Friday Fragments

Good morning and Happy Friday!!


I have to start off by telling you a funny story from yesterday. Since Abe has been sick, we have been keeping in the house. So yesterday I got home from work and let him out to go to the bathroom and then decided I'd let him ride with me to the grocery store to pick up a few things. While I was in the grocery store he climbed from the back of my 4Runner to the front seat and was just sitting there waiting on me when I came out. He rode in the front seat home and when I got home, I got out and closed my door and went to open the passenger's door for him to get out. Well, Abe had other plans and those were to be completely stubborn. When I opened the passengers side door, he jumped over the driver's side and wouldn't come back and get out. So, I walked around to the driver's side, opened the door, and he jumped over to the passenger's side and just looked at me. This went on for about 4 times, me walking around the car to the side he was on to try and coax him out, and him jumping to the opposite side to just look at me. Finally I coaxed him back into the back of the car and he got out before I had to pick him up- even with a weight loss of 12 pounds, that would not have been a pretty sight! I wish someone had been secretly videoing the whole seen because I'm pretty sure we could have won America's Funniest Home Videos. Here are two pictures of Abe in the driver's seat. Silly pup!






In other news, on Monday night I went to Hobby Lobby in hopes of buying 2 fall wreaths to put on our front and back doors. I was completely unsuccessful, as they had only one left, and to me, it was overdone and a bit tacky...plus it was $20 for one, and I just didn't want to pay that for something I didn't like. So, I bought the materials to make 2 of my own- ended up spending less than $40, so I was happy. And voila, the finished products below (this is probably my only attempt ever at a craft project, so I was pretty proud of myself). Please note my attempt to get in the Halloween spirit with the jack-o-lantern bucket of mums. I got the bucket at the Fall Festival in Elloree last weekend for $8.00. It's an old maple syrup bucket that a man cuts to look like a jack-o-lantern and then paints. I thought it was cute, and when Halloween is over, I'll turn it around and it will just be an orange bucket for Thanksgiving.

Please ignore the fact that the railings need to be removed, the steps need to be repainted, and we need a new door! Our house is quite old and we seem to always have much more important things to do than those things ;-)

And last, but not least, my Gamecocks are taking on the Crimson Tide from Alabama tomorrow night. I'm super nervous, as they have a bunch of veteran guys and we're pretty wet behind the ears. I hope that Alshon will have another spectacular game, and Garcia will be careful with the football! Most of all, I hope it's a good game and we play them close, and if we're lucky, we "roll" them instead of them "rolling" us...but I'm not counting on it! In any case, GO COCKS!