Chillin' With Her Gnomies......

Muffin (like most dogs) loves to go sniffing around. She could probably spend hours sniffing the ground or leaves or rocks or flowers or what ever else she can find to sniff (some things she sniffs will remain unmentioned........ Yuck.........)
But then after a while it's just time to relax and be chillin' with her friend the garden gnome.

Ahhhhhhhh.......... The dog days of summer ain't so bad after all..........

Hey, she did it........ She survived CAMPING

Finally after years of camping, I finally dragged my best friend Laura camping with us and look - I think she may have actually had a little fun (or at least I hope that she did and will want to come back again soon......)
Friday we just hung out and played Phase Ten with our camping friends. Then Saturday was a quick trip to Memory Lane cause Laura's never been there and it's close to the campground. This was followed by a wonderful "Hybrid Crop" at the Scrapbook Clubhouse. Sunday we just hung out and relaxed (Laura read her book by the campfire - Shhh..... Dont tell her there is no fire and there will be no smores served this weekend....... )

What did the boys do all weekend???????? Played video games ofcourse - Go figure........

So Laura....... When are you buying a trailer and joining me EVERY WEEKEND????

Sunflowers For Wishes......

There is a wonderful farm in Griswold, Connecticut called "Buttonwood Farm". Each year they plant acres and acres of sunflowers. For ten days in July they have a fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. They sell bouquets of sunflowers for $5 each. They do hayrides through the sunflowers - Also $5 each. And they have the most delicious home-made ice creams.
http://www.sunflowersforwishes.com/index.html

We ate yummy ice cream (some of which I ended up wearing cause it dripped from the bottom of my waffle cone onto my jeans.......) Then we took a hay ride and then I tortured Bob and Bobby by taking a billion pictures.

On the way back to the campground we stopped on the side of the road where I bought fresh picked sweet corn and blueberries. - DELICIOUS........ (And again, I could not resist making Bobby pose for a picture in front of the corn field........... )

Ummmm.. Are these mushrooms?????

There have been a whole bunch of mushrooms growing around the compground this year (I've been told that it's probably because we've had so much rain) but I've NEVER seen mushrooms that look like these. I found them UNDER the stairs to the deck in front of the trailer (so ofcourse I had to take a picture. If the stems were green and they had green leaves I would say that they looked like lillies of the valley but I'm pretty sure they are just some weird kind of mushroom....


They're just really weird......... They make me think of the movie "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" (The original, not the remake. The original was much better......)
Yeah - I know........ I'm strange.........
But so are these mushrooms!!!!!!!!!