Saturday, June 6, 2015

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. --Jim Rohn

Hello!!!
I hope you have a wonderful weekend planned!
 
I DO have a card!
I needed it for our monthly get together!
I cheated & used rub ons for the front!
Because I might have a large hoard stash of them!
 
 
I'm going to my 'dear friends' place shortly.
To show her how to prune tomatoes so you get an awesome harvest!
I only ever had 12 plants in my garden & got 50-100 lbs. every year!
My friend D & I saw this wonderful playhouse one night while taking a drive around town!

 
I leave Wednesday for the Amish Auction Sale!
 
I've been to the dentist twice!
My surgeon for a check up!
He'll remove the screws in my foot after 6 months.
Yikes!
Of course I want to be awake!
I need to make sure that his power tool is in reverse!!
 
It's fence painting day over at Vanessas!
After I come back from pruning tomatoes, that's what I'll be doing.
It's supposed to be really hot out today, but is overcast, so should be perfect!
 
Better run, hope you're allowell!
Talk to ya later!
 


Saturday, May 23, 2015

Positive anything is better than negative nothing. --Elbert Hubbard

Hello, haven't seen you for a while!
I've been away, got back late last Saturday night, & have been super busy........of course I have! OI!

I'll show you Vanessa's Birthday card, and a picture of a scrawny moose, then you can get on with your lives!
Cause this post will be picture heavy...........
And let me just say that having a newfangled phone means some good pictures are on there!
Soon as I get them to the cloud, I'll share more!
(And yes, I manually have to send them there, cause I DO NOT have one of 'those' phones!)

 
Her birthday was Tuesday.
I took her for supper at Subway!
Dropped her off; then texted her that I was coming back, as the town has supplied big garbage bins all over town for the Spring Cleanup. They had just emptied the one at the end of the street, so we cleaned out her garage!
 
Here's the inside of the card.
I got the big stamp on the left from Mark at
Told Vanessa she had to practice those sayings all year!

 
I was on my way out to the farm for potting soil earlier this week.

 
Here's some pictures from our trip!!!
We left Peace River on Sunday the 3rd.
Stayed at Fort Saskatchewan Sunday night.
Lethbridge, AB. Monday night.
Sandy, Utah Tuesday, and we were in Maricopa on Wednesday night!
 

 
Saw a few of these below........


 
These were rocks (I think) at a rest stop!
They look like dinasaur skeletons to me!



 
Pretty truck!

 
Lighthouse somewhere in land locked Utah!



 
Las Vegas.
We just got lunch on the south(east) side!



 
Our traveling companion
Charlie Brown.
He gets upset with the Dog Whisperer!

 
Field of corn in Arizona

 
Lots of solar panels on the houses there

 
The cacti were blooming


 
Covered playgrounds

 
We ate here!
It was awesome. I also had a spiked lemonade! YUM!

 
I had a blast, we did tons of stuff, and absolutely nothing.
Ate out a couple times.
Shopped til we dropped a time or 2.
Swam in the pool every day except 2 I think!
Road trips to stores, a movie, life is good!
I'll be going back!
 
This is what the kids did for fun while I was gone!
Built a new fence!
 
 

This is what Kalen & I did today.
A privacy wall.
The neighbors deck is about 4 feet off the ground.
The patio at Vanessa's is about 2 feet in the ground.
You can see the retaining wall we built last year.
I'll show you when we get it painted, landscaped a tad, stairs in.....
Anyhoo, even with the new fence, we were on display!
Now we're not!
 
 
Kalen said we had to atone for not being there to help with the fence!
 
I've worked at the Oil & Gas trade show in Peace River.
Had dinner with the gf's & Wine Night Wednesday!
I had Avon to deliver, work to catch up on, and Firepit Friday!!
I am going up the alley tomorrow to finish a little piece of fence by the front gate!
Only because the weather's lovely & I like to be outside!!
Might even get to the farm for a minute.
One of the gf's wants some perennials.
 
Better go!
 
Hope you're well!
Talk to ya later!