In the Merry Month of May
1. Somebody rescued a scarecrow from somebody else’s trash and put it in my garden for a surprise. It’s meant to scare crows away from our corn seedlings, but it ended up scaring me. I thought it was a stranger loitering in the garden!
2. Somebody played pool with my husband in our cellar on the pool table we bought when the boys were teenagers to keep them home a little longer.
3. Somebody went to hat party to celebrate the successful foster care re-placement of a man with developmental disabilities who used to live with us.
4. Someone danced with me in my living room to Shania Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” while her mother took a photo with cell phone. We especially liked singing the “So you think your Brad Pitt” part.
5. Somebody made strawberry shortcake for me and a mutual friend who has a birthday the day after mine. We ate it at a birthday picnic celebration at Floyd’s Oak Grove Pavilion’s seasonal music kick-off event.
6. Somebody bought me a new digital camera for my birthday so I could later sneak a shot of him doing this. XO
7. Somebody graduated cum laude from Jefferson College of Health Sciences in Roanoke and is now an RN.
8. Somebody home from college came for a visit and showed off his gymnastic skills (one of his college classes) on my trampoline. I took a movie of him with my new digital camera.
Answers: 1. My husband, Joe. 2. My husband’s niece Angie. 3. I did, but my friend Virginia had the best hat. 4. My great-niece Sammy 5. My friend Katherine, and it tasted spectacular! 6. My sweet husband, Joe. He gets me all the technological stuff that I don’t even know I need. 7. My son Dylan’s fiancé, Alexis. 8. Family friend, neighbor, and one of Dylan’s best childhood friends, Rowan.
May 27th, 2006 2:33 pm
Great things happened in May! Wow, those strawberries look huge and yummy!!! I think I’d have to ditch the scarecrow…too joyfully creepy. Hope your June is every bit as memorable and wonderful.
May 27th, 2006 2:38 pm
Sounds like a wonderful month. You always manage to pack so much into your days, weeks and months. Definitely an example for everyone who reads you.
May 27th, 2006 3:01 pm
I actually got some of the answers right. Have a great weekend~,:^)
May 27th, 2006 3:46 pm
I love this post! Very cool.
(too bad Sam hasn’t blogged in such a long time – she would like the fact that she was linked! Maybe I’ll try to get her to go back to it..)
May 27th, 2006 3:47 pm
Oh yeah – and that dancing day… the scarecrow scared the crap out of me too!
May 27th, 2006 10:36 pm
I think the scarecrow is cute.
Scary would include a black hat and a long pointy witches nose with a wart and a flowing black dress with sleeves flapping in the wind.
It’s an Oz thing.
May 28th, 2006 12:20 am
Ahh for all the Merry Days of May. May June be just as jolly!
(this was a lot of fun to read and a great idea for bloggers!)
May 28th, 2006 9:06 am
Sounds like a fantastic May. 🙂 I got a new digital camera too. I can’t stop taking photos now. It’s addicting.
Michele sent me over to wish you a happy birthday (i’m guessing that’s in order).
May 28th, 2006 10:08 am
May was a good month for you and your family. You really always do squeeze so much life into your posts….that’s why I love to come see what you’re doing each day!
May 28th, 2006 2:25 pm
Good pics and a good month for you, apparently.
May 28th, 2006 6:22 pm
I love this post… and great pictures!
Stopping by via Michele this afternoon to say Hello!!
May 29th, 2006 10:08 am
What a nice peek at your side of the mountain! My son had a cardboard movie cutout of Darth Vader that scared me more than once (Catching a side view of a dark image always made me jump!)
May 29th, 2006 11:05 am
Great photos…really enjoyed them and the info. Enjoy the rest of your month of May.
May 29th, 2006 4:52 pm
Stay away a day or two and miss so much!
How’d I miss this one with my granddaughter Sami???
Bless her little dancing heart.
May 29th, 2006 6:42 pm
I can’t do this as well as you have, but I will stick this idea away for sometime in the future of my blog!
May 30th, 2006 1:45 pm
awesome! A new camera is a GREAT birthday gift 🙂
May 30th, 2006 2:30 pm
Love that hat!