Keeping busy...

 I just thought you might be interested to know that I have been keeping busy sewing bags for my upcoming craft fair at the end of the month...for those of you who live locally...it should be a really nice time...there is a home tour early in the day...collectible car display...food and the boutique after. It sounds like some pretty cool vendors will be there...I look forward to selling and hope I don't spend all my earnings there!! Anyway...here's a few of the bags I will be bringing...

I have been working on some zipper bags too...with more wool and ribbon trim on them...I will show those to you later...I don't want to overdo it!

Don continues to get better everyday. He went to his Internist today and they gave him a clean bill of health. He said it was more than likely a viral infection and the steroids helped heal his body...he said that his body more than likely will build up an immunity to anything like this again...I sure hope so!! He has been doing things around the house...making sure not to overdo it...and cooking...I love when he cooks! He is the "Grillmaster" for sure and tonight he is making filet mignon and portabello mushrooms...Yummy!!Now you know why I enjoy his cooking!!

Not much else going on in these parts...the weather has been warm...well...hot today! It reached 96 in our back yard...that's summer weather in these parts!I've done a bit of gardening...I move an Autumn sedum from the front yard to the back...it just got too huge...and I have been planting more seeds...the cosmos and zinnias are just starting to show up...so I'm looking forward to those flowers...although that means the hot weather will be staying...I'm not such a fan of that!

I hope all is going well with all of you...

until next time...enjoy your day!!!

It was a good day...

 Today was a good day...well...a great day really...we had the best visitor for about half the day...our great niece Stella kept us company while her Mom went to buy a new dresser for Stella's soon to be baby brother...we had lots of fun today...blowing lots of bubbles....

 A little gardening...which included lots of bird watching...Stella thought all the humming birds were the babies and the sparrows and finches were the Mommies and Daddies...it was so sweet...we watched Jungle Book while we ate cheese pizza and strawberries...we even made a bowling alley on the back porch out of empty water bottles and an old softball...

 Stella enjoyed spending time with her Uncle Don...

 She helped him measure things for the project he finally felt good enough to start...

And there were lots of rides in the wagon...up and down and up and down the street...the only thing... Don couldn't convince Stella to pull him! Maybe next time...so this is what retirement life is for us...just hanging out with the ones you love and enjoying yourself!! Like I said...it was a good...strike that...a great day!!

Until next time...enjoy YOUR day!!

April showers...

 Once again...the weather has turned cold and rainy...I love it!! Everything got a nice watering in the yard...I won't have to water now for quite a while...it's pretty chilly too. I just went outside and looked at the thermometer in the back and it read 54 degrees...that's chilly for mid-April here! There was a ton of thunder yesterday too...and some really hard rain in the late afternoon and evening...it was perfect sewing weather!

 When I looked outside on the front porch...this is what I saw...a late snow storm...oh so beautiful!! Some people don't like this...but it's great for our area...it keeps the skiing areas open a bit longer...great for the local economy...and keeps the fire danger down for a while too...and gives my area more good drinking water...plus...it looks so pretty too!

 The snow looks pretty low too...maybe about 2000feet...the small hills in front are about 1400 feet or so...

In other news...I want to say a huge Thanks for all the prayers sent Don's way...he seems to have turned a corner...we think the steroids are working and he is feeling much better. He actually has some energy and he hasn't had to use the inhaler for the last couple days! He is still coughing...but not as much and not as hard. His pulled muscle still hurts and there is a HUGE bruise there...poor thing...but all in all...he is MUCH better. I think if all goes well...he will be back to normal in a couple weeks...Thank the Lord!! We are so blessed to have had so many people sending out prayers!

Until next time...enjoy your day!!!

Old is new again...

 I wanted to show you the project I worked on yesterday...it all started with this rusty bucket...I've had this big bucket for many years and I liked the rusty quality...but I thought I need an update and since I changed things around on my front porch...I thought I'd give it a new look and move it to the back porch...I should have taken a picture before the new orange color...but I forgot!

 A few coats of paint later and it was ready for a few plants...I wanted an eggplant...but for some reason they always get eaten by gophers...last year I lost 3! If the gophers can get it in here...they're welcome to it! I moved some cilantro from another pot and a viola from one of the teacups...I got a pony pack of cosmos when I bought the paint...so I thought one might do OK in here too...

 A little gnome who brought his own umbrella for shade thought it was the perfect place to hang out...

What do you think?? I think it looks all ready for Spring in it's new orange...and yes...those are mums in the pot next to it...they don't know that's it's Spring...they bloom all year long!

This morning we woke to rain...it's supposed to rain for a few days, so I'm glad I got this done...now I can sit on the back porch in the rain and it will be bright and cheerful!

Until next time...enjoy your day!!!

I'm back...sort of...

 I know I haven't been around in blogland much lately...it's not that I haven't wanted too...but things...well...they've been a little difficult around here...I am not one to share too much personal information...I think some things we should just keep private...but I thought we could use your help...if you wouldn't mind...

 It's nothing too serious...I don't want you to think that...its just that ever since Don retired...he's not been feeling well...it started with a cough...a dry cough...that was constant...people and doctors kept telling us...it's going around...it will go away...well it's been 5 weeks...and it hasn't left...the real problem is the shortness of breath that has gone along with the coughing...and the mystery of it all...

 He keeps going back to the doctor and they keep giving him a different antibiotic...a different medicine for something...first they said it was viral...that it's going around...then why didn't I get it?? Then they thought it might be Bronchitis...no...it wasn't that...chest xrays are good...what could this mystery illness be?? Now the thought is to try a steroid treatment and wait 2 weeks...that was 4 days ago...he's still coughing...still short of breath...but he thinks maybe the steroids might be working...

because this has been the farthest he's strayed from the house other than a trip to San Diego for Joseph's wrist surgery and what a bad time that was...I thought I was going to have to admit him down there...and to the doctor's office...and my sister's house for Easter dinner yesterday...which wore him out...today he felt up to running a couple errands with me! Anyway...getting back to you...I was hoping some extra prayers might help...like I said...it's not a serious illness...just a very frustrating and at some points...very scary...like when he can't catch his breath because the coughing is so violent...or when he pulled a muscle next to his diaphragm and had to go to get a powerful pain shot to help him rest...and when he's feeling so low that I can't cheer him up...so your prayers would be appreciated....I'm sure they will work. Don is the love of my life...and when he is sad...I am sad..when he is hurting...I am too...you get it...so enough of my whining and carrying on...I will try to get back into posting...I just haven't done much but sew and take care of Don and housework and garden...so I really haven't had much to tell you...life has been...well...not at all exciting...just make it through the day and hope the next one is better...but I think ...and I pray...that the next one IS going to be better and that we have turned this corner and we're NOT going back there again!!

So...until next time...enjoy your day!!!