Friday Fragments

Mrs. 4444, from Half-Past Kissing Time, hosts Friday Fragments each week. It's a great excuse to get all those little snippets that gather in the brain and don't seem enough for one post but together they can make one fun blog post! Enjoy!


A few nights ago I had an hour long conversation on Facebook instant chat with a guy from High School. He told me that he saw me in a bar sometime between 1994 and 1998. I faintly remember that time, but after chatting with him, the memory was becoming clearer. He was with his wife and his Dad. How funny. He's not coming to the reunion, he lives too far away to come right now, but it sure was fun to chat with him and have him remember that time. This is why I'm so happy I'm blogging and writing in a journal these days. I have the worst memory. I need clues to help me. Too bad the first 40 years of my life are journal-less. (I made that word up!) Now when I look back on this post, I'll remember that I had the conversation and that I'd forgotten the other incident!


Have you seen this 25 second clip on the Fast Talking Baby? It's so funny and I can't imagine what she'll be like in a few more months! or years! She may talk more than me!



I park in a large covered garage with industrial cage-like garage doors. The side that I use to exit the garage has been a real bugger since the day we moved in. The door doesn't close all the way sometimes and then won't reset itself. All that needs to be done to reset the garage door is just a little press of the reset button. Of course this button is miles above my head, so I've gotten in the habit of keeping a hammer in my car because the head of the hammer is heavy enough to depress the button while I'm on my tip toes reaching up with it. Tonight I went to the movies and forgot that I had used the hammer earlier in the day & had tossed the hammer into the passenger side front seat. When I got back from the movie I saw something shiny in the front seat of my car and got a small panicky feeling. I even stepped back wondering what to do. Then I decided to just be brave & look in the window. I laughed out loud when I realized that I was scared of my own hammer.

Photo from Mom - Thanks Mom!

Baldwin County's Bicentennial Celebration at the Gulf Shores Museum
(09/10/2009)

Discover with us what is in the 1970's era Time Capsule as we open it in honor of Baldwin County's Bicentennial Celebration this year. Be at the Erie Meyer Civic Center for the Helton's concert at 7:00 p.m. The Time Capsule is located at the Gulf Shores Museum if you want to guess what's in it - you may win one of ten prizes!

That event was tonight (Thursday) and my mom was there. I was kind of waiting for her phone call about the event because it's just cool to be a witness to something like that. So when my mom called at 9pm, I wasn't too surprised. I was surprised though to hear a laugh in her voice. She could hardly wait to tell me - and I grabbed a pen and paper to write down what she was going to tell me. Time Capsule, check. Open on the 200th Anniversary, Check. Created in the 70's, Check. A saw was brought out to open the capsule. They opened it up and this is what they found.

Photo from Mom - Thanks Mom!

It was totally empty. OMGoodness! It's like Geraldo Rivera opening up Al Capone's vault. Nothing. There were newspaper articles about the event in the 70's talking about the photos and letters that were placed in the time capsule. I guess the original capsule was misplaced or someone had created this dummy version and those that knew about the real capsule are now long gone... I think it's just so funny!! I wonder if this little mystery will ever be solved.


Mrs. 4444 had a mid-week Fragment Favorites post. There were a lot of funny things last week, that's for sure. I got a mention in that post about my a few of my fragments - go take a gander! (Click here) Thanks Mrs. 4444 for the honor of Favorites badge once again :) It made my day.

Have a Fabulous Friday! Now go forth and fragment.
Kristin