What a year it has been! Ever since I got bronchial pneumonia boarding the train for New York, October of 2023, we have had to deal with one thing after another. Seven months of 4 doses of antibiotics and steroids finally got me on track again with that issue. Then Russ started coughing and coughing, Read more about #233..Geez It’s Been 7 Months, Toss the Jello[…]
 I am soooo ready to play out in my flower plots but it is sooo cold out there! Trees are blossoming…flowers everywhere and still we are in the deep freeze. The garden has been plowed, thank you Terry Goforth, the seeds are waiting and here I sit. Next week, hub side-kick is instructed to Read more about #232…Winter, Spring, Sprinter[…]
This is February after all. So this week has been 70’s and then 80..and now this morning snow and 12 degrees. My friends have been asking what all have I been doing outside? The weather never determines my activities. Everything in my life is planned by 4 seasons. Spring does not officially start for almost Read more about #231…70 Degree Drop In One Day…This is Missouri[…]
Feb 23 and it’s going to be 70 degrees. Of course I have spring fever! The miracle is that hub-side kick does also. We ordered up BLACK windows and BLACK doors! ! ! 3X3 sheets of gray flooring. OMG! I am painting up everything I can find in flat black. So I have a black Read more about #230…Black/Gray & Coral…Weaving a Common Thread[…]
Flowers are true love, chocolate the finest gift…if not diamonds… This morning I experienced the next level of love. Hub side-kick took some time thinking about this. I have been awaiting therapy for arthritis pressing on my nerve endings in my neck and somehow I had fallen between the cracks with an appointment and 4 Read more about #229…Valentine’s Day at a New Level[…]
Geez, It’s been 3 1/2 months since I last posted! So much has happened to change my life. We had to get ready for our train trip to Schenectady New York in October. Prepare all the flower plots for winter…the farm…equipment, winterize the motorhome, the house, pack, leave the house clean…so much to do, not Read more about #228…I’m Back…Reflecting…[…]
Where do all these projects come from? Why, my beloved magazines…HGTV, BETTER HOMES & GARDENS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, WOMAN’S DAY, REAL SIMPLE, COUNTRY HOME and GARDEN GATE. Sometimes 4 issues will come in 1 day. I’m in heaven! But I cannot keep all these magazines, so going thru the pages, there will be nuggets of gold Read more about #227…Books, Magazines Get Me in Trouble…Again[…]
I am my mother’s daughter. Every season 4 times a year she would rearrange the rooms. I have faithfully duplicated that all my life. And then when I was a teen, someone invented the 1st garage sale…yard sale, and I’ve been saling ever since! Now in the late autumn of my life, because of macular Read more about #223…Changing of the Colors, Of Course![…]
The kids say Mom is anal, hub-sidekick sez “where you gonna put it?” I walked away from this estate sale EVEN though it was 75% off for a total of $18.50! We are talking solid oak with glass doors, glass shelves…light…not one scratch. I’ll let Russ think he brought me to my senses, but the Read more about #221…Amazingly It’s getting Done…Almost![…]
My kitchen looks ridiculous. So 3 weeks have gone by as I work on cleaning out every cabinet and purging and then purging some more. I have 45 cabinet doors, a short attention span and struggle with rabbit trailing. Did I mention I am ? citcelsyD. So again I have to trick my mind. Yes, Read more about #220…Will I Ever Get Done?[…]
