Leporiphobia is the fear of rabbits……..
(I was planning on going in a totally different direction with this post)
Sooooooo glad that I didn’t.
I just pulled these off the inter-webs, but you can see more at SketchyBunnies.com
………or watch Donnie Darko.
Either way, HAPPY EASTER Everyone!
Ya know that feeling that something is missing in your life….but ya just can’t put a finger on what?
And then one day, you see it…….
……and realize that it’s a 3 foot by 4 foot poster of a cow head…..
……..with your last name hovering under its jowls. (technical, it’s MY last name)
Where have you been all my life you beautiful thing?
Get this, The American Angus Association is giving these beauties away.
FOR REALZ. They even cover the shipping.
All you need to do it give the Communication Department a call and request it. 816-383-5100
But that’s not all. They have tons of literature and other posters to offer as well. Because that’s what they do.
This one is just my favorite.
Can’t imagine why.
Now to find a cost-effective way to frame it….The thumb tacks just aren’t cutting it for me.
Stay Tuned
Found this old Boy Scout Handbook from 1963 a few years ago.
Originally titled The Official Handbook for Boys, it was first published in 1910 and written by Earnest Thompson Seton. He based his version of the handbook on Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. There have been 12 editions and 3 more authors since the first printing. Mine is the 6th edition written by William “Green Bar Bill” Hillcourt. He was a scouting legend.
As you can see, it belonged to Larry E. Carnaher. I Googled him. No results.
If anyone knows him, tell him that I have his book.
I had forgotten that Normal Rockwell did the cover illustration. But, who else could have? I think it’s perfect.
When Norman Rockwell was 19 years old he was made the Art Editor for the Boy Scouts scouting magazine A Boy’s Life. It was here that he had his first published magazine cover. He contributed annually to the Boy Scouts calendar between 1925 and 1976, and in 1939 was awarded the The Silver Buffalo Award from the Scouts; the highest adult award they offer.
The cover isn’t nearly this beautiful anymore. There’s a raft full of multi-racial (but still Christian) Scouts, a bald eagle head, and some of the American flag.
Inside are all the instructions to be a well-rounded young man that I remembered.
Preparing for Scout service……
Tracking Animals…..
Identifying animals…..
Setting up a camp site.
Learning to swim…..
Merit badges….
The most important lesson, Becoming a man……..
My brothers and I were all Scouts. We join the ranks of some pretty great men; Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, and Neil Armstrong.
The Boy Scout’s lessons of honesty, working within a group dynamic, and always striving to do your very best have followed me my entire life.
I took my copy of this book on hikes, campouts, pretty much daily to school, and it was with me anytime there was an outdoor fire involved.
I remember reading this book to the point of duct taping the spine together when I was a kid.
Larry was much more gentle with his copy. Not a single dog-ear.
We did it again.
We made it into yet another Apartment Therapy contest where people judge our lack of style….
Oh Joy!
That’s our fluffy, Texas-ISH bedroom, and of course our offensive longhorns and exorbitant amount of pillows, on the Apartment Therapy Bedroom Retreat Contest.
For all of y’all wondering….No, we don’t sleep with all those pillows on the bed with us. Half of them are gently stacked it the corner most of the year………unless, there is a photo shoot, or someone worth while is visiting.
Nuff Said.
If y’all care too, please go to the site and vote for us. We could win a new bed. (that we will probably just cover in even more pillows)
Oh Oh Oh!!!! Don’t forget to read the comments that the A.T. community has left about our simple little room.
They…..Are….Priceless.
Wanna know what time it is?
It’s time to get a clock big enough to read from across the room.
…and isn’t that – just – Awesome?
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Wanna know where to find your own?
Of course we’re gunna show y’all where.
Ballard Designs has a 30 inch clock with a reasonable price point.
Another fiber board clock on Etsy , but this one is 3 feet tall.
Better believe that Restoration Hardware offers a 5 foot MAMA.
Looks like it came right off an old clock tower is a small French village.
If only it were legal to marry a store.
Bandana Pillows are so easy to make.
Even with my minimal sewing skills (I specialize in Almost perfect straight lines), I can chunk out a couple of pillows in about an hour.
We found these black-ish and red bandanas at the craft store for 2 bucks each.
The print is very cool, but the cotton is so stiff from the printing process.
The best way to break in a bandana is to actually USE it. I know that may sound gross, but it’s really snot.
(Sorry,)
If you can find old used ones, I highly recommend it. If not, and like us, you want both sides of the pillow to match, you can just buy new ones.
Jamie ran our bandanas through the wash a couple of times, and I ironed them flat.
I lay 2 bandanas face to face and pinned them to keep from shifting while I sewed.
This is where my unbelievable sewing skills come in handy.
A straight line around 3 edges…..
…and just a few inches in on each side of the bottom.
I turn my cases inside out and carefully squeeze a down feather insert through the opening and hand-stich it closed.
I know you will be tempted with polyester filling…but it’s cheap and will look cheap too. It will just clump. Our thought is that if we only spent 4 bucks on bandanas…..we can splurge a little and buy a decent insert (maybe $16 for a 20 inch insert). It will make a world of difference.
Trust us on this one.
Here’s our finished bandana pillow in the living room.
Told ya they were easy.
Once again Country Living Magazine steals our good ideas…
Case in Point.
This “awesomeness” in a magnifying glass that we wrote about last week.
Get this.
Those ballsy editors at Country Living Magazine had the audacity to write about it last month.
The nerve,
……and somehow they manage to do it weeks before we did.
Spring Break in Dallas.
We don’t have kids, and it doesn’t look like we will have any anytime soon. Not without a court order, or some sort of divine intervention we won’t.
We have to borrow other people’s kids.
My Godson Winston is on spring break in Lubbock, so we dragged him to the big city to spend a few days. He’s 17 now, and I know that his visits will be less frequent as he gets older and has less interest in hanging out with a couple of “old gays”.
Jamie’s Nephew Juston, on the other hand, is only 9 so we have a few years of him left.
We took the boys to the newly opened Perot Museum of Nature and Science.
The hovering escalator is the most distinctive feature of the building.
The boys.
Winston in the “Max from Where the Wild Things Are” hat , and Juston wishing he were wearing said hat.
The view of downtown Dallas from the escalator.
In the Life Then and Now Hall they have filled the place with fossils and remains…….. Many of which were actually found in north Texas.
Hard to believe that these giant beasts once roamed Texas.
Mastodon Tusks
Winston shares that same fascination for old dead things that I have.
The Gems and Minerals Hall was amazing. This “human-sized” geode was controlled with a wheel to make it open and close.
We all liked the tornado exhibit in the Dynamic Earth Hall. Although it doesn’t photograph very well.
There was also an earthquake simulator that let us experience a 9 on the Richter scale first hand.
It was agreed on by all of us that the freeze-dried human slices in Being Human Hall were pretty disgusting.
While the female looks kinda muscular, the dude seems a little out of shape. And what is up with the hump on the back?
These “Mickey Mouse” shaped molecules hanging in the lobby were certainly fun. They would rise up in the air whenever someone walked under them. We made it a goal to run in circles under them until they were all moving at the same time.
This is a tough place to visit. It was Tuesday, but still filled with people. The newness buzz keeps this place sold out every day. We thought ahead and bought tickets a couple of weeks ago. I’d advise the same of anyone else wanting to visit.
There isn’t really an order to the exhibits, so kids (and grown-up kids) are free to look and touch anything for as long as they wish. And trust me there are lots of things to touch.
Starting at the top floor and working our way down, and opting out of the 45 minute movies, we spent about 3 hours total.
…and 3 hours was plenty of time.
Some of us ……. even fell asleep in the car on the way home.
A few weeks ago we posted about Target Practice Art for your home.
Found these beauties yesterday while junk shopping.
The cheapest was $19, the most expenive was $25.
All 3 would make a perfct display on a wall together,
$60 isn’t bad, although I’d rather find them for a couple bucks each at garage sales…….
But if you’re looking for several in a hurry, this could work.
I thought this might be a “one time” thing,
But we found quite a few images of boats and canoes on ceilings…
Just look,
And one used as a bookshelf.
Now, how dreamy are those?
Especially over a bed…….
How I wish,
I Wish so hard,
That we had a place to hang a boat inside the Cavender house.
THE CAVENDER DIARY 