Bountiful Baskets December 2012

Total of $15 and we received multicolored carrots, Fuji apples, a personal watermelon, a cantaloupe, bananas, Roma tomatoes, a papaya, broccoli, romaine lettuce, mushrooms and very, very ripe persimmons.

Sunday Randomness #65 Double meaning

Look, it's two beaters; they must be Fred and George!

300 Piece Search and Find Puzzle

We completed this Walter Wick 300 piece puzzle back in October but I'm behind on posting about it.  I figured it was time for another puzzle post since no one ventured a guess on the mystery plant.  (A one dollar incentive apparently doesn't go very far these days.)   The Walter Wick puzzle was fun but it actually got a bit confusing with all the beads, especially the blue beads winding throughout the puzzle.  We're currently working on an Usborne puzzle about famous women.

Sunday Randomness #102 Mystery plant

This has been growing in a crack in the backyard.  I identified the plant in general but I don't know the specific type.  Anyone else care to venture a guess?

If more people read this blog, I had even entertained thoughts of a prize for the first person to correctly name the plant type in the comments but then I thought I'd be too discouraged at the total lack of comments.

This is where one must be willing to take chances.   If I do get some comments I will mail out a crisp $1 bill to the first correct guess at the type of plant.  I know, not much of a prize, but hey, a dollar is a dollar.  It's still enough buy a small treat at most grocery stores.  If by chance you want to comment, feel free-just be sure to leave some sort of contact information if you'd like a chance at that one dollar bill.

Sunday Randomness #161 Speed Trap

This past month we had a day that started with a police car in our neighborhood.  Further up, and out of sight on account of the bushes, was a second patrol car.  The two police officers, standing across the street, were catching speeders.  The street  goes straight through for a few blocks and is a prime spot for people wanting to  go a bit faster than the traditional 25 mph residential speed limit.  We  talked briefly with the officers and they related that they stopped 4 people going over 40 mph in just the first 20 minutes (plus others also going over 25 mph but the 40 mph people were definitely speeding excessively).

But the catch of the day for shooting these fish in a barrel?  A motorcyclist clocked doing more than double the speed limit at 51 mph with the added irony that the motorcyclist also happened to be a doctor.  One would think a doctor would know better than to be speeding in a non-emergency situation but turns out that at least some doctors go a tad above the speed limit just like a number of other people who zip down this neighborhood cut through.  The officers mostly gave out warnings but a few (like the motorcyclist) got tickets if their speed was deemed too excessive.  So if you come to our neck of the woods, don't speed down the cut through-you never know when a speed trap might be waiting!

Pearls Puzzle

Our most recent puzzle completion: An Anne Geddes design in a small 100 piece puzzle that I picked up at Deseret Industries for $.75.  It only took Hedgehog about 15 minutes to piece this together.   Hedgehog remarked occasionally about finding matching pearls. We had a 1000 piece woodland otter puzzle out for months that we finally just put away because everyone had stopped working on it.  We do better with completing the 500 or less piece puzzles.