Abby is showing off this year's ballet costume. She will be performing one ballet number and one jazz number this year. The ballet costume is quite a precious in person, particularly the satin edging on the tutu. Her jazz costume, on the other hand, is 100% red and, well, 100% horrible. It's not the color that makes it sort of odd, but there is just too much of everything on it -- a weird hat with huge brim, sparkles, fuzzy trim, and these strange red side things that stick out. It's a LOT of costume.
Caroline is performing one tap number and her costume is cute too -- but we'll just let that one be a surprise. Think Roaring 20s combined with Little Mermaid.
I clearly forgot to check out the background composition for the photo posted above. Oops! Our neighbor has all sorts of goodies lined up on the curb for the annual bulk trash pickup. My favorite park of bulk trash day is bulk trash day "eve" when scores of people drive around the neighborhood with their trucks and vans and pick through your stuff. Although it is kind of odd, I actually do love when people do that, sincerely. That practice keeps huge volumes of re-usable stuff out of landfills, which is great! I do find it frustrating that so many people throw away perfectly good stuff rather than make an effort to donate it or recycle it or freecycle it. Getting off the environmental soapbox...
This year I decided to put a bunch of non-trash items out temporarily to see if anyone wanted them. I figured if someone wants it, it would save me a trip to Goodwill or posting photos on freecycle. Sure enough, all those items were adopted by 5pm (e.g., rusty pink children's scooter with missing wheel covers -- snapped up!).
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