Southern Living Yankee

The WGSIL (World's Greatest Sister-in-law) emailed me today about how I disappoint her. Every day she visits this blog, and every day she's disappointed by it's dull and void-ed-ness. I know. Nothing. (She really needs to Click on the "Subscribe to" over there to the right---> RSS feed and then she'd be notified by e-mail about my latest posts!) But truly, nothing much has been happening in the personal life. Unless you want to hear about the continuous hacking cough left over from a cold, or how I'm trying to get used to wearing contacts but the prescriptions aren't right, or I can't (eeww, eeww, eeww!) touch them to my eyeball! And who wants to read about all that? Not me! So on the homefront, Fud is the only one who's had some interesting happenings here at Twin Lakes. He made friends with Carly, a dog two doors down. Carly's not real sure what Fud is, exactly. She knows dogs hate cats, and vice versa, but Fud's such a friendly li...

http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/sycamore/sycamore.html This picture looks like camoflauge, doesn't it? Well, you're right, it's not. It's a picture of sycamore tree bark. When Tom had his big day out (last post), I picked up the BIGGEST leaves I'd ever seen in my life! Turns out sycamore trees have the largest leaves in North America. All these facts from a link on my library's website for kids. Who knew? Brad and Aaron happened to show up around the time I made a birthday cake so they were delighted with a "Happy Birthday to You" duet by Tom and I. And this rainbow was too big for my camera--just like God's promises are too big for our little minds to take in! WRITING UPDATE: I haven't touched the book manuscript for several weeks, but maybe this week since I have Thursday and Friday off. Pray for me! Thanks for checking in on me!