Random 5 Friday - October 4, 2013

It's Friday which means it's time for some fun.  This week I'm participating in 3 Friday Memes (Photo Art Friday, Orange You Glad It's Friday and Random 5 Friday.  -  Click on each one to be taken to that post.

The links to the other Memes will follow at the end of this post.

Please stop by Nancy's blog and check out some other participants.  It's always fun to see what "random" things people come up with for this post.




RANDOM 5 FRIDAY:

All Meme's today feature a Sky photo:  Click to enlarge photo.
Picture taken at Lincoln City, OR on 9/21/13 prior to my niece's wedding.
What a beautiful sky it was.

1.  I bowled my first 200+ game of the new Fall Bowling League this week.  Let me just say that I have struggled with my average this season.  I ended last season with a 155 average and started out this season with a lowly 133 average.  So after only bowling a 127-133 the first games this week I was ecstatic to finish off with a 207 game.  Upping my average now to 145.

2. Fall is showing it's colors here slowly but surely.  I've seen some pretty colors starting to show up on some of the trees.  Now for some sunnier skies to go out and take pictures of them.

3.  Found another "creepy" looking spider last week and took a photograph of it.  Turned it in to Bug Guide and here is the link to that page so you can see my spider.  (If you hate spiders don't click on the link.)  It's fun to be able to find out what kind of a spider it was. 

4.  Watched the final episode of NCIS with Cote de Pablo's character, Ziva David tonight (we tape) and I must say I'm really sad to see Cote leaving the show.  It was hard when the 1st Female character, Kate (played by Sasha Alexander) was killed off but this time it's just bittersweet.  Cote's Ziva was such a big part of the show.  I hope it doesn't effect the overall team dynamic of the show by her leaving.

5.  This Government Shutdown stuff boggles my mind and makes me wonder if moving to Canada is something I would consider.  (Seriously I'd probably never leave the US but I just think this whole thing is really DUMB).


Links to  Orange You Glad It's Friday and Pixel Dust Photo Art.

"Whatever" Wednesday - Back to School and Bowling

Here is Coleen with a little gift that Grandma bought her for the "First Day of School."  I like to give her a little something special to help ease the nerves about heading back to school.  She was a little more apprehensive this year about starting back to school so the gift and card really helped to start her morning off on a high note.

               

Here she is posing for Grandma for the "Official" Back to School photo.  I love taking these and seeing how she changes from year to year.  I did the same thing when her mom was a little girl.  Isn't that shirt she's wearing cute.

After her mom dropped her off to school we headed off for the official start of our

Bowling league.

Greta bowls on a different team (same league) then my mom & I.  For not having bowled but just once since April I think I started out pretty decent.

Scores:  153 - 154 - 130 (got a little tired by the end of the third game).  So my starting Average for this year is 145, not bad but I'd like to get it up over 150 this year.

That's it for this weeks edition of Whatever Wednesday.  Short and Sweet this week!