Sittin On My Dock Of The Bay: Sunset

As a teacher I liked teaching cursive.

I enjoy looking at old letters like Civil War and WWI letters home and seeing their beautiful penmanship, which is a lost art.

It takes me forever to chose just the right type in MS Word so that my documents have the right "style".

I guess you can call me a "font fanatic". LOL. So imagine my joy (yet utter horror) to find that there are websites that offer thousands of font styles to download to your computer. Some are for purchase, but most are free for personal use. I could spend hours looking at these and imagining just what I would use them for. Total geek, right?

So, in case you need some new writing style ideas for your upcoming Fall projects, here are a few interesting fonts I have found. I have linked to the download page for each.

In case you are unfamiliar with how to download a font let me share what works for me. Please keep in mind I am using Windows 7 and what you need to do may be different.

I left click on the "download" button, then left click again on the downloaded file tab that appears at the bottom of my screen to open it. Sometimes more than one file will appear inside the folder. Choose the one that says "font file" in its description and double click it. A screen showing all the letters in that style with an install button at the top should open. Click install and your computer should do the rest to unzip it and place it in the fonts folder of your hard drive.

Fantastic Fall Fonts:

http://www.fontspace.com/jeri-ingalls/ji-pumpkins

http://www.fontspace.com/la-vie-dansante/autumn-deco

http://www.fontspace.com/font-diner/homemade-apple

http://www.fontspace.com/fontscafe/chalk-hand-lettering-shaded-dem

http://www.fontspace.com/bythebutterfly/miss-smarty-pants

http://www.fontspace.com/kimberly-geswein/janda-cheerful-script

http://www.fontspace.com/briellemckennafonts/applespice

http://www.fontspace.com/fontscafe/universal-college

http://www.fontspace.com/kingthings/kingthings-foundation

Aren't they great? And if you'd like more here is a link to another blog I like to follow, I Should Be Mopping The Floor, for 15 more. This is a great blog, while you're there be sure to look around and check it out.

More Fall Fonts @ I Should Be Mopping The Floor

I'll end with sharing this picture. It rained ALL day on Tangier yesterday. The sky was very cloudy and gray. Just about 7:15 my son headed out to be with some friends for the evening and I sat down on the sofa to watch some TV and fold clothes. Something ( a strange light or color I don't know) attracted my attention to look out our sliding glass door where I was sitting and there was a very bright sliver of a rainbow. It looked very odd against the twilight sky. I had never seen one so late in the day before. I ran for my camera in the other room. When I got back it was starting to fade, but still made an interesting picture.

A Back To School / Goodbye Summer Feast

Here's what was for dinner at my house. And yeah, we are eating off mis-matched plates tonight because I've been putting in long hours down to school and short hours doing house work. But it's the food that counts - and both the hubby and I put a lot of work into this end of summer celebration tonight. Ha ha, I see some of my spray paints made it into the picture too. You know there is never not enough time for a paint project. LOL

So, what are we having? Let's go clockwise starting from the corn...Char grilled corn on the cob, fried potatoes and onions, fried soft shell crabs, batter fried shrimp, grilled stuffed portobello mushrooms, and grilled peaches for desert. Yum Yum. This is a Tangier feast! Don't you wish you were here?

Walk It Off Sister

After that meal I decided to take a photo walk over to our beach. Tangier has a long sand beach on the western end. Here are some pics I took ~~when I wasn't moaning about how full I was~~ while I walked:

On The Path To The Beach

A look back at the main section of the island from the beach path.
You can see the water tower, a tiny bit of the school, and the Methodist church on the far left.
Main ridge is at the center and right.