This picture was taken on Easter after a hard day of playing with Easter grass and eating candy!  Both my kitties  passed out! LOL!

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Kitty Passout! is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

I’m not sure which one is more scarier!  Have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Wordless Wednesday – Pumpkin Heads!(Linky) is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

Kitty Trump Comb over?

I feel sorry for our cats! The kids (including hubby) play dress up with them all the time. Rotini (pictured above) is wearing an Oobi wig and resembles the ever so famous Donald Trump comb over.

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Wordless Wednesday-Kitty Trump Comb Over? is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

This is an awful picture of me with my daughter, but I had to put the vanity aside and share the photo anyways!     The photo was taken at the NY State Fair on Labor Day and it was one of the most memorable moments of the fair for me.  The Sea Lions were so beautiful and sweet.  However, you would not even believe the weight of the Seal as she draped her head over mine.  It felt like a brick!   Usually they just place their noggin slightly over your head, but for some reason she felt like loving me a little extra and rested her full head on mine.

This is the ONLY way I would ever consider wearing real Seal fur!  These babies are too precious!

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Wordless Wednesday- Live Seal Hats!(LINKY) is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

This photo was taken at the local zoo.  My son was extremely scared of the wooden tiger that I had to quickly snap the picture before he began freaking out!  Afterward, he kept yelling at me over and over the whole day  “Did you see that cat? He was going to bite my butt.”   He was so cute!  I LIVE for little moments like that!

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Wordless Wednesday -Please Don’t Eat Me! (LINKY) is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

I think it was taller than me!    What was bathing in that tub – Sasquatch?

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Wordless Wednesday – EWWWWW You Won’t Believe Your Eyes! is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

We went to the zoo over the weekend and one of my favorite moments was when the very powerful Spectacled Bear come over and posed for pictures.  He was awesome!  It was like he knew we were all waiting for him and he was going to make an unforgettable appearance.

National Geographic claims the Spectacled Bears are intensely shy, but he was far from it!  He actually LOVED the attention and was eating it up.  Check him out!

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Wordless Wednesday- Spectacled Bear is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

Wordless Wednesday-My Head Of Lettuce – Organically Grown is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

Its been some time since I participated in Wordless Wednesday so I thought I would sick back, relax, and join in this week’s excitement.

Take a peek at how playing with your food can be highly entertaining and end up as a work of art.  The photos below are a few of my favorites that were displayed at  fabulously 40 .

I wish the article named the artists who  created the eye boggling fun!  The artists deserve recognition for their delectable masterpieces.

You can view more of the food art at fabulously40.com

Wordless Wednesday- Playing With Your Food! is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

As many of you already know Karissa is no longer with us.  She was a very talented woman and will be missed immensely.  I enjoyed her knowledge, dedication, and passion about living a “green and clean life.”  I am completely at a loss for words and can’t believe this has happened…

Fallen Leaves

Leaves that blow from autumn trees

Prepare the way for winter freeze

To chart the paths of moving time

A cycle plays out nature’s rhyme

Though sometimes leaves do fall in spring

The sound’s an unfamiliar ring

New from buds the leaves they form

They grow amidst the sun so warm

So why do some release their bounds?

And tumble gently towards the ground

To disconnect from what they know

And sacrifice the chance to grow

Only god can know these things

And why he calls for leaves in spring

Perhaps leaves choose to ride the wind

To find some place to start again

Wordless Wednesday -Karissa is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

My little Inspector Gadget!  He later decided to pick all the dead leaves out of the pine tree.

Wordless Wednesday – My Little Inspector Gadget is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

My son upset at the thought of eating the vegetables!

Wordless Wednesday – Trip To The Orchard is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

Welcome to this week’s edition of Aloha Friday.

In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response.

If you’d like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave your link below. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!

My question is:

Have you started your back to school shopping?

I have not bought a single item yet for my daughter.  The school district here is not planning on sending out the supply list until ONE week before school starts.  I am so upset, because I have no idea what she is going to need for the upcoming year and I am missing all the great sales!  Money is tight around here and I feel they (teachers) are being very inconsiderate by waiting until the last week to notify parents of the requirements.

Furthermore,  my daughter doesn’t even know who her teacher is for school and is fretting.  I feel awful for her.  She is going to be attending middle school so its rather a BIG move for her and she now has added worries.  I feel so bad

Aloha Friday – Back to School is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

Happy Thousand Words Thursday!

Pictures were taken by my daughter Kylie who loves the beauty of nature and the giant fur-ball that is stuck to her bed.

A Thousand Words Thursday – Nature’s Beauty is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

The attack!

Wordless Wednesday is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

It’s time to repost our list.
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When the list ends in late June, come back and update your list with all of the members. We are atttempting to limit this list to 100 blog links.

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Technorati Linky Love is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

There are several well known stars tweeting their random thoughts on Twitter.  I follow a few and some of them actually follow back!  I have to be careful to make sure the tweets are not coming from impostors and I often wonder who is really behind the keyboard.  A few days ago my daughter requested for me to check if Robert Pattinson, from Twilight, was a tweeter.  Sure enough he was and had over 170,000 followers.  Today I went to check his updates and received the message “Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity. Mosey along now, nothing to see here.” UT Ohh!

Here are a few Stars I enjoy following and seem to be legit.

Ryan Seacrest http://twitter.com/RyanSeacrest

Ashton Kutcher http://twitter.com/aplusk

William Shatner http://twitter.com/WilliamShatner

Ellen DeGeneres http://twitter.com/TheEllenShow

John Mayer  http://twitter.com/johncmayer

Demi Moore http://twitter.com/mrskutcher

Dave Matthews http://twitter.com/DaveJMatthews

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger http://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger

President Barack Obama http://twitter.com/BarackObama

Kathy Ireland http://twitter.com/kathyireland

Oprah http://twitter.com/Oprah

John Fogerty http://twitter.com/John_Fogerty

Anderson Cooper http://twitter.com/andersoncooper

There are tons more celebrities on Twitter but those are the few I follow.  My question this week is…

Do you follow any Stars on Twitter?

Aloha Friday – Stars that tweet. is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

This picture of Hubby was taken 18 years ago.  I replaced the background with something more suitable since the mess he was cleaning was about the size of a football field!  He was confined to his dorm room (military) by his ranking superior until he could once again make his space tidy and livable.  17 years ago he retired his toilet brush and vacuum and shortly after hired married a maid me. Due to his severe cuteness the maid I have been cleaning his mess for the last past 17 years!

A Thousand Words Thursday – 17 Years of Cuteness and Mess! is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

It’s fascinating how smells can trigger  memories of events that happened several years ago.   Smells can even bring on emotions that are important in friendships, love, and food.

When I was a little girl my dad (carpenter before minister) would sometimes bring me along with him to his work site where he would be building a beautiful home and I would watch him create something marvelous from a pile of construction materials.  He would try to get me involved and interested in what he was doing by asking me to do small tasks to help him.   He handed me a tiny jar of wood putty and I would go around and fill the nail holes with it making sure each spot was perfect.

My dad has been sick many years with Dementia and now Parkinson’s Disease which has crippled him mentally and physically.  Honestly,  he has had the diseases so long that its hard to recall him ever being well but the smell of wood putty brings me back to the days he was strong, happy, and healthy.   I developed a love for the smell of wood putty.

I decided this week for my Top Ten Tuesday to compile a list of my favorite smells that spark memories, and emotions.

1. Wood putty

2. Fresh brewed coffee

3. Fresh baked bread

4. Play Doh

5. The smell of Fall

6. Cinnamon

7. Coconut

8. Baby Lotion

9.  Axe ( hubby smells soooo good!)

10. Pine Trees

Top Ten Tuesday – Most Favorite Smells is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom

1. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) -Tesla was an inventor and mechanical, electrical engineer.   Due to his sometimes bizarre claims about technological developments he was ostracized and labeled as a mad scientist.

2. Claude Monet (1840-1926)- Monet was the founder of French impressionist painting.   The majority of his paintings are of water or nature.  One of his most famous paintings is named the “Water Lilies.”

3. Wolfgang Amadues Mozart (1756-1791)- Mozart was the influential composer of the Classical Era.  He composed over six hundred musical pieces.  He died at age 35 from kidney failure and was buried in a poor man’s grave.

4. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)-Gandhi known as the “Great Soul” was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India and Indian independence movement.  He lived very modestly and ate a simple vegetarian diet.

5. Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566)-Better recognized as the Latinized name Nostradamus.  Known for his prophetic works and his book Les Propheties.

6. Harry Houdini (1874-1926)- Born as Ehrich Weiss, was a brilliant magician, stunt performer, skeptic and investigator of spiritualists.  He died of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix on Halloween 1926 at the age of 52.

7. Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos (1967-present)-Criss Angel the star and creator of A&E’s Network show Mindfreak .  He is a very popular magician, illusionist, stunt performer, musician, actor, and escapologist.

8. Steven Victor Tallarico (1948-present)-Steven Tyler the lead singer of the rock group Aerosmith.

9. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)- Poe was an American short story writer, poet, and editor.  His poem “The Raven” is widely known and recognized in the national literature.

10. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)-Giuseppe was an amazing Italian painter who was best known for his portraits made entirely of fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books.

Some of his works…

Top Ten Tuesday – The Perfect Round Table is a post from: A Happy Hippy Mom