I went on hiatus last Friday---a staycation I will call it. I had thought about scheduling my Friday post and then decided to just take the week off.
According to wikipedia, a staycation is "a period in which an individual or family stays home and participates in leisure activities within driving distance, sleeping in their own beds at night. They might make day trips to local tourist sites, swimming venues, or engage in fun activities such as horseback riding, paintball, hiking or visiting museums. Most of the time it involves dining out more frequently than usual. Some people may include one or two overnight visits at relatives, friends or a longer trip."
We've never taken more than a staycation!! Maybe some day we might afford a "real" vacation.
We picked up my daughter Heather and her 2 children in Inman, Kansas and headed to McPherson, Kansas for the 100th year celebration of All School's Day.
Wow! I have never seen such a crowd for a parade!! The population of McPherson is only around 13,000, but people come from the whole county as well as surrounding counties for All School's Day.
Here is a photo I snapped of the block and side of the street that we were on to watch the parade. Eight blocks was like this on both sides!
The parade lasted about 2 hours. I took lots of photos, but this was our favorite float. It was mad scientists representing, I think, Humara. They were hilarious doing their experiments and dancing to rock and roll music.
After the parade we did a little shopping at Walmart, ate lunch at McDonald's and then went back downtown for a tour of the McPherson Opera House.
It was so very interesting. Unfortunately not many of my photos came out well at all.
I snapped this photo as we drove up the street from the outside.
This photo is of one of the upper seats. The prime of opera seating.
The entire opera house has been restored as close to original as it could be. Beautiful art work and design. The history was so interesting. We brought home a booklet with the history as well as a show booklet for the season as well. They have a free show coming up that we hope to make it to.
In other news this week, I was able to purchase 3 raised beds for gardening through the local buy, sell, trade group on facebook. I bought 3 of these at $10 each. Not sure that was the best deal, especially considering when I left the gal told me $10 is what she paid for them, but never got to use them. She may have never used them, but they were out to get weathered! I would have talked her down a bit on price, or talked her into at least one more for the price had I known that information beforehand. I am also thinking that these would be easy to build, so I will check on the cost of materials.
Anyway, we probably will do nothing with these this year as we have already planted, but we are working towards the dream garden for next season.
Your turn. I can't wait to see what is shared this week!
Good Thursday morning.
Let's start with my question.
While looking through some old papers I found one of the old postcards I had bought while visiting Graceland. I intended to scan it and put the picture in my Elvis lens. My husband is telling me that since the postcard is copyrighted that I can't put it in my lens. He says I need to contact Graceland and get permission.
Well, since that whole copyright thing is pretty much above my head---can I, or can't I scan it and put the picture of it on my lens? Thanks. (So many of the pictures I put in with my lenses I get from the internet, mostly from wikipedia---I don't even have a clue if this is ok, but if I don't get photos from the internet just where am I to get them to go along with my lenses??)
Now, I have been working to update lenses. Some of them I opened to see about the donations module (which last I checked is still MIA)
Here is the list of lenses that I updated:
Legos
Grandma's Christmas Wishlist
Crash! Book Review
WWJD for Kidz
Kansas Our First Lapbook
Elvis Presley
I am stopping here this week. I hope several will have input on my copyright question, as well as link up below (remember I am now allowing you to link directly to one or two of your lenses if you don't blog about squidoo.)
Welcome to Friday!
This has been a very long and busy week for me. I don't have any posts to share for this past week in my own linky, but I do hope many will come in and inspire us with their frugal type posts.
We spent many many hours at the Kansas State Fair this week. Monday was dollar day. We go each year on dollar day for the year. We always start by walking around with the Headstart class for the morning. I only spent $10 the whole day. $5 for midway rides, $3 for root beers, and $2 on something else that I can't even remember. (Told you it's been a long week). If you showed your DIllon's Plus card at the gate it was free to get in.
Wednesday not so frugal but that's my husbands day off. It cost the 3 of us $24 to get in to the fair. I told him we needed to pick up a lot of free stuff to cover that $24. Surprisingly enough, this year I didn't go around picking up everything that was free. We did pick up a few pens, several pencils, several emery boards, some stickers etc. The electric company gave out insulation to put behind your light switches and plug ins. One of Steve's bread customers gave us free food and drink from their booth (a funnel cake and 2 cherry limeades). We got free little cups of ice cream. We taste tested lots of dips and mustards with pretzels. We also tasted veggie stew and chili. I picked up some free devotional materials for the Lutheran Hour table. I even picked up an education packet from Birth Right---this will be used with Jasmine as part of health and they did a good job filling the folder with lots of information. We picked up 2 re-usable shopping bags, 3 sets of word magnets, 3 tops, and 3 of the little toothpick dispensers. Jasmine got a horseshoe with her name on it and John 3:16. Believe it or not, that's not even near the usual stuff we come home with. We probably did get our money's worth though, even just for having the family time out.
Moving on---today is the last of the baking soda tips from the 99 Cent Solutions. Who knew there were so many uses for baking soda?
1. Revitalize wallpaper. Remove greasy fingerprints by rubbing the stain gently with a damp sponge sprinkled with baking soda. Rinse and pat dry. Your wall paper will be good as new.
2. Don't lose your marble. Brighten up your marble countertop by dipping a cloth in water and lightly sprinkling it with baking soda. Rub gently in a circular motion and rinse with cool water and buff it dry, The marble will gleam again.
3. Green your baby clothes. Get rid of that stiff feel and smell of chemicals by washing your baby clothes in scent free baby detergent and adding 1/2 cup baking soda.
4. Down the drain. For a minor blockage pour 1 cup baking soda down the drain followed by 1 cup of white vinegar. Let it sit for 10 minutes then pour a kettle of boiling water down the drain. Repeat as needed. (I've used this trick many times over the years!)
5. Detergent expander. To extend dishwashing liquid, add one squeeze to a dishpan partially filed with hot water. Stir in 1 or 2 tablespoons of baking soda. The water won't be as bubble but it will feel soapy. Grease will disappear and baked-on food will come off easily.
My resolutions for this year include:
1. Using the exercise equipment we have on a regular basis.
2. Reading whenever I get a chance so that I can do more book reviews and in turn turn those
book reviews into squidoo lenses.
3. Getting back to my online business. As a whole I call it Gifts Galore and More, but
includes everything that I do online to earn money.
I will be updating or building a new squidoo lens each day, working on getting crafts made and
listed for sale, getting more books listed for sale, etc.
4. Getting my blog back going again.
Week 7 Accomplishments: March 13-19
Started reading Sins of the Flesh for my next book.
Updated Kansas-Our First Lapbook and Rich Kid Smart Kid squidoo lenses.
Built Miserly Moms--Book Review squidoo lens.
Cut the remaining t-shirts I have for projects.
Did a blog post on Wednesday and Thursday (and today to post this)
Sewed together a quilt top....but now wondering if I should leave it as is, or add to the top and bottom to make it longer.
I didn't do a thing as far as my crafts until Thursday. I have been working on cutting and filing piles of coupons on my desk. I still didn't get those done, but they do need to be done. I didn't use the exercise equipment either....wondering if I can make myself get back into exercise or not. Seems I get way too much just up and down the basement stairs and doing housework etc.
Here it is February 1. Today is my oldest daughters birthday. She is 23 today. Happy Birthday Elizabeth!
I did end up getting some cleaning done yesterday afterall, and I'm working on laundry right now. I will need to make laundry soap today. Despite what my mother thinks about it, why should I buy it when I have the ingredients to make it?
I got a lot of the plarn cut and made yesterday for my next shopping bag. I think it will be pretty as I found a large light green dress bag to cut up. Below is a photo of the blue and white bag that I have up for sale on blujay.
Here is my weekly Mail Call post on gather. I think I had a great mail week, I got something every day I think. Mail Call! Week of January 25
And, as promised, I made the squidoo lens on our Kansas Lapbook. I hope you will take a look. We will make more then I have to decide if I will do a separate lens on each one, or a combination lens. Kansas Lapbook
Until tomorrow, have a very blessed Sunday.
Marsha
Here we are to the last day of January. Tomorrow is Superbowl. Any plans for Superbowl? I am not in to sports but I bet it will be on my tv all day anyway LOL
The weather here is good today, with a high of 68, but tomorrows high is supposed to drop down to 46. As I seen in someone's post on gather yesterday, no wonder everyone is sick...crazy weather.
Today I am going to get crocheting on another plarn shopping bag. As far as the computer I'm going to do all I can to catch up on gather posts. I don't plan any real cleaning today, that will come tomorrow.
Jasmine and I finished her first lapbook yesterday on Kansas. Here is a photo of the front of it. I will be building a squidoo lens on it later today...then as we make more, those will all go into one squidoo lens.
I think I will give you a break today and not share a squidoo lens. I have to update the unschooling journey one today and build the one on the lapbook.
I'm going to run now and get going on things. I hope your Saturday is awesome!
Marsha
Good Morning. It warmed up enough yesterday to mels almost all the snow from Monday and Tuesday. Now, if every winter was like this one,I suppose I wouldn't complain too much. I like the snow, as it's beautiful, just don't like the wind and cold that comes with it.
Today is Kansas' 148th Birthday. I'm going to have Jasmine make a lapbook on Kansas, so I've been busy in between internet stuff and cleaning getting some stuff rounded up for her to work with. Going next to print off some things for her lapbook.
My coupon routine is getting messed up because of the online parties this week. Monday and again Friday I won't get off of here to work on them while I watch my shows. I will this evening though while I watch Grey's Anatomy. I did go through coupons yesterday to shop the sale at the store, and I was glad for the ones that I did have organized that were easy to find.
I think for today I will feature my lens on our unschooling journey. I've not share it since adding some photos. It really makes it stand out. I also realized just how long the lens would be if I indeed do all 52 weeks in one lens. I've decided to make it into 5 different lenses over the span of the year, with 10 week in all but the last one. Our Unschooling Journey
Have a great Thursday!
Marsha
