Willy-Nilly Friday and Feline Friday - June 15, 2018

Welcome everyone.  Thank You to everyone who left comments on my (MIA) post from earlier this week.

Life has been so busy the last few months, some good, some not so good but all is well.

It's time for a little Friday Fun so let's join the party.

Tom (The Backroads Traveller) is hosting WILLY-NILLY FRIDAY FIVE

 

May flew by so quickly...lots of things going on.

 

 

1.

The annual Ducky Derby was held on May 19th and as usual I purchased my 5 ducks in hopes that one of them would make it to the finish line and I would win a prize.  Alas, once again I did not win.  - Oh well, it's all for a good cause.

 

2.  Hubby celebrated a birthday the next day (May 20) so there was birthday stuff to take care of.  Here he is blowing out those birthday candles.

 



 3. He took a 5 day trip back to ND to watch his oldest granddaughter graduate from high school.  While he was gone I went to the Wildhorse Casino again.  Took my mom along.  We didn't win but we didn't lose all our money either. - Better than that though was that a local store had a promotion that if you bought a $5 and higher Scratch ticket and it was a losing ticket you could put it in a box and have a chance at the end of the month to win free lottery tickets.  Guess what.........

I won!  There were 3 winners drawn.  I won 2nd Prize - A packet of 50, $10 tickets. - We all had fun scratching them off and I ended up winning, $330.00 off the tickets.  I probably had put in about $50 worth of losing tickets but I gained that back plus extra and it was just a lot of fun finding out that I had won and the excitement of seeing if any of the tickets were winners was great.

 

4. Usually you see people walking their dogs but have you ever seen someone walking their.....

 

 



Pet Goats!

 

5.  I wait all year for the local strawberry season to start and so for the last couple of weeks we have been enjoying these lucious berries.

 



 In other news...I finally joined the ranks of Smart Phone owners.  Boy has that been a "learning curse I mean curve" for me!  I've accidentally taken "selfies", dialed my granddaughter while she was in school, called my daughter and didn't say anything because I didn't realized I had called her, hung up on an important call because I pressed a wrong button and the list goes on.

Finally for FELINE FRIDAY

Harley wasn't feeling well yesterday and he spent most of the day sleeping, I caught this unusual pose of him while he was sleeping. 

 

Fond this video while searching for songs about Cellphones and just had to share it. - Hoping I don't become like this.

 



Seasons & BW Wednesday

Today I'm joining Jesh (St. Germains) & Adrienne (My Memory Art) for their memes:

SEASONS  and BLACK & WHITE WEDNESDAY











Saturday there were 2 festivals going on at once.  One was the Return to the River Salmon Festival.  Featured here are some of the Native American Dancers that performed during the event.

Some pretty grass that I decided to photograph on our walk up to where the ducks (rubber ones) were released for the Ducky Derby.

Izzy The Camel is a popular attraction at the Ducky Derby

A view of a farm across the creek from where the festivals were held.  It was a cloudy day but only a "sprinkling" of rain fell so while it was windy & cold the rain held off to everyone's relief.

A sea of colorful ducks floating down towards the finishing line.

A lone duck that drifted away from the pack.

Hooray because the first Klicker Strawberries of the Season were ready on Saturday so we had our first shortcake of the summer.  Yum!

Just because he's too cute not so share,  Bandit enjoying the sun streaming into the living room.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday - June 16, 2013

Welcome to the hunt,  that is....Scavenger Hunt Sunday. 

Before we get started I want to give a shout out to all the dad's out there.  Even though mine's been gone 15 years I still miss him and will remember him by taking some flowers out to the cemetery today.  To my hubby as well,  Happy Father's Day!!!

This weeks prompts:  Summer, Dance, Laughter, Helper & Water.  Click to Enlarge

SUMMER:  Summer means many different things to people.  One of my favorite things about summer is being able to enjoy Strawberry Shortcake with fresh, local strawberries.  Yum!!!!

DANCE:  Last Sunday the kids did a few special songs complete with motions and this is one of the shots I took of them dancing around on stage.

 

 

LAUGHTER:  This shot could have fit 3 of the prompts all rolled into one but I chose to use it for laughter.

 



HELPER: - You might wonder what this next shot has to do with being a "helper" but I believe nature helps mankind out.

WATER:  Again not what you normally would think of for a water prompt but it works.

Pineapple, Blueberry, Banana sparkling water with fresh blueberries.  Coleen and I enjoy flavored carbonated water and this is one of the many flavors available.

Have a great day and don't forget to spend some time with your dad if you have him around still.  Life is short so cherish the time you have with your parents.