Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. --Harvey Mackay

Hello people!
Gosh I'm a bad blogger!
Had good intentions all week!
I have projects on the go, but nothing's finished!

Was really cold a couple days this past week, lovely today though, and a friend & I went Greenhouse hopping!
Is it me, or are the prices atrocious!? OMG!
Ray called, and I told him I spent all my allowance, and still need a shrub to replace the one he killed last year with fertilizer!
We started out at a greenhouse about 1 hour & 45 minutes away.
Vanessa met us there so I gave her her birthday present!
Which she opened, so I can show you her card!

The outside...remember, her favorite color is blue, and it has to have a dragonfly on it!

This is the inside, and that darn ribbon kept wanting to fall inside the top present!

I found the tutorial here, then adapted it!

I always make a rough copy....don't you?!

The little button?!

Ink smear....isn't that why they invented embellishments?!

It wasn't like I could turn the card stock over, and re-stamp!!!

 I also got my potatoes planted this week!

Forgot to wear my gloves......until I had 3 holes left!

I have raised garden beds people;

so I use a hand trowel!

42 non hills of potatoes, cause I plant them to China!

Tried to find you a link to my gardens, but the internet is working crappy tonight!

I should have pictures of them about last June.

When it snowed!

And I had all my plants planted!

Had to cover them for a few days!

Anyhoo........

tomorrow is Mother's Day!

The kids sent me a lovely bouquet of flowers!

On the agenda for me tomorrow is some yard work,

and hopefully the darn wind quits so I can burn stuff!

Have a great day tomorrow peeps, Happy Mother's Day, and I'll talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

Laughter is inner jogging.- Norman Cousins

Good morning!
Hope you've all had a wonderful week!?

Thought I'd get to take it easy this week, NOT!
What was I thinking!?

I DID get the fire pit cleaned out last night.
In spite of the showers steady rain we had most of the day!

I took Shadow to the vet for her check up last Saturday!
She has a sty in her eye, that I'm treating with a tea bag!? Go figure.
One of my friends said that when they were little, their mom used to steep a tea bag, and rub the warm bag in their eye, and the sty went away....guess what!? It's working!
The vet took a picture of it, and said if it was still there in a couple weeks I needed to take her back!
It's almost gone!
I'll also have you know that Shadow, the cats I could catch (and I) have all had our worm treatment for the next 6 months! OI!

Friends of the Manning Library had a meeting Tuesday....We have casino money to spend.
I'm afraid we might not be friends during the process!

Went out for dinner with the gf's on Wednesday.

Thursday night I went to a concert!
It was at our local movie theatre!
They need a digital projector, so were doing a fund raiser!
The almost sold out crowd listened to Cassey Walker and Duane Steele!
It was really nice, and there wasn't thousands of screaming people!!!
There were kids though, and after the intermission, when Duane said he wouldn't keep us very long.....
one kid in the front row piped up, "Yeah, we got school tomorrow." LOL!
I think we need to help our little theatre out.
It would be sad if it had to close down!

On the agenda for today is to start Shadow's trim for the summer!
Ask Ray what's going on in the woodshed!?
He's got stacks of wood inside & out!
Put a couple shingles on Shadow's house.
Dump the wagon on the quad; it has the fire pit remains in it!
I have a roast in the slow cooker already!
Got a jump on the laundry by doing a load & hanging it out last night!
And if I get a minute the new challenge is up over at CCAYR!
Also, the house could use a vacum & mop!

It's windier than heck out right now, and the wind is cold!
Supposed to be warm later!

I sent Kalen a cookbook with a bread recipe in it;
I was looking for it when he was here...him and his roommate are bakers it seems!
It was a Charlie Brown cookbook one of the first book orders one of the kids made in school in Grade 1 from Scholastic Books.
The recipe is All Star White Bread!
I can't for the life of me find a link!!!
Of course I made him a card.
Got the inspiration here!

This week on my way to work I saw a herd of elk.

Some deer!

And these next pictures are for my friend Barbara!

I think it's last years calf, and it looks like it has ticks!

That's all I got!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone, and thanks to those of you that keep track of me with e-mails!

It's been really busy at work, but hopefully I've visited most of you!

Ta ta for now!