Saturday, November 21, 2009

Christmas 'Round the Town Prep

Mom does a community craft show every year, called Christmas 'Round the Town. It's fun except for the week before. The week before is utter chaos, literally! Mom tends to save the bulk of her projects until then. This year is better though, it is her 8th year though.
Every year we go rosehip hunting. Rosehips are the seed pods on wild rose bushes, the thorns on these bushes are evil - kinda like a fish hook. Mom, of course, makes us all wear bright colors because if we don't the hunters will think we are a deer and shoot us ...

This is Susie looking conspicuous so she isn't mistaken for a deer

While searching for proper, thick rosehipping gloves, I found a roll of electrical tape and a roll of orange trail marking ribbon and decided they were needed to complete our hunting ensembles.


Thanks to our "trip photographer", Valerie, we have pictures of this year's adventure. Now we have to suffer all the other prep work this week.



Friday, November 20, 2009

Coffee


Coffee is an addiction for me :) Maybe not literally, but I do have at least 1 cup of it almost every day. My cousin Rachelle and I have agreed that one day we will travel the country and stop at a quaint coffee shop in every state. One such quaint shop we found in East Tawas, MI it is called A Different Blend; I got a wonderful Iced Peppermint Mocha, but Shell only got Iced Tea (crazy girl)!




At another coffee shop in Oscoda, MI, I had another wonderful latte. I don't remember the name of this shop.



There are two coffee shops where I live that I like to frequent when I can; they are The Sunfield Coffee Co. in Sunfield, MI and State Grounds in Hastings, MI. And of course there is always Starbucks, but the closest one is 40 minutes away :'(
So here ends my "ode" to my coffee addiction. Hope you enjoyed it ;)