Check Off Another One...

Laundry room finished!!  Yellow paint that was toooo bright for a bedroom works just fine here.  It is so darn cheery in fact, that I just love spending time in this room....well, ok that is a slight exageration ---but it does make me SMILE!

Princess Missy

Today Missy went to the beauty shop....a little primping after she got back home....and she was once again BEAUTIFUL!!

Lovin' This Weather!

Only 18 degrees here this morning!!!  It seems we always get a mention on the local weather because we are the coldest in the area ..... but the sun was soon shining brightly - causing the steam to rise up from the pond -  and we are again heading for an unseasonably warm day.  Yaaaaay!!!!!!!!!

Just Bob - Playing With FIRE

This afternoon, Bob decided to do a little burning --- this always makes me a tad bit nervous, I imagine the field burning, the barn burning, etc. etc. Bob watched for awhile, then decided he would get out the skidsteer....just in case... Here he is posted in his "machine" and the fire is burning down nicely (and safely). WHEW!!!!!!

Mom's Birthday

Last week we had a 3 day celebration for mom's 92nd birthday. She was able to go back home - where she had lots of visitors and callers wishing her Happy Birthday.

Here she is doing what she loves the most....playing cards! She was able to get in several euchre games with her grandchildren.

Of all the shots we took with her great grandchildren, this is the best I ended up with... Morgan had not made it to the group and Aiden was ready to leave the group!!

Aiden, snuggling up to his great great grandma.

Lately.....

It has been awhile since my last post...so this is what has been going on - this pic is of Bob scraping his windshield after a frost on AUG. 30th.. a frost in August...how crazy is that???? Bob is still working on the bell tower..caulking all the cracks...painting..etc. I have spent a lot of time trying to get ORGANIZED....which means filing, filing, filing....thank goodness I had some help. Missy was right there in the boxes telling me where to put things!

The other day, while having breakfast, mom said - is that a cat on the barn roof? I grabbed my camera, to get a shot of Baby..

It appears this is her new favorite pass-time. My only concern is the fact that we have a BALD EAGLE that visits every once in awhile...if he catches her up there, she won't have a chance --- be very careful Baby!!!

Now that summer is almost over my morning glories are looking pretty darn good!

And this is hubby - about 15 months ago, while watching those darn infomercials, he bought a juicer. Today, with a fridge and garden full of fruits and vegetables, he finally took it out of the box. He had carrot (from our garden) juice and made mom & me a delicious drink of fresh strawberries and peaches...mmmmmm! Here he is reading the directions AFTER making the juice and have a little problem with the tomatoes.

The Yard - For Jamie

This post is actually for Jamie, our friend and former neighbor. While visiting her a couple of weeks ago she asked if she could stop in with some ladies from the garden club. It seems she has a trip planned for our area and wondered if they could add our place in their places to visit. We said sure, that would be great, we will be ready with lemonade and cookies.....THEN we got home and started looking around....with the eyes of 40 some women.... who had been on a bus for about 3 hours.... all we could see was the look of disappointment in their eyes as they stepped off that bus!! So Jamie, we hope you will keep us in mind a year or two down the road, because it really would be cool to someday see a bus full of ladies from our favorite town stop in for a nice leisurely stroll through our yard and gardens!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our front porch - a great place rock away an hour or so - Front yard

Side yard

Side deck

Side yard

Side yard berm - in progress

More Flowers

Wow - summer is FLYING by - it is August already!!! Time to post some flowers....look closely into my gazing ball and see the fruits of Robert's labor - This is one of the pots beside the driveway - the petunias are going CRAZY!

Robert LOVES his lilies....they smell even more heavenly than they look!

My sunflower....I planted lots of sunflowers, but a FAMILY of ground hogs ate most of them as seedlings. I was planning on going out this morning and taking this ones picture again with the sunshine on it....BUT a storm last night SNAPPED it off....do you know the song Gone like a freight train, Gone like yesterday, Gone like a soldier in the civil war, Bang Bang......yea, you get the idea. To say I'm upset is putting it MILDLY!!!