Lions and tigers and deer..oh my!

Ok. So it's been a few weeks since I participated in mama kat's oh so almost famous writer's workshop. Which is really cool, but I've just been so freaking busy. (CLICK ON HER BADGE ABOVE AND HEAD ON OVER :)

I think I'll respond to a couple of the prompts today to make up for lost time and the first one is.........

Have I decorated my tree and share a favorite ornament. First I have to say that as much as I'd like to share a picture of my prized ornament I can't because while moving my stuff back in with the scrooge my camera got damp when my car trunk was leaking or something spilled on it and won't work now. Yes I let it set for a week in a bowl of rice. I let a fan blow on it. I did everything but let it take a few spins in the dryer, but I vetoed that idea because I REALLY can't afford to replace a washer right now. (My washer is one of the small size ...8 yr old....washers that wash and dry the clothes) besides I'm not even sure the dryer works since i usually hang my clothes out to dry or put them on a clothes rack in the garage during bad weather. Oh WAIT! I was talking about ornaments right? my favorite ornament is without a doubt a yellow plastic apple with a hole in the front that's stuffed full of cotton with a little tiny plastic deer glued in the cotton. It hangs from a red yarn string, and it's ALWAYS on the front of the tree near the bottom. I made this when I wa in Brownies when I was 5. Since I was little back then I always put it on the tree where I could easily reach and see it, so that's become it's official spot on my tree every year. I can't explain the panic I felt when I thought it had accidentally been given away to goodwill a couple years back when we were going through things. I contacted the main goodwill office in the area and filled out a "item description form" describing it and offering a $100 reward for any worker who recognized it and returned it. The manager assured me the paper would be copied and distributed to their workers who sort through items and put them in their proper groups. I was SOO happy when I ran across it in a box it shouldnt have been in while looking for something else. I cried tears of joy that time.

Now I have a couple of ornaments that come in a close second...I have some 1" glow in the darkplastic angels my aunt use to put on her tree every year, and I was fascinated by them and spent hours looking at them in the dark. I have them now that she's gone. I only put one or two on the tree these days because they're old and brittle and their wings break off easily.

I WISH I had the plastic Wizard of OZ ornaments my grandmother use to have. I love W. O.O. and I loved those ornaments, but I guess they got misplaced over the years. I've looked on ebay,craiglsit, yardsales, auctions..in hopes of running across them. 

And we are decorating our tree right now :)

A Movie that makes me cry everytime... Greenmile

A favorite snow memory...When I was around the age of 10 we still had some decent snows in Va. That year we had a few snows with accumulation maybe 8-10 inches. My friend and I were tired of being inside..tired of sledding..tired of snowmen...tired of igloo. We decided to have a winter picnic in the woods. We packed peanut butter crackers...maybe and apple and sandwich....with red Koolaid to top it off. The spot we chose involved climbing a somewhat steep hill...a slick steep hill. The Koolaid wasn't in a completely leak proof container, and by the time we made it to our spot most of the Koolaid was gone. It was all over everything. We ate what we could and left the leftovers for the animals. We didn't have a hard time tracing our steps because we had left a red trail of koolaid. we had so much fun that day :)