A Walk Around The Yard & A Yummy Breakfast

 As spring moves forward, 

everything blooms in it's time. I'll show you what's thriving in my gardens right now.

This is a pink Rhododendron that blooms several times a year.

The white Azaleas bloom right after the colored ones...

while the pink and purple Azaleas are still in bloom.

We have about 8 Viburnum bushes in our backyard...all in a row providing a privacy wall.

They are about 12 feet high and are on full display right now.

We got "real" hungry walking around the yard...off we went to our favorite breakfast joint,

Committed Pig

We love this place and they have the best blueberry pancakes.

They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Breakfast Menu

We split the blueberry pancakes and bacon.

We also split the hashbrowns.

This golden pig greets you in the vestibule.

This restaurant is in the heart of the beautiful beach community of Manasquan, NJ.

If you ever visit, there are some really great restaurants in the area.

Do You Have A Junk Journal?

Do you know what a Junk Journal is?

I do...I have one.

I didn't really know that it had a name, or that other people save the memorabilia I do.

But they do and they put the items in a "Junk Journal".

Before I started my blog, I enjoyed preserving my memories into scrapbooks.

I have a lot of handmade scrapbooks.

I started blogging in 2010, my blog became my scrapbook, my journal.

But I was used to saving all the things, tickets, room keys, brochures, menus, business cards...

and I included them in my scrapbooks.

Not wanting to throw those things away, I started making "Memory Jars" for all the memorabilia. 

I wrote about those memory jars and their contents here, here and here.

At some point I realized I never opened the jars to revisit the items 

and thought perhaps it would be better served in a book.

- so long story longer...here's a look at my Junk Journal -

I can't really close the book, 

it's a store bought journal and I would like to recover the out side and make it pretty.

The hubs ran into the food store, just to pick up a few things...

he came out with these flowers...aren't they gorgeous?!