Thursday, July 15, 2010

Fake Plants, cookbooks, and horny toads

Here are a few little things I've been doing:

Added a few fake plants from the Dollar tree to my "owl" and "hive" planters. There are actually 3 different small plants in the big pot and I think it looks fairly realistic.

Sorry for the blurry pic. I still need to add moss around the base of the plants. I had forgotten about that until now. Also pictured is a little walnut shaped trinket box I found a few weeks ago but I can't remember where. I love it, but so far it's spent most of its life here being pried from Cutecumbers fingers.

Have I ever shown you the "family" recipe book I've been working on at a snails pace?

It's titled, "Never Trust a Skinny Cook". I'm not going to google it because I don't want to think, for even a moment, that I am not as witty as I think I am and find a book with a similar title. It's funny because I actually hate to cook and do NOT enjoy it at all. I'm more of a baker and even then it's occasional, but the women in my family all like cookbooks, and I've inherited quite a few. I have to admit, slowly I find myself picking them up and enjoying them. Sometimes I can almost taste a recipe after reading it.
A quick note about the one titled Slow Cooker in the photo: Ms Thang read the title and wondered aloud why I had a book for a SLOW cooker, as in a mentally challenged cooker. Honey and I had a long laugh over that one and he always says that's her book and plans to put that in a box to go with her when she leaves for college. lol

The scientist's grandpa brought him an unexpected treat from the garden today:

The horns are the only scary thing about this horny toad. His little flat face is grumpy but kind, and even though the scientist let him go a few hours ago, he's been casually strolling the yard and hanging out. I used to catch a bunch of these when I was a kid, but now they are really few and far between. As a matter of fact, this is the first one I have seen in at least 5 years although I'm not really hanging out in the brush these days. lol I know when I was younger I was told I could not keep them because it was against the law. I'm not really sure if there is truth in that, or if my parents were just trying to keep the poor thing from being loved to death. I would spend hours rubbing their bellies and putting them into "hypnosis". This one was having none of that, making a liar out of me in front of my son who would have thought I was Super-Mom if it would have cooperated.
I've also heard they can shoot blood from their eye. I have a hard time believing that, but it's a little random and weird for a lie to get children to leave them alone. :S

2 comments:

  1. LOL at the SLOW cooker! I teared up at the memory of her leaving and yall giving her the book... lol but its funny...


    did you get that little bee hive at target?! :D

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  2. I bought it at a thrift shop right before you showed me that they had them at Target, and since our thrift stores get a lot of Target surplus and rejects, I'm almost positive it came from there.

    What did you do with the big green one you found? And I want to see your thrift shop finds all painted and pretty now.

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