free samples-i love saturdays!

it's a good thing chronicles of narnia was on this morning, because that made me feel a little better...

**BRUNO PEED OUTSIDE!!  you don't understand what a wonderful accomplishment this is! i definitely celebrated! hopefully it wasn't just a fluke! we had a great little walk! there is a neat little patch on the backside of the complex with beautiful wild flowers.

love this patch of  wild flowers

this is what they did when we went into the little gated doggy park. they never run and play to expend their energy...instead, they followed me around, and bruno peed. woohoo!

then we went out of the complex and i notice the streetlight as we were walking by, so i snapped a picture of it. i get mesmerized by streetlights sometimes. when i am at a light, i sometimes notice if the little bitty lights are missing, and it bugs me. they remind me of the lite brite toy i used to play with when i was young (the one with the black paper that you plug little light pegs into and they shine-i loved it!)
and sometimes if you look at it long enough, it seems like the little lights move in patterns-optical illusion-but don't stare too long because the honking behind you is not an auditory illusion.

fascinating, right?

in fact, i remember when i lived in branson especially i loved coming down 76 in at the stoplight by the good shepherd hotel around Christmas when it was snowy and you could see red and green street lights and if you squinted your eyes just right, it looked like a Christmas ornament. (with bob evans in the background, so you might not opt to put that one on your tree). 

once we got home, i went to tom thumb for groceries because it's the closest. how did i not know that saturday is the day?! there were sample people everywhere! i passed by several sample people to get what i needed. then a starbucks lady brought an instant starbucks coffee and few minutes later another offered a frapuccino (granted they were mini); and that's when i went to get my last item (fresh salsa) and i was closeer to the cash register, which is where i should have gone...but i turned around to try one more sample that i had passed by. i am so glad that i did because i tried these little spinach/feta sausages-amazing!! guess what, i will probably begin shopping on saturdays from now on!

if you can find these, they are totally worth it! slice em up and yum-o!

i may or may not have just been flipping through the channels and stopped on cspan 3..civil war volunteers/blue and gray...

free samples rock!
julie