Halloween 2009 the III At Marc & Allisons

My husband was ridiculous! He came up with this idea to attend our son's Halloween party...and he was SERIOUS! I put yellow and red food coloring in his hair, pinned on a hairpiece and got out the really red lipstick! I think it might be true, when you're married this long (38+ yrs) you start to look alike!
My son, Marc was Billy Mays...

The FOOD NETWORK & TWINSDAYS '09

The Food Network show "Dinner Impossible" with Chef Robert Irvine filmed at TwinsDays 2009. TwinsDays is "The LARGEST Gathering Of Twins In The World". Every first full weekend of August, thousands of twins, triplets and quads, come together from all over the world for a Festival of Multiples! This year, my twin and I made our 21st consecutive trip to Twinsburg, Ohio. The day the Food Network filmed "Dinner Impossible" it rained all day. Chef Robert Irvine fed 500 twins and triplets. More than 2000 sets attended this year. The tag I made, shows the show times and the dates...be sure to tune in and watch it twice!

TNChicks Photo Hunt WORD: TIED

This is my grandson, Nicholas, who is 8 yrs old. My son, his daddy is a Fireman/SWAT/Rescue and he is teaching his two boys how to rappel trees, cliffs and buildings. My two grandsons are crazy for anything their daddy can do. Matthew (age 4) is also outside with Nicky, and climbs everything his big brother does!

TNChicks Photo Hunt word is *FREE WEEK share any pix

My twinie, Bobbie surprised us sisters and brother with Memory Bears in honor of our brother, Douglas Powers. Douglas passed away Dec. 1st 2008. He wore the shirts that Bobbie had used for the bears.The photo of some of Douglas's sisters and brother was taken at his gravesite in July.Back row, Mary Lou, Becci, Bobbie and front row, sister in law Joann and brother Don. I treasure my bear always, and he sits proudly square in the middle of my bed every day! There will never be enough words to let Bobbie know how she touched each of us to the bottom of our hearts with this gift!. There is a beautiful poem on a card with the bear. It reads:

Personally made for you:
I am a MEMORY BEAR
and what you should know
I am made out of your brother Douglas's personal clothes
Although you and our beloved brother are apart
This treasured Memory Bear comes from the heart
So when you're feeling sad or have the "missing him" bug
You can pick me up and give me the "special hug"
I will always love you.....
Your big sister Bobbie

Oh MY! It's been forever since I've been here...

Life has a way of getting in the way doesnt it? I will be back to posting my Photo Hunts soon!

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is ROCK

I couldn't resist taking this photo for the hunt last March. I am standing under a boulder sculpture outside of a business in Palm Desert, CA.

This is my nephew, Bryan on the boulders of Joshua Tree National Park. The park is 558,000 acres...covering over 163 miles. standing

These two photos are of me taken outside of a restaurant in Palm Desert, California, near my twin's winter home. I am outside of ROC'S Firehouse Grille.

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TNchick's Saturday Photo Hunt...THEME: PINK

What a Beautiful color for this week! These are a gorgeous Bouganvilla growing on the column of my twins California condo! They will be much bigger by July, but Bobbie will be in Michigan with me in July. These are my favorite flower!

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is~~ADVERTISMENT

My twin sister, Bobbie sure has an eye for the Photo Hunt! She went to the Living Desert in Palm Desert, CA on April 23rd and as they were leaving....this beer truck was in her view. The sign on the lower right corner says "SOUND HORN I'LL PULL OVER!" Do you suppose these trucks do get pulled over much? I do think they would! Crazy example of advertisement isn't it?

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is BOOK

My Twin sister, Bobbie, has a thing for Authors and celebrities signing their books...so here goes the photos of SOME of the books she has had signed...

The first, a new dear friend of mine, but a long time friend of Bobbies, Jean Lee Porter, a novel "THE STONE MUST BREAK", about WWII and love, life and loss. This was a compelling novel and knowing the author made it even more spectacular for me. When I went to California in March, we took Jean Lee out to lunch and had the foresight to get a photo of an 86 year old marvel!

The next book is a friend of Bobbies from the Press Club at their Country Club meeting. Anita Clay Kornfield, author of "VINTAGE" a novel.

The next book is at a book signing in Palm Desert, CA.,for Barbara Sinatra featuring her "THE SINATRA CELEBRITY COOKBOOK" that she wrote with her husband Frank Sinatra.

Next is a book written by Roberta Linn, who was Lawrence Welk's first Champagne Lady, titled "NOT NOW,LORD, I'VE GOT TOO MUCH TO DO". This is her memoirs if her television job.

One of my favorite celebrities in the world, the still beautiful Carol Channing, author of "JUST LUCKY I GUESS"

Last, but not least, a book signing by Kirk Douglas for his book "MY STROKE OF LUCK". He was quite old when he signed the book for Bobbie

So that's just some of my sisters wonderful photos that fit this word TNChick has chosen for this week. Are you interested in joining? It's a very entertaining sort of Photo Hunt and you visit other blogs who post photos for the word given each Saturday. I've been playing for over a year, and still enjoy it tons!
You can visit TNChick here http://tnchick.com/

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is PLASTIC

Interestingly a very hard word for me ...All I see is plastic, in so many common things...then I found these royalty free photos and I thought they were just stunning! I can't wait to see all of your posts...I plan on spending the whole day Sunday, just visiting! Thank you for your comments, I appreciate each and every one of them! Happy Hunting Photo Hunters!

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is~~ PAINTED

I got this painting in an email last week, and I felt it was perfect for this weeks word. Be sure to click onto my small photo to enlarge it for viewing. It is amazing, the famous people in it!

TwinsDays 2009....it's coming....

TNChick's Photo Hunt~~~Theme: MEMORY

This statue is erected at the Palm Springs Air Museum in California. Bobbie purchased two bricks to honor our father, Keith Douglas Powers, and her father in law, John Kenneth Eschbach, who was a P.O.W., serving in the European WWII as a Tailgunner. The The two bricks are behind the statue. The first photo shows our daddy's brick, in memory.

The shadowbox that my twin sister made honoring our father, Keith Douglas. Our dad served in the Coast Guard in WWII, in the Asian Pacific Theater, in the Leyte Gulf. Daddy passed away when twin and I were 12 years old, the oldest of 6.
The next two graphics were made by my sister, Cindy (aka KissedAlotAtoads), in memory of our brother and our mother. Our sweet brother Douglas recently passed away this past December. Momma passed away August of 2007. MY sisters and brother and I miss them every moment of every day! My sisters are my twin, Bobbie, Cindy (KissedAlotAtoads), Mary Lou, Sande and brother Don.

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is WALKING

I have never been so proud of anyone as I was the day my daughter in law, Allison walked the 60 mile Susan G. Komen 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk! Allison was exhausted and exhilarated at the end of the Walk For A Cure! They slept in pink pup tents, wore pink clothing and walked for someone they loved. My daughter in love, Allison, did PINK proud!!!

TNchick's Saturday Photo Hunt THEME~~PROTECTION

Protection from the "Perfect Storm"...a little bit of an oxymoron, my sister, Bobbie is wearing her yellow raincoat and hat in the 90+ degrees in the southern California desert. Bobbie even claims she's worn it a couple times this year already!

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is PURPLE

PURPLE.......
Butterflys on purple flowers, photos taken by my son Marc. What is more purple than some fresh plums? Are those purple tulips the most beautiful flowers?

Blessed Good Friday

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is: STRIPES

Am I the only person who finds this zebra's handler is also wearing stripes? Talk about dressing alike! This zebra was at the Riverside Date Festival this past Feburary 18th, 2009. Perfect for the theme this week!

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is HANDS

This is my nephews 1st born son, hours old, in the hands of his father, Bryan Keith. Gabriel Kenneth was born on 3-4-04. Gabe now has two younger brothers. Sometimes the "perfect" photo is at your fingertips, as was this one for this weeks theme word. Are you interested in joining TN Chick's Photo Hunt? Click HERE
for a fun way to spend a weekend, visiting hundreds of other Photo Hunters.

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: THEME:::Yellow

While visiting my twin sister in Palm Desert, CA., she treated me to a day at The Fabulous Follies. The Follies are presented at the Plaza Theatre on Palm Canyon Drive, in Palm Springs. The performers have an age requirement of OVER 50 years of age! The oldest performer on stage was Dorothy Kloss at 85!!!! Ms. Klass is billed in the Guinness Book Of Records as the "Oldest 'Still preforming' Showgirl in the World". Dorothy was on Good Morning America a few months ago. These men and women put on a 3 1/2 hour show 9 times a week! My photo is of Jill Gordon in a full yellow feather lioness headress. Spectacular isnt she? especially at 65 years of age! This years program was Route 66. The Follies starred Susan Anton, who by the way looked ridiculously amazing at 58 years of age. Here is Ms. Anton with my sister and myself outside of the theatre. The Follies are in their 18th season and if you are EVER in Palm Springs, California make it a "MUST SEE".

TNchicks Saturday Photo Hunt~~~Theme: FOUR

More photos from my visit to my twin sisters Palm Desert, California, home. Bobbie and I went lemon picking...right in her neighbors yards! The first photo shows Bobbie and I with her "mighty" fruit picker, taken on Bobbie's condo front porch. This photo shows 4 beautiful palm trees in the background with us. Then, walking past one of the 28 condo pools, we decided to go hunting for the Photo Hunt. Notice the 4 lemons on the pool fence railing with FOUR beautiful palm trees. We just felt the need for some lemonade after all that picking, and threw the 4 lemons into the warm water of the pool. I love the shadows of the surrounding palm trees reflecting in the pool.

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt~~Theme: SPACE

This is my twin sister, Bobbie's scrapbooking space in Palm Desert, California. The before was a photo taken right out of a nightmare! There is even a computer desk in there somewhere! The after was a month of reorganizing. It's like a mini craft store now! great job huh?

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is THANKFUL

Just look around, there is ALWAYS something to be thankful for in each day!
It may be only that you DID wake up today. Don't take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive!
I am visiting my twin sister in Palm Desert, California for this weekend and next. Please don't hesitate to leave a comment though, I will faithfully repay your visit as soon as I can! Thank you

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is WARM

WARM...ahhh to be warm!!!...wait! I WILL be warm! I am going to visit my twin sister in Palm Desert, California on February 24th until March 12th! These photos show what warm is like at sunset! They were all taken off of the back balcony of my twin, Bobbie's condo. The first is a sunset is December 29th 2007...and the other two are from a sunset January 1st 2008. Can you even imagine how warm the days were?? Aren't you seriously jealous???

A GREAT READ!! "Frantic" by Katherine Howell

I came across Ms Katherine Howell quite by accident...I was blog jumping...and I found her website. I have never read a book so fast in my life! The story line is about a young paramedic in Australia named Sophie Phillips. The story was aptly named FRANTIC, as I was FRANTICally awaiting her next radio call as she and her partner worked in the city ambulance. The story takes a FRANTIC turn when her cop husband is shot in the face and some one has kidnapped Sophie's son, Lachlan. Sophie is FRANTIC in her search for her son. I've never been to Australia, but novelist Katherine Howell made me feel I was there every moment with Sophie. This story could have taken place in anyones home town, in anyones country to anyone we love. This book was absolutely spellbinding and kept me on the edge of my seat. Suspension, drugs, missing child, corrupt government...sounds just like an every other normal day for a paramedic.
GREAT READ!!!
May God Bless all paramedics, firefighters, policemen/women and all service personell and my daughter in love, Allison, a Paramedic here in Michigan.

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is Nautical

Oh to be lounging in one of those deck chairs!

My other photo was taken at New Port, Oregon while watching the lazy seals on floating deck.

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is BRIDGE(S)

This week's theme word, Bridge(s) forced me to look at some of my old photo albums.
The first, is the Natural Bridge in Aruba. This wonderment that took thousands of years to form, was a 100 foot long arch that was 25 feet above sea level. It was one of the main attractions for tourists, as we could walk the entire top of it, "Before the lawyers" got involved. Unfortunately, on Sept 2,2005 this beautiful bridge collapsed in the early morning hours, destroying Aruba's beautiful natural attraction. I have included a photo of the bridge after the collapse.
The beautiful floating bridge (photo 1998) is in the colorful city of Willemstad, Curacao on the Santa Ana Bay of the Caribbean Sea. The pontoon bridge folds against the shore to permit sea going traffic, has been a historical landmark since the 19th century. It is the quickest and only way to get by foot from Punda (the oldest section) to newer Otrobanda on the opposite shore. Its entrance is spanned by the 400 foot Queen Emma, which must be folded against the Otrobanda shore to allow every ship entry or exit to the Harbor ( the 7th largest in the world). The island lies 35 miles north of Venezuela and 42 miles east of Aruba. Curacao is the largest of the 5 islands that comprise the Netherland Antilles. It is 38 miles long and 7.5 miles at its widest point. Dutch is the official language. English, Spanish, Papiamento, the local patios, are spoken throughout the island.
The next photo is the flying bridge of the Legend Of The Seas of the Royal Caribbean with Captain Bengt Ronson from Sweden. Our spacious, "owners cabin" was right behind this flying bridge. Here I must stop and thank my cherished twin sister, Bobbie and her hubby, John, for taking us on this cruise in June 1998, and sharing their 4 room cabin! AMAZING!!! It even had a huge jacuzzi tub, a personal butler, and a baby grand piano in the front room, that played for us with the switch of a knob. All of these ports were included in our cruise through the Panama Canal in 1998 ...but that is another story for me to share someday!
The next photo is the Bridge Of Americas in Panama City. The bridge was completed in 1962 and at that time was the ONLY link between the North & South American Continents. It links both sides of the Panama Canal. At noon on December 31, 1999,
the United States ceremonially handed the government of Panama the monumental canal which was created by American ingenuity, grit, sweat and fortune. Treaties worked out between Panama and the U.S. in 1977 by then presidents Jimmy Carter and Omar Torrijos, resulted in the shutting down of the U.S. military apparatus and the controversial "reflagging" of the canal from the United States to Panama. When the United States handed the Panama Canal to the corrupt government of Panama, they then handed it to Communist China.Want more info? go HERE
My other photo is of the Bridge Of Americas taken out on our balcony showing the ships flying bridge in the foreground.

I would like some input please...I want to remove all of the black and white photos from my mantle, but what to replace there? Give me some ideas!

My living room is done in burgundy, green and cream colors. I cannot replace the furniture...but I could do anything to the mantle! It is painted a light mauve, one shade darker than the walls. I am including photos of my furniture and the pattern of it. Have any suggestions? What would you even call my decorating style? it's not country, its not modern...help!

My FAVORITE song and a little video! Rory & Joey ROCK!!!

I assumed I would see allot of dogs and cats and even some bunnys & goats with this weeks theme word...but I also assume that EACH and EVERY one of yours is the prettiest and the smartest cat/dog...so I took a bit of a different interpretation of the word "furry" with an original photograph. The last two photos are my twin sister's furry teddy bears and her very furry bear rug she has in her bear collection in California...

My first photo is a furry little hummingbird. My sister's friend, Tami Sigurson, took this magnificent photo of a baby Hummingbird sitting on her two tiny eggs...then I found this amazing video on YouTube that was just too amazing not to include with an original photograph. Amazing that the momma bird stood still long enough to feed her babies, since their wings flutter 1,260 beats a minute! They fly an average of 25-30 miles per hour (mph) and can dive at 60 mph! They visit approximately 1000 flowers a day. Hummingbirds do not mate for life but have a "clutch" of two white eggs producing a brood once a season.

Hummingbirds are part of the Trochilidae family found only in the Americas. They are unknown in the Eastern Hemisphere. With 343 species, hummingbirds make up the Western Hemisphere's second largest family of birds.

The most astonishing quality of hummingbirds is their ability to broadcast color. Hummingbirds radiate like hot coals in the sun. The color that reaches your eye is created by pigment, which absorbs some colors and rejects others. Like soap bubbles, the hummingbird's color comes from iridescence, not pigment. It winks on and off, depending on the light source and the angle of the viewer. This allows hummingbirds to flash colors or hide them which is useful for males who want to impress females or threaten other males.

♥♥♥PLEASE READ MY POST BELOW, I NEED YOUR HELP!♥♥♥

followers,newbies and lurkers....I NEED YOUR HELP! This year will mark my twin sister and my 21st consecutive trip to TWINSDAYS

My beautiful twin sister, Bobbie and I will be going to our 21st consecutive road trip to a multiples festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, the first full weekend in August. Each year, the committee comes up with a "theme" and she and I usually do our best to convey that theme in costumes for the "Two By Two" parade which is about 2 miles of mulitples riding in floats, or walking....in 2004 Bobbie and I were the QUEENS of the festival and appropriatly wore besutiful long dresses with our tiaras. SO THIS YEAR....we are stumped! The theme is 50 (s). Every other set of female twins will be wearing poodle skirts and saddle shoes...we want to be different!!
So I am asking my readers for some costume ideas! As of right now, we were thinking of retro bowling shirts with "Team Twin Powers" on the back (our maiden name is Powers)...but it's not so original! ...The above photo from 1995 is with our custom made top and pants, made BY OUR SISTER, Cindy aka KissedAlotAtoads. The shirt read "She's In My ♥ ...She's In My Soul... She's In My Shirt Too!" Oh my God how we twins laughed and laughed when we used the handicap Port-A-Johns on the festival grounds! The other photo, is our costume from 1998 and our scrubs read "Doctor, Doctor, Mr. M.D. ...Is there one or two of me?" Pretty original I have to say! Then in 2007 we made our Pinata Costume which I have posted before, but am doing again. This costume took us three months to make and we cut up plastic tablecloths into small strips and hot glued them to the chicken wire frame we made! Lots of work...but all three of these brought us GOLD medals in the competion for best costumes.
SO??? what original costumes can you come up with that fit the 50's?

TNChicks Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme:::: CHIPPED

*Scrape, scrape, swear, chip, swear, chip,sweat, bitch, complain, chip, scrape and bitch some more!" Guess who needs a new snow shovel? The hubs,...

SICK! that's what this is! There is way too much ice and it had to be chipped with a trowel...the ice was nearly 3 inches think and the snow measures well over 3 feet! I've had enough!

TNChick's Photo Hunt word from a week ago...

The Youngest son Marc, has been laughing about Aretha's chapeau since yesterday...so I fixed him! I got one exactly like it for him! LOL....then...my daughter in law Allison and Maggie, our grandpuppy were next....Look out Paul and Julie...you and the grandkids are next! lol

TN Chick's Photo Hunt: Theme this week is HAT(s)

I am thinking, I wanted to be really different than just a photo with a hat...so I created this graphic in Paint Shop Pro 9 with tubes and a photo of me. I love how I teach myself something new everyday in PSP ! I am a true addict I think..Sooo here's my real HAT entry...A very hot day in Palm Springs...then I was off to mail this hat to my late brother, who loved hats! Funny thing, it cost more to mail this jumbo hat than it was worth! lol
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TNChicks Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme::::AFTERMATH

The aftermath to a failed sump pump in your basement ...is digging in the yard (making a trench) for new pipes! Mike Rowe needs to be called for "Dirtiest Job"...My youngest grandson, Matthew Hart, found the deep hole a fun place to be while dad wasn't looking!

HOPE: My youngest son Marc,married the love of his life, Allison, at Hope Chapel on October 28, 2006...a beautiful 1900's white clapboard steeple building.

History from 1830:

The intersection of 24 Mile road (Whiskey Road) and Van Dyke was once the unincorporated village of Disco, Michigan. In 1830 the farmers who settled this area from New York referred to it as "Utica Plains." By the late 1840s they wanted a higher education facility similar to the Romeo Institute or the Rochester Academy. In 1849, the same year the village of Disco was platted, ten acres of land was donated toward the creation of the Mutual Literary Institute. It was renamed the Disco Academy in 1855.

Religious groups used the larger of the two buildings. The lower floor was used by the school trustees; the upper floor by the Methodists who organized in 1863, and later by the Congregationalists.

1890, The congregation of The Methodist Protestant Church continued to grow and the upper floor of the Disco Academy was not large enough to contain the flock. The church appointed a building committee and on September 13, construction started on a new church building at a cost of $1,300. The land, later known as the Metz farm was donated by Mrs. Flora Keeler. Floras parents were Mr. And Mrs. S. Preston of Prestonville. Pastor Wilber S. Ostrander, of the Disco Methodist Protestant Church, formally dedicated the new church building on December 20, 1890.

1921, Electricity is installed. The electrical lines in the Utica-Disco area were installed in the early 1900s and operated by a number of small electrical companies. In 1916 the small electrical companies were consolidated with the Edison Illuminating Company. It took five more years before the church was wired.

1927, The building is raised and repositioned on a basement. A new coal furnace is added to heat the building. Previously, a pot bellied stove, placed at the front of the church where the organ used to sit, was used to heat the building. The new basement was used for Sunday school classes and social meetings.

1962, A new 15 x 28 foot addition was added to the back of the church. The addition consisted of an all purpose room for social affairs or Sunday school, and rest rooms. Church members had used outdoor facilities until this time.

1979, The name of the church was changed from the Disco Methodist Protestant Church to Hope United Methodist Church. By this time the word disco had taken on new meaning and most people in the area were not aware that the Village of Disco existed here and was the reason for the churchs name.

1980, The old house that sat on the south side of the church was demolished for more parking spaces. The house was probably first used as a parsonage around 1895 after it was purchased from the Keeler/Cameron family. When Rev Simpson (1969-1973) was appointed to the Disco Church, he would not take the appointment unless the church supplied better living accommodations for him and his family, so the present parsonage was purchased.

FALL of
2006 Weddings and Christenings are allowed

TNChicks Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme:::: Squeaky

Wow, I picked a tough word for my return! lol...Then my hubby closed the door to the laundry and I again needed to remind him it needs a drop of oil!...

OH MY GOSH! I have been missing forever!

These are gusadaydees, a real Holiday family treat!

I'm so sorry all....but I have had a rough time these last few months. My brother passed away on Dec 1st and I was involved with his care for 3 months prior with another sister, MaryLou. It's almost Christmas, and whether I like it or am prepared, it is going to happen. The economy has slashed my present giving. My children will all understand, they're grown for God's sake, and too dam bad if they wonder where the 10-12 presents mom ALWAYS has purchased and wrapped BY MYSELF every year for the last 37! This Christmas, they are getting a measly 3 each and one bigger one for each. If there had'nt been online shopping, that small shopping wouldnt have been done!....I am a bit angered and frustrated today. I was on my way to help sister in law begin to make "gusadaydees" for Christmas. She lives about 35 mins from me...after I was on the road, fighting with the never ending white shit (YET AGAIN! there is already a foot of snow on the ground!)...anyway, I was on the road, trying to control my SUV and being mindful of the idiots flying by on unplowed streets....I got 8 miles from my house and had to turn back after 1 hour! It took another hour to get to my house safely! People are morons who are lackadaisily driving too fast, while on their phones, and in a blinding snowstorm!...I am so mad at the world today, I miss my brother, I miss my twin, I miss my sister kissedalotoftoads, I hurt all over with a major flare up of my fibromyalgia and my arthritis is off the pain chart.....and now, I have to figure out what my hubby wants me to cook for dinner! read my lips, PISS ON DINNER!....now, arent you just so happy I did come back? NOT!
Gussadaydees are homemade pasta pockets filled with ricotta cheese and cooked on top of homemade chicken soup...they are a Holiday favorite, and its something I look forward to, spending time with my sister in law who is a sister of my heart!

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: Bright

This is my grandson, Nicholas Payton at Christmas...he got these cute "spy" glasses with lights for night vision!

TNchick's Saturday Photo Hunt: THEME : Bad Hair

Old fronds may be left on some species of fan palms for an entire lifetime or for a few years between pruning, leaving an accumulation of dead fronds known as a beard. These palm trees are from a desert oasis, which we went into the dark, cooler part of the oasis, beneath hundreds of "beards"...Just an amazing sight to someone who had never even been this close to the palm trees! This is one of a few true oaisis's left in the desert part of Palm Springs, California

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: ANY PHOTO YOU WANT TO SHARE!

Happy Mothers Day to all the moms...this is my beloved mother, whom went into the arms of our Lord, last August 2007...I miss you very much momma....your FAVORITE daughter......

This is my 7 year old grandson, Nicholas at 4 months of age. He is in his daddys fireman boot....

This is my 3 year old grandson, Matthew at the age of 11 months

MISSING!!!!!!

This is ZOEY and belongs to TNChick.

LOST Beagle Hound Dog in Franklin, KY.
Last seen Madison St. / Cedar St. area Tuesday night 4/22/08.
Female. Tri-Color. Spayed. Age 4. Wearing a black harness.
Family lives in TN and desperately seeks her.
Found our Beagle ? Please contact me ASAP!
email blog@tnchick.com or ray93@comcast.net
Reward is offered for her return.

Our sweet TNCHICK started and maintains the Photo Hunters© every week. Her precious Zoey is missing. Last seen Tuesday April 22.If, by slim chance, this is being read by someone in that area… and you find her
contact TNChick via email PLEASE. Her blog can be found HERE

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: Unique signs/funny signs

A full service dog groomers shop

A cute name for a luggage store!

A watch repair and clock store...their Grand Opening was cute...It's about Time!
A Flower shop in Palm Springs, CA...ingenious play on words!
My twin sister, Bobbie, lives in Palm Desert, CA for the winters...she went on a hunt for my entries this week...Thanks twinie! I love ya.... There is chiropractic office near home here in Michigan and their sign says "IN PAIN? CRAWL IN!

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: 13 (thirteen)

My youngest son, Marc has a shamrock tatoo on his shoulder,...then he went and added a 13 for his old hockey jersey number! lol...

Sorry I havent been around...LIFE just got in the way...need your prayers for my younger brother, Douglas (49 yrs old ) , please!

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: METAL

These photos were taken by my youngest son Marc,who works at a steel mill in Michigan. Look closely at the photo with the steel coils and see the man walking on the right? These coils are typically 6 feet tall. These photos show coils on top of coils. This is at the old Rouge Steel Mill in Dearborn, MI. The Russians now own the mill.

The two photos are from my sons camera phone, and it is a grey and dismal OLD building with little natural light.

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: I SPY........(a photo of something hidden for you to find)

Please leave your guess in the comments section...I am looking forward to visiting many of your Photo Hunts this weekend. Scroll down if you can't wait to see what these are of!

Of course the first two are a whale...pretty close huh? and the last one are seals on the rocks in Cabo! You can hardly tell they are there, except every once in awhile one would yawn!

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: DIFFERENT

I got these photos, plus about 4 others about this foster family in Ohio....The woman says "Pink" has fallen right into line with her other new puppies, and momma "Tink", a beautiful daschund.

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: PARTY

What a difficult word for this week...we have all been to parties that are memorable...many highlighting the important parts of growing up...here are several photos I can close my eyes and imagine being taken in my past. First is Mom & Dad's 14th Wedding Anniversary in 1961. Sadly daddy passed away less than 6 months after this photo. I miss him still!
Mom went back to college and graduated with honors in her Masters and all of us siblngs had a party for her. Mom was in her 50's when she went back to school after being a RN for more than 25 years!
The next photo is my husband's 9th birthday taken in Detroit in 1958 with his cousins and friends...John still has many of these friends. Now they have grandkids this age!

My oldest son, Paul's 1st birthday...Its amazing how I trusted some aluminum and "pleather" (pretend leather) as a highchair! 1973

THE BIGGEST party I attend regularly...TwinsDays. This is an arieal shot taken of SOME of the mulitples that attend the Largest Gathering Of Multiples In The World . TwinsDays is held every 1st full weekend of August in Twinsburg, Ohio. This year will be mine and twins 21st consecutive trip!

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: Wooden

Thousand Palm Oasis: The Coachella Valley Preserve is a 20,000+ acre sanctuary for the endangered Coachella Valley Fringe-Toed Lizard. The site is just a short drive east of Palm Springs and you can spend 15 minutes or hours here exploring the Oasis, now jointly owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy, Bureau of Land Management, Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish & Game and California Department of Parks & Recreation. This interesting fan palm paradise is situated exactly over the famed San Andreas fault-line. The fault forces underground spring waters up to the surface and for over 1000 (known) years native peoples have come to the oasis for water, food and hunting. Homesteaded in 1900 by Albert Thornburg, the oasis was traded to Paul Wilhelm in 1905 for two mules and a fancy wagon. Wilhelm always envisioned the oasis as a public park, which it has been since 1984.The visitor center (built from vertical palm trunks) is the original homestead. It is staffed during the day and there is interesting historical information and photos in the dusty building. From the visitor center, we walked from the Thousand Palm Oasis, over the San Andreas fault and through a wash to the McCallum Grove and pond on the McCallum Trial. (It really is more like a walk, not really a hike.) First you go through the cool fan palm forest. Much of this trail is on raised planks set over the marshy bottom. Soon you leave this oasis and enter the open desert where the McCallum Oasis is found about 15 minutes later.The trail is well-marked and most of the plant species are identified with informative signs. There is evidence of flooding, the fault-line, drought, and geological events of all sorts. We saw many birds (including a hawk), lizards and a jack rabbit on the desert trail between the two oases. Other animals common to the area are mountain lions, coyotes and rattle snakes. You will probably see the Fringe-Toed Lizard, a beautiful endangered slitherer that lives only in the Coachella Valley.On a hot day, the fan palm forest - coupled with the water from the springs and ponds - can lower the ambient temperature by nearly 20 degrees. The McCallum Oasis is very pretty and the palm-lined pool is idyllic. The pond is home to the rare and incredibly-endangered Desert Pupfish, so swimming is not allowed.The trail from the visitor center to the McCallum Oasis is about 2 miles round-trip.

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: Free

FREEdom means lots of things to different people...but nothing means freeer than Roadunner getting away from Wyle E.Coyote...and here is a photo of one of the free roadrunners running around my twin sister, Bobbie's California home...cute little thing...until I saw one for real the first time, I thought they were bigger in size, but they are much like small skinny chickens...Remembering my cartoon days in the 50's, its a wonder every kid in Michigan didnt think roadrunners were huge!

Saturday TNChick's Photo Hunt- THEME_Heavy

GRAPEfruit juice anyone?

Saturday TNChick's Photo Hunt: THEME: old-fashioned

I finally finished my 21st baby crib blanket...and I can't think of a more "old-fashioned" craft than the needle and thread...so you get to see my finished blanket...

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: Skinny

My old Pizzelle cookie maker took a dive, so I asked for one for Christmas...and got two! lol...so I kept the Cuisinart non-stick and made a batch of these delicious Italian cookies. They are thin, skinny and crispy! Yummo! I flavored mine with lemon this time, as I am not fond of the anise flavored ones. I sometimes use raspberry flavoring or rum...yummo again!

TNChick's Saturday Photo Hunt: Theme: Delicious

The photos are of my sister in law, while we made our traditional Sicilian dinner for a Holiday (we both married the Sicilian brothers). These are called gusadaydees. They are made with homemade pasta sheets, we cut into circles and fill with a secret filling made with Ricotta cheese and some yummy other ingredients. They are then simmered on top of homemade chicken soup (another secret recipe!). These take us a couple of hours to make around 130-140 of them. Usually this is for a family gathering of about 12-14 people. The 5 sons between my sister in law and myself, have an eating contest every Holiday...the record, I am embarrassed to say, held by my middle son (he's 35) is 22 of them!!! A normal hungry relative eats approximately 4-6 of them in one sitting! These are a secret recipe, given only to the daughter in laws when they have been in the family for several years...nope, neither of my 2 daughter in laws have yet to get THAT recipe!....sooo, here I post our 1st Christmas tray of gusadaydees, a record number of 167 were made this year! The recipe has been INTENTIONALLY left out of this post, because, if I give you the recipe, then I gots ta kill ya!