Austin Weather

J U S T  Shoot ME!  Rainfall?  What's that? A total of 7 and a fraction inches of rain… for the year.

So ready for fall and the chance, however small, for cooler weather. 

Sooooo – on a different note – what's your weather like????

DDT Is Good For Me

Better living with chemicals. haha…

While at a backyard party at my friend Patty's house the uninvited mosquitoes showed up.  I mentioned to her neighbor from "up north" as we say in Texas (which means almost any state north of the Mason Dixon Line) boy do we need the ddt truck to come by.  I was just kidding but explained that as a kid they used to "fog" our neighborhoods with ddt.  "Oh no, Nancy -  that couldn't possibly be true –that's a deadly chemical" -which made me question it myself.  Just then an old friend from McAllen walked by and I grabbed him to see if he remembered it. "DDT" he said and his face lit up - "we used to run behind the fogger".  And sure enough we did. The truck pulling the fogger was as exciting as the ice cream truck and by the end of the block a host of kids ran behind it bathing themselves in the cool mist.  A relief to our parents in a time of polio, encephalitis, typhus and malaria that our kids and the food they ate were just a little safer.  . I googled it…and the above picture came up.  You can find anything anymore – seriously! So taking it a step further I typed "kids chasing the ddt truck".  And there we were…'50s kids bathed in DDT!  To make a long story short – like that's possible at this point – this image popped up.

It's from a movie "The Tree of Life" and clicking on the trailer I watched the preview and it looks sooo good.  Has anyone seen it?  Brad Pitt plays the dad and Sean Penn the little '50s kid  as a grown man. I can't wait to see this movie.    Anyway I saw that it was filmed in nearby Smithville.  Googling that took me to Smithville houses for sale.

Ack!  I love this house – and then I took the virtual tour.   Look…

Pink – they painted it pink.

I am soooo moving there and living in that house…or maybe not. Just maybe I'll buy this store and live….

 

above my antique store!

I could be happy here. Who cares about the stairs when you have your own…

 

  elevator.

Sigh…I want to move to Smithville – and live in a pink house or above a store….and chase the ddt truck!

So my question is:

Did you ever chase the ddt truck?

Do you want to move to Smithville?

Do you obsessively google?

Do you visit Beverly and other Pink Saturday blogs?

If you answered yes to all the above…we're soul mates.  See you in Smithville!

The Kindly Kennel Klub

Oh good gosh…could it be any hotter?  Yesterday the temp sign at the Dairy Queen was blinking 111 degrees!!! It's beyond ridiculous how miserably hot it is.  Our good friends/former neighbors came for a visit and we went out for a short while and then decided it was just too hot to be getting in and out of the car which was about 160 degrees so…we headed home.  Home – where there's a/c, cool drinks and lots of dogs!

Buster the weiner dog found the perfect spot…Buster and his mom thought it was a wee bit cool in our house.  Today our friends Mel and Tracy headed for the  river and Schlitterbaun to cool off for a couple of days floating the Comal.  While I know they're expecting this…I'm afraid it may look more like…..

this!!!!!!!!!!  Now I know why they closed the Comal last weekend!

Anyway, and might I say wisely,  Buster stayed behind … he tucked into his favorite spot.  Me into mine!

So on this hot July day I'm staying inside surrounding myself with dogs, Pink and lots of cool things.  A little blogging, a little nap and in between reading on my Kindle and skyping with my son.    I've only had the Kindle for a few weeks and I absolutely love it. 

I've read about 4 books since I got it and that's more than the past two years!  Right now I'm reading Stealing Faces – a 99cent book that is really, really good.  Jean Auel's last Cave Bear book was finished off in no time flat without my neck going out from reading the 10 lb book in bed and Stephen King's last book of four novella's was one of his best books I've read in a long time.  I love the fact that you can download and read the first chapter of a book for free to decide if you want to buy it or not.   I also cleared the clutter off the table in my craft/dining room and guess what?

You can actually use the table for dinner!!!  That hasn't happened in awhile!  ( No – I wasn't having a Mardi Gras party – just wanted to try these bakery cookies – they tasted about the same as they looked! blech!)

Look at the girls….Lillie  couldn't even look when she saw Buster the Weiner dog – she thought he'd had a tragic accident and lost his legs and Iris the Shame Based Sheltie was looking innocently Guilty.  Do you know why? 

Well – when sitting down to Jeff's beautifully plated dinner, Tracy, sounding much like Baby Bear of Goldilock's fame, asked "Who's been eating my dinner?" A half eaten chicken salad?   Iris is my # 1 suspect although it could have been Buster.

I definitely need to keep a closer eye on my little wards here at The Kindly Kennel Klub.  

Hope you are all staying cool on this Pink Saturday.   Beverly at How Sweet The Sound hosts each week come rain or shine – even though all we've had this year is shine and shine.  Anyone out there with too much rain? or cool weather?  Send it our way – c/o  The Kindly Kennel/Kindle Klub.   xoxo Nancy

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Pink Flamingos

One of my  all time favorite pictures….of my grandson…15 years ago.

Of course it involves PINK!!!

Happy Pink Saturday!!!

I'm joining Beverly at How Sweet The Sound for Pink Saturday.

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

This is the booth next to our booth The Roost.   Gosh – the stove is so cool by itself but what I just fell in love with are the two things on top.

I don't think I've ever seen anything like the skillet and covered casserole on the burners…no wonder things food was so tasty in the fifties.  It was cooked by Happy Homemakers in pink!  First mixed up in a pretty pink mixer.

I'm sure little munchkins were keeping their cute selves entertained on a pink tricycle just like this one.

 

On another note my grandson, Q, is playing in the national championship baseball tournament this weekend.   So in keeping with that for July I'm celebrating Baseball – our national pastime- for Elizabeth's Happy Homemaker year long tagalong. 

      

I used some vintage images and stitched it all on the sewing machine.

Using the Title Words from the sheet music for the song we all know and love I stitched them down the side.  On my tag I tucked a little picture of my grandson showing off his state championship ring.

and on the other a copy of an old baseball card.

Here's the back of the card

That's a hand fan that they are resting on.  Tomorrow night is the opening ceremonies at the Dell Diamond, home of the Round Rock Express.

I hope I can survive the heat!  Keeping my fingers crossed for The Action Baseball Team.  Good luck guys.

xoxo Nancy

I'm joining:

Beverly at How Sweet The Sound for Pink Saturday 

Cindy at My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday 

and Elizabeth at Creative Breathing  for our Happy Homemaker TagAlong.   This has been moved back to Elizabeth's blog and I'm glad because there are always fabulous things to see that Elizabeth makes.

Thank you ladies for hosting these fun events!