Life Through the Eyes of my Scattered Brian

 My sweetest Braden.  This class was having a Halloween party at school today (Friday) and they had to dress up as a book character. He loves I SPY books. Amber made him this shirt to wear. Adorable!!! This building is across the street from my office. I have to laugh when I look at it cause now it is apartments. When I worked there from 2004-2008 it was the Federal Reserve Bldg. I would love to see inside and see how it all looks as apartments.  The reason I said I have to laugh is cause  of something that happened one day on my way to work when I worked there before. It was not uncommon to look out the window and see the guys with machine guns, stopping traffic to search trucks and vans going in. They even had dogs. Well, one day I was just in my own little world heading into work when I went down this road, only to be stopped by a dude with a machine gun. That was before I even knew that was the Federal Reserve bldg or had seen them out with guns before.  FLIPPED ME OUT!! Now in rep

 Having a hard time getting my legs to tan. Tuesday was a busy day for me. I went into work, got there around 6:30 left around 10:30. Came home and messed with the furs then headed out to be at the venue by 12:45 for a wedding. Bride and groom had a photographer so with my cell I did some  behind the scenes pics.  The Wedding. Caught this pic while the photographer was shooting them around the pond. I wanted to shoot with the church birdfeeder in the pic also. I love these old doors in the Hitching Post. When the bride and groom want the wedding to take place in the Hitching Post, Julie will stand between the table and the doors to preform the wedding. These doors came from a city a couple doors down, right out of one of the oldest houses there. Door knobs and all. While the photographer was doing her thing I  borrowed the rings for this shot.  I love the fall colors.  A few days before I was out and about and took some shots with the cell of the fall colors.  This my friends is what y

  Back again today with what I have done here and there. To tell you though that my love of beads after making a beaded chocker grew later in life. I have about six of those plastic slotted containers full of beads. That is even after giving about five away. So somewhere later in my teen years I got into rug hooking. This is a cool thing for teens to do. It is not hard to follow the patterns and you can do this while watching TV. Lets not forget knitting. Yep, I went through a thing where every time I was giving a gift it was knitted house shoes. Just like the ones below. I learned this in the 9th grade. Was so excited to learn this cause my mom could sew and crochet but I learned something she could not do. Next did come the crocheting. I made a many of throws. But as I got older I even made several from scrap yarn. It was a basic double stitch but I would pick up a small ball of yarn and GO. I would use that up then I would pick up another color and go with that. It was a scrap throw

 Morning folks. Blogging ahead again! haha....I blog when a thought hits me to blog about but then later on I am trying to remember if I did a blog or if I meant to do a blog! Anyway, been going through some of my old pics and ran across a pic of a painting I did. I worked in the printing division for the state of TN for years, photo services (where I work now) is a part of printing, actually it is called Media Services. So once in printing I walked out to bindery and saw this beautiful printed cover. I was drawn to it and felt I wanted to paint it. I contacted Jed, supervisor of photo serv at the time and asked did he mind if I painted it, and come to find out it was a pic he had taken.  This pic does not do it justice at all. The boarder around it was applied to the printed cover and since I liked that I also applied it to my painting. As you can tell it starts dark and fades to light at the bottom.  What was funny about me doing this painting was that I finished it up and in a coupl

 Darla - http://darlamsands.blogspot.com/   liked how my wood burning turned out. Thanks so much. I think I got carried away playing and went a bit over board but I have not played with my kit that much so I was just going and going. I need to sit with it and do a really serious project. Yes, Caleb's wreck was not a good one and having seen the car I would say if he had been going just a bit faster that engine would have been on top of him. When Amber called to tell me, she said he had been in a wreck and really fast she said he was okay. I rushed up and jumped into clothes and out I went. Little over a drive there and I did not cry, I just kept telling myself that all that mattered was I knew he was okay. I did not cry till I have my arms around Caleb. Then it came out and I thought of what could have happened. I really, really don't know what I would have done. Not really sure at this point in my life I can take much more. I needed a break and I think someone, maybe mom was l

 Burr....storms came through last night and the temps dropped. Temps had been hitting 80 degrees for four day, not hot cause there was no humidity and it was nice out. However this morning it was 48 degrees when I got up. I am in the mood to make some soup. Since I had my gastric bypass surgery I have grown to love one dish meals and winter is a great time to throw that stuff in one pot and enjoy! I was never a big soup maker cause my ex loved a meat and two so that is the way I learned to cook. But I did make a couple like potato soup (I love) and chili,which I am not sure is a soup or not. I make a form of veggie soup but that is not one of my fave. A few years ago I made my first chicken noodle soup. But I am in the mood for a one pot meal and something new. I think I am going to shoot for a pumpkin soup! Will let you know if I do or don't....and how it was. Tis Saturday while I write to post. I have washed dishes and I sit to take a break before dressing and heading to recycle.

Today ~ Friday Oct 23, 2020 6:47 am the phone rings, its my daughter, Amber. Mom, Caleb's been in a car wreck but he's okay. They are taking him to the ER cause they think he might have broken a rib. I threw on clothes and out I went. I don't care how OK Caleb is, Nana needed to see for herself so I drove an hour to their house and visited with him in ER. I took him home while Amber went to get meds. Dropped him off and got him set up then I went to the store for treats.  Home at 11:25am. Three hour investigation by State Troopers shows Caleb at fault for following to close. A ticket for that and a ticket no insurance.  Yes, Caleb was at fault but fault also stands with Amber not having him covered on insurance, and also cause Caleb was taking Will to work. Now I have no issues with him taking Will (step father) to work, but that is taking place cause Will had a DIU several years ago and his license was taken away, but all fines have been paid and all that he needs to do an