Homeschool is looking better everyday!
I am waaaay busy today guys, but you should watch this!
The map about ADHD is incredible!
P.S. Saturdays are crazy for me because I am always out taking pictures…..so never expect more than this from me on Saturday’s NaBloPoMo or not.
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…..theHuckablog WILL be participating in NaBloPoMo!
Vintage
The conclusion of the Herbie Party is coming, but this post needed to be published.
There is an old box sitting in the top of my closet surrounded by abandoned hats and scarves. This box has been passed around my family for some time now; every ten years or so it finds a new home. It is in my home now and I am not giving it back. In this old box is a collection of postcards all written or received by one set of my great-grandparents when they were teens and young adults. The oldest was written in 1896 and the newest was 1925. They read like the history of a fifteen year old’s facebook wall. (confession: I do not have facebook, for some reason I am anti-face book and really am unsure if that sentence even made sense.) Card after card of “drop a line soon” or “Fred thinks so! Ha Ha!” If you read them in order, chronologically, you pick out a love story. It is not a story filled with drama and intrigue–just two nice kids, from nice families, who kinda like each other-really dig each other-are head over heels in love-are engaged-are married-have a nice normal marriage. (The Husband and I have the newest in a long line of nice normal marriages. My Grandparents are celebrating their 60th anniversary in October.)
What is written is priceless and will always be cherished by me–the self appointed family antiquarian. The other side is what this post is about however. The images on these cards are so lovely. They really appeal to my aesthetic–simple, pretty, comfortable, and bright. I have for some time been trying to figure out how to have these cards play a bigger role in my life. Some are scattered around– propped up on shelves or tucked in mirrors. I have two with happy little blue birds framed and in my bedroom. I see them every morning and every morning they make me smile. I think my cards are awesome and wanted to see more of them.
That brings me back to the 21st century and The Huckablog. I have been toying with the idea of letting the easy pre-done blog format go and doing my own. I am NOT a graphic designer, but I knew I could do it with the help of everyone’s favorite computer geek, The Husband. The goal is to give The Huckablog a new banner and look every month featuring my antique postcards. They make me happy. They make me feel connected to the past and the future. They are cheaper than hiring a graphic designer. I hope you like them too.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comments (3)I write to keep from falling asleep.
I have been in the Raleigh airport since 12:30p.m. It is now 9 p.m. That is a long time. Still, it is better than my connecting flight from Cincinnati on which I sat next to a very L A R G E man in a very small, two seat row. I was crammed against the window and his belly protruded onto my side so much I could not even put down my tray to hold my orange juice.
I am meeting mom, dad, and my grandparents here where we will then travel to the coast for my great aunt’s funeral. I am sad–but it’s sort of a weird sad. I mean, she was 90–as in, has been alive for 9 decades, 90. She had a lovely, full life and did not suffer long before her death…a blessing. I felt like I really HAD to come, like this was almost the beginning of what is getting ready to be a really bad few years, five? Maybe ten? And, I will probably be going to a lot more funerals for this generation. Is this at all coherent?
How about a funny story instead? Sunday morning we went to church. Hang on, that is not the funny part, we pretty much go every Sunday. But this Sunday, THIS Sunday, I rushed out the door. Again, not a shocker, I do that every Sunday too. I was singing the last hymn–meaning I had been at church for quite some time–and looked down to see I was wearing one left black sandal and one right hot pink flip flop. I was teaching Sunday School and did not have time to run home to switch them out, so spent the rest of the morning barefoot.
Ohh so sleepy. 45 more minutes. I can make it. How to spend the day in a pretty small airport? I have read, gotten a mediocre mani/pedi at the airport spa, spent an hour trying to get the free WiFi to work, before I figured out there was no free WiFi, instead I had to PAY seven bucks to use a crappy, slow internet server that keeps buffering all of the Hulu shows I have tried to watch. I’ve done a lot of people watching–mostly army boys, business travelers and vacationing families which made me miss my own.
Boy, this post is horrible. Really, really bad. How about I just delete it? But then who knows when I can update again? Okay, I will publish it–but remember Internet, I can do better.
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Guess what y’all!? 7daytrial went and had herself a baby! A girl baby! A REALLYFREAKINCUTE girl baby! And I guessed her weight and length in the baby pool!
See!
Isn’t she just a doll? I want to kiss those little cheeks like no one’s business. Well this child deserves a kick ass baby shower, and living hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles away is not going to stop me, the best baby shower thrower this side of the Mississippi! We are going to use technology and have us a shower, hosted by JHJ and Me. The people who live nearish to Vegas are going to go to 7daytrial’s house. The people that live nearish to Hometown are going to come to my house. People who live else where will stay at home and participate online. We will use web cams, and speaker phones, and IM and it will be GREAT.
Want details so you can come? Email me at heyyou at thehuckablog dot com
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Remember when I went to New Orleans? Like a month ago? I finally got around to uploading some of my pictures. We had such a good time. Really, not a single thing could have been better. I really enjoyed my Nikon and new lens on the trip, so without turning this into a dorky photography blog, check out some of my shots at the montage below. Many of them are just your normal touristy shots, “Look! A Mule!”, but without being too braggy–some of them are pretty good, I guess. In a non-braggy way of course.
Never been to Nola? You should totally go, watch and you will get a pretty good feel of how to spend a few days–unless you like bars. Or Bourbon street. Or Voodoo. So basically this is how two goody two shoes would see Nola. Notice the only shots with me are blurry and in a mirror? Some good things happen when you are the photographer. Enjoy. Please comment and let me know what you think.
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We are home. Showers and sleep and hot food have been had. Time with The Husband still lacking, so details to follow.
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