I think I found Love!

This tiered table is just screaming to jump out of my computer screen and into my dinning room, don't you think? It would be the perfect fit, sigh. If only I could haggle Wisteria to give it to me for only $100! Ha!

Tiered Marble Top Console | Wisteria

Wise words from a classic woman

I believe:
*In pink
*Laughing is the best calorie burner
*In kissing and kissing a lot
*In being strong when everything seems to be going wrong
*That happy girls are the prettiest girls
*That tomorrow is another day
*and I believe in miracles
~Audrey

"Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man."

The past week or so, I have been visiting with family. It was so nice because since I've moved away I haven't been able to see them as much as I like. Mom and Dad came to visit Hubs and I in VA; and for as beautifully sunny as VA is, Mom and Dad wouldn't know it because it is always rainy when they are here.

For example, we went canoeing on the South Fork of the Shenandoah river one day, and it was delightfully cloudy and unseasonably cold. To our surprise there was practically a Fraternity party floating down the river on tubes, so it wasn't quite as peaceful as we would have hoped. Then half way through our trip it poured on us! I got chilly and hid under my towel while Hubs rowed the two of us the rest of the way (how sweet!!). I think we still had fun despite the rain and party atmosphere!

The next day we wanted to check out Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park, and it was threatening rain also. While we were out we didn't run into any rain, but we drove around in the clouds for a bit. It was windy up on the mountain and we got to see the clouds pushed around us by the wind in it's gray and white swirls. Very cool. I wish I could have captured it in a picture for you! What I did get was a few pictures of us out on the Appalachian Trail which we walked for a little bit, you can see how foggy it is in the background.

Mom and Dad on the AT, I think they look very cute!

My outdoors-glamor photo,the fog was not doing wonders for my hair!

Hubs! How handsome and rugged on the AT!


Hubs and I had read "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson a year or so ago which chronicles his travels on the Appalachian Trail. So the entire time we were like "Bill Bryson walked here!" "Bill Bryson might have touched that trail marker" like he was some kind of celebrity. Except Hubs is not so good with names so he kept saying "David Bryson" instead of Bill. Oh Hubs!

What a perfect little visit for the end of summer. Hubs and I are now gearing up for the start of the school year. Hubs has a new position as an Elementary Music Teacher, and thoughts of his class room and the curriculum are practically consuming his thoughts day and night! Wish us both luck for the start of school!

Kona, sleepy in the car.

Well friends, my camping trip was very nice! Hubs, Kona, and I got rained on quite a bit, but we still had a ton of fun, and even managed to go swimming in the river between the rain.





We had a bit of a disaster in the cooler department: leaky ground beef. So between that and all the rain, we actually didn't eat much of the food I packed. We did manage to eat all of our Kashi cereal (which had whole flax seed in it and made me think of my Mom every time!) because it kept us very full all morning long and into the afternoon. One morning after it had rained all night long, and then poured on us again once we emerged from our tent, we were feeling very defeated (and I desperatly needed some coffee); so we went out and found a cute little hotel/resturant/bar and had the best breakfast (and coffee!) which perked us right back up. All in all it was a great trip. Kona seems very sad (or just very tired) to be indoors again. Hubs had so much fun, he wants to go again right away!




Since we've been home, I have been battling the ants which seemed to have found a single m&m in the bottom of a drawer and used my potted plant to walk through to get to it. They are very perstistant. After a while I feel like they are all over me! The cats seem to have behaived themselves in our absence (no messes like last time) they were probably very happy to have the dog out of the house!

In other news, Hubs has been hired as an elementary music teacher! We are all very excited, because he can now quit Lowes (which is always in the way!) and have more time at home with Kona and I! Maybe he will start doing some cooking too! I won't be holding my breath ;-)

In a few days I (and maybe Kona too) will be going to PA again to visit with some of my family, and then my parents will be visiting Hubs and I! I am very excited to be going back to PA, VA is very hot and buggy right now! See you in a week or so!

A Camping we will go!

Hubs and I are packing up and heading out to go camping this week! I am so excited, I haven't been camping in what feels like two years. Hubs and I didn't actually have much camping equipment... the last time we went camping we used all of my parents things! So I set off to Gander Mountain, and spent a small fortune on camping nessesities (and I still forgot that grate that you put over the campfire to grill or put your frying pan on, ugh!)

Anyway, this will be Kona's first camping trip, and his first long car ride. I am praying for no messes in the tent, and no getting sick in the car! I did buy Kona a new bright orange reflector collar, because he is so black that we can't see him outside at night!

The last time Hubs and I went camping, we rented a cabin at Black Moshannon State Park in PA. This was the trip when we awoke one fine May morning to an unexpected 32 degrees and snow on the ground. Then, when Hubs was out collecting wood for the stove, his Grandfather's ring fell off into the snow. Then in the panic of looking for his ring, we got locked out of the cabin, in the 32 degree weather.

Good things are: we can't get locked out of the tent, and I know it won't be 32 degrees in August!

Wish us luck, and a fun and safe trip!!