Looking at the Computer Desk Hutch

On the left side of the hutch, there are three shelves, covered by a glass door. There are books on the bottom shelf. The first thirteen titles are:

You Can Make a Collage
The New Graphic Design School
Poetry for Dummies
Webmastering for Dummies
Networking for Dummies
Marketing Strategies for Writers
Codes and Secret Writing
A Patriot's Handbook (compiled by Caroline Kennedy)
Glacier's Grandest
How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci
Camping (my dad's book)
The Arrow Book of States (35 cents, one of the first books I bought)
Universal Principles of Design

I guess I should read them sometime, eh?

Thursday Thirteen on Saturday

13 words I like that begin with Z:

1. zoos (well, I waffle on them, but my niece has worked at ours for the last three years, so I'm glad for that)
2. zinnias
3. Zorro (the guy williams version. well, antonio wasn't bad either)
4. zest (for life)
5. zest (lemon, in cookies)
6. zaniness
7. zippers *smile*
8. zig
9. zag
10. Zeeland, Michigan
11. zone (end zone, with Spartan football players in it with a touchdown)
12. zero (a very important number)
13. zilch (it just sounds cool)

Thursday Thirteen (on Friday)

Thirteen Y words I like.

1. You!
2. yellow
3. yelling at football games
4. yesterday
5. Yule
6. Yellowstone National Park
7. Yoopers
8. yes
9. yarn (that you knit with)
10. yarn (a good tale)
11. Yucca plants
12. yawns
13. youth

Thursday Thirteen (on Friday)

Thirteen words that I like that begin with V:

1. Violins
2. Violas
3. Vacations
4. Virginia (the State)
5. Valor
6. Vinyl
7. Vanilla
8. Vim
9. Vigor
10. Virtue
11. Views
12. Violets
13. Vinegar

Thursday Thirteen (on Friday)

Julie makes me do the T13 over here now. I used to do it in her comments *grin*.

Thirteen things I like that begin with U:
1. umbrella (especially when it is raining)
2. uvula
3. underwear
4. UFO's
5. Uniforms, men in
6. ukelele. It harkens back to a much simpler time
7. Uncle Herb
8. unusual anything
9. us
10. up
11. unicorns
12. Utah
13. understanding>

Good Saturday Morning!

Okay, a few years back Susan-on-the-other-side-of-the-world had told us about Australian burgers. They have things like beets and eggs and stuff on them. Julie found a picture.

And speaking of Julie, I did my Thursday 13 on paper, but forgot to post. So here we go:

Thirteen things I like that begin with T:

1. Toddlers
2. Tigers
3. Truth
4. Talent
5. Tongues
6. Turkey
7. Trees
8. Today, tomorrow
9. Thursday
10. Three
11. Thistle
12. Tapioca
13. Telephones!

Susan, you are such a wonderful Grandma! Phoenix is one lucky little boy!

And Kathryn is back home with her treasure, Claire.

I think the hummingbirds have gone.

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen things I like beginning with S:

1. Susan and susan
2. Sincerity
3. Snow
4. Saturday & Sunday
5. Sunshine
6. Smiles
7. S'mores
8. Salads
9. Sugar
10. Shopping
11. Sister
12. Spartans
13. Soap

Thursday 13

Julie is doing words that begin with R that she likes, and so am I!

1. raindrops
2. reindeer
3. Roscoe
4. Robert Redford
5. the color red
6. restaurants
7. rivers
8. Rocky movies
9. Roses
10. Refrigerators!
11. Radio
12. rings
13. Rocky Mountains!

Thursday 13

Well, this week it's time to list 13 things I like that begin with the letter Q, as Julie did. Here we go.

1. Quiet. One of the many reasons I like living in the country. The quiet is wonderful. (However, tonight it is broken by the chirrup of a cricket in the heating ducts. The cats can't reach it.)

2. Quality. Quality in anything or anyone.

3. Quizzes! And doesn't the internet have a lot of them!

4. Quilts. Beautiful, old, hand-pieced quilts. Great for snuggling in on cold winter nights.

5 & 6. Quivers and Quakes (that go with that O word I couldn't say a couple of weeks ago)

7. Quotations.

8. Quacking of ducks.

9. Quickness. Not that I possess any.

10. Quaint little villages.

11. Quantum Tea.

12. Quartz.

13. And, with football season coming on, let us not forget Quarterbacks! (Though linemen are my absolute favorites.)

Thursday 13 on Sunday

See, I AM behind!

Julie plays, so Monkey See, Monkey Do.

Thirteen things I like that begin with P.

1. Paul my nephew
2. peas
3. Popcorn
4. Pens and pencils
5. People
6. Pumpkin Pie
7. Petunias
8. Pork Chops
9. Paris
10. passion
11. pickles
12. pancakes
13. pewter

Well! this was quite an edible list!

Thursday Thirteen on Friday

Julie won't let me play in her comments any more! *grin*

13 things that I like that begin with the letter O. In no particular order.

1. Orchids.
2. O's. (I can't write the word, but Julie can.)
3. Olives.
4. Onion.
5. Oscar - Great-Grandpa.
6. Orioles - the birds.
7. Opals
8. Orange
9. Old people
10. Old Things
11. Opera (sometimes)
12. Ontario, the Lake and the Canadian Province.
13. Orchestras

Thursday 13

Julie plays the Thursday 13 by going through the alphabet and listing 13 things she loves that begin with that letter. I usually play in her comments, but the comment keeper doesn't like me today. Therefore, I'll stick them here!

Nina, niece
Nate, nephew
Natasha, niece
Nancy, sister
Nieces - all the rest
Nephews - all the rest
noses
necking
North Dakota. If you're ever there, be sure to stop in MINOT. (Pronounced mynot)
Niagara Falls.
Neckties. Loosened, with a tuft of hair showing
naps
neighbors.