If you are lucky enough to have done well, then it is your responsibility to send the elevator back down.-Kevin Spacey

Alrighty!
Life's sure got in the way this past week!
I went to GP on Friday, and when I got to Vanessa's, I said, "You have a plant!"
She said, "It's for you."
Isn't it great!

Vanessa cooked supper!

We had a wonderful lasagne......

Followed by awesome apple pie!

I did buy her a trivet before I left on Saturday!

We watched movies with her friends!

We watched RIO, and Something Borrowed.

I've found out that Vanessa is a lurker...Hi Honey!

Just so ya know, the next 2 pictures, are spiders!

She has a phobia!

I made a card last week before I left.

Then I bought a few treasures, & changed it up!

Much better I think!
It was inspired by Curt's card; here. Which in turn inspired this card, I tell ya, it's a vicious circle!
But it's all good!

Saw a deer on the way to work one day.

I knocked down another tree....no troubles this time!
Had to drop it before Ray turned it into a production!
I'm going to see how long it takes for him to notice it's gone!
It was a leaner, and I said, "Why don't you knock that tree down, before it's big enough to fall on the house when it blows down?"
Ray, "It'll hit the gardens."
Well......it didn't!

There's the gardens on the left, and I dropped the tree on the right! About 30 feet away I say!

Here's the after I cleaned it up picture.

You can just see the stump in the middle of the picture!

Here's my audience while I put the cut up tree in the woodshed!

Such a big help!

I'll tackle the other trees on the weekend.

It's supposed to be really nice out starting tomorrow!

Here's the tomato crop!

There's only about 1/2 of what we usually get! Good thing I have salsa left from last year!

Here's the other 2 babies that are hanging out!
I haven't seen their mom for quite a while!

One orange one, and one grey one!

I got Shadow a heated dog bed....not what I thought; it was pretty expensive, and I think I'll have to crawl in the dog house & sit on it when it's 40 below to see if it works!
I also put a door on her house, and so far she's left it up!

I really hate intensly dislike September!
All my meetings start up, I've had one every week for the last 3, and have 2 next week.
One is stamp club, so that'll be fun!

The O/S is on a cruise right now.
He asked when I wanted to come visit, and then asked if we could meet at G-ma's!
Someone misses his grandma!
So instead of going to beautiful Victoria, B.C., I might be making another trip to my mommy's!
I told him to think about the weather, cause I'd be driving, so he said he'd call with a plan this weekend!

Better go, hope you're all having a great week!

Ta ta for now!

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted”-David Bly

Where to start!
Oh bother!
Sunday I had my day planned. hahahaha I should know better!
I threw some hamburger soup in the slow cooker; I really gotta order some new bread pans for the bread machine; I'm missin the fresh bread every weekend!
Ray's done driving truck & is farming for the neighbors.
I tied Shadow up, and took the power saw down the driveway to do my Paula Bunyan impression on 2 dead trees.
They were pretty close to the road, and sometimes Shadow has A.D.D.!
I'm just helping the trees along, so Mother Nature doesn't blow them over on the driveway in the winter!
I cut my wedge like I do, and nothing!
There was a knot in the wedge! The tree leaned, and the saw was stuck!
OIY!
I quad back to the house and get a maul, a hand saw, some wedgy type things and back down the drive way I go.
I hammer at the knot, pound wedges into the tree; the whole time the tree is cracking....and nothing!


Here's the leaner!

And here's the saw stuck in it!

See the orange thing!?

Husqvarna Chain Saw I got for Mother's Day one year cause I wanted a girl saw!

The Jonsered is pretty heavy!

2 hours later I had worked up a sweat, cussed the tree out, left the saw in it, and came home!
No wonder I have high blood pressure!
I then went to plan B!
Made cinnamon buns; little secret...Frozen Bread Dough people!

I had a meeting last night; Friends of the Library, so couldn't do anything about the leaner!
I wasn't losing any sleep over it, just didn't want Ray to see the saw stuck in the tree, I'd never hear the end of it!
Had a frost warning so covered the tomatoes & peppers, I'll deal with them on the weekend!

Today I came home, and saw this.....

So I was on a mission!

But first, I unlock the door, and see the rug in the entry all scrunched up,

the garbage is tipped over.... I say "hello?"

On top of the fridge in the entry I hear "meow"!

OMG! One of the kittens must have snuck in when Ray was on his way out,

and it was in the whole day!

OMG! I keep looking for cat pee!

Tossed the cat out, changed clothes, got the quad, axe,

and Shadow on a leash, and headed down the driveway.

Shadow sat in the grass in the ditch pouting cause she was tied up.

I only took her cause I saw the bear at the end of the driveway as I left for work this morning!

Like she's gonna do anything tied up! hahahaha

I worked up another sweat hacking away at that evil knot in the tree; the tree kept cracking, and just like on TV, only better, I grabbed the saw so it wouldn't hit the ground, and down went the tree!

Gail 1...Tree ZIP!

We've got some to come down in the yard, and Ray will turn them into a big production that will take days (I should talk); but I'm just going to drop them!

It's friend behind it is coming down too; just not today!

Cleaned up the driveway, came in to talk to you; read the mail,

gonna go feed the cats, then I'll be playing!

I'm going to GP this weekend.

Got errands to run for work!

I. KNOW!

Also Julian Austin is playing at the casino!

Might be another Rock City slash Tracy Lawrence thingy, and we all know I'm too old for that!

We'll see!

Made some cards.

Need one more Thanksgiving card...shoulda made 3!

I'm kinda on a roll with the Halloween cards!

I'm loving the paper....you know it's so last year, or retired....oh spare me!

Better go, hope you guys are all having a great week!

Ta ta for now!