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Rain on a Tin Roof

DIY and Home Decor Blog. Fly Your Freak Flag.

Freak Show Fridays

Freak Show Friday: I guess that’s love.

October 26, 2018 By Jenna 15 Comments

Over the past month or so, many of our weekends have been spent putting up a new fence around a hayfield at the farm. To be exact, 2,650 feet of fence, which equates to 307 steel posts, 27 wood posts and 8 spools of barb wire. So ya know, a pretty damn long stretch of…

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Signs You're Raising a Well-Rounded Child

Freak Show Friday: Signs You’re Raising a Well-Rounded Child

March 2, 2018 By Jenna 42 Comments

From the time the Circus was born, all I ever wanted was for her to be a well-rounded kid. I of course want her to be happy and laugh and play, but I also want her to appreciate music of all kinds, love aspects of both the city and the country, appreciate dressing up and…

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Freak Show Friday: On the Contrary

Freak Show Friday: On the contrary.

October 20, 2017 By Jenna 53 Comments

I went to Walgreen’s last night to get an Amoxicillin prescription filled for the Circus. I handed the pharmacy tech the prescription and she asked if the Circus liked the bubble gum flavor in that medicine. I had to think for a second. I thought, I should know the answer to this, right?! Come on,…

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Freak Show Friday: Things New Rednecks Say

Freak Show Friday: I’m New Redneck.

September 8, 2017 By Jenna 13 Comments

Yes, you read that title right – it is a brand spanking new Freak Show Friday! This series kind of went on hiatus during the summer so I could spend more time with the Circus, but she started back to preschool this week, so Freak Show Friday is back! I won’t guarantee one every Friday,…

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How to Raise a Kid with Personality

Freak Show Friday: How to Raise a Kid with Personality

April 28, 2017 By Jenna 19 Comments

The Circus is turning five next month. The personality this kid has got on her is something else and nothing that I ever thought a five year old could possess. I’m already considering pre-checking myself into the local mental health hospital because if this continues and her personality grows as she grows, I don’t know how I’ll…

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Things Kids Raised in a Southern Baptist Church Grow Up to Say

Freak Show Friday: Things Southern Baptist Kids Say When They Grow Up

March 31, 2017 By Jenna 27 Comments

As you should know by now, I grew up in a small town. A very small southern town. At the time, I didn’t think so, but it really was a grand way to grow up.  I grew up beside corn and cows. We had cable and as I grew up we slowly went from 17…

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CityScope Magazine Feature

The Stones, Conway, Dolly and Jerry Hall among other things.

March 10, 2017 By Jenna 26 Comments

Grunt Labor has been pissed at me for like the last three weeks because I haven’t had a new Freak Show Friday. Yes, I dropped the ball, but in my defense it’s been crazier than when the patients take over the asylum up in here. As I was thinking about what to write for Freak…

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Did you put your college party panties on?

Freak Show Friday: Did you put your college party panties on?

February 10, 2017 By Jenna 8 Comments

Last Tuesday night on a whim, Grunt and I decided to see if our babysitter was available for Saturday night. It had been far too long since we’d gone out. Mama and Daddy needed a break, a drink and conversation that didn’t revolve around Shimmer and Shine from the Nick Jr. channel. Lucky for us,…

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Quotes from Last Night | Volume Two | I'll have what Andre 3000 just ordered.

Freak Show Friday: Quotes from Last Night | Volume Two

January 27, 2017 By Jenna 2 Comments

Instead of titling this post “Quotes from Last Night, Round Two” or “Part Two”, I went with “Volume Two.” I just felt like using the word volume made it seem more profound, more important.  And these quotes are of the utmost importance and profoundness….<—-that might not be an actual word.  If you missed the first…

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Freak Show Friday: The Great Christmas Screw-Up of 2016

Freak Show Friday: The Great Christmas Screw-Up of 2016

January 13, 2017 By Jenna 42 Comments

Affiliate links included in this post.  I would not consider myself a “Pinterest Mom.” I try really hard to do cute little crafts and things with the Circus, but 9 times out of 10, I end up reaching for the Paint with Water Lisa Frank book rather than making something constructed with pipe cleaners, glitter…

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Freak Show Friday: You might have been at our Christmas party if...

Freak Show Friday: You might have been at our Christmas party if…

December 16, 2016 By Jenna 10 Comments

Last Saturday was the annual Christmas party at our house. Every year, although there was a three year hiatus when parenthood was really putting a strain on our social life, we hold a Christmas party. We have lots of food and booze, but the deal is you must bring a toy or other item for…

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Quotes from Last Night: Make a pimp decision.

Freak Show Friday: Quotes from Last Night

December 2, 2016 By Jenna 18 Comments

You’ve seen the Texts from Last Night thing, right? It’s a collection of texts that should have never been sent, but for our own entertainment, we’re so glad those people hit the send button. Our group doesn’t have those texts. Instead, throughout the night I keep a running list in my phone of fantastic things…

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Yard Sale Chronicles: A good Christian level.

Freak Show Friday: The Yard Sale Chronicles

November 18, 2016 By Jenna 12 Comments

My friends and I have two or three yard sales a year. We’re starting to consider ourselves professionals. In fact, I even wrote about our best tips for yard sales in this post.  Of course, one of the reasons our yard sales are so successful is because not only do we get entertainment from many…

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CMA Awards Emotional Roller Coaster | Chris Stapleton Quote

Freak Show Friday: The Emotional Roller Coaster that was the CMA Awards

November 4, 2016 By Jenna 12 Comments

Ya’ll. For the first time in years, I watched the CMA awards show live. Normally, I record the show and save it for the weekend because I tend to drink a little more than I should during the awards and I need that extra time on the weekends to recover. In fact, you may remember…

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Freak Show Friday: 6 Signs You Had a Successful Redneck Staycation

Freak Show Friday: 6 Signs You Had a Successful Redneck Staycation

October 21, 2016 By Jenna 20 Comments

For the second year in a row, we’ve been hurricaned out of our fall break vacation. We were supposed to spend part of the week in the Isle of Palms, our favorite beach just outside of Charleston and then a couple of days in Savannah, but Mother Nature said forget that. Instead, we hunkered down at…

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Super Trouper Dancing Queens

Freak Show Friday: The Christening Party

October 7, 2016 By Jenna 18 Comments

I should really have more things to tell you about the 70’s Landing Pad Christening party than I do. Here’s the thing though. It was one of those nights where you just get caught up having a great time and you forget to write down all the quotes that could have been prime Saturday Night…

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Circus and Mama

Freak Show Friday: September, we’re breaking up. (And other ramblings.)

September 30, 2016 By Jenna 30 Comments

Affiliate links may be contained in this post. You know, September is really a tease. At the beginning of the month, I was all like “Yes! The Circus starts back to preschool, I’ll be able to get all these projects done and hopefully find that long-lost resemblance of a life I once had!” And then…

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Freak Show Friday: We've done went to the wrong country club.

Freak Show Friday: We’re with the groom. Obviously.

September 9, 2016 By Jenna 20 Comments

If you didn’t read last week’s Freak Show Friday, then stop right now and read it. This week’s is a follow-up to last week’s. You see when southerners meet New York, you simply can’t fit it all into one freak show. Last week, I left off at when we had arrived in Rye, New York,…

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Freak Show Friday: We barely made it here with shoes on.

September 2, 2016 By Jenna 15 Comments

The man of questionable honor got married last weekend. Carrie Bradshaw once said that people go to New York for two reasons: love and labels. Well, Brandon had a new job title waiting on him there and then he conveniently fell in love. He’s a NYC success story as well as a Tinder one. <—–…

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Freak Show Friday: Moms and the City Quotes

Freak Show Friday: Moms and the City

August 19, 2016 By Jenna 32 Comments

I would not consider myself and my group of “mom friends” hip. This is nothing they wouldn’t agree to themselves, so don’t worry that I’m offending them. My mom friends and I, with the exception of one of us, have been friends since we were in elementary school. We go way back and after a…

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Freak Show Friday: If you'll be our surrogate, I'll buy you a pool.

Freak Show Friday: If you’ll be our surrogate, I’ll buy you a pool.

July 22, 2016 By Jenna 31 Comments

There are few people in this world you make a connection with where nothing you say can phase them. You can call them an asshole and they won’t bat an eye, but they may laugh at you. You can say you’re jumping in the truck, getting the heck out of dodge and never coming back. Most…

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A Night to Remember: Keith Whitley is what God plays over the loudspeaker in Heaven.

Freak Show Friday: A night to remember.

July 1, 2016 By Jenna 24 Comments

I have two very serious weaknesses. Cheap beer and country music. Specifically 80’s and 90’s country music – the good stuff. If the two are combined for a long period of time in more than normal doses, then you can bet your last dollar I will end up going back and forth between crying and laughing by…

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Freak Show Friday: This is my confession.

Freak Show Friday: This is my confession.

June 10, 2016 By Jenna 29 Comments

I don’t claim to be a professional DIYer. Wait, is it even possible to be a professional DIYer? I’m not sure, but anyway, I’m probably not one. I’m just a girl who loves decorating, can use power tools, but a jigsaw isn’t her favorite. I tend to come up with these awesome ideas for building projects…

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Freak Flag Flyer.

Freak Show Friday: This is 31.

May 27, 2016 By Jenna 34 Comments

When I was about to turn 25, I had a playlist on my iPod titled “I’m not going to be 25.” For me, 25 was like the gateway to 30 – and that was terrifying. When you’re in elementary school and they teach you to round numbers to the nearest tenth, then if it’s five,…

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