Craft Night

What a good day today was! I went to my mammogram, clean bill! She said she didn’t see anything that anyone should worry about that I’ll get a more comprehensive letter in the mail explaining what the results are, and what they mean. Josh and I went to lunch where I probably ate more hush puppies than a human should, but is there such a thing on a limit with hush puppies? We picked up some felt for this evening and then he dropped me back off at home so that he could go back to the office. I went to sleep and didn’t wake up until he had gotten home and it was time for me to go to Craft Night at my pal, Natalie’s, home. We had a really fun time. Broccoli and cheese soup, felt flowers and plenty of conversation and music courtesy of Pandora!

This is the top I made last night, attached to it are the felt flowers I made this evening!

too hot to function

it's too hot to function properly so just know that josh's parents came into town this week, we showed them around,ate at some local joints and had a slamming good time. we went to d'lo waterpark, where josh & i went pinecone pickin' back in december.

update on community pot luck + weekend happenings!

Today we went and picked up 66 ears of corn from Josh's pal's produce stand(1/2 put in bags in the fridge for Natalie and the rest of our 33 are dispersed between the crisper and our freezer) and then we headed out to Braxton, Mississippi to go to their Day in the Park, which was more or less a political forum, as is anything going on in the county right now, at least until November. They had a man there from the Jackson Zoo who had a number of different snakes, a ferret, a leopard tortoise and a bird. It was pretty fun. We got burger plates courtesy of the Mayor of Braxton. I've decided to slowly increase my intake of meat again. I have a lot of contingencies around it, but we'll see.

Josh went to D'Lo's Day in the Park, provided by the NAACP. He spoke to some people that he sees on a regular basis, a former chairman of the NAACP and the current chairman of the NAACP, about my community pot luck dinner that I want to do. He explained why I wanted to do it and things like that and they were completely behind it, and in support of it! They said they would bring as many people as possible, which makes me so very excited! I'm going to be in contact with them soon on my exact intentions and things, because I didn't think that he would talk to anyone about it, because it's not something him and I have talked too terribly much about. I do know that I want to hit up the junk stores around here to stock up on plates & cups because I also want to in a way, exploit reducing yr waste as well.

The other day, I made raw ice cream! It's one of the things that I have on my list, so I was able to mark it off!

Now I am off to work for a few hours and coming home to make some sweet potato pancakes with some sweet potato puree I made yesterday!

Suitable Pinecone Pickin'

Today we woke up and since neither of us had ANYTHING(gasp!) to do, we got ready and went to the D'LO WATER PARK. You've been there too if you've watched "O' Brother Where Are Thou"!
(This part)

So it's a very cool spot!

Here's our adventure in picture form
























That's that! If you ever find yrself this side of Mississippi, def check out the water park! There's canoeing and all sorts of stuff that happen throughout the year!

I have a tutorial coming up in just a few minutes in another entry! TUTORIAL HERE
XO

PS: Please please please keep yr fingers crossed! I found THE PERFECT standing gumball machine at the Neverending Garage Sale but they were closed today. It's sitting outside just waiting to come home with me I JUST KNOW IT! Keep yr fingers & toes crossed that they'll be open one day this week and will sell it to us! It's the perfect thing to put next to the door and what I've wanted for YEARS!!

EDIT ON SUNDAY: It's mine! On the way home from work today the lady was there and I peeped my head in and asked her how much! We're picking it up after I get off of work on Wednesday!!