Last Photo-a-day Challenge

Photo-a-day Challenge with ChrissyT

Day 31 

and the last one.

Choose Your Own Theme

This picture is hanging above the mantel in my house.

Mantel ? or Mantle ?

Thought you might be interested in the spelling.

Mantel: The architectural shelf, ledge, or decorative frame surrounding and sitting above a fireplace.

Mantle: A loose cloak or cape, a figurative responsibility (like "taking on the mantle"), or the layer of earth beneath the crust. 

It was given to us by Ken's sister when we bought our first

house in 1980.

It has hung in every house we have lived in since then.

I'd love to go walking in that picture.

I've stared at it many, many times.

So peaceful and calming.

This has been a fun theme and I've really enjoyed playing along.

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Another one of those beautiful mornings for walking

55 degrees, sunny, and a few low hanging clouds.

Walked around both cemeteries to start.

Looks like someone had fun mowing the grass and didn't

care about straight mowing lines.  😊

At the other cemetery the rabbit I see often finally

stood still long enough for me to get a picture.

Continued my walk going down the main road towards home

and then on the way back to town took a detour up Barn Sale Road.

Once back to town walked around a couple of blocks and

that gave me enough walk steps.

Sheila was out running and stopped for a little chat.

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Ken's had tried to get his chain saw fixed but couldn't

figure out the problem so last week he put it in the shop.

Keith got it working again and we went to pick it up this morning.

Also stopped in at the library and Ken got another book out.

Doesn't happen very often but I walked out of the library empty handed!!

I made German Red Cabbage this afternoon.

Can't even remember the last time I ate it.

Found the recipe on line and it turned out great just like I remembered it 

from when I was a kid.

It is so good.

Haven't put this one on my blog yet but here is a picture of it.

I've been reading The Museum of Lost Quilts by Jennifer Chiaverini

which is the book club selection for August.

I decided not to finish reading it.

Just can't get interested in it.

That's going to be it for this last day of July.

Hope you had a wonderful day.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

HappyK 🙂

July Photo-a-day Challenge 30

July Photo-a-day Challenge with ChrissyT

Day 30

SHAPES

Shapes on a quilt that is on my bed.

Wish I could say that I made it but I didn't.

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What a beautiful morning for walking.

Lots of sunshine and 57 degrees with a slight breeze.

Walked around both of the cemeteries first.

Then stopped at the Jeep to pick up a book and a DVD and walked

over to the library to put them down the drop.

Flower pots at the library.

From there I walked all over town up and down all the streets

including around the ball park loop.

I usually talk to the chickens when I pass by but didn't say anything this time.

They all came running over to the fence to see me

as if to say, hey you didn't say hello. 

So I stopped to say hi and took this picture.

Rebecca was out walking Leo and also saw Anna and her dad Mark.

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Haven't had pancakes in a while so made some for breakfast.

Took advantage of this sunny day and did a load of laundry.

Like looking out the window and seeing it blowing in the breeze.

A few house chores got done and then it was back to

my recipes.

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Will try to explain what I'm doing with them.

I have a blog with about 140 recipes on it.

Also have a binder with recipes written on all sorts of paper,

cards, and recipes cut of out magazines.

I have trouble putting them in specific categories 

because of overlapping categories.

Starting with the first recipe I put on my blog,

I'm numbering all of them.

Then putting the recipes in that order in the binder.

I'm printing out the recipes and putting them in clear plastic sleeves.

I'll have an index in the front of all the recipes and numbers.

Then I can search my blog for the recipe get the number and find it in the binder.

It is a big job and who knows how long it will take me.

I kind of want to get it done in a timely manner because I have

recipes scattered all over the floor in the office!!

I don't have all my recipes on my blog so will have left over recipes when

I'm done and I'll add those to my blog or

throw away recipes that I'll never make again.

The recipes I've never tried will go into another place until I try them.

Then they will either get put into the binder and blog or thrown out.

Hope it doesn't sound too confusing.

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I thank you for stopping by.

Hope you enjoyed your day.

HappyK😊

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