Jack is hiding

Arr, we pirates don't use soap! They'll never find me here!

Captain Jack is back

"I feel pretty... I feel pretty... I feel pretty and witty and...."

Lost and Found

I have a confession to make.
A few days ago I realized I LOST JACK!
Jack was gone; I couldn't find him anywhere!
I came to this realization a few days ago when Morgen suggested I take Jack on my next "Let's take pictures at the cemetery" trip.
"What a great idea!" I thought.
And that's when it dawned on me that I had no clue where poor Jack was.
"Oh, NO!" I said. (Actually I said something a little more colorful than that, but you get the idea.)
I was embarrassed to admit it, because it seems like I'm always losing things. Morgen and Lee like to joke that one of my most frequent phrases is "Um, I know it's around here somewhere..."
I looked everywhere. Heck, I even looked in the fridge. No Jack.
Well, this evening I decided I was in the mood for one of my little bags of Xtra-Hot potato chips. I reached into the grocery bag to pull out a bag of chips, and to my utter shock and surprise I FOUND JACK in there! Yay! I found Jack! But I swear I do not remember putting him in with the potato chips! How the heck did he get in there??? Did he get the munchies and wander in there on his own?
Welcome back, Jack. Now if I could just find the zillion other things I seem to have lost.
I know they're around here somewhere.....

More Jack

Hey, look at this! And it's winking at me!





Ahh. Romantic lighting and a fair maiden. What more could any pirate want?

Jack and the gargoyle

"Hey, wait a minute; I smell gargoyle breath..."






"AAUUUGGHHH!! Watch the teeth! Watch the teeth!!!"

Where's Jack?

"It's kind of hard to hide from the camera behind clear plastic..."





"Aha! They'll never find me now!"

More of Jack

"So do you just sit around all day in people's gardens, or what? Haven't I seen you on TV somewhere? Did you know your hat looks like a road construction cone?"



"You're a lot nicer than that last gnome. Boy, did HE get cranky..."

Captain Jack goes to the Wren's Nest

"Here I am in Morgen's store, on his computer, Here's Janna's blog, see? There's that picture of when I was still in that accursed bag. Those were rough times.
I couldn't even breathe!"

"... And here's Morgen's blog.
Hey,what's a 'soap stud'?
Whoa, there's someone with a camera-- they're going to take pictures of me all over the store! Get ready!"

Coming to you, live, from exciting Dowagiac, MI...

Here I am, writing today's blog in Morgen's store!
I'm here at this lovely desk, typing away on an even lovelier laptop computer which makes MY computer look like rough-hewn stone wheels next to a Porsche. Tears of techno-awe are streaming down my cheeks.
(Think Morgen would notice if I stowed the laptop away in my bra and 'accidentally' took it home with me?) Hmmmm.....
I brought Captain Jack with me, and Morgen is excitedly taking pictures of him at various places in the store. He just called out "I'm having way too much fun with this, Janna!" :) So stay tuned-- soon you'll be treated to photos of Jack's very first adventure!

Hello, Captain Jack!!!

I've been sad and discouraged these past few days, for a variety of reasons, so it was perfect timing that my Captain Jack Sparrow Happy Meal Toy arrived in the mail today.
Yay! This cheers me up a little... and I'm coming up with some fun ideas on how to include him in my blog.
I'm thinking of doing one of those "Where is he today" kinds of things, where I take him to various places and post a picture of where he's been. The locations can be ordinary (e.g. my front porch) or weird (e.g next to dryer lint in a shopping cart along with my left shoe). See how neat this could be?
This might be just the thing I need.
Thank you, Jack!