The Tomato Picker - Nostalgia #16

My daughter love to go to her dear Pap's house. Aside from the reason that he let her do things "her way", she also love picking the tomatoes in his garden.

She reminds me of ME when I was a teenager. During summer vacation when school is off, I would go to my relatives in Ligao Albay, Phils and would work everyday picking tomatoes. I think the compensation then (over 20 years ago) was twenty pesos a day (an eight-hour of work under the scourging heat of the sun.) You might not believe it but it's true. While other teenagers are enjoying their summer vacation, I had to work my butt off so I would have money to buy my school things and my siblings too for the next school year. It's a joy to reminisce those experiences though, it made me stronger and stick to the saying that I believe into "Where there's a wheel, there's a way".

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Flowers at Pittsburgh Zoo

Here are some of the photos of the flowers I saw at Pittsburgh Zoo when we went there a couple of weeks ago with Jen and Jim's family. We originally planned to go for a camping but we did not push through because of some unavoidable reasons. We decided to go to the zoo instead so the kids could enjoy watching the different kinds of critters.

Anyhow, the only flower that I recognized here is the marigold. Everything else, I don't have any idea of their names.

Oh I like this bright orange fruit-like bloom from a tree.

And this one too, I think orange looks great when it's around brown and green color. What do you think?

These are inside the PPG Aquarium placed on top of a big rock. 

I like this vine too.

This is on the place where the orangutan's are running around.

This is just a quick update before we go to church. Have a blessed Sunday everyone. Thanks for your visit and comments!

The Penguins

My daughter had so much fun watching the penguins put on their show when we went to Pittsburgh Zoo. I couldn't get a good picture with them under the water.

They swam so fast that whenever I take pictures, It's blurry. Anyhow, these are the only ones that looks good.

Hope everyone had a lovely day. We are super busy at our end so pardon for me not visiting often.

Glass Theme in our kitchen

When we were buying our kitchen furniture, my husband and I fell in love with this table with a glass top. It suppose to be made3 of tampered glass so we thought it would be durable with kids around. However when my daughter is around two years old, she dropped the drinking glass at the tip of the table and it got chipped. We fixed the chip with a mighty glue and it is holding pretty good.

Farewell Chelsea

We finally let go of Chelsea. We gave her up for adoption to anew family who want to have a dog of their own. I like Chelsea but we are getting tired of her running away. She fled the other day by digging a hole at the bottom of the fence Good thing that our neighbor caught her and she did not get hit with a car. So I contacted one of the Filipina friend here in our area and asked if she wants to adopt Chelsea. Since they already have a terrier, she told her other Pinay friend who wants a dog. So they came and got Chelsea the day before yesterday.

She's lucky to have her though because she is already house broken, already fixed (which we paid a fortune lol), and her shots are updated. So she basically got Chelsea for free unlike if you will adopt from the pound because you have to pay for the expenses. The only thing that she has to worry now is the fact that Chelsea is a vegetarian and she love to eat fruits and veggies.. in your garden lol. I warned her that she has to keep an eye on her if she will put her in their yard as she love to eat flowers and veggies. Here are some of the last shots that I took of Chelsea.

Farewell Chelsea. We wish you good times with your new family. Thanks for the joy you brought to us. We will just concentrate our love to Champ, our super-hyper dog who love to jump and play. Hopefully, he won't break his leg anymore. Today (August 26) is the national dog day. Below is a short excerpt copied from the newsletter I received from petplace.com

It's National Dog Day! (There is a holiday for everything, isn't there?) August 26th marks the nation's annual celebration of dogs. It is a way to show public recognition for all of the wonderful things about our dogs and to celebrate their love, companionship, loyalty, patience and their amazing capacity to change our everyday lives.