~~~WITHOUT the OCEAN..I WOULD BE LOST~~~: May 2008

26 May

Officially Summer

* After work today, Thursday the 29th, I am going out of town for the BB King concert tomorrow evening!! Woohoo. Have a great weekend everyone. *

<--New colors of trellis

<--"money plant"

Mr. "PJ" and I stay home for this holiday. Throughout the years we have traveled to family members BBQ's and get togethers. Now that we have lost a significant amount of his side of the family..we stay home and just contact most of the relatives. Working around the home and gardens are most relaxing to us. He does most of the work while I snap photos. This does NOT insinuate that I do nothing because I do. LOL. There are some projects for the male of the household ( Gotta keep em believing they are worthy Surprised

). We BBQ'd chicken breasts and stuffed them with cream cheese and sun-ripened tomatoes. DELICIOUS. Hot dogs and burgers were thrown the grill as well to have as dinners for the rest of the week. Also fresh veggies ( sliced onions, zucchini, yellow squash, mushrooms ) that had marinated in Italian dressing and spices overnight. We use a large aluminum deep dish pie plate to put these on the grill and cover it with aluminum foil. DELICIOUS! For dessert we had our choice of Chocolate cake or Apple Pie Ala Mode. Needless to say we are both full.

The temperature here jumped from the mid 60's early this morning to 91 degrees. That is quite uncommon. Also very, very muggy out but at least there was a 20-30 mile an hour South wind, so it did not seem so bad except for indoors. Yes, I finally turned on the A/C. In a few days the high will be..you guessed it..68 degrees again. Just plain strange weather thus far. Also expecting some severe weather late tonight.

While out snapping photos of the beautiful Perennials that are in bloom, it occured to me that the "money plant" has 5 basic stages. Each one..intriguing. This is the first stage :

( Very few blooms and a few pods )

And then you have the second :

( abundant blooms )

Now the third :

( blooms fade )

Fourth stage :

(pods again..is that sperm? Nerd

)

And the final stage after drying :

A beautiful dried flower arrangement.

I will be working Memorial day but I want to wish "MR" PJ a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. My next entry will be fairly soon due to my leaving town. (My belated b'day gift. ) I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing long weekend. Until next time.....I will have lots of photos of BB King..I hope!

<-- part of West garden

~*~Paula~*~

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25 May

An American Bouquet

Please Click : Turn your speakers on, please.

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1221321706636&source=jl99

~*~PAULA~*~

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18 May

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME on the 19th

( Need I say more? )

And I will be working, imagine that :)

birthday_rocks_3d_guitar.gif picture by pjbgp_2006

More later on what may develop into Belated Birthday plans for myself at the end of the month. The image below is a clue. ( Winks )

97LUCILLE4.jpg 1997 Gibson B.B. King Lucille Guitar (Headstock Front) image by bewitched1967_2006

Cheshire-Cat-Disney.jpg Smiles image by Kimber_013

~*~Paula~*~

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13 May

PIGGY BANK and Joke

I hope all had a wonderful weekend! I am working more hours than usual these days and cannot seem to keep my place here updated as often although I do check it daily to see who may have been by. I have been taking photos around my home for relaxation and pleasure. So, I will sign off wishing , each one of you that visits, a very lovely day. A few of the photos will be in new album above entitled "After the Rain". ENJOY. All comments are welcome whether they be positive, negative, or just a plain hello. ( Smiles )

MY PIGGY BANK AFTER FILLING MY CAR UP YESTERDAY!!

A young guy from Minnesota moves to Florida and goes to a big 'everything under one roof' department store looking for a job.

The Manager says, 'Do you have any sales experience?'

The kid says, 'Yeah, I was a salesman back in Minnesota .'

Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job. 'You start tomorrow. I'll come down after we close and see how you did.'

His first day on the job was rough but he got through it.

After the store was locked up the boss came down. 'How many customers bought something from you today?

The kid says, 'One'.

The boss says, 'Just one? Our sales people average 20 to 30 customers a day. How much was the sale for?'

The kid says, '$101,237.65'.

The boss says, '$101,237.65?' What the heck did you sell?'

The kid says, 'First I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn't think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4x4 Expedition.'

The boss said, 'A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a BOAT and a TRUCK?'

The kid said, 'No the guy came in here to buy tampons for his wife and I said, 'Dude, your weekend's shot - you should go fishing.