Monthly Archives: May 2007

Friday Flickr Five

Cross your fingers that our field trip has good weather today. Here are the five (preselected on Thursday while watching The Starter Wife – because I am a sucker for hype): update: fell asleep during 2nd hour … must stop trusting hype …

One of Palma’s Old Institutions
the prize
Point Mantara Lighthouse
pink galore
pancake thursday

Hope your weekend [...]

When laziness takes over

Throw a holiday Monday into my week, and I get out of sorts. What day is it? Sorry, drycleaning delivery guy – my dog was in the yard because I forgot yesterday was Wednesday! It’s Thursday already? One week of school left? Can’t be. I’ve got to get back into the “making lunch” groove. I [...]

Shop news

Good morning! Summer arrived with a vengeance yesterday ’round these parts. I went for my usual Tuesday run, and was much slower (and sweatier) than usual. Even my peppy playlist couldn’t push me along. Humidity is here. For a cool-down, I cut a few peonies for my first self-made bouquet of the season, pictured above [...]

It’s My (Blog’s) Birthday!

Welcome to my new home at Blogger! I’m eager to start my second year of stationery, magazines, bottle reduction, etc ….. and whatever else pops into my head at 7am! Today also marks Maria’s Port2Port Card Society birthday. Maria’s blog is one of the reasons I started my own blog, so congratulations, Mav! Looking forward [...]

Holiday Weekend FFF

Welcome, those of you who previously were reading “Midwest Musings.” I spent the better part of Friday morning trying to upload my entry, and realized that I was bailing water on a rapidly sinking ship. And thus, here I am – new name, The Speckled Egg, to better tie into my Flickr-ing, and new space. [...]