application. I have a button on my sidebar that takes you there also since this blog post will, at some point, be far down or on the next page. So spread the word! It's the button just after my photos to the right.  -------->

If you've been a reader of my blog for any time, you know I do random thoughts once in a while. My random thoughts are simply that: thoughts that occur when I'm driving in the car, talking with Love Bunny (hubs), kids, friends, etc. I might even hear a radio program and think of something. Or I might even read an editorial on the internet or a news article, which will bring to mind a memory or just a thought. I'm sure you know what I mean. ;-) You've experienced this I'm sure. I might put them at the end of a blog post and sometimes I've put them at the beginning, which is less frequent as I'd prefer the lovely photos, or as I refer to them—eye candy, first. I'm very visual and need that. Anyway, this is one of those times that the random thoughts come first.


Random Thoughts:

In my quest to adjust to the new interface on blogger I posed a question to Google Forums. Sigh. How different they are from Apple Forums! Okay, so maybe I'm not doing it correctly but I tell you there are so many questions posed on there it's hard to get around. Google Blogger Forums, I mean. No topics for any specific issue, just a long line of questions.


Now, comparing it to Apple Discussions, for us Apple Mac aficionados, it's horrid. Apple has the best forums I've ever seen. Most of the answers come from tried and true gurus, knowledgeable men and women. Top notch people! You get immediate answers most of the time or advice or where to find it in the documents within Apple. Most of the time questions are answered very quickly though. Blogger just seems to "stab" at an answer. So trying to do a New Interface Tutorial has been something of a challenge. I'm still at it though so I'm not giving up. Actually, I'm still learning what works and doesn't work, but from the looks of some blogs, it's not going well with bloggers at all.
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Most of you know my affinity for camping: I hate it. Hubs is replacing the canvas in our pop-up trailer but at some point I'm going to have to tell him I'm not going camping anymore. I just can't do it now, especially with this leg I hurt in the fall at the lake 2 years ago. Camping? I don't want to become one with nature! That says it all for me.
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If it weren't for children, moms would be perfect. I adhere to that philosophy because I have 2 kids!
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I was at a blog the other day, one that has ads, and a rollover ad for Finish dishwasher detergent came on accidentally and I couldn't stop it. I was miffed. It just went on and on and into another ad and on and on. I'm either going to be very careful I don't "rollover" one or stop going to blogs with ads like that altogether. Very annoying. I hate giving up blogs I love though. We'll see.
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The word awesome is used waaaay too much. I rarely use it unless I'm describing something that inspires awe, meaning great reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder. Wait, wait!! That could definitely apply to the people I see in the grocery stores with tattoos and piercings. They inspire fear and wonder in me! Why do things like that to your body? Makes me wonder.
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I stopped at our Gem Stop gas station/mini-mart the other day to pick up a donut. Yeah, yeah, I have a weakness for their donuts and don't do it very often. That day though I was behind a lady who walked out with beer and cigarettes and the total was $86.00! I was astounded. First of all, mini-marts are notorious for being expensive, and secondly, do beer and cigarettes cost that much? Couldn't believe it.
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Stop worrying. Life is NOT about skinny women; it's about women, period. I can promise you that.
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Again, bottles that could have been discarded put to good use.

Eye candy for your walls.

Stephanie, this bling is for you, Sugar! :-) And smooches for Mum. ;-)

Beautiful plates.

Sweet place to throw your totes.

My daughter has one like this and she does store her good silverware in it.

More silverware and a lovely way to display it.

Somehow this drew my attention. White with a splash of black and beige thrown in makes it very beautiful.

Sweet gift for a friend.

Couldn't resist throwing in these darling plates of bluebirds.

Tattered elegance.

Zing!

I love these chairs and that little table.

Welcome to my getaway. No, not mine, just kidding.

We all know I cannot resist any photos with bougainvillea in it.

Or a photo of an old watering trough made useful.

Okay, okay, I'd camp for a few hours in this, may even one night but that's it!

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Okay, Ranting About a Few Things?

I'm updating this here at the very top to alert those of you who are tired of ads—any ads. It eliminates ads for most websites and blogs. I understand people having to make money with their ads, but I think we deserve a choice to view them or not view them, if we so choose. I've had AdBlock for my Safari for a couple of months now and love it. I installed it on hubs' computer recently and he likes it. (It's a shareware, free if you're too strapped to pay the couple of bucks he asks, but I plan on sending this man and his wife a payment.) Anyway, go here for AdBlock for Safari—and you can use Safari on any PCs, even though it's an Apple browser and I think you'll like it a lot. If you're running Mozilla or Firefox, which I think is one of the best browsers ever and very fast, go here to download the AdBlock for Firefox. Firefox and Mozilla are actually one and the same. Mozilla is the foundation that took over Netscape and it created the Firefox browser. You can also get it for Chrome if you are running that browser. Here it is for Chrome. You can also block ads on Facebook and YouTube. Enough of this, just download them and have no ads to disturb you. I did and I'm loving it. Since this post won't be seen by many people after a few days, spread the word around. I've also put a button on my side bar to let people know they do have a choice to eliminate annoying ads; well, most of them anyway.

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Okay, vent time here. I have a couple of them today.

First, let's talk about ads on blogs. You must know by now I absolutely do NOT like them. I believe it destroys the beauty of a blog. I know, I know, some people need the extra income in this horrific economy and I can definitely understand that. But I sure wish you had control over what you have to advertise. I'm seeing some absolutely disgusting ads. Plus, if you perchance accidentally "roll over" them, they will start playing! Loudly!  Now, the music is bad enough, not that all the music is bad because some of it is wonderful, but I find it too distracting. I have to turn off my sound if the phone rings or if I'm already on the phone, my caller will hear it. Not just the music but the ads! I'm not going so far as to say I'll never view blogs that have ads because a lot of my favorites do and I don't want to give up reading their blogs at all. I love reading them; I just don't like to see toilets, personal hygiene and various other ads for which I have no use. Cars in Detroit, Florida, Maryland, etc? I live 2,000-2,500 miles away; I'm not going to Michigan, Florida or Maryland to buy a car.

The next vent if this new blogger interface. This post right here has been the absolute hardest ever to post. I even used a template for it and it wouldn't show my photos! Now, I know HTML and it was all good. I have no idea what was going on but I actually had to do the whole thing over about 3 times. I was getting so frustrated I almost gave up on this one but I didn't as you can see. Blogger, please fix this interface and not have it so "glitchy." Please!
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This is one of the most unusual colored living rooms I've ever seen but I really do like it. That sofa is very unusual and the rug is a bit modern for my taste but the room has a lot of pizzazz, which just goes to show you that if you like a color, then you go for it. Don't let anyone else set your standard for you. I think that's why we see so much "off white" and beige in living rooms. I find it a disgusting color actually. Be brave, use more color!

These chairs were the type we had in furnished housing in the military. They are really comfortable, too. Ours weren't this pretty; we had red leather cushions but I'd take another pair of those chairs again in a heartbeat.

Okay, I think this room is adorable! Mostly, it's the furniture I think is so cute.

Ooooooh, yeaaaaah! I love the red sofa.

What a wonderful place to be able to have.

While I like this and it's lovely with blue, I'd have pink with the white.

Summer nights on the porch.

The pink of this kitchen is wonderful and I like how the undercounter lights up the walls so sparkly.

What an unusual door. Kind of halloween-ish.

Elegant french doors.

I'd like these chairs in white, please.

Pink cabinets. Yellow walls. Squeeeeeal....

Quiet area made adorable!

Ooooh, yeeeeeah, but then I'd have to cook.

This painted window is gorgeous. I have no idea who did it but I sure would want one.

Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yesssssss!

My grandmother, mother, and even I, had one of these dryers. I think I must have thrown mine out at some point thinking it was too old-fashioned. :-(

I do my lamps with silk roses also. I saw one of these done in pink. I think I like the white better though—more elegant.

I'm afraid if I got in I'd never want to get out. Beautiful.

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