September Scavenger Hunt

I love scavenger hunts - and here is one for September

1 S is for

Seagulls

2 2pm

Time for tea - you may pick your favorite tea cup and teapot

3 Car Park

Our grandson Donnie, with his very own parking lot for his car and wagon



4 Hat

 Our oldest daughter - all outfitted for summer - 1969

Our son - ready for outdoors - he put his own hat on - can you tell?



5 In the mirror

He got much better at putting hats on by the time he graduated from high school - 1986



6 Garden

The geraniums in my garden have been fabulous this year.

7 Lock

A keyhole for a skeleton key - the locks on many old houses that we've lived in.



8 Nails

The nail is a normal size nail - it shows how tiny this frog is sitting on an old bench.  He was watching me paint cupboard doors.

9 Lamp

Oil lamps in a museum



10 Street sign

Street sign in Birch Bay



11 Game

 Wild game - in my cousin's yard

 And wild game tending the bushes by the clubhouse in our park

Wild game, perhaps out looking for a game of golf?



12 Outside my window

My flowers in the sunshine - I can see them from my favorite chair in the living room

September Scavenger Hunt  

Summer Scavenger Hunt - The Last Items

This has been a fun scavenger hunt - and here are my last entries.  This completes my list.  At the start I didn't know if I would get them all - but I finally did.

5. Rack of Post Cards

Taken through the window of the UPS store - you can buy a lot of different things in the UPS store.

6. Urban Street Scene

My favorite white houses!  Eureka, CA

8. Tattoo on a person

We sat behind this young man on the deck of a restaurant on the bay.

9.Bakery

A nice little bakery in Edison, WA

10. Photo Bomb

Mrs. BrownDirt photo bombing the ferry ride.  You can read more about Mrs. BrownDirt's adventures on my other blog

14. Parade

This deer parade is in our yard.  Notice the synchronized nibbling

And a parade of Sandhill Cranes - it was a short parade - just across the street and into a farm

20. Bus With Picture on the Side

This bus not only has a sun painted on the side - it has another "bus" on top.

21. Me With Something Representing the Season

Sitting on our deck with a pot of flowers - summer for sure.  I do all my gardening in pots on the deck and so this is a very typical summer activity.

Summer Scavenger Hunt  

Our 50th Anniversary

I was 17, working in a drug store the summer before my senior year in high school.  He was 19 and had come to Alaska with his buddy, to work in the newly opened pulp mill to earn money for his sophomore year in college.

It was love at first sight - for both of us.  And now, 51 years later, we are celebrating our life together - our 50th anniversary.  We have had adventures, learned a lot from each other, moved back and forth across the country, watched our wonderful kids grow up, gone on vacations, celebrated events, welcomed 3 great in-laws into our family and been blessed with three grandsons.  It has been the easiest thing we've ever done - these 50 years of marriage.

 We've lived in several states, in many houses.  I have pictures of most of them.

 There's a bit of gypsy in us and we've loved all the houses we've lived in - but we love our current (and last) home the very best.

We even have a house cookie jar.

We've enjoyed every stage of our kids growing up 

With birthday parties along the way

We've moved in, and moved out

And been sung funny songs to by our friends who laughed during their performance for us at our going-away dinner - and cried when we moved on.

We've celebrated holidays and events

Cheered at graduations - and cried a little too.

 Halloween was a fun time for pumpkins and funny costumes

 Our 25th anniversary - celebrated with family and friends

With matching sweatshirts to wear on the train trip back to Wisconsin (the trip was a gift from our kids - the sweatshirts were a surprise from Don)

We've gone on vacations - near and far - with family, friends and the occasional bear

These two pictures were taken the same day - one on vacation in the mountains, where there was still snow - and the other back at home in the desert - where there were roses blooming

We've danced in the rain

Celebrated Halloween as only our youngest daughter can.

Welcomed in the new year with fun and silliness.

Visited the old jail in Yuma, Arizona 

Baked a few pies (oops)

And enjoyed ourselves royally!

Hurray!

It's been a grand trip - with more adventures and celebrations to come.

50 years and counting!!