Wednesday, August 24, 2011

"Bouquets of Freshly Sharpened Pencils"

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With the start of the new school year and as a former teacher myself, I love to see fun ideas for teacher gifts although I really do not have anyone to give them to. In any case, I sent this cute idea to Sarah since Max just started Kindergarten this week ( and his comment was "It was much better than I thought it would be. Best day ever!) and then thought others might be able to use it for something. ( I know not many really look at this --Evan doesn't even read this unless I make him!)

It's a pencil vase for the teacher! Courtesy of Imparting Grace.

http://www.impartinggrace.com/2010/08/easy-gift-for-teacher.html


So cute and easy!

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It reminds me of a line from one of my favorite movies. The character is speaking of his love for the season of fall and he says something like "I'd send you a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils." Do you remember the movie?
Give up?



It's from "You've Got Mail"......I could watch that movie over and over again!

So to any who read this, celebrate the fall with a beautiful bouquet in a pencil vase!

By the way, the count of our days with temps 100 degrees or over is 67!
Can you believe it?

Fall seems very far away at this point, even though we do have falling leaves and dying trees from the drought!











































































Box art for the Deluxe Edition DVD of Warner Brothers' You've Got Mail










Friday, August 5, 2011

We're Having a Heat Wave!



We have now had our 41st day of temperatures over 100 degrees! It's definitely a record-breaking heat wave. We haven't seen anything like this since temperatures even started being recorded in the late 1800's. Wednesday temps got up to 111 degrees here in Tyler! Can you believe it? It's like we're living in Arizona with the added humidity!

Our grass, flowers and shrubs are all burning up... We're just all thankful for air conditioners and pools and icemakers and our trees shading our back yard. Whew! It's hot, hot, hot!Luckily, we'll have some reprieve as we leave for San Diego shortly. We've been missing those cool mountain temps we felt up in Brighton last month at the family reunion, so maybe we'll get to experience a little cooler sea breezes in sunny California....