2016 November 9, Wednesday, Trip to Bridge Street and NASA

Ate breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and after breakfast went to CBS. 

After CBS, Hubby and I rode to Huntsville. 

We shopped at Toyrus (love that store) (love to shop for little ones at Toyrus) and bought my G. Granddaughter a Dory dress, necklace, and bag. We rode to NASA to pick up the Hubby's check and fill it up with gas. We stopped so I could take a few pictures. 

Redstone Test Site

Redstone Test Site

We rode back to Bridge Street to eat lunch at Cantina Laredo. We ordered Mexican chicken feta served with beans, rice, onions, peppers, and sour cream.  

We were also served salsa and chips. 

Cantina Laredo

Cantina Laredo

Salsa

Chicken Feta

When we finished eating, we walked down Bridge Street, which was decorated for the Christmas Holidays. There will be a Christmas Lighting Ceremony on November 11 at 4:30 P.M. Their extra-large Christmas tree was already up, extra-large white reindeer were everywhere, Christmas lights were strung, and many stores had already set up Christmas window displays. 

White Reindeer

Christmas Tree

Christmas Decorations

We shopped at Old Navy and Cabela's, but we did not buy anything. We stopped at Kohles on our way out of Huntsville. I bought a new purse, a big red dog, and a Madeline doll. 

Hubby went to Family Vision to get his glasses repaired. We stopped at Aldi's for groceries. They had eggs at 49 cents a dozen, milk at $0.99 a gallon, and hams at $1.09 a pound. We bought several other items. 

Madeline and the Big Red Dog 

We stopped at Wendy's for a Chocolate Frosty. 

As we started our journey home, the sun shone brightly on our faces. Hubby said I cannot get used to this time change. 

Sunset 

I wanted to get into the Christmas Spirit, but with this crazy weather, it has been hard. It does not feel or seem like Christmas this year. We could sure use some cooler weather. I enjoy the seasonal changes, from winter to spring, summer, and autumn. 

1992 ~ Ethel The Gourmets Pantery Pardise Art

This piece of art is a representational visual form (the cat in the pantry is the theme) to depict the appearance of things.

The everyday things that the artist uses are sort of abstracted: 

Spiced Mice, Flabby Tabby Diet Mix, Puffed Mice, Birds' Nest, Uncle Tom's Instant Mice, Etc. 

In contrast to a baker's pantry. 

You have to be a cat lover and pretend to be a cat. 

He uses items in a distorted way to emphasize or reveal certain qualities or content, a cat's imagination, a cat's paradise.

The artist uses his white to create a delightful and hilarious image of Puss's paradise.

What I like about this piece of art is the use of warm colors (red, orange) to make Ethel, the cat, appear to expand and advance. 

The overlapping is used to emphasize the cunning cat, Ethel.

There are geometric shapes throughout the picture: squares, rectangles, circles, and others. 

The middle shelf is the center of balance, and using the primary color yellow and the geometric shapes on the shelves as dividers gives asymmetrical balance.

This modern piece of art is priceless, especially for cat lovers.

Ethel the Cat by Charles Wysocki
Great piece of art!

Cat Books:

 Corporate Cats, Bye, Bye Birdie Pie, Out of the backyard into the pit, Preparing the Canary, etc.

Foods:

Sour Puss Pickles, Pussy Willow Catprika, Old Tom Crows Feet, Friday Cats, Monarch poultry seasoning, Spray Poupon, Fabby Tabby Diet Mix, Tweeties, French's Song Restorer, Admiral Bird Smoked Herring, Bird's Nest Jelly Beans, Etc

Hair, lotion, & Bio-freeze

I went on vacation with two of my siblings to visit another sibling in Charleston, South Carolina.

We stayed in a fully furnished apartment.

Every morning, we would get ready and spend the day sightseeing or shopping.

One morning, while showering, my youngest sister washed her hair with shampoo.

On the sink were bottles of lotion, shampoo, and conditioner.
 My sibling grabbed a bottle of lotion and climbed into the shower. 

Pretty sure she was not wearing glasses when she picked up the lotion.

She poured the lotion onto her head and started lathering her hair in lotion, not noticing that the lotion made her hair stiff. 

When she got out of the shower and dried off, she said to herself My hair sure feels stiff.

She put on her eyeglasses and went back into the bathroom to see

what she had washed her hair with.

She came back into the living room, laughing, and said, "I washed my hair with lotion."

She did not have time to rewash her hair, and it was plastered to her head all day.

I thought this was funny until I tried to gel my hair up with Bio-Freeze.

I put the Gel into my hands, added a little water, and applied it to my hair.

My head started to tingle, and when I looked at the tube, nd it said Bio-Freeze.

Both of us are natural Redheads.

But we both could be classified as legal blonds.

What am I? POEM

I am a fiber of a thousand faces

My cream and pink bloom shine for a short time.

I am a soft fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll.

I have been spun, woven and dyed for hundred of years.

You wear me when you slip into your blue jean,

Or when you reach down to tie your shoestrings.

You buy me in counts of 100 or more threads.

I can be luxurious and soft to touch when

You lie next to me in bed.

I can be grown in colors of red, green, and brown.

I am called by many names Lisle, Puma, denim, twill, and canvas.

I have sweet nectar that attracts insects that can destroy me.

I was the most important crop in the south during the Civil War,

I am grown, processed, produced, and harvested.

12/2/13

Picture of a  Cotton Field as I am riding down the road in a car.