Frugal Ways to Celebrate the New Year

Here are a few suggestions:

- Go out to eat for lunch on the 31st or the 1st.
- Stay up late watching old movies with friends or a loved one.
- Buy your favorite bottle of wine and toast each other before going to bed.
- Play games with your kids, friends or loved ones until midnight.
- have a fix and eat party - start the evening with everyone fixing their favorite treat and end the evening with everyone eating.

- want to be alone?
       - take a long hot bath with candles and scented bath soap.
       - reread one of your favorite books or maybe try a new one.
       - write - you don't have to be an author to want to capture what happened in the past year.
       - enjoy the quiet and stare at the beautiful sights right outside your window.

Whatever you decide to do - make it fun and something that you will remember. After all, this is the last day of year.

Tina

Cookie Fun

click on the picture link above and check out all the cookies my son and I made.

He did it all free hand.

I did the easy part of decorating.

Tina

WW - Golfing Adventure

With the morning's cooler, we decided to head out to the golf course in the afternoon. There are a lot more shadows and we didn't get in the whole 18, but we did get outside and had fun.

Hope you are having fun wherever you are,

Tina

WW - One Woman's Desire for a Celebration

Turkey Day was not official celebrated until November 26, 1789 by presidential proclamation.

Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of the famous "Godey's Lady's Book, started a campaign in the 1830's to make it an annual national day of Thanksgiving.  It was not until 1863 that she succeeded when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day.

Check out http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/hale1.html

to learn more about the lady.

Thank you, Sarah, for fighting for a cause that reminds us to celebrate the wonderful gifts in our lives.

Tina

WW- Donkey Trouble

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It's the middle of the week and I'm sitting on my as.....

Guess I better get something done.

Tina

WW - Fog

Okay, I have seen fog in a number of places through the years and I decide to look for an inspirational quote about fog.

Sounds simple, just do a search.

The article I found was inspirational, but not because it was a one sentence quote. It deals instead with a MIT student that is trying to harvest fog to bring water to the poor.

You'll never look at fog the same way again.


http://www.technologyreview.com/article/37751/

"Fog a beetle's water fountain."

Tina

WW - Out in the Wild

Luckily, I have a wonderful guy to capture on film all the sights for me.

Thanks love,

Tina

WW - Living Free

You can't help but enjoy the grace of a horse.

Even if, they are standing in a pasture with no one around. They reflect the form of a beautiful creature.

Tina

WW -Stuffed

They are so cute when they are stuffed, but after reading about the people that have been killed while out in the wild. I know I prefer to only see them from a distance or stuffed.

Hope you have a wild Wednesday,

Tina

WW - Elephants

When in doubt, just take the next small step.

And you will be making progress.

Have an awesome day,

Tina

WW - Frog

This little fellows was out sunning himself on a beautiful day.

Just shows we all need to stop a minute each day and enjoy the beauty around us.

Hope you're week is going great,

Tina

WW - Waves

Did you know there are three types of waves:


Mechanical waves require a material medium to travel (air, water, ropes). These waves are divided into three different types.

*Transverse waves cause the medium to move perpendicular to the direction of the wave.

*Longitudinal waves cause the medium to move parallel to the direction of the wave.

*Surface waves are both transverse waves and longitudinal waves mixed in one medium.

Electromagnetic waves do not require a medium to travel (light, radio).

Matter waves are produced by electrons and particles.
(Info found at http://library.thinkquest.org/10796/ch8/ch8.htm)

What type of waves are you making today?

None. Then you better get busy.

Tina

WW - Zebras

No two are alike just like snowflakes and humans. Isn't nature amazing?

Tina

WW - Fox or Foxy?

Guess I can't claim to be either.

Tina

WW - Birds of Summer

At Branch Oak in NE, we enjoyed the first days of spring. Funny, I think we've seen ducks about every where we've been. We even saw Canadian geese in Prudhoe Bay, which according to our guide was not suppose to happen.

Tina

WW - Prior Pictures

While looking through some old pictures of vacations we have taken in the past, I discovered a reoccuring theme. We seem to go where the buffalos roam.

This picture is from ND at Teddy's national park.

Tina