WWYT What Would You Take?

First of all – everyone needs to pray for rain for Texas, please…. or send some positive rain vibes or whatever you do.   There are fires burning everywhere here. 

Backing up to Sunday when we came home from church this is what we saw.  

Fire trucks everywhere, command center in the middle of the street and the land across the street from us on fire!  At first as we drove through the barricade we thought it was our house and I knew the only really important thing was to get the girls, Lillie and Iris, out.  This foam they kept spraying after the fire was out.

 

But it wasn't our house and the wind, which was about 4o mph  was blowing away from our house as the temperature climbed to 105. It went on to spread to 20 more acres and was then contained.  And that quickly became one of the lesser fires.  All day long sirens blared as fires started popping up everywhere.   I know this picture looks like my house is a hovel and sometimes it is – haha – but there was a time when it was green and blooming.  Because of the hottest summer ever recorded and the most severe drought in half a century our yard and plants are gone.  We just couldn't seem to water enough and then came the time when doing so was a waste.

Then I saw this where it shows the first fire started on our side lot –

nope it was across the street so the EndofDays-er blogger who put my address as ground zero for fires of hell or whatever should meet the rest of the endofdaysers across the street. Laughing….sort of.

Anyway – with all that done and sitting all cozy in my hovel I decided to pack a few things to grab and go. With the dogs in the car…some of the things on my list (actually in a laundry basket) – computer…it has tons of my family pictures and lots of info we'd need for insurance, etc.and easier to take than that stuff, birth certificate and ss cards, some jewelry – only gold or silver unless it's sentimental, and some prescriptions that cost more than gold and silver.  Then for me a few clean clothes, and the programs and wrapped gifts I did for my niece's wedding even though I was scoffed at for wanting to put them in the car just in case!!! 

And even though the wedding is at a resort

a few miles from  the worst fire in Texas   –

Bastrop County – it will go forth somewhere because I'm happy to say it's more about the marriage than the wedding!

Many people have lost their homes – over 600 – and the worst fires are still zero containment.  So, here it is my favorite day of the year – this beautiful September day when the first cool front has arrived  these fires are still raging.

I'm keeping all those displaced people and the firemen in my prayers.

(pictures from Facebook)

Now… what 5 things would you take if you only had 10 minutes?  

xoxo Nancy

PS – I forgot…phones and chargers for all the electronic crap!  My basket just got heavier!

PSS I'm joining Sue @ It's A Very Cherry World today for Rednesday after realizing I have a big red firetruck to show!

Pink less Saturday

Hello Bloggy friends.  I am  totally bloggyless today!  This week has been so busy.  I've been taking pictures for an upcoming estate sale for my friend Pat of Estate Sales by Pat. If you're in the Austin area it starts next Thursday and her prices are fabulous.  Check it out here!  She has some gorgeous quilts and linens.

Tonight I went to the new Pflugerville auction and got a huge and I mean huge box of crochet doilies etc for $5.00!!!! I never win stuff like that but no one else was interested. Yay! So I'm making lampshades with them.  And I have a million little projects going because this adorable girl, our niece…

is getting married next week. How did that happen – she grew up overnight because wasn't 1986 just a couple of years ago??? And guess what her colors are???

Did you guess Pink?  WRoNG! It's teal.  A shade of my favorite color – turquoise.  And as you know I'm daughterless so I love the chance to offer my helpyness to her mother, my bff. She's my niece even though her mother is not really my sister but isn't it wonderful that sometimes you do get to pick your own family!!!  And I had a really elegant black dress picked out to wear to the wedding and then somehow opted instead to buy a pink/purple sundress that looks like a migrane with a hot pink shrug!  I've been around you guys too long!!! haha.  So that's next weekend and I'm just so excited that she's getting married. 

And by the way – Happy September!  Even though it's still in the 100s it's September and there is totally a chance that a cool front could blow in.  It's not in the forecast but there is a chance and as long as it was August it was more like a fat chance!

So now I'm heading over to put my link up on Beverly's Pink Saturday and could I be later?  Oh well….better late than never, right?  Have a wonderful laborless Labor Day weekend.

xoxo Nancy

Barbie Cars

Last night was the first game of the season for my grandson's Cedar Ridge Raiders so if purple were pink I'd be set.  He played a fabulous game and fortunately for you all my camera died and I only got this one shot! But unfortunately for you guys I saw a pink Barbie car at the game and my camera was dead!  Seriously – it was fabulous and I figured if I googled it someone would have a picture.

I found this picture here and swiped it.  Oooh – there are some serious  Barbie Hummer Haters there on that site.  Haha -  the car guys are seriously upset that this macho Hummer went pink!

 

And recently I saw this  - uh – art car? Too funny – and I was able to get one lousy picture with my phone! It was covered with Barbies and toys…..

only in Austin!

Happy Pink Saturday. Thank you Beverly!

xoxo Nancy

Cupcake Love

Last Saturday as I was dreading/preparing to make cupcakes for LaVerne 's (Riverside Studios) party look what arrived out of the blue? Actually out of the pink!!!  came this package from my best friend I've never met…Dana of  The Stone Rabbit. 

Dana, for those of you who have been on a desert island for the past few years, is that famous blogger from Missouri.  What you probably don't know about Dana is that Dana is a psychic.  I KNOW!  She had no idea that I would be baking cupcakes – heating up the kitchen when it's already 105 outside – yet she timed this package to arrive just in the nick of time!  This allowed me to have a total "cold" meal.  Tuna salad stuffed tomatoes and pasta salad. One of my friends has decided late in life that she is a vegetarian.  Really – try to wrap your head around that – she might as well have changed her gender preferences which wouldn't have involved menu changes. haha   But I digress – instead of our usual party chicken salad we had tuna!  Isn't this the cutest cupcake arrangement 5 pinks and fill in with chocolate.

So…on Sunday we went to see The Help.  It is so good -  the clothes and hair and furniture is spot on and then came back to celebrate LaVerne's birthday.  She tried and tried to blow that candle out. 

See?  She's still trying.  Whose husband conserves digital pictures like they're Ektachrome  film.  We're in our 60's – meaning you need to take at least 10 of the same shot on the off chance you might get a decent shot of everyone. 

So that's it for today.  Happy, happy birthday Dear LaVerne and thank you, thank you Dana for these nobake delicious pink cupcakes.  And warning to Jeff – if you eat one more pink cupcake you will turn into a girl – the last three are reserved for their intended purpose – stress eating – which I am right now – stressed!  Really stressed but I've got the solution for that!

xoxo Nancy

Now go see Beverly at How Sweet The Sound for Pink Saturday without whom I'd have never met people like Dana and the rest of you fabulous bloggers!

Tagging Along With Pink Saturday

his year I've been tagging along with Elizabeth's Happy Homemaker group.  I'm making two tags each month.  One for me and one for my partner Scrap For Joy. My theme is a Year of Celebrations and for the month of August I'm celebrating PINK!  Perfect for Beverly's Pink Saturday.  Since August is about to be the end of me because of this Summer from Hell. I had this

      Bright Idea!!!      

I decided to send some cooling positive pink vibrations to August.  I live in Austin and we send positive energy all over the place so why not see if it can bring us some cool vibrations. 

The pinkest thing I could think of is Pink Flamingos.  As if they aren't flashy enough I've added a little bling to these girly flamingos. These fancy flamingo girls are just full of pink girly messages.  Just between you and me I'm thinking…

Right Pink Sistahs???? Pink is all about Girl Power!!!  (With EXCEPTIONS of course! ahem)

I figure you can't have too much

and because I'm ….

I decided to do something different and cut my tag out of a transparent binder!

The thing about pink is – it's almost a neutral.  It looks good with soo many other colors. Pink and red, pink and brown, and my absolute favorite color turquoise looks even more fab with pink.

It's not just a color – it's an attitude, a mood and most of all it's fun and girly.  Because of Beverly's Pink Saturday I have met some of the coolest gals in Blogland.  So Put a little Pink in your life and…

Look at those l.e.g.s…..

So do you want to see my legs????????NoNONOO…How about my tags????

Isn't she a happy pink Word Bird?

Oops…come back here girl.  Always preening – she must be looking for her high heels.

Thanks for "Tagging Along" for Pink Saturday.

My good friend LaVerne is being featured for Pink Saturday – so head on over to Beverly's How Sweet The Sound.  Way to go LaVerne…… take a bow girlfriend!!!