Idea # 18 Pick Your Own Fruit

Preferably from a tree, bush orchard, or vineyard. As a kid, my best friend and I would pick blackberries along the side of the road and take them home to her mother, who would use them in her awesome pancakes she would make for us. To this day, I have never had better pancakes than hers, and Mrs. Dickson, if you're reading this, could you please send me the recipe??
IF you have no access to nature at all, sneak into you neighbor's yard raid a local farmers market for some sweet deals on whatever fruits are in season. Berries are a favorite summertime treat, and they freeze well so you can go ahead and splurge on that 5 gallon flat of strawberries without any guilt!

Idea # 16 Blow Bubbles

Grab the kids (your own or a niece or nephew)  the dog, the cat, whatever ya got, and get ready for some YouTube-quality entertainment!  Speaking of which, it's not actually a bad idea to take a video clip - if something funny happens you're and instant YouTube star!
Be sure to post any links to your video post below here if you get something good, I always enjoy a good laugh!

IDEA #10 Start a [water] fight

Choose your target carefully, wait patiently and then BAM!  ya smoke some poor unsuspecting fool  person with a fully loaded water gun, or a hailstorm of water-balloons,.   Hopefully your victim  target has a good sense of humor.  Since this is all just in good fun anyways, in all fairness it would be good sportsmanship to give the poor soggy soul a chance to collect their wits about them before you continue. Now is your chance to run away while they dash for the garden hose..... 
  Happy splashing! 
 

Idea #7 Run Through the Sprinkler

(photo credit: from google images) 

Remember what it was like to be six years old and the irresistible urge to run through a sprinkler was just too much to bear?  You'd take off across the lawn, hardly slowing down at all to remove shoes, socks, etc as you raced to be the first one through to the other side - sometimes clothes and all. It was like a free waterpark.  Welcome to Your Friendly Neighborhood Geyser - perfectly timed streams of water shooting upward and outward - ,just minus the scalding hot water of course  ;)  You and your friends and siblings ran through until your legs ached and your lips turned purple and your shivering reached the uncontrollable stage. Or once the neighbors came out and told everyone to stop running around on their lawn! hahaha

It's one of those memories that reminds you that childhood was both fun and flleeting. One of those things that you just HAVE to do again. Relive your childhood, remember what it was like to have simple clean summer FUN and the only thing you were responsible for was to make sure you didnt track all that water into the house.  

So here's the challenge,(this coming from someone who can;t even resist driving through a good sized puddle in the road.): throw caution to the wind, and allow yourself this one tiny adventure back into childhood.  

You're older and (hopefully) wiser now,  so just don't let the neighbors catch you in their yard this time!    

( my little dudes - at an actual waterpark)

   

Friday Favorites are back, baby!

This week has been, in the words of my fellow blogger Elsie Larson  a very "un-photogenic week" haha.  I don't think  I picked up my camera even once!  Now before that news gives you a stroke,  I will tell you that it's only Friday (week's not over yet".. Actually, it's pretty well done. Nevermind ;)

This was a busy week for us  with the kids in school, their taekwondo classes, and my business meetings.  Only 2 faves this week that really stand out

Favorite   - been watching Season 7 of this show ( and YES, I'm quite aware that we're a season behind, thankyouverymuch  NO spoilers please! ;)   It makes me laugh SO hard. ( You know when you're laughing so hard that no sound comes out and you just winding up silently gasping and clapping your hands together like a seal? ya, that's me)

 

 Favorite - My next new hair color??   

 

 

I'm currently obsessed with rich dark shades of brown for autumn again, (think Rachel Weisz aka. "Mrs. 007" or Angelina Jolie back in her "Lara Croft: TombRaider" days) . Plus, I liked the contrast between my green eyes and the deep, cool-hued browns  It's been awhile since I had my hair this dark, so I'm gonna have to make sure that I don't let myself get too pale this winter or I'll wind up looking like  Kristen Stewart's Twilight character  . And let's face it, nobody wants that!

 

My weekend to-do list is to enjoy our Date Night tonight, try to get some canning done ( peaches & pears), stain the patched-up part of my coffee table leg. My self-commissioned photo challenge is to try to snap a few candids of my kids getting along. 

 

In better-than-paparazzi-stealth mode,

-J