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My friends are on their way back to Pendleton and my sides are still aching from all the laughing we did this weekend.  It was like we were 16 year old school girls again.

It was a weekend full of silliness and fun. This photo just about sums it up.  Out on the lake, we were waved over by the patrol for a routine safety check, but my friend, Madonna, who was facing the officers was waving back to them, like they were best friends passing by, not realizing we were being flagged over.  So, I just kept driving and we just kept laughing and talking- until the red lights come on and they call out to us to stop.

Those poor officers never knew what they were in for.  Lori offered them cocktails, we asked them to pose for photographs, and chatted with them about where they were from, what they were doing, got their entire life stories.  Those boys had a deer in the headlight look in their eyes when they drove off. 

There was a giant music festival going on at the lake campgrounds this week. I think that Lori’s tie dye shirt is what caught the officer’s attention out on the boat.  They must have seen the bright colored shirt, heard the loud laughter and thought we were a bunch of stoners out joy riding!

Here are some signs up at the entrance to the park.  Words to live by everyday!

We were able to park in a cove and listen to the music off in the distance.  At almost 50, that is a beautiful way to attend a concert!  Floating on a calm lake, enjoying a breeze and some sunshine, watching a blue heron along the edge of the water, and hearing a blues band play in the background.

We also had hours and hours being pulled in the inner tubes behind the boat.  3 of us along with my 14 year old niece, managed the trick of jumping from one tube to the other, back and forth at full speed.   

On Friday and Saturday mornings we did some garage sailing. 

My best purchase is this cabinet for $50, slightly in need of some repairs. I have to attach the top back on to it.  Not hard to do at all. I don’t know if I will repaint it or not, I like it as it is and hope to use it in my kitchen next to the fridge to keep my garbage can in.  But I have to wait till my husband goes out of town to bring it in from my studio, he HATES it when I get new furniture. The poor man would live with a bed, a couch, and a recliner if he had his way.  Well, I guess he’d need his pool table too.

The etched mirror was $10, but well worth it. The white vintage basket was $1 and the linens were only 10 cents each!  Two weekends in a row, scoring dime linens!!!

This blown glass frog paper weight will be a gift for my brother-in-law when he comes to visit next month.  It was $2, and just made for his collection of frogs.

I met a lady who has been a cake decorator for 35 years who was selling a box full of old items she didn’t want, for only $5.  This is just a fraction of it.

I’d like to paint flowers on the cake cover. 

All the cake toppers looked looked vintage to me, some older than others.

Sugarwing’s first birthday will be in August. Maybe I will make a tradition of using these little angels on numbers each year for her cake, starting with the blue #1.

Or maybe she’d like a circus carousal with a yellow monkey?  My son’s nickname for his little fairy girl is Monkey Stuff. 

Speaking of my little Sugarwings (who also got a haul of goodies from the garage sailing adventure), I miss her, since I have been so busy. Her hippy-type parents are at the music festival out on the lake today, so I will get to babysit.  That will help me today, I’m sad about my friends going back home to Indiana.  But I’ll have my fairy grand baby all day and we’ll have some new adventures of our own.