Last Week

Last week something...

we are pretty sure a raccoon,

got in the chicken coop

and killed one of these girls.

She was sitting on "a bunch" of eggs.

He left the eggs and didn't harm

any of the other chickens.

The next day -

Bob did some more patching on the roof

and we went to visit our

Amish friend for a price on material .

Hope we can get a new roof on SOON.....

Also last week...

I put on some of my thrift shop threads

and headed out thrift store shopping!!

Only found a couple of things ---
But still FUN!!!

While in the "big city"
I visited Hobby Lobby....
looking for nothing in particular..
just looking.
I was surprised to see an  aisle of
pumpkins and Autumn signs.
I was AMAZED to see....

CHRISTMAS!!!!
This was not the only aisle...
WAIT, isn't it only JUNE????
I can't believe it!!

Oh well, that is all for today...
Guess I will close with...
Merry Christmas to all!!!



 

Happy Birthday to You and You and You

Yesterday was a good day - - -

no, yesterday was a GREAT day!

I headed to Otisville, (my hometown)

to visit with my family...

the TEACHOUTS!
Sadly, most of times we come together
at this point in our lives seem to be to mourn.
There was no mourning yesterday.
There was CELEBRATING!

There was reminiscing...
sure, there was a bit of sadness,
(we have lost too many loved ones not to have some sadness)
but maybe because of our lost loved ones
we were more able to just enjoy the moment --
enjoy each other.
We celebrated the birthday of  Darlene,
the wife of my cousin Carl,
who left us way too soon.....

It WAS a great day!
I am "borrowing" some of my cousin Shelly's pictures...
(You can't be dancing and taking pics at the same time)

SO much fun!
I have to thank my cousin Darla...
too many times I have  been to celebrations
and watched everyone else dance and have fun...

Darla just danced and danced and danced.
When I said "I need to rest"
she said, "soon you will be resting forever, 
COME ON, Let's DANCE!"
Thank you cousin..I will remember that!

Darlene, the birthday girl, with Yevonne (my sis)

I left this party to go to my son's house.
A party to celebrate my granddaughter Morgan's 13th birthday.
WHAT???
Our Morgan is a teenager????

My beautiful 13 year old girl!!!
Because there was just toooooo many birthday celebrations this weekend...
I missed my grandson Landon's 5th birthday celebration..

so I gave him his card on Sunday...

He seemed OK with that... :-)

Happy 5th Birthday Landon!

Y E S
It was a GREAT Day!!

June 1st - Dad's Birthday

Happy Birthday Dad....

I sure do miss you

I sure do wish you could be here

to see my grandchildren -

3 girls and 2 boys....

your GREAT grandchildren.

Jason has an amazing little guy

who has a birthday tomorrow...

Ron has a gorgeous daughter

who has a birthday the next day.

What a weekend of celebration

we could have had.....

 

________________________________________________________

 

UPDATE --- June 4th

 

My grandson Landon who had his party on the 2nd,

will actually be turning 5 on the 5th..

Morgan who had her party on the 3rd,

actually turned 13 on the 2nd...

whew....no wonder Grandma gets confused!!

I guess I need to refer to the trusty

Birthday calendar more often :-)

May 29. 2012

A day trip

to Mackinac Island

a VERY good day...

on the boat

me taking a picture of the bridge

arrival...

the LILACS...

our carriage ride...

 the Grand Hotel..

private homes -

with gorgeous grounds

and

spectacular views

YES...

A day on Mackinac is

A VERY GOOD DAY

INDEED!!!

May 24th....

Bob giving the sign a make-over..

Sis and Me - May 17th....

On May 15th my sister came for a visit.

(We had not seen each other for 7 months)

She spent 2 nights and we had a great visit -

we got Bob to take some pics of us

on the morning she left...

since neither one of us is very photogenic

our instructions to him were

"take LOTS of shots"

(yep, I told sis this would be the best one...LOL) 

 Saying goodbye to Toe-Toes...

May 14th.....

Again....the month has flown by -

so on this last day of May,

I am playing catch-up!!!

We got the run added to the chicken coop -

so the chickens will no longer tear up the flower beds..

We STILL have not finished painting this fence...

but this part looks mighty fine!

Bob even started hauling out some of our

"summer decor" ....

our Bryson's sign....

and this SO SO pretty gazing ball...

that the wind knocked over the very next day and

SHATTERED!!!!!

:-(



The SPROUT Project - - Take 2

A few weeks ago, I read an article
about making your own sprouts....

hmmmm - yea, I would like to do that....

So couple of weeks ago I gathered up these two jars...

and added lentil beans to one and alfalfa seeds to the other...

and then I waited and waited and waited...

Then I went back and again read the directions ...

oooops - made a bit of mistake

So ---

this was take 2 -

and surprise surprise....

following directions sure does make a difference!!

My dinner this evening....

was a VERY large salad...

with my very own, and very fresh

 bean sprouts and alfalfa sprouts.

DELICIOUS!