Ten Years Today

Hello Blog - I've been absent for a while. You wouldn't think that it takes a special mojo to be able to sit down at the computer for 5 minutes and post something to a blog...but it does for me. Anything that is remotely creative is that way for me....and believe it or not...this is a creative outlet for me...(whether it seems that way or not).

So... guess what today is...guess...guess...guessssssssssssss.....It's my 10th anniversary! George and I got married 10 years ago to day at about 1:00 pm....in Jonesboro....Have to say it's the best decision I have ever made.

As you see, I'm not really the sappy type...I won't be going on and on and waxing poetic with romantic prose...but I'll just say.... It ROCKS to be MRS. GEORGE DUST.

Tomorrow we are going to Memphis to the Liberty Bowl Game..GO HOGS! We're looking forward to the game!
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I never got around to posting any Vegas photos... so I thought I would drop a couple of those in today.


This is from the airplane on the way to Vegas....I am notorious for my "non-person" photos....and I love sky scenes. I loved being above and in the clouds.


This is a street scene...early one morning...it looks way different at night.


M&M World.... do I need to say more.....


The ceiling of the lobby of the Bellagio...I would have taken more photos of in the Bellagio of the living gardens but my camera batteries died and the spares were in my room.

So...there's a little shot of Vegas...I really didn't take that many photos :-)

I'm going to try to be more faithful to the blog than I have been lately.... see you this year!

Did the organizing work?

Wow...it was so nice to know where everything was and know what my choices were last night when I was scrapping.....and it was so easy to put everything back in it's place! That was awesome! Took just minutes to clean up!!!!!!

I really need to sit down and post about my trip....maybe tonight I can get to that.

Jars Everywhere

So, I finally got motivated and cleaned up my scrapbook area. I tend to get freaked out by the mess and have to take time to straighten it up. This time, I had taken some things to work to do a special project we were working on for a lady that was retiring, so I had to unpack my mess..... and it just made sense to straighten it up now. I should have taken a before picture so that you would understand how bad it was.

Yesterday we went to Little Rock and I spent a little time looking at storage solutions....I'm forever thinking that I need to buy something to get more organized....but....this time I saw something that interested me but used what I had at home to try it out. Jars! Here. Jars! There. Jars! Everywhere!.....they sure make my supplies more visible!

That paper storage rack was something that I already had...but I labeled my paper this time...... :-)

Now, if only I had time to scrap! Haha.....I have straightned up the house....but I've still got to go get groceries and do some laundry.... maybe later this evening ;-)

Sunset

After the rain finally stopped last week, I noticed that the sunset was unsually interesting. We have a lot of great sunsets here...but this was interesting with that huge cloud bank.

That point in the background is Pilot Knob......

The sunset progressed.....

It reminds me of one of the many reasons that I love where I live.....

Unplanned Nashville

We made an unplanned trip to Nashville this weekend...got a late start and all that so we just really drove there swapped vehicles with Russell, saw his new apartment, had a pizza at Sal's Pizza Restaurant (the worlds best pizza place I promise...have the White Greek Pizza)....So...needless to say, I suffered from a little boredom... (no shopping time in Nashville)....so to entertain myself on the trip home, I played with my camera some....


This is the reason for the trip. Russell's transmission went out...so we trailered our little car to Nashville on Saturday afternoon, loaded his truck blah blah blah and started home...we stopped a little way out of Nashville to sleep...got up and drove to Bono to get Tess and come home....

This is my New Balance shoe...I almost always take my shoes off when I'm the passenger for a long ride....

This is a photo of just some of the things that I have piled in the floor in front of me...that's my cool mustard Big Buddah bag and my sweatshirt.

Here are some lovely photos of the trees and highway looking through the windshield of the truck...sorry about the smear on the window (oops)

We had some fog on part of the trip...usually just around the rivers and creeks.

Another highway shot....

And for my Ozarka friends...I'm posting a photo on facebook for Chaney and Tracy :-)...I went through Jackson!

We'er home...have no clue what will happen with the truck...but the kid has been rescued for the time being.

A little fish

Ever heard the phrase "Big fish in a little pond"....I grew up in a little pond...and I really liked it....now I live in a little pond...and I still like it. For a while, I was a little fish in a big pond...when we lived in Tulsa...and it does have it's advantages...but in the long run...I really prefer a more simple life in an area that I'm comfortable in and that I know the people around me.
So...here's to all the fish....little and big...Enjoy Your Pond.

What do you see?

What do you see when you take a walk? Depends on where you look...
Since it's still all rainy here I'm forced to post photos that I took over the beautiful weekend that we had! I was walking around in the goat pasture because I had seen some fungi growths that I wanted to take a closer look at... and I saw this lonely pine cone burried in the sand...nothing special, but it caught my attention and made me think about how something so simple could be so interesting.


I also saw a few black eyed susans in the field. I liked this photo. Can you see the bug on the flower...click on it to enlarge it if you can't. I love how each blade of grass is so defined.

So if you look around (up, down, all around) when you're walking around you might see some things that make you smile.