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Anybody that is a reader of this blog knows that we are one wacky family.....and we always have strange things happening to us.... I never embellish....or add anything extra to make these stories more interesting... They usually just include me and the Boss......you add to the mix the daughter and our hi-jinx get kicked up a notch.... Well..... daughter is in town with Miss "B" so it's no surprise that last evening events put us into a whole new category.......... Father and daughter decided to take in a late flick after Miss "B" went to bed...leaving Grandma home to babysit.....They are big movie fans.....me not so much...All was going well...... baby was sleeping peacefully so around midnight I went to bed...... Daughter wakes me up from a dead sleep around 2:00 a.m. to tell me this was found in the SSR outside of the open all night Walmart up in Woodstock SEE PICTURE BELOW........ THIS IS NOT A STUFFED ANIMAL..... Yes......you're looking at a real live ba...

When you were a kid did your family have any type of weekly ritual......Like Pizza every Friday night or Sunday dinner at the relatives? In our house Siggy would take us on Friday nights to Snuffy's Steak House in Scotch Plains New Jersey...... More then just a steak joint this place had character or should I say "A Character"...... the best waiter ever....... his name was Frank......We always sat in Franks' section.....in a booth right across from the bar..... As a little kid and I remember going there as long as I could remember......I loved to see the "House Monkey" at the bar.......They had a stuffed chimp dressed up in clothes and he was attached to what they call today a "zip line".......Infact the monkey's name was ZIPPY...... They would.......all through dinner....slide Zippy from one side of the bar to the other and I thought this was the greatest thing in the world.....What did I know I was a kid.....But I guess this is why as an adul...

It's that time of the week again for Tablescape Thursday.....hosted by everyone's favorite designer of the best set tables in the South...Lovely Susan at http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ Stop over at Susan's blog to see tons of other great tablescapes....the list gets longer every week... This week I thought I would take it outside to the deck.....inspired by these pretty flowers and a set of wonderful new place mats that neighbor Necie gifted me........a few good finds from none other then Goodwill and it's a table set for sitting out and enjoying the sun.... Our deck is surrounded by trees....they are everywhere....It's like sitting up in a tree house... when the builder positioned the houses in the cul de sac he turned them in such a way that from the deck you can't see the house on either side of you.....a very nice feature.... What spells summer more then iced cold lemonade.... add some cookies and a little fruit and you have a nice afternoo...

I have a running joke with Greg our wonderful mailman about all the packages that the Boss has delivered all during the week....Every time Greg brings a package to the front door he says the same thing.... "When are you going to get package" "John get everything"..... Well Greg has been on vacation in his home country of Viet Nam for the past few weeks and we have a substitute mail lady..... The other day I went out to get the mail......we have rural delivery down at the street....and there was balanced on top of our curved mailbox...ready to hit the pavement....this big box you see below...... Lucky that someone didn't drive past and scoop it up I brought it into the house and promptly handed it over to the husband..... To my surprise and delight the package was for me..... and who was if from....none other then Everyone's Favorite Sally of http://www.sallyssalmagundi.blogspot.com/ What a wonderful surprise........... not just one gift but three!! And for n...

I FIRST POSTED THIS THREE YEARS AGO AND IT PROVED TO BE THE SINGLE MOST POPULAR POST I HAVE EVER DONE......IT NOW WOULD HAVE BEEN 76 YEARS OF MARRIAGE AND IF YOU MISSED IT THE FIRST TIME I HOPE YOU ENJOYING READING ABOUT MY CRAZY PARENTS... 73 Years ago on the 4th. of July Millie and Siggy tied the knot.....That would be the Folks and as Millie would always love to say.... "We got married on the 4th of July and there have been fireworks ever since" Ofcourse she didn't mean that in a good way.... But you would never know that by these pictures..... I think you will agree that they were quite the handsome couple back in 1936..... They were known around town as the George Burns and Gracie Allen of Rahway..... My father said very little and smoked a big cigar.... My mother.....well, was Gracie Allen's twin sister.... All my high school friends even called her Gracie... She more often then not said and did things that just made you say...."What...

It's the week of the 4th. of July and let the flags fly...... Another addition to the wonderful Tablescape Thursday hosted by Susan of http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ Stop by Susan's blog for all the links to all the great tablescapes offered up.....Is anyone out there going to do a table this week other then in Red...White....and Blue.... I bet not!! I happen to love the American Flag and it flys proudly inside and out all year long.... We'll start the tour at my front door before going inside to see the table.... an old flea market window painted very basically into a flag hangs next to our front door... The wreath has hung between my front porch windows for years....hence that faded stars and stripes bow....look close a little bird lives in that nest right up front.... I couldn't decide this week to use a quilt or place mats on the table I went with the mats... what's more American then my Hero..... Miss Liberty.... For a touch of Whimsy.... Bugs...