Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Scrapbooking

I am starting to scrap a lot of family, heritage, homes we've lived in, schools we've attended, etc. pages. This is one I particularly like - I titled the page "The House That Built Me" after the song that Miranda Lambert wrote (of the same name). I love the words to that song very much and thought it was appropriate for this page. This is the house I grew up in for the first 19 years of my life. So many memories in this house.
Now, when I drive down this street and ride past the house everything seems so much smaller than it seemed when I was growing up! Funny how that happens. I remember riding bikes up and down the street, the "park" between my house and Carolines and it would flood when it rained; I remember when the Parkway was being built behind our houses, and the Macon Mall was built where Mr. Bass used to have his store. I remember lots of grilling under the carport and the one time lightening struck the tree about 20 feet from us as we were outside (scary); I remember Aunt Mae would almost always come over and spend the night when my daddy went out of town for work; and I remember Whiskers, Blackie, and Sampson - our dogs. Oh yeah, and Happy the parakeet that froze to death from the air conditioner . . . not funny:( I remember me and Donna painting our rooms with big circles on the walls (I don't think daddy was too fond of that project); and I remember trying to pretend I was sound asleep on Saturday mornings when mama tried to wake me up to help her clean the house (sorry mama!). Lots more memories to remember . . . maybe I'll have to scrapbook about all the memories!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Riding from 52 degrees to 98 degrees in 6 hours

We had a really good bike ride Friday with Jim, Cindy and Chad Van Dyke. We left our house at 6:00am and it was 52 degrees. We layered the clothes on and took off. Met our friends at Simi Valley Harley and headed to Ojai. Ate breakfast at a great little cafe. Back on the road and went to Frazier Park and Pine Mountain. Started to warm up when we got to Santa Maria. From there we rode to Santa Ynez and ate lunch at the Red Barn - good burgers and wings! Full bellies got back on the bikes and went home via Santa Barbara and Ventura. Long day - got home around 7:45pm - 366 miles - and lots of fun!





Me and Glenn at Camp Sheideck













Chad, Jim, and Cindy Van Dyke



































































Dodgers . . . lost in LA

We went to the Dodger game Thursday night, and they lost . . . again :( We had fun though.

This is Tyler holding up his $6.00 bottle of water !!! We had Dodger dogs and boy were they good - yummy!














Me and Glenn (Michele and Tyler in the background).