Another Pine Bites the Dust~Wordless Wednesday

A Devilish Monday Music Moves Me

Good Monday Morning!

I hope everyone out there in blogland is doing great

and ready to kick start the week with another

Monday Music Moves Me!

Congratulations to this weeks spotlight dancer,

Gillian from A Daft Scots Las.

Gillian has picked Guys & Dolls for this Monday's theme

but I say...the devil may care.

                           

      Oh that Devil Woman....

                             

Hey! What's the devil doing with that blue dress on?

             

but...

Sometimes the Devil drives a coupe de ville down in Brokenheartsville.

                           

We know the devil went down to Georgia 

but what the devil has come over

The Zac Brown Band

                                 

Well...That's all folks!

Making M&M White Chocolate Bark & Pumpkin Planter

M&M White Chocolate Bark

Hi, I thought I'd pop on here and share what I had been up to.

I whipped these quick projects out yesterday. Friday is my day to get my yard work done and this is also my weekend to work but I wanted to do something special for the kids.

My M&M White Chocolate Bark is the go to if you' only have a pinch of time or you have that last minute bake sale. 

One bag of M&M White Candy Corn

Two bags of white chocolate morsels

One baking sheet covered with wax paper

Melt your morsels in the microwave according to instruction,

then, Stir in your M&M's.

Spread your mixture in a thin layer on you baking sheet.

I put mine in the freezer to harden quicker.

Once the mixture is hardened break it into different shaped pieces.

Pretzels crushed would be a great add in. If you're like me and for got them just put the pretzels in the serving bowl with your bark it look and they'll get ate right along with the barks.
                                                         Sweet & Salty!

It  was sort of Monkey-See-Monkey-Do. 

I'd been seeing all the $1 Jack-o-lanterns turned into planters

and 

I had to make me one too!

I started with one of those $1 pumpkin heads.
I chose a blue one
and 
I really don't know why.

A couple of markdown mums.
I'm going to use one for this project
but 
I want to add my barrel with the 
orange mum. 
I think he needs a friend.

I hung my pumpkin head on a limb at the edge of the yard.
I got busy with the spray paint; first,white.
I so cheated this when I seen some
poison ivy( I hate it) that had turn the most awesome red.
I stuck pieces of the ivy on the face and sort of stuck held it in place with the paint itself.
My next colors was some green, then orange and a bit of silver.
Very lightly!
Don't use a heavy hand.

I was out of burlap so I used a piece of leftover brown clothe that I singed just a bit .
Stuffed the material and my mum in my planter.
Don't forget to pop off that black plastic handle.
An old piece of wire or an old rusty bucket handle could be fixed in it's place.

 Thanks for stopping by.
BE BLESSED
&
Be a Blessing!

My Workplace Accident and Looking for Relief

Hey! How you doing today?

Me? Not so good.

 I'm nursing myself after I had a bit of a fall off  of a ladder at work last night. Nothing was to blame for the accident other than me forgetting I was standing on the ladder and maybe the fact that we were just covered up in work.

Having such an accident leaves me feeling very foolish. I'm not typically a careless person or someone often gets really hurt. I did feel fortunate that no one actually saw me with my feet tangled up in the ladder and my head bouncing of the concrete. 

Once I figured out my neck wasn't broke and I wasn't bleeding anywhere I was able to get back to my machines and worked my shift on through

 but....

you know how those things go. 

After getting home, the egg has popped up on my head, the purple and poned up bruise on my leg almost feels hot, and my neck is so tight I couldn't even really dose off.

I know what you're thinking...enough with the wining. 

My reason for writing this post isn't as much about giving you this elaborate description of my wounds but I thought I'd share with you my go to when I ache.

Absorbine Jr.

 It's really good relief for muscle ache, 

like tight shoulders from raking or calves from running. 

I'm a little surprised when I have recommended it others because a lot of people

have never heard of it.

Absorbine Jr. was one of those things that Mama and Daddy

 always had in the bathroom cabinet, so I do too.

I started by rubbing it on my neck and it gave me that quick cooling feeling 

so...I thought I'm going to rub it on my bruised leg and it felt better 

so..I rubbed it on the knot on my head

 and by the time I'd checked my Email I felt much better.

If you have a nagging ache, you might want to give this product a try.

This is by no means an advertisement.

I just thought it might do somebody some good.

It does have a strong odor but if that bothers you more than your ache

you're probably not hurting that bad anyway.

Be Blessed! 

Haunting Folk Tunes~Monday Moves Me

Welcome...

Monday Music Moves Me!

Last Monday of the month means it's a freebie!

Looking boldly into October with all the spookiness that it ushers in I thought I'd share a stranger side of bluegrass; those folk ballads that make the hair upon your arm stand on up and the chills run down your neck.

I'm no sure if it's the simplicity in the music or the fact that so many of these songs are just true stories put to music.

I'm starting my musical mix with Bringing Home Mary. 

I heard this one Saturday morning. I listen to bluegrass most Sunday mornings as I'm cooking breakfast and when this one came on I thought what an eerie song to go with eggs and grits.

                                  

This next song isn't a bluegrass version but it surely is eerie

Ballad of the Harp Weaver

                                  

This next song proves itself to be haunting and morbid  

Poor Ellen Smith

                                 

No one voice musters up that chilling feeling like Ralph Stanley.

Many of you will recognize this song from Old Brother Where Art Thou

but this is a older version a little more simple,Oh, Death.

                               

Tom Dooley is one of those bluegrass songs

 that most everyone has heard of so many toes are tapped too 

but I find it to be another sad ballad.

                              

The Lawson Family Murder is a haunting story 

that actually happened just a few miles down the road

and oddly enough is a regional favorite.

                              

The next song is not so murderous but is quite a ghostly tale as people claim today 

to see those Brown Mountain Lights.

                                

Lefty Frizzell sings about the woman in the Long Black Veil.

                               

Down In the Willow Garden performed by The Lonesome River Band

                              

If you're still here and can't take anymore of these gruesome song

maybe..

you'd like to hear some old-time Ghost Tellin'

                            

Thank for Dropping by.