I feel like...

the wicked witch of the west... I'm melting...melting... I wish someone would throw water on me!!  Ugh.  I work in schools all day, and most of them have ac, but some don't.  I'm so glad my car does!!  And my home.
I am totally spoiled, lol.
I could always be living in Texas or Louisiana and trying to keep dry...  sigh.

Well... hope you have a great one.  Leave you with a song to help cool you down...  makes me miss the ocean some more...



and this one shows water too...  ;)

Welcome to a new week everyone...  Hope you had a great weekend.  There isn't much to have in the silly news today - but maybe one of them will brighten your day.

Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day - I guess if you're really bored at work this would be fun?  Reminds me of the program my hubby found that would move your mouse opposite of where you wanted it when you moved it around...  ugh.  oh well...  😊  (I would attach some silly game you can play, but I'd be afraid of bringing a virus, so not doing that folks.)  you could always play tetrus if you're bored, lol.
Radio Commercials Day - personally, I hate the commercials on the radio.  I change channels faster than you can blink when one comes on.  One of the main reason I listen to classical 89 more than the others...no commercials.  Of course when they're running the fundraisers they're almost as bad...  lol

and another computer one...
Crackers Over The Keyboard Day - guess everyone has experienced the food in the keyboard bit.  I think this would almost be as bad as crackers in bed...ugh.  At least the keyboard you can pick up and shake over the garbage.  Sheets you have to peel off and stuff...

There was a food one for cherry turnovers - if you like cherry you would probably love to celebrate that one. 

Yesterday was bananas day!!  I saw a recipe for bananas foster french toast.  Not really into bananas foster, but ya know.  I like banana bread better than that.  Made a yummy banana zucchini brownie last week...maybe I'll share the recipe with you.  No sugar, just honey and stevia.  😊

hope you have a great day!!  

August 27: National Banana Lover's Day (we pick Banana Bread, Banana Pudding and Bananas Foster) August 28: National Cherry Turnover Day

Read more at: http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/holidays-august.asp

August 27: National Banana Lover's Day (we pick Banana Bread, Banana Pudding and Bananas Foster) August 28: National Cherry Turnover Day

Read more at: http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/holidays-august.asp

August 27: National Banana Lover's Day (we pick Banana Bread, Banana Pudding and Bananas Foster) August 28: National Cherry Turnover Day

Read more at: http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/holidays-august.asp

Happy Monday and day of Eclipse!

Happy day of Eclipse!  Hope you all were able to get glasses who wanted them...  It was kind of cool to see - and it was nice and cool to feel too!   Heard a joke yesterday...  how does the sun cut it's hair?  Eclipse it...lol

So - haven't done this in a while, my co-workers reminded me that I'd been slacking over the summer - so here goes.  :)

Cupcake Day - everyone needs a cupcake, I guess.  I like them okay, unless they have more frosting than cupcake...kind of hard to get the mouth around it, lol.  :)

National Spumoni Day - ever heard of spumoni?  It's kind of different, but hey, almost anything cool in the middle of summer is good, right?

National Pecan Torte day - what??  I didn't even know they made something like that.  I think I'd like that better than Pecan pie...  😉  I love Pecan pie, but it's tooo sweet. 

And just for grins, I loved Sandra Boynton's eclipse drawning... 




Have a great one!

NEW BOOK OUT!!

Think I'm a little excited??  The third book in my series is out today!  It's my book birthday, lol

My third book is out!!!  The next in the Hibiscus Ladies series.  Personally, this is my favorite of the three, but that could be because I love Fish Lake where this is set.
If you haven't read the other two yet, you don't have to - to enjoy the book - but it would be helpful to know the characters better.  You can find all three of them on Amazon or Barnes and Noble. (well...not all in the same spot at B&N...Here's each link):

1 -  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hibiscus-ladies-g-parker/1125949740?ean=9781453827338

2 - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wildflowers-richard-a-parker/1100002008?ean=9781442172210




3 - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/snow-angels-g-parker/1126908792?ean=9781491009024


I'm planning on running a special to get all three on ebook next month - so if you want the ebook version, then you might want to wait till September, lol.  :)

The covers are rather conservative for today's books, but I like them.  I like the feel of the flowers, and I really like Snow Angels cover.  I actually took the photo that's on the cover of Hibiscus ladies when I was in Hawaii deciding to write the series.  Wow...it's been 10 years since the start.  I didn't even see the third one at the beginning.  :)

Anyway - fun times!!

on a side note - we are starting to get tomatoes from our garden.  Finally!!  Although, it's not lots... and they're cherry tomatoes.  I told my daughter - well, it's enough for one person,... lol.


and I might have mentioned that my granddaughter cut her own hair a while ago.  I told my daughter that's why we never left scissors out when she was little, lol.  She said that they don't!  This little bug got the first aid kit out and used the scissors they have in there to cut sutures.  Good grief!!

can't really see how short it is in this, but she likes it.  I guess she's going to be a short hair girl for a while.

Well...have an excellent summer day!

Well... Life does go on...

And on, lol.  I thought being back I'd have more time to write.  Not!  I've been so busy facepainting, that I haven't gotten a lot accomplished.  I DID get my book out though...so if you haven't noticed yet, Snow Angels is at Amazon.  The formal book party is next Monday, so you'll hear more about it then.

But anyway....face painting.  Have I mentioned that sometimes it's crazy?  I wonder some days how I got roped into it, and then some days I am SOO thankful that I've been given this talent.
I got myself talked into doing the Morgan County Fair.  It seemed like a decent gig...fairs are usually big deals, right?  I mean, our county fair is big.  But I don't do ours because my niece and nephew do it and I'm not going to compete with them.  :)  They also charge ALOT for their booth fee.  I haven't yet made enough to make that kind of fee worth it.  Apparently she does, so good for her.

But, so it involved the last Saturday of July...(which went okay-ish) and the whole next week.  One of the first faces I did was this little guy... he looked right at the price sheet, and picked out a face, and one for his sister...and then informed me he didn't know it cost money...should he wash it off??  sigh.  I said he was walking advertisement, he needed to hand out my business card...  Lesson learned for me.  First freebee I've done so far.

We went Saturday...and then set up Monday in our official spot.  (have I mentioned that they are a little laid back up there?  sigh.)  And we got some kids...so we went Tuesday.  We kept thinking, okay, we'll see how it goes.  It's got to get better...  Not.  Tuesday was even less and Wednesday we were skunked.  Nada.  UGH.  Thursday we had a couple...Friday was better but not what we had hoped and Saturday was just a little better than the Saturday before.  I mean, really?  I've never had such a bad week before.  It was very humbling.  :(

At least I was told several times that I was the best face painter they had ever seen...and we had several repeaters.  That was nice... All things considered I guess it wasn't a total loss.

One of the funnest ones was a man that was kind of walking by and I told him I could paint something and he said sure.  He wanted the flame bit too, and stuff.  He cracked me up.  We both didn't think the makeup would stay on very long - it was a VERY hot day...but we saw him later in the afternoon, and he still had that face on.  His girlfriend wasn't even looking like she was embarrassed to be with him.  That's a good sign, lol.
I guess these are the experiences that you learn business savvy from. Next year - should we decide to do this fair again, we'll know that coming during the week isn't really worth the gas and effort.  We'll just do the weekends.

 I did have lots of time to practice stuff.  So, I did a scarf one day, on my arm...trying to make it look like I had one tied there.

I thought it turned out pretty good.  Another day I did a fan on my face.
 We were right across from a toy booth that had fans hanging all over it and made me feel that I needed to try it out.
 I really liked how it turned out.  A little girl went by as I was finishing and was totally wigged out.  "She just painted that on her face!!"

 I love when people want unusual things.  One booth across from us sold Tupperware, and I painted one of the lunch bags on her cheek.  She was amazed, lol, and I got a free little container for it.

In addition to all that, we're getting solar.  I'm WAY stoked.  I've wanted solar forever, but you know, it's an arm and a leg and your first born up front.  Now that they have payment programs and stuff, it's way easier!!  So...we got a hold of AnyHour and they came out and sold us on replacing our AC (didn't take much talking, our old one did NOT keep us cool, and it cost sooo much in the summer it wasn't worth it.  We used to run it only during the day when we couldn't stand it, and lived in the basement. At night we'd run our attic fan and hope it cooled us down enough for the next day.)

Well, what's funny is they came to install the first part of the solar panels and another truck pulled up.  This guy came and told us that they'd found out we had gotten the wrong unit for the AC, and were switching it out.  What???  Good Grief.
So - we got a new ac unit, along with a new thermostat.  Imagine that...we had the wrong thermostat as well...  Um, hope this isn't a harbinger of things to come... right??

So - when they get the panels on, I'll take a picture so you can see.  I'm so excited!

Well...that's caught up for now.  Need to get some painting done.  Have an excellent day!!