I saw my first parade in years on Saturday.  Naturally, I didn't have my camera with me.  Apparently, it's tradition for the people in the parade to toss candy to the kids.  Let me tell you, those kids were vicious!  I felt a strong need to keep my limbs close to my body at all times.  The coolest part of the parade were the antique bicycles.  They had a number of bikes where the front wheel is huge and the back wheel very small, like this one. 

I'm working on my never-leave-the-house-without-it kit that hopefully will assure that I am never without a camera again.  I'm buying this camera which is supposed to take very good pictures while at the same time being very compact.  Everything will go into this messenger bag (the black one) that will hang on a hook by the front door so I can grab it on my way out.  So far, the contents of the bag are as follows:  camera, journal, an assortment of pens, double-stick tape, yearly calendar, thumb drive, either a knitting or spinning project, iPod, earbuds, and my wallet.  That's all I've come up with so far but I'm sure that list will be edited at some point.  I've been thinking for a while that I needed a bag like this with a standard kit.  Too many times I've been out and about and ticked off that I didn't have my camera or my journal or my thumb drive.  I'm hoping this will help me be more creative, too, since I'll be able to jot down any ideas that come to me.

 

I picked these up while on my vacation.  The town near our cottage has a very nice quilt store and these 1/2 yard cuts of fabric will become spindle boxes.  I should be able to get two boxes out of each cut.  My favorite is the one on the right.

Cherries are next on the calender for picking and that'll happen next weekend:  sour cherries for canning and sweet cherries for freezing.  My grandma used to can sour cherries and they were divine either blended into ice cream for cherry shakes or just poured over the top for a sundae.  Yummy!

Comments

[keri]

That's a cute idea - I love the idea of making a kit of all the things you need, that way you won't forget anything.

[val]

Becky those bikes are called Penny Farthings :)