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apologies if you saw a couple of these earlier this week Havoc asked me to dye his hair for summer Gas prices last week. And look! A Big Gulp coming soon! Civilization comes to the boonies. Also, we are at last getting rid of our double stroller, but not before the stuffed animals got one last ride around the yard. For more Weekly Winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom . Thanks for stopping by!

Mayhem was unhappy I insisted he eat some of the meal he was ‘starving’ for before letting him go play He wanted to go play with these lightsabers I had made They were very popular My latest manicure For more weekly winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom Thanks for stopping by!

Or  “Why So Many of My Photos are of Toys” I have a mirror on the wall of our bedroom that is the perfect height for a self portrait shot. Assuming I can get my camera to cooperate First there is the problem of positioning. Even though I am fully visible in the mirror to myself, I am not what the camera sees Slightly better but clearly the camera prefers the humidifier Or the microwave Or the far corner or even the mirror frame Really. This getting ridiculous Finally! Only 14 shots necessary For more weekly winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom . Thanks for stopping by.

As always on Memorial day weekend I spend Saturday setting up the pool. While I was doing that, the dinos were checking in at their weekly Weight Watchers meeting the blue guy is angry he has put on a few pounds How many clone troopers does it take to sharpen a pencil? And earlier in the week we found this guy living in a safety cone, laying on it’s side For more Weekly Winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom Thanks for stopping by!

Back from 2 nights camping edition Meanwhile, while they were gone… the clones got their speeder stuck in the mud and had to call the Jedi Auto Service and I went grocery shopping For more weekly winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom . Thanks for stopping by!

We went to the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian this week. I took a ton of photos, these are a few of my favorites from the Hall of Gems. Mostly I thought they looked like food Chocolate chunk ice cream Hard toffee candy Snowcone Scrambled eggs (lower left) And some mushrooms For more Weekly Winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom . Thanks for stopping by!

Some from my monthly photo project. We had a hostage situation with the Legos Ashes enjoyed the outdoors and I did some grocery shopping For more Weekly Winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom Thanks for stopping by!

Some from my monthly project Groceries Boba Fett & Cad Bane are so engrossed in bagging one dino, they fail to notice the danger behind them. My most recent manicure And a self portrait For more Weekly Winners please join Lotus at Sarcastic Mom Thanks for stopping by!

The boys’ Cub Scout pack did a day trip over to the Air & Space Museum in Dulles, VA. (4 hours in a car total. I deserve a badge myself) It’s an extension of the one on the Mall in DC. It’s not as big but stuffed full of planes. This Is a Benoist-Korn Type XII. It was built in May 1912. It is a two place biplane. This is a WWII bomber. I failed to note the specs of it – like the model name. This is a B29 Super fortress. Specifically, this is the Enola Gay. My MIL riveted the mid sections of B29s at a factory in Maryland or possibly NJ in WWII. (MIL worked in three different aircraft factories during the war) and this is the Space Shuttle Enterprise, so ringed around with other, earlier space craft that I could not get the angle I wanted for a photo of it. And Mayhem got a chance to work the controls of a Cessna. For more Weekly Winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom . Thanks for stopping by!

It was beautiful this week Time to make dino swamp again Get everything arranged The carnivores are delighted The herbivores are pleased as well And then later we made rainbow cookies (sugar cookie dough we colored in batches) For more weekly winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom Thanks for stopping by

Some from my 2011 photo project this week This guy brought me a rose I did some blackwork I made some cookies (they are not burnt, that is cocoa powder) And this is Smoke, taking a nap For more weekly winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom Thanks for stopping by!

We are planning on building a mud room off our porch this spring & we’re really really cheap. So we went to a local salvage yard to see what sort of used windows we could find. I love salvage yards! They are stuffed with such random stuff. And I get to play with gritty, faded, nostalgia-y effects. There are plenty of windows, some of which have whole panes of glass. There were rusty old sleds An ancient washing machine, with mangle some tractors A graveyard of toilets and this totally random box of old record albums in among the cabinet doors. For more weekly winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom . Thanks for stopping by!