FIVE ON FRIDAY {2.19.16}

Shell Beach, CA

Sunsets along the coast have been stunning!

The "hummers" are storming the feeder! this photo was captured on my iPhone. 

LOLA... our sweet grand-dog!

she's been visiting while Allie & Brian are in Washington DC.

Her expressions "crack-me-up"... I think she was wanting to sit in the sun!

Wednesday's rain fall totaled about 3/4 of a inch. Given the California drought, we are grateful for any rain.

Cambria Pines Lodge

A PRETTY Lady!

posting with FIVE on FRIDAY!

GOOD. RANDOM. FUN. V.7 {2016}

Sunday, February 14, 2016 - VALENTINE'S DAY

GOOD - Went for an afternoon drive to our favorite place along the Shell Beach cliffs! Yesterday was a beautiful, warm (mid-80's) day along the beach. Not exactly winter weather, but okay, I can live with a few days, THEN we better get some more of that El Nino weather (meaning... rain) before all the trees bloom thinking it's Spring. The 101 highway was sooo crowded it took us 65 minutes to drive home... in general, it's a 15 minute drive.

RANDOM - A group of women were practicing their hula dance for an upcoming performance. They were being accompanied by a guy on his guitar. A lovely addition to the beauty of the coastline.

Allie's classroom - Thursday, February 11th

FUN - Volunteered in Allie's TK classroom. (TK = Transitional Kindergarten). Haven't seen her students since October... they are ALL 5 years old now...

She has the most interesting items in her classroom! a new set of puppets with an upper & lower case letter on them...

And, doesn't this plate of (plastic) spaghetti look tasty? At the beginning of the school year, playing in the kitchen was the TOP choice during free-time... now it's the writing center (they love those glue sticks + scrap paper). Allie has a huge stack of little "treasures" created by her students!

 Posting with Tamar at Random-osity

Last I checked, she was enjoying
a snowy day on the slopes!

GOOD. RANDOM. FUN. V.5 {2016}

Saturday, we took a drive to Montana de Oro... about 25 minutes from our house. There are H.U.G.E. cliffs with sweeping views of the midnight blue ocean. Waves were pounding the rocks, people stood along the bluffs enjoying the wind and watched the storm blow in. It was sooooo GOOD to be out in nature...

Hopping rocks, looking in tidepools, exploring between the incoming tide... A few RANDOM samples of ocean life. 

Some FUN... a break from procrastinating

(still decluttering the bathrooms,

honestly, I haven't gotten far...).

Too late for Christmas, but it was certainly FUN mailing this ornament to Allie & Brian. 

• I photocopied both sides of their wedding invitation on card-stock, cut it into slivers of paper, which I rolled around a pencil & dropped them inside this glass bauble.
• Then I punched purple(s) & green confetti from the crepe paper I used to make their wedding flowers. 
• Here are the photos I sent to family showing them how this looked. Since no one had seen the ornament, I labeled the arrows showing them what the curled paper pieces were... C.U.T.E. & FUN!

posting with Tamar @ Random-osity

GOOD. RANDOM. FUN. V.4 (2016)

Not just GOOD, but GREAT...
we had four days of rain
(off & on, but still much appreciated).

A RANDOM act...

JPE made turkey noodle soup with leftovers from last Thanksgiving... YUM!

Adorable decorations @ Lewis & Clark!!

Saturday, JPE & I went to Santa Barbara to "window shop"

(Ummm. I confess, actually, I spent a gift card)...

visited my favorite three stores - all located on State Street

Anthropologie, Paper Source and Lewis & Clark.

three FUN shops!

posting with Tamar at Random-osity

WHAT IF I....

view from my kitchen window this morning

I'm OVER-THINKING...  OVER-REACTING...

OVER-PLANNING...  OVER-PROJECTING...

OVER-VISUALIZING...  OVER-LOOKING...

OVER-EVERYTHING...

I'm feeling like an OVER-ALL mess!

BUT, looking out the window this morning, I'm reminded that

I'm not OVER-WINTER!

Looks like Spring has arrived on my patio.

I'm hoping we haven't bypassed the
"cold snap" & "rain"
that generally passes our way in
January-February-March.

Weather reports mention we "could" get some rain Saturday. 

Perhaps I'll do a rain dance today?

it will wash the dark mood away.

SONG-OGRAPHY 1.26.14

photos pulled from my archives ~ Big Bear February 2013

Have you seen the Disney movie, FROZEN?

source

if so, you'll recognize the lyrics to this week's

SONG-OGRAPHY!

Kathy @ You'll Shoot Your Eye Out posted a "cool" looking photo! Check it out...

California is still hoping for some rain...

or at least a winter chill to the air!

Here's a YOU-TUBE video for this week's song.

The movie is adorable! & the song gives me chills (no pun intended!)

SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY 12.22.13 + SONG-OGRAPHY

12.22.13

SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY
words this week:

LIGHTS, TREE, BIG, MAKES YOU FEEL MERRY & ON THE DOOR

Celebrating Christmas this morning... with Lydia, Tasha, Jack, Taylor & Morgan in Big Bear...

looking up at the Christmas tree LIGHTS
(from outside the guest cabin)

Lego TREE... Big TREE...

larger than a normal cupcake... a BIG ceramic cupcake...

three adorable 6th graders playing their "strings"
in downtown Big Bear...

hoping to earn money to go to a music festival in Salzburg, Austria...

MAKES YOU FEEL MERRY!

beautiful garland, ON THE DOOR frame

NOW, for SONG-OGRAPHY!

check in with Kathy at DON'T SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!

SILVER BELLS

"Silver Bells, Silver Bells

It's Christmas time in the city

Ring-a-ling, hear them ring 

Soon it will be Christmas Day"


"Silver Bells" was first performed by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid, and released in March 1951.

But, one of my first memories of someone singing "Silver Bells" was Bing Crosby & later Frank Sinatra.

What memories of this song do you have?