The Days of Swine and Roses

Okay.

Technically it was a single day.

Just one.

And not even a full day.

It was maybe 30 minutes.  But in that time period...

I swear I heard heavenly violins playing.

And I am almost positive I saw angels dancing.

Not going to quite guarantee the roses...

...but the swine.

Oh, baby.

 

 

The swine.

Saturday Mr. Jenny and I had an errand to do that involved driving to the 'Edge of the Earth, Arizona.'

 

We were headed that direction anyway because that's where our youngest Granddaughter, Mo, plays soccer.

At an indoor arena.

Hee hee.

Gotta love indoor arenas when you live in Arizona.

After the soccer game (Miss Mo scored 4 (according to us) and 5 (according to her) goals)...

...we needed to drive quite a way to pick up a picnic table we had made for our Grandson Quinn's first birthday.

We drove.

We drove.

We checked our directions.

We drove.

And then...

Out of the corner of my eye I saw it.

A giant pink pig.
 

With eyelashes.
 

"OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!" I shrieked to Mr. Jenny.   "STOPSTOPSTOPYOUGOTTASTOP!   THIS IS THE PORK SHOP EVERYBODY TELLS US ABOUT!!!! STOP!"
 

Mr. Jenny heaved a mighty sigh.
 

Looked at me across the truck cab.

 

Raised an eyebrow.

 

"Everybody?   Everybody in the whole entire world tells you about the pork shop?"



 I blushed.

"Okay, not technically everybody!" (insert eye roll here)  "Tom told us about it!   Remember?   Remember how we were talking about furnace filtures and then how we ..."

 

Mr. Jenny stopped me.

 

"That's fine.   Let's go in and see what they have!"

 

And he turned the truck into the parking lot!

 

squuuuueeeeaaaalllll!

 

I was excited.

 

I was more excited than...

 

Well.

 

Just trust me.

 

I was excited.

 

And I was even more excited when we went inside and it was SAUSAGE SAMPLING DAY!

 

Seriously.

 

I'm not making this up.

 

SAUSAGE SAMPLING DAY!

 

There were crockpots and platters everywhere.

 

See what I mean about heavenly angels?

 

And there was a cool guy with a 'stache.

 

And.

 

Did I mention there was lots and lots of sausage samples.

 

Oh.

My.

 

Seriously.

 

Swine and Roses.

 

I kid you not.

If you can't make it to the Pork Chop to try their delectable offerings, you can at least read about the 'stache guy by clicking here.

 

PS.   Sorry about the formatting.   Blogger is excited about the Pork Chop, too, and it just won't concentrate on letting me put appropriate spacing in.  

 

 

Peaceful soul winner!

Thank you so much for participating!

The winner of the sign and book is Linda!

Her winning comment was this one: Linda @ A La Carte said... Jenny when I choose JOY as my word for this year, it was in the hopes of moving forward and away from the chaos and guilt. Hmmmmmmm....working on it! I must say at times I get so bogged down in the things I did wrong that I forget all I've done right. I'm throwing my name in the pot for this book for sure. Wishing you Peace my dear friend! hugs, linda May 15, 2013 at 9:20 AM

Linda, please e-mail me your mailing address (jennymatlock at cox dot net with the word 'winner' in the subject line!)  and I will get your prize shipped out to you tomorrow! I did correct the word 'it's' on the sign...so don't worry!

Hugs and peace to you all!

Saturday Centus Week 160

 

 
 

Welcome to week ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY of Saturday Centus.  This is Captain Tessa Rose with a little Pirate Challenge.

Oh.  I learned my pirate name was Tessa Rose from clicking here and going through a kinda/sorta weird quiz.

Hey, it's hot outside.   A girl has to keep boredom at bay in whatever air conditioned fashion is available.
 

The prompt this week:   "ARGH, MATEY!" 

Number of words:  102 total (including the two words of the prompt)

Style of writing: Any but feel free to 'talk like a Pirate' and use your own Pirate Name (unless you think that's silly)

Additional Pictures: Any

The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.

Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.

E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.

Feel free to link up any time between now and next Saturday...
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Dried up fountain of youth?

This little one-sided conversation takes place according to the bolded prompt.  It's a SC link.   To read other offerings using this prompt, just click here.

 

 “Holy Shirley Temple! 

You’re NOT going to card me?

Really?

REALLY?

Lookie here, you little dork.

I’ve lost fifty … ummm… I mean… a lot of pounds…

I dumped my husband.

I got this new two-toned choppy hair style…

AND!!!!

I would show you my new tat…

But then, I’d have to kill you.

Seriously?

You don’t want to card me?

I’ve been lipoed, botoxed, lifted and tucked…

And you don’t want to frickin’ card me?

Okay, fine.

So listen up you brat.   Here’s what I want to drink…

You put the lime in the coconut.

Don’t look at me like that!  Of course it’s a drink!!!”

Painted Alphabet Letter Z

Zippety doo dah!

Zippety day!

I painted something for the letter Z!

Hooray!

I like this in a weird, folk-art sort of way.  This sign really takes me back to the days my kids were young.

 16" x 9"

Zis was fun to paint!

 

I hope you enjoyed looking at it.

 

Signs are hand-painted and available in my Etsy shop...you can see the mini link at the top right of my blog or click on any picture for a link!  No stickers...no stencils...my designs.

 

This post is linked to Alphabe-Thursday's Letter Z.   To read other Z offerings, just click here.

 

Just sayin'...

...if you're old...

 

...and, ummm...

 

GRAVITY DENSE...

 

(please feel free to use that in lieu of fluffy or fat if the situation applies

 

blush...)

 

You may wish to resist the urge to cannonball...

into your pool...

 

ouch!

 

...to impress your Grandlittles with how cool you are.

 

It is not a good idea.

 

And as a piece of further unasked for advice...

 

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GO DOWN THE SLIDE EITHER!

 

...

...

 

sigh...

 

PS.   You're welcome.

 

Alphabe-Thursday Letter Z

Good morning class. 

Welcome to the end of round six of Alphabe-Thursday! Today we will be studying the zippy letter:


...but before we do please


I have something important to tell you.

Round SEVEN of Alphabe-Thursday will start immediately. We will not have a break in between rounds.

It's hard to believe we've done the alphabet six times before, but I'm still enjoying it so I'm still going to keep it going.  It's always such a good distraction for me and I'm happy so many of you are enjoying it, too!

I haven't even figured out if I'm doing a theme this round or just random stuff.  I like doing it both ways...so maybe I'll surprise myself!

Ha!

Everything else remains the same.

Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course, and please try very hard to visit the blogs that visit you for this meme.

I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday evening, please let me know!  I am one week behind in my reading, though.  Just starting on the letter Y's.

If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find your link otherwise. And, if you see any broken links, please let me know that as well.

If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.

The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!

And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and you must visit at least 10 other posts...perhaps consider starting from the last posts and work backwards. The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.

Please link your zany Z post now!