Around Town

More church signs.

My previously posted church signs were recently featured at my new favorite church sign blog.

I told you that I had been pewed.

Church sign guy didn’t get the reference to being benched, but in a church form,

so I thought I would explain that here for my readers.

Here are some recently found signs.

The last is my favorite of the three.

I have to give myself therapy every day to mind my own business.

Is there a haunted Smoky Mountain?

And, here is some wacky news from right down the street.

This tree art was found in Maryville.

About a twenty minute drive from our house.

It is claimed that it was found exactly as seen above, but I don’t know if I’m a believer.

We do have some of the highest rates of meth around these parts.

I wonder if Jeremy participated somehow. (not in the meth – geesh)

He’s pretty creative.

And who knows what he is capable after a few too many of his own brewed beers?

I’ve been pewed.

BIG TIME. I never have to post another church sign again. Lookkkeee what I discovered.

The ee’s of Tennessee

wind ee

dix ee

the golden ball – ee

eek

weeds

trash ee

smok ee

chev ee

old ee

eats

nois ee

whisk ee

washee

appalach ee

ee normous

r ee vival

ree ligious

show ee

dirt ee feetsie

shoeless ee

hon ee

Life just got better

and so did my ride.

Do you remember my bumper sticker post?

Well, Sheila did.

Check out the two newest additions to my minivan.

“Mom’s taxi”

and my favorite:

“Warning! Blogger known to photograph while driving.”

I just love when people find words of perfection, especially in magnet material.

These most definitely belong on the back of my minivan.

THANK YOU SHEILA. I will love you forever.

Elegance

Define it. Any way you want,
but no matter how hard I have tried,
elegant and junk just don’t go together.

Just like LG and my camera at times.

And, yes, my yard is more elegant than my house.
And I am proud of it.

There is nothing like looking outdoors for some of God’s beauty.
You know I didn’t find it IN the house during this photo shoot.

And, if you can’t make your yard as elegant as you would like.

Buy your first piece of art, ever.

It will give you your dream scenery, and your hubby will love it,

especially if it was $20 at Big Lots.

No title needed.

No caption needed.

I am so proud that I have blog-trained LG.

He came home last week with this snapped photo just for me.

The Golden Girls…

….we look as unlike a famous Rock Band since The Chipmunks .

But hey, if they can do it, so can we.

We absolutely cannot resist the chance to play a little Rock Band when we see it set up at Sams.

It does not matter how much shopping we have on our list or how close it is to bedtime.

We just know that those Sam’s Club employees set that equipment up for us.

We would not want to disappoint.

If only we could afford to bring one home.

But, of course, if we bought the game Rock Band,

we would then have to add a Nintendo 360,

and then we would need the big screen TV,

and then after we got it set up,

but before we could play,

we we would have to go back down to Sams

and get some onlookers to come home with us.

You just can’t be a Rock Band without some groupies.

(this is starting to sound like the book: If You Give A Mouse A Cookie)

And, everyone would come from far far away to see the Gold’s play.

They would not be able to resist our talent or our charm.

And, I don’t care if the game thinks that we are failures.

We all know that these electronic games come with programming glitches.

A letter to my man

Dear LeGrand,

There is no one on this earth that is happier for you than me.

I am smiling HUGE thinking about you over at your new office,

being your own boss.

You are sitting at that big nice desk,

knowing that you are living the dream.

You must feel so fulfilled and so blessed.

I think that they were all right when

they told us it would be worth it.

God has been good to us and has sustained us.

I know he will continue to bless us.

I know that you are happy to live your dream.

Look at that smile.

I am happy because you are happy.

Even though our lives have been crazy for two weeks straight,

I got used to working by your side.

I want you to know that I am missing you very much.

I think that you are right when you said it’s finally all coming together.

Now that you are working at your own office, I am just wondering one thing.

When will you take me out to lunch?

We could try the quaint BBQ place across the street.

But only if you want to lose weight.

( I thought that this was a sign with a misspelling until I realized their creative play on words.)

I think that this will be a perfect place for us to eat.

We can call ahead and lose wait time.

And since you are such a totally busy lawyer, I know that you need to save time.

And I will patiently wait for you to finish out your work week,

so that I can have some of your coveted free time.

And, then all your girls will go to church and look at you sitting up on the stand.

And we will improve our family, so that we can all love and miss you even more.

And, we will wish that you were sitting by us.

Just like I do right now.

Love,

Alice

Cars speak volumes.

All my friends had personalized plates growing up.

I had a plan for what mine would be one day.

IBMEUBU

What does your car tell people about you?

Here is mine.

I am too cheap for personalized plates.

I don’ think I will ever get the cute plate I pondered about for so long.

Because my life is in my minivan,
I thought that the back of my van should start
sporting all the magnets that I could get my hands on.

I want everyone to know what I love when they look at my car.

Don’t you think that Sam’s Club pizza magnet is a nice addition?

The kids are excited to start placing magnets all over our car.

They were bummed when the pizza magnet went missing after two days.

Do you think somebody really needed that take out pizza reference number that bad?

I don’t want to believe that regular size magnets aren’t hefty enough

to withstand the travails of my minivan.

I have plans.