interesting sights (& sites) while on sick day travel

Being sick is not fun - especially when it means you miss Spring Barrel Tasting weekend in the Yakima Valley.  :(  I've been at home sick in bed since Thursday night...finally got out of bed today - but only to see my doctor to make sure the antibiotic looks to be doing what it should be.  (Exciting life I lead, huh??!)

That said, the trip to see my doctor was made a bit more interesting when we passed an arm of a giant windmachine heading to the Puget Sound Energy Project in Vantage...it was so large it nearly spanned the length of two trailer beds!















The driver smiled as we passed - the follow caution car had radio'd up to him that we were taking pictures.  Looked like they were getting a kick out of our interest.  LOL  :)

Apparently the Wild Horse Renewable Wind & Solar Energy Center in Vantage, WA, is really pretty cool to tour.  I looked it up tonight, thinking another time when I feel better it would be worth a trip back.  Here's a brochure on the place and here's a video that shows the view from on top of one of the turbines:

yea!! Carrie Underwood in Yakima, WA @ the SunDome!

totally excited - just found out we have Carrie Underwood tickets to her concert at the Yakima Valley SunDome this December!  they are on sale today; check out the SunDome site for more info!

"objection from a former sailor"

Woke up hacking my lungs out (I'm at home sick instead of at Spring Barrel - where I'd much rather be! sadness), so I decided to catch up on my Twitter/Blog feeds this morning (much luv to our local TW community!)...ended up running across this funny from @BlogSunnyside that I couldn't resist sharing:

new favorite: Greg Pattillo's piano & flute beatbox

congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Sanchez!!

Just a quick shout out to two of my dear friends who tied the wedded knot today:
congratulations on your new lives together, Jay and Erin Sanchez!
You are a sweet pair and I pray for many many blessings in your lives together!

fun w/ friends @ Martini Madness!

I've been so remiss in keeping up my blog this past month - sorry y'all!!  I've promised recipes, posts on life happenings, etc., and it just hasn't happened. No excuses. So I'm just gonna jump back in...

In March I had the opportunity to attend a super "fun-raiser" event with several current (and new!) friends in support of our local Yakima Valley Museum. (Amazing how one can go from strangers to awesome buds after a couple dirty martinis...LOL!) The event, called Martini Madness, was themed all things "Mad Men" and early 60s, from the attire to the hair, to the cigar girls and live music!  Being a country gal from a couple decades later, it was a bit of a challenge to figure out what to wear, but half the fun (for me anyway) ended up being the research of the decade in prep for the night...

After I realized the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was from 1961, I latched onto Audrey Hepburn's iconic uptown sophisticate look (it helped that I had a black dress and realized I wouldn't need to go shopping for something to wear just for the night!):

Then I brushed up on my makeup techniques by watching my favorite You Tube artists - Pixiwoo - do their take on Audrey's look:

And I also went through so many You Tube tutorials on Breakfast at Tiffany's hair I can't even begin to tell you which ones!  I can say there are enough out there that you can easily get a good sense of how to do the look. Instead of a tiara like many of them show, though, I actually just pinned an old gaudy, bobbly, pearly necklace around the top bun. And for the pearls around my neck? That was my one splurge for the event: a $10 strand from my favorite store for random costume jewelry - The Avenue, of all places!

I must say, for the effort it took to pull myself together, it was worth it - we had such a great night.  Ended up at Carmen's Comedy Club in Selah afterwards and laughed so hard the remainder of the evening.  So our final look?  Here ya go (courtesy of my friend's camera/FB page)! (I'm the gal on the right...)

(Those are peppermint stick "cigarettes" from the cigar girl - hehe!)

Hope to see you at the next local event!

And I promise - more new posts and the recipes I'm experimenting with in the kitchen very soon!