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Summer Party Theme Ideas

Posted in Entertaining Ideas, tagged , , , on June 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

With the official start of summer just days away, here is a fun list of summer party theme ideas!

Enjoy!

summer-party-theme-ideas-1Summer Party Theme Ideas

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Flag Day!

Posted in Holidays, tagged , on June 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

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Happy Flag Day!

Thank someone in the service (past or present) for their service and sacrifice today!

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Driving Around

Posted in Captain Cavedweller, Entertaining at Home, Musings, tagged , , , , on June 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The other night Captain Cavedweller and I went for a drive.

Since I climbed behind the wheel, I handed CC my camera and told him to take photos.

We started out the trip by stopping to visit some new residents who moved in just down the road.

alpacas 1

They are cool and distant, ignore us, and on occasion stick their tongues out at us.

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Our neighbors recently added not one, not two, but eight alpacas to their farm.

As we drive to work, we gawk at them every single morning.

They fascinate us so.

Next, we headed off to an area rich with wine grapes and wheat farms.

vineyard and wind machines

If you look really hard, you can almost see the wind turbines on the hills in the background.

The grapes right now are lush and green and so pretty against the blue sky.

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We also admired the growing wheat with the mountains in the distance. Just a few weeks ago, the tops of the hills were still dusted with snow.

Blue Mountains

But now they provide a perfect green backdrop to the surrounding farmland.

She Who Likes Taking a Backroad

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Man Candles

Posted in Captain Cavedweller, Entertaining at Home, Musings, tagged , , on June 4, 2013| 1 Comment »

Sliced BaconI received a catalog in the mail the other day that made me actually burst out laughing.

On the cover was a selection of candles in “man” scents like “Riding Mower,” “First Down,” and, my favorite, “Mmm, Bacon!”

The inside of the catalog had several pages you could scratch-and-sniff, including all their Man Candle pages.

With names like “Man Town” and “Midsummer’s Night” (which, by the way, stinks like High Karate after shave), I couldn’t keep this to myself.

I showed the catalog to Captain Cavedweller who took a sniff or two, turned up his nose and said I should throw the catalog out before it stunk up the whole house.

Packing it to work with me, I took an informal survey of my coworkers (both male and female) and the results came back pretty much the same as CC’s reaction.

One single guy said if he was buying a candle, it would be something a girl would like to impress her, not something that smelled like a bacon.

If you like the smell of fresh cut grass, the Riding Mower candle isn’t bad, but if you’re looking for a great father’s day gift, I’d cross man candles off your potential list.

She Who Will Not Be Purchasing any Man Candles

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