Pretty Vine

I thought this was a pretty sight in the neighbourhood the other day, I did paint it recently when it was at an earlier stage.  Thanks to Martha for identifying it as 'Morning Glory'.

Here is another photo on the same fence:

Lux wrote a wonderful list the other day of '6 things she would never do to her kids', I thought it was an excellent list:  never compare them, never laugh at their dreams, always be there for them,  never shelter them from reality, show them respect, and share your faith.  I think my mother taught me to always be there for my children, she has always been there for me.

And this is the time of year that I go looking for my agenda book for next year, how about you?  I've always had an agenda book since my early teens.

Sunday Sketches - Sunrise

Welcome to Sunday Sketches! I did a sunrise on an index card today in watercolour pencil. I chose this quote to go with it:

               At sunrise, everything is luminous, but not clear...Norman Maclean

Joke, A Moral

I got this funny joke from Weekend-Windup, there is a moral here.

One night four college students were playing till late night and could not study for the test which was scheduled for the next day. In the morning they thought of an idea to avoid the exam. They made themselves to look as dirty with grease and dirt.

They then went up to the Dean and said that they had gone out to a wedding last night and on their return the tire of their car burst and they had to push the car all the way back and they were in no condition to appear for the test.

So the Dean said they could have the re-test after 3 days. They thanked him and said they would be ready by that time.

On the third day they appeared before the Dean.

The Dean said that as this was a Special Condition Test, all four were required to sit in separate classrooms for the test. They all agreed as they had prepared well in the last 3 days.

The Test consisted of two questions with a total of 100 Marks.

1. Your Name.......................... (2 MARKS)

2. Which tire got burst? (98 MARKS)

a) Front Left
b) Front Right
c) Back Left
d) Back Right

Paint Party Friday - The First Leaves

Welcome to Paint Party Friday! This piece is called 'The First Leaves', pointing to the end of summer. I noticed a couple of leaves already falling last week. My art is done on an index card in watercolour crayon and outlined with a fine point marker.  My daughter L was hesitant about this piece, so childlike she said.  Whatever, I thought it would go well with my photo below.

Neesie just gave me the idea to outline the leaves, so here is the outlined version too.

Here is the photo I took:

Sedum Autumn Joy

Here is sedum autumn joy, a harbinger of fall. I took this photo in the neighbourhood recently. This perennial flower will become deep reddish in colour as fall progresses. It is very drought tolerant too.

Husband M, son K and I went to see the movie 'Hitman Agent 47' last night, only about 5 days after opening. It was K's idea, he loves the fast cars. I have to say I enjoyed it, in spite of myself. Apparently it is a series of movies, these Hitman movies, based on a video game.

 K told me to try playing the Timeplay game with my phone.  This theatre runs these games before the movie and you have the chance to earn SCENE points towards free movie tickets.  First you have to 'select' your auditorium, easy enough.  I was hopeless, in one of the games, I was supposed to 'swipe' an image across the phone screen at the right time to win points.  At the end of the game, the winners are displayed on the movie screen.  Some guy called 'Ansen' seemed to be the number one winner of all the games.

On Blogging

I was thinking how much our virtual blog world mirrors real life. For example, you establish relationships with friends, they come and go. For example, Keith of Musings got married and moved to Germany and we didn't hear from him for 100 days. I was genuinely glad to hear from him as all his friends surely have felt the same way.  And now I am following his lovely wife Beate, the blog family grows!  We are happy for our blog friends and sad for health issues, and so on. Blogging is so much a real part of my life, how about you?  In everyday conversation, so often I will say, 'I learned this from 'a friend', it could be flooding or drought in some part of the world, some safety tips, that I would otherwise have been unaware of.  Then there will be the (kind) gossip of what happened to so and so.  This year, I even experienced the sudden illness and death of a blog friend, I still think of her from time to time and wonder how her husband is faring.  It made me realize how tenuous our hold on life is.  but that is another topic.

Canada's next chip flavour

Lay's is having a contest to choose Canada's next flavour of potato chips. Here are the choices that you can vote for at lays.ca/flavourhttps://www.dousaflavour.ca/en/. I did buy all 4 flavours and we wasted no time sampling them. Potato chips disappear in our house thanks to husband M and son K. I do try not to buy them too often. Anyway, our favourite flavour is Montreal smoked meat, and for me, followed by the scalloped potato flavour.  I noticed you can vote once per day until September30, 2015.