Hooked

 For a while I was doing quite a bit of crocheting and loom knitting. Once the weather started warming up I kind of got away from it. I had started a blanket that is supposed to be a Christmas present and I'm still trying to get it finished.

For some reason I get one or two rows done on it and then I'm putting it up again until the next time. You can see that Gibbs is totally bored with the whole process.

I plan on finishing up with the skein of yarn I'm using now and that will be it. However long it is then is where it'll be done.

Drawings year 3 week 13

 

This beautiful world.

 My google photos always has different collections across the top. Most of the time I ignore them but the one day one of them was entitled "This beautiful world" so I decided to take a look.

It's all pictures I have taken in the past so it's nice to look back too. There is always a collage included of the photos used. And of course, my blogger mind said "hey, use that for a blog post."

Or how about this one titled "exploring trails over the years.

Somewhere over the rainbow.

 I was driving down the highway on my way to work one day and thought I saw a rainbow in the sky. I got off at my exit and since there wasn't anyone behind me I stopped at took a picture.

Yes, I do believe that is a rainbow

And here's another one. It's faint but it's there.

Fun with photos and AI

 I used one of the pictures I took of the fall decorations at work and had a little fun with AI. I used this picture

I asked AI to put the scarecrows in a corn field with pumpkins, crows and sunflowers. This is what it gave me.

I thought it was pretty cute.

Fall decorations at work

 The one day at work when I didn't have anything to do I pulled out a few of the fall decorations we had in the back room. 

Food prep

 Usually on Sunday's I do some kind of food prep for the week. Sometimes I work on breakfast items that I can put in the freezer and other times I'll make a casserole that will cover several meals and also put a few in the freezer for later. 

On this particular day I was working on breakfast.

I made McGriddle muffins. These are made with pancake mix and you add sausage, cheese, maple syrup and I can't recall what else.

I also made breakfast burritos. I always put frozen potatoes, cheese, egg and sausage in them.

Four of them ready for the freezer

Dinner was an easy french bread pizza. I used half a loaf of French bread and ate one part and used the other for my lunch at work the next day. 

Way too early for me.

 When the parade was over I headed to Walmart to do my weekly shopping. I wandered to the back where their lawn and garden section is. It was filled with Christmas decorations. First I see this Fall-O-Ween display and then right past it there was Christmas

It's September. I don't want to shop for tinsel now

And can someone please explain to me why you would want a 6 pack of beer hanging from the branches of your Christmas tree?

I think this one might qualify as the stupidest ornament I have ever seen.

Another fair come and gone

 These days I don't spend any time at the fair but there is one thing I won't miss and that's the parade. It goes right by my house so how could I not go out and watch it.

I didn't take as many pictures this year as I usually do but here are a few highlights.

I used to work with the guy carrying the American flag

The local high schools marching band

From a funeral home

more marching bands

There was one more but apparently I didn't get a picture of them. They were the only band who marched in uniform too.

Rain was in the forecast for the day and thankfully it held off for the parade. It did sprinkle a little at the end but nothing that made us run for cover.

Playing with AI

 I did a little playing with simple selfies on my phone. I did these in my phones text app. You give it a picture and a tell it what you want for the picture.

First I said dress me up for fall and it gave me this.

I like the outfit and it even gave me a little bit more hair in my pony tail. 

The next one was supposed to be a glamour photo shoot. I'm not sure where the glamour is in this one

The third and final one I said something about putting me in the great pumpkin Charlie Brown.

Drawings year 3 week 12

 

Filling up

 For the longest time I was driving into Ohio to get gas because it was so much cheaper. Then there was a stretch where the savings wasn't big and several weeks where Pennsylvania was cheaper than Ohio so I got in the habit of going locally.

Last Sunday I decided it was time to drive back to Ohio. 

This was Pennsylvania's price. $4.59 but with my club price I would pay the $4.46

I checked my app for the place in Ohio that I go to and this is what it was

$4.09 is the regular price but if you are signed up you get another .10 cents off a gallon so that means I paid $3.99. For that much of a savings I made the trip. It's just under 15 miles one way so not that far away.

Lunch

 Now that it's just me in the office I get help from out of town. My manager comes from Ridgeway Pa 2 days a week and the Division president usually comes a couple times a month. Whenever he comes he always buys lunch. 

He usually asks what I want for lunch. This last time I really didn't know and he asked if I knew of any good burger places that weren't fast food. I told him my son had mentioned Bro Man's Birria n' Burgers and said that they were really good. It's not too far away from the office so he said we would try it. 

He asked if I wanted fried which they called Brotatoes, and I said I was good with just the burger. He asked if I would split them with him if he ordered them and I said sure.

The potatoes were sort of a thick cut potato slice with seasoning on them and they were very tasty.