What a Weekend!!!

When life gives you lemons
you make lemonade.

When your husband's car
conks out you go buy
another one.

(Not in the plans at this 
time but...what do you 
do?)

Hope your weekend was
great!


~Keep on Dreaming~

The Wonders of Candy Corn

Hello Everyone!

It's Tuesday, so it must be time
for some Trivia.

Who likes Candy Corn?
Does it remind you of Halloween?

George Renninger created candy
corn in the 1800's at a Philadelphia
based candy company. It was origin-
ally called "butter cream candies"
or "chicken feed" because corn
is fed to livestock. The candy 
boxes used to have a rooster on it.

Candy corn is made from sugar,
corn syrup, confectioners wax,
artificial coloring and binders.

It is primarily found in the United 
States and Canada, although 
available year round, we see A 
LOT of it at Halloween. The 
shape mimics the shape of a 
kernel of corn but candy corn 
is three times bigger than a piece 
of candy corn.

I like candy corn BUT I really 
like "Indian Corn" which has 
the chocolate end an orange 
middle and a white tip.

Do you have any candy corn
at your house???


~Keep on Dreaming~

Out and About

During Labor Day weekend 
we went to one of our favorite 
places. Powell Gardens, a beauty 
of a place is located in Kingsville, 
Missouri.
It was the last weekend of the
Nature Connects 2 Exhibit.
Sean Kinney a "Lego Certified 
Professional" and "professional
kid" brought his Lego creations 
to the gardens for all to see.
For a decade Kinney has been
using Legos and turning them
into works of art. Kinney, who
is inspired by nature creates these 
works of art from over 300,000 
Legos that range from 6" to 6 ft!
Can you imagine being that
talented??
You should be able to click on the
picture of each descriptive sign to
see how many Leogs it tooke to
make that sculpture.
Are you ready? Here we goooo!

This exhibit was as fascinating 
as the first one that was in the 
garden two years ago.
My efforts with Legos look
NOTHING like these.

Hope you enjoyed!


~Keep on Dreaming~

Oh my....

The best laid blogging plans 
for me have gone out the 
window today.

Came home early from school 
after fighting with my back all
day. Bending over tiny little 
bodies is rough on the ol'
back Then when I got home,
I found out that Mr. Ken was
coming home---worn out from 
a bad cold. When it rains it
pours at our house.

Our program will resume
soon.

~Keep on Dreaming~