HMFMC#368

 Hello!

Once again I have done a HM image!

Would it surprise you to know that I have a small drawer of HM images that need colored and/or put on a card!

I have also used an unused die for the 'strips', which are scraps!

Linking this up over at House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge!

Talk to ya later!

Stay safe!

HOUSE MOUSE & FRIENDS MONDAY CHALLENGE #367

 Hello!

I wanted to enter the challenge over at HMFMC!

I am entering as anything goes.

I wanted to do the option 'Naughty', but I didn't have a stamp that said, "This could be vodka"!

Enjoy! 

http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/2022/06/hmfmc-367-anything-goes-option-naughty.html

Stay safe!

Talk to ya later!

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

 Good day!

Alas, it is raining. Again!

Not going to complain, I don't have to water! If we get some heat after this, the garden will grow!

I DID get my daily wheelbarrow full of weeds before it poured! I'm in the flower beds now! They are BIG flower beds!

Of course I picked the only peonies that don't smell! Should've picked a lilac or 2 to go with!

 

I DO have some cards to share.

It's my son in laws birthday next week. He's a heavy duty mechanic.

 

Well, the picture is crappy, but it's pretty shiny in real life!

I made my nephew a grad card.

 

Then I made one for my mom to give to give my nephew, her grandson!

 

Then, because I had a plethora of stuff left over.....

 

I made Bryson a kindergarten grad card!

There you have it.

 I have been making cards...that are part of kits.

Building up my stash!

The sun is shining!

Don't know if I should fall for that & go outside for another wheelbarrow full of weeds, or wait!

Stay safe.

Talk to ya later! 

PAUSE! HALLOWEEN!

 Hello!

Sorry, I got sidetracked!

I was looking for a die, while reading my 'reading list' from Blogger.

I was in the Halloween drawer! 

There's a challenge at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge!

I just had to play! 

I was hoping to show the 'shine'!

Anyhoo, I'll carry on!

Stay safe.

Talk to ya later!

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!

 Hello!

I am back with some pictures and adventures from my travels.

No cards, so grab a beverage if you want to read on!

Our family reunion is this year, and I'm the hostess(with the mostess)!

I have decided we are going to play games. 

We never have.

That has required hours of going down the rabbit hole on Pinterest!

I took some dice and cards, and the Nutstacker game to play with Bryson. I wanted games that everyone could play. I modified the Nutstacker game, and we played quite a bit. I used plastic sucker sticks, and  hex nuts flat on the table.

We played a game similar to the Tenzi dice game.

He loved the card game Kings in the Corner. The fun thing was, the game could be done after one hand. He also liked the card game Trash.

However, I made bubbles and my own wands like the recipe said, but they were duds. I have another bubble recipe to try before the reunion. I wanted to make sure it worked before I took it. There would be some disappointed people!!

This was the recipe I used. It even said it got better if you waited. Well, I made it Thursday, arrived up north on Sunday, and we tried it Monday. Epic Fail! We did manage to get small bubbles, after I cut down the homemade wands, but they weren't impressive. Didn't go anywhere, and popped as soon as they hit the ground.

I have got the supplies for Frisbee Tic Tac Toe. Pool Noodle Hockey, Junk in the Trunk, Pool Noodle Frisbee race, Human Ring Toss, Hula Hoop Relay; these can just be set up and everyone can have atter! I want everyone to have fun, there are no prizes, but I've been thinking about getting ALL participants a coupon for a small (really they're HUGE) ice cream at the little country store down the road!

I have a scavenger hunt all ready to go, photo props (Pictures are another thing we're not good at sharing), and rock painting. Games for if it's really hot out, these include water! There will be the usual Silent Auction, and a 50/50 draw. I've already been delegating jobs!

While on my travels I saw these guys!

Just hanging out in the ditch and driveway of someones place!

Bryson & I held the sun at sunset.

I went to kindergarten for ice cream. It was Momdae(?)!

 

Batman gramma!

He was telling me that his Batman glasses aren't comfortable under his helmet, so I had to find the picture of when he got them, and I tried them on!

Grammas sunbonnet.

Vanessa hauled us off for family pictures. We DID behave for the most part.

 

We baked, played, watched movies; I got to see Encanto. Great movie!
 I visited with friends. That was awesome!

Too short of a visit. As always.

 Bryson is telling us he can reach the pedals! I told him in 10 years he could drive me home.

I also ordered a new vehicle. A Ford Escape Hybrid. In Rapid Red. Had to order it at Vanessa's work to get the friends & family discount! There are more and more rebates for hybrids, and with the price of gas.......

I went to the Grande Prairie Boys Choir Alumni 20 Anniversary concert that was cancelled between Christmas and New Years.

Visited with friends on my way home! 

Came home through the mountains. There was a TON of snow at the Columbia Ice Fields. 

I haven't stopped since I got home. 

Mom's yard people have still not showed up!?

She had called them to get her yard ready for spring, including adding dirt to her garden boxes. so that might have been as far back as the beginning of April. I thought for sure they would come while I was gone. Anyhoo....I have weeded, and planted, and weeded some more. Any dirt for the garden boxes will have to wait until fall!

 Weedy gardens.

She has 6 boxes, the thistle & dandelion beds were the most fun, haha.

All cleaned out. That mass in the box in the top picture is Lavender! Smells so awesome!

The 2 beds farthest from the garage are planted with flowers. Brown Eyed Susans, Echinacia, Mexican Torch, Bergamot, Sunflowers, Bee Balm, Spider Plant etc. Hopefully they all come back next year.

The middle ones are empty, but my peppers aren't planted yet. The 2 closest to the garage have tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, beets, yellow beans. onions, corn, lettuce and radishes.

Yesterday I weeded the raspberries.

Project started.

I even had to get my chair! I can only bend over for so long in a day!

I pulled out maple trees, poplars, little cedars, I don't think the yard people have been doing their job for years...I think maybe taking advantage.

Project complete!
 

 

 

Anyhoo, I got her some business cards for 2 other yard people. A change is as good as a rest.

Next on my list is getting the moss off the garden shed roof!

I've done the research. Tomorrow I'm calling Home Hardware to see if they have Wet & Forget. That's about all I'm up for! 

I had a gift card for a greenhouse in town, so this is what I got.

Geraniums at the top. And  a hanging basket for the cement planter. I took the hanger off. I'll try to take a pic later this summer of each. Kalen had got a wisteria for our old place, it came with us. Survived the winter in it's pot, and seems to like it's new home. 

Better go. 

Thanks for making it this far.....unless I put you to sleep.

Next post will have cards...really... I have some made!

Stay Safe.

Talk to ya later!