Hodge·podge

The above is a good way to describe today’s blogging. This may be my only chance to post today, so I’ll try to make it interesting. :0) Here are today’s topics:

My Weight

First, I’m glad to announce that I’m down another pound. I actually saw 179.8 on the scale the first time I stepped on it. I was so excited to see that number! Then I stepped off and saw the word “Error”. So I stepped back on a couple more times, which is usually what I do anyway, and consistently got 180.5. It’s not as great as the first number.. but I’ll take it!

I didn’t measure this week, but I will on Tuesday and then let you know what the results are.

My Teeth

I’m feeling better somewhat, but my jaw was really stiff when I woke up this morning. I’m having to open my mouth really wide a few times, every so often, to keep it lose. I’m not complaining though.. could be worse. I’m sure I’ll be quite entertaining to all who happen to see me today.

Weird!

I walk into the kitchen a couple if nights ago, to turn off the lights my kids had left on, when I see something that catches my eye. Here’s what I saw:

Yes, you are reading that right. My microwave display says “Child”. I thought, “What in the world does that mean?” So I look all over the settings, trying to see if there was a button that said something like “child portions setting”. Nope.. not a thing in reference to children on my microwave. I’ve had this thing 9 years and have never seen this before. I started pushing buttons to make it disappear (obviously this was after I took the picture)and nothing was working. Finally I hit something, I don’t even know what button it was, and it gave me back my regular display. I found out later my kids had stuck two small unpopped kernels of popcorn, from a bag they had popped earlier, in the microwave to see if they’d pop.

My theory is, the microwave saw them coming, realized what they were doing and protested by yelling “Child”, which translates: “Get these kids away from me before they destroy me!” Well.. it could happen, right?

Spring

If it wasn’t for all the tornadoes (and my prayers go out to all those who suffered loss last night at the hands of these bad boys) Spring would be the perfect time of year. The temps are just right. I love the light rains. It’s so refreshing after freezing my can off for several months.

I’m happy to say that it really looks like Spring around my house right now. Here is a pic of my flower bed that I took recently:

I adore tulips and I’m so glad that who ever lived here before me planted them. I can’t take credit for them, but I’ll gladly reap the benefits of them.

Photography Courses

My schedule has been so crazy that I’ve had little time to work in my lessons. I’m going to try to squeeze some time in today for them. I have learned a lot up to this point. I applied some of what I learned while taking the photos of my flower bed and came up with some nice results. Here are some of my favorites:

My last lesson was about focus and creative placement of your subject. I tried to apply some of that in the above pictures. Hope you like them!

Well, I’d better stop here. I have loads to get done today. I have a couple of recipes I want to share with you, so I’ll try to get those up later today if I have time. If not it may be tomorrow or Monday.