Postcards from Staycation - Day 1

Our first full staycation day!

After swim practice (just like Club Med!), we hit the Goochland County Farmers' Market to see all the goings on and to visit my favorite jeweler/crafter/crocheter/knitter/overall cool person.

I snapped this photo of the rainbow swiss chard (doesn't it LOOK like it should taste like rainbow sherbet?!), but my lovely daughter took the photos of the other equally yummy-looking veggies (ahem: native flora and fauna):

Had to snap up a hosta - could you resist such a line up?

This one is named "Ice Cream". It looks just like a "Guacamole" I had seen and coveted at a friend's garden, but is smaller. (Love the names - maybe all I really needed was a snack.) A perfect "travel souvenir" don't you think? And no bothersome security or customs to smuggle it past.

The throng (no kidding!) at my friend's booth finally died down, so we stopped in for a quick visit. I wonder if my husband will ever realize how lucky he is that I really dig jewelry made of string and cool beads. Here's one that got away:

But I did manage to snag another souvenir! And more lovelies to ogle:

It is so cool to have cool friends. Maybe it will rub off someday?

Daddy then wowed the littles with a splurge on Super Mario Cart - and and afternoon of indulgent game playing.

Our last event of the day was my son's Cub Scout advancement ceremony. He's now a Webelo II - next year this time he'll be a real Boy Scout.

Here's he's getting his face paint from his Den leader, while her husband, the Cubmaster, gets to wear the cool hat:

Here's the grin that makes all these crazy activities worth it:

I'm off to Coconut Mall before my husband gets all the high scores!

It's been a day of housekeeping here today, both real and virtual, mostly centered around getting 2007 tucked away. The cleaning elves are hard at work and I've cleverly stalled tax prep and file maintenance by focusing on getting our pictures from 2007 organized.

I've double checked my digital photos and completed uploading the year to Snapfish. We have a back-up drive we use, but I like that Snapfish is our back-up back up. We have photos from back to 2000 there and if anything ever happens to our negatives of hard drives, I'm covered. Somehow I managed to skip August and November this year, but after catching everything up, I ordered the remaining prints from 2007. Now I'm ready for any emergency scrapbooking retreats!


I also double-checked my completed project photos and finished uploading them to my Flickr Finished Objects albums. I started this blog to help me remember what projects I've done and what I used to get there. More of my "real" life has crept in - along with the kids - but I still like to think of this as my knitting and crafting blog. And since Flickr is all photos, it is a great way to capture the year.

Check out what I've been up to with my Finished Objects 2007 photo album. And if that link actually worked, you can also check out Finished Object 2006.

One discovery I've made is that several projects have scooted out the door without being photographed. I see a new year's resolution in the making...