Great Value? Not so much!

Have you noticed the new packaging of Wal~Mart brand products? Well, I have and you would think that the new plain look would cost less wouldn't you? But NO! The old green packaging was $1.46 the new plain white packaging is now $1.79!

I guess it costs more to be plain!

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

On a different note, yesterday as Shelby and I were heading home from another photo shoot I spotted this set of tracks. I've been wanting to try and take some pictures here. These tracks run behind Griffis Steel Co. and being it was a late Sunday afternoon and not much traffic or anything else going on and I had the camera, and the time and a willing participant it was a good time to try and take some pictures.

(If you click on the picture you can enlarge it for more detail.)

As we got out there on the tracks I told Shelby, "your mama would die if she saw us out here!"

It didn't take but a few minutes and I snapped a few shots and we got back in the truck and went on home.

Once we got home, I loaded the pictures on the computer.

I thought, I think I'll load them on to Face book.

I kid you not, no sooner than I hit the publish button, maybe a half a minute later the phone rang :)

It was Christon calling, so I had Shelby answer it.

She was standing by me and I heard Christon say, "Have you been playing on the rail road tracks??" Shelby was kind of surprised she knew about it and she said "yes."

She told Shelby, "that we don't play on the rail road tracks."

Yeah we know, but she told her "we could run fast" :-)

Another funny thing about it was that my daddy saw the pictures on Face book and said, "NO BOW? She's so pretty".

Might have been Papa's first time ever not seeing a bow in Shela's hair.

I guess I can shock folks every now and then.

I love it!!

*H*a*p*p*y*~*M*o*n*d*a*y*

Sunday Stills

Sunday Stills

This weeks theme: Signs of Fall

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Photo~Hunt~Saturday

~Photo~Hunt~Saturday~

This weeks theme: Twisted

Friday Shoot Out

Friday Shoot Out

This week's theme, chosen by Cindy,

is MY FAVORITE PLACE TO_______.

(I guess this isn't exactly my town but it's what I have on hand. )

Go to the B*E*A*C*H

It's Crescent Beach, Florida

Crescent Beach is just 6 miles south of Gordon's St Augustine Beach.

It is an hour and a half drive south of my town Brunswick, Georgia.

As you can tell it's one of the last beaches that you can still drive onto with your car.

These pictures were taken at low tide and in the evening. One of my favorite times of day at the beach.


Our GRAND~girls just love it as much as we do.

Digging in the white sands is a favorite thing to do for children and adults a like.
My parents took me to this same beach as a child.
I took my children and now I take my GRAND~children and their friends.
That's my big boy Travis who can dig one handed.
Remember the other hand is wrapped up due to the MRSA infection.
He posted a recent picture of how much it has healed so go see for yourself by clicking here.


Great place to run.

The dunes are beautiful.

Almost looks like snow.

I guess it is, Florida snow.

Clouds starting to roll in.

Turning around and looking over my shoulder, the rain was coming.

Time to load up and go.

Driving back into St. Augustine we were looking for fun.

And we found it on the Merry Go Round!

Just look at the excitement!

Sweet fun.

For more Friday Shoot Out Fun Click HERE.

I Decided

I decided on Roasted Red Pepper Soup

Mmm Good!

Roasted Red and Yellow Pepper Soup

3 whole bell peppers
1 tablespoon each butter and olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 large carrot, chopped
1 (14.5 ounce) can Italian style diced tomatoes, undrained
1 teaspoon honey
3 cups chicken or vegetable stock
1/4 to 1/3 cup heavy cream or half and half
fresh basil, if desired

Roast bell peppers until blackened in most places. (I usually do it over a gas flame, but you can also do it in the oven at 450 degrees.) Place peppers in a zip top bag for ten minutes. Remove from bag, remove stem and seeds and peel peppers, scraping with a knife. Chop coarsely. Heat olive oil and butter in a large pot over medium high heat. Add peppers, onion, garlic, and carrot. Saute until vegetables are softened, about five minutes. Add tomatoes with juices, honey and stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes, or until all vegetables are softened. Blend soup in blender, food processor, or with immersion blender, until not almost smooth, but with some chunky texture. Add cream and heat until just below a simmer. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with fresh basil, sour cream and croutons if desired.

Recipe from Prudy click here.

It was wonderful!!

Thinking About

Cooking or Baking something.

Wordless Wednesday

Honored

Y'all remember these wedding pictures of my nephew and his wife that I took in July?

I know, how could y'all forget if I keep bringing them back up again and showing them every chance I get, right?

Aren't they a beautiful couple?

This is Annie's twin sister Nikki, in the blue.

She's getting married December 23 of this year.

Guess who she wants to take her pictures???

That's right folks!

She wants "Moi"

Still trying to see how we can make that happen.

It's not looking real good at this point.

But I feel so honored they asked :)

Oh, and I forgot to add, they said "for PAY"

That means Money!!!

The Day Before

On Friday, Captain aka Kathryn found out

she was going to have her little bundle of

joy 2 weeks early. Doctor scheduled it for

Sunday morning. That meant we didn't

have two weeks to get her pictures made,

we had to do them Saturday evening.

The weather was perfect and we got a lot

of great pictures. Then finished off the

evening with a wonderful seafood dinner.

Here are a few of the pictures I liked.

They haven't seen them yet.

I really hope they like them.

The proud father to be.

A picture of love.

The little mommy to be.

And thanks to Christon, who got to be in

the delivery room with the little family,

I bring to you the little man getting

his first grooming session.

Welcome to the world

"Collin Pierce Dickinson"

Saturday Photo~Hunt

This weeks theme: Upside Down

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Friday Shoot Outs

Friday Shoot Out

This weeks theme:

Domesticated Animals

Chosen by Sandy

I must say I wasn't sure of what animals were considered Domestic so I looked it up and was very surprised at what I found. Honey Bee? Guinea Pig? Hampster? Corn Snake? Fancy Rat? What the heck is a Fancy Rat??

Go here to check out the whole list.

Mo
Molly

Have a great weekend.