Day 29: The Last Thing I Bought

This one shows what every household needs on a daily basis. Yes, I am talking about milk and eggs. Milk for cereal, milk for hot chocolate, milk to put in coffee or tea, and milk for mixing in cakes, pancakes, waffles, and the eggs I also bought! Milk has always been one of my favorite drinks because it has a nice taste, mixes quite nicely with Hershey's Syrup, and is way better than water in cereal. Considering I eat a lot of cereal in the summer we always need milk.

Eggs go with many different foods. A good quiche has plenty of eggs, omelets need several eggs if you're going to call it an omelet...one just will not do. The topnotch, best, most outstanding item to pair eggs with is BACON!!! We who love bacon consider this pairing one of the finest meals you can eat at anytime. Eggs are eggs, but bacon highlights breakfast, lunch, or dinner with just the aroma which wafts throughout the kitchen. Combine bacon with eggs and you leave the table fully satisfied and tell yourself that as the best meal I've had in a very long time. So, milk and eggs are forever intertwined...and you do not have to kill the cow or chicken to enjoy their delights.

Day 28: CUPS

I went to Wilson Memorial High School in Fishersville, Va; THE University of Virginia for grad school, and lived in Va for 25.5 years. The first cup was Mom's birthday gift to me the year she died. I got it in October 1996 rather than December.

I lived in Munich, Germany for two years, Augsburg for one year. They have a nice ceramic factory in Waechtersbach where the geese mug came from. I've had it since 1984. The Happy Fisherman is/was a seafood restaurant in Memphis, right off the interstate. The dining room has/had a huge window so we could view the lake. I'll never forget a hot air balloon crashing into the lake during my dinner.

Next I came to Lawton to live, a very long 27 years ago. While here I have acquired cups from Ag in the Classroom workshops, a Christmas gift of Godiva Chocolate from a student, a McDonald's cup that fits my car cup holder really well, and a Wayne & Susan mug as a wedding anniversary gift. We went on a Carnival cruise so I got several mugs from there, this one shown being my favorite. Those of you who know me know that I am TIGGER! I would have mostly been labeled ADHD in school.

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I worked in Alaska in 2011. The purple cup with the straw was given to me, only when it was new there was an inner layer of purple (which has since been broken).

This summer I have baked some (measuring cups), fed the dogs (dog bowls- well, dogs do not drink or eat from cups!)drank a lot of tea so the bottle is my cup (no one drinks it so I'm quite safe here), and cleaned skunk from my dog Rascal. That's the cup with dawn and baking soda in it.

Lastly are Wayne's cupped hands. He, too, used this cup to clean old Rascal last night.

Day 27: On the Road

As you are aware I have spent a lot of time on the road this summer (Not enough to suit Wayne though!HA)I have taken some really great snaps of the common things found along the roadside, in fields, hilarious signs, etc. So I'll just post a few photos and let you take in the USA I've seen this summer.

Snow in Montana, almost a tall as me; boring road in Texas from Altus, Oklahoma to Amarillo, TX; Gobblers Knob, CO; Wyoming's oil pumpers; striped gates on Wyoming and Montana roads during the winter. These gates close the highways down due to heavy snowfall; endless powerline poles and windfarms; wheat fields and hay bales, Idaho potato fields and sunsets; old red barns, dilapidated houses, grain elevators; More seemingly endless roads winding through some of the most beautiful countryside in America; Beartooth Mountains, MT Winding, steep, skinny roads; snow poles in Montana on ridges to indicate where the road is. This helps the snowplow guys and sled dog teams; wild animals; patriotism; and natural beauty in rock formations