It's Wednesday already? Wow. Time goes by too fast...

Happiness is...

...the adorable ducklings I saw. Man, where they cute!

Visiting our friends the Hintzes for the first time in five months! Even though they live about 30 minutes away, we were both busy and didn't get the chance to meet up...glad we finally did!

What are two things that happened this week that made you happy?

-carlotta

It's Raw(e) time again...This week's theme is distraction.

I'll admit, I did have a rather hard time figuring out what to photograph. I mean, how does one photograph a distraction?

Here's what I came up with:

My distraction is procrastination. I know that's probably no surprise, but it's true.

I chose to photograph my bookcase as I procrastinate because I'm reading a book. Or on the computer (but I've gotten better about that...).

What's your distraction? 

-carlotta

1. I think I'm addicted to taking pictures of flowers (I don't even know the names of the flowers I take pictures of (except daffodils). Is that bad?). No, wait. Scratch that. I'm addicted to spring.

2. I like lists. They're organized and neat (most of the time, anyway). I like lists in the form of blog posts, too.

3. I noticed today how extremely white I am. I'll spare you pictures, but it ain't pretty. Why can't we be back in the 1800s? White skin was all the rage...and yep, I'd probably have some of the whitest skin. But, I suppose being white is better than being sunburned. Sometimes my blonde hair and green eyes are a curse. 

4. I have to send my laptop in. Boo. I've been having trouble with my display...there are horizontal and vertical lines all over the screen and the colors are messed up (when you have it a certain way). I don't really want to send it in - it's going to be a major pain - but at least it's happening now while I'm still under warranty.

5. It bugs me when apostrophes are misused. Just FYI.

6. I can't wait until the roses start blooming (the photo below is of the rosebush...it's making progress!). The roses go over our front door, and they're really pretty.

7. Speaking of our front door, it's almost been a year since we saw our house for the first time. Wow. It's been a ton of work, but definitely worth it.

8. Our bathroom is almost finished. All that's left is finishing putting up the wainscoting, grout the tile in the shower area, and putting in the sink and toilet. We're hoping to at least get the sink and toilet in this week, as our friend that's been helping us with this project has surgery scheduled for Friday. If that could get done we could do the rest by ourselves...I put a post up of the progress with pictures soon.

9. Homework is calling my name (not that I really want to listen...). Grr.

-carlotta

Dun, dun, dunnnn...no, really, it's not scary. :)

Note: not everyone is pictured :)

Yesterday we visited our friends, the Hintzes, for JoJo's fifth birthday (he's in the brown jacket).

They live farther out in the country and the boys wanted to show Jeremiah and me a graveyard in the woods, a ten minute walk away. Needless to say, I brought along my camera.

It was totally overgrown - most of the graves are from the very early 1900s, around the turn of the century.

It was really cool (it looked like something out of a Nancy Drew game I played once), a little creepy, and sad all at the same time. Little Robert didn't even make it to 10 months.

There was something really peaceful about the graveyard, though. I can't explain it. 

Although, I was careful not to step behind the gravestones...some of them got uncovered but the weather, I'm guessing. We couldn't see any coffins (thankfully!), but you could see the first 2 or 3 inches of where the coffin was laid. 

There must have been some settlers in that area, maybe farmers or ranchers, as it must have been really remote then, as it's kind of far out even now. It was kind of strange to just be walking in the woods and then all of a sudden come across a graveyard!

There's something fascinating in about graveyards, though. I always wonder in cemeteries what the people - who are now obviously dead - were like... Sometimes these kind of things are fun to figure out, though...

I never thought I would write a whole post about graveyards. I hope you don't think I'm insanely weird (or whacked out) now... :)

-carlotta