Dec18

1 week to go

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I’m glad to have my helper Sean home. He took me to a few places yesterday and we plan to go somewhere later. I’m having some issues, not uncommon for ladies my age, so my mom says, but interfering with my time crush. Let’s say I’m keeping Kimberly Clark in business as I just used their products 3 weeks ago.
I did get the last of Bri’s gifts and wrapped most of what I have. I do need to do some baking and figure out what we are having for dinner Christmas eve and Christmas.
I’m going in slow-mo right now, so I plan to chill tomorrow when the weather is suppose to be dicey.
I hope everyone is getting everything done that they want done! Don’t forget to view my slideshow down below.

Dec16

A change in the weather

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Seems like almost everyone in blogland is getting some kind of rain, sleet or snow today. It held off for a while, but the temps are dropping to the 30s. Yesterday it got to 66 degrees! It seems to be bothering my sinuses. Bri says he feels like he has a cold too. I heard general stuffiness all around me in Walgreen’s yesterday. Speaking of Walgreen’s-they have some neat holiday decor-from purple, pink and red/green lights on the string-two for $5 to fun Frosty the Snowman and Peanut comics stand ups. I bought the red and green lights and a set of three light up large Christmas balls then promptly decorated the front edges in anticipation of Sean’s arrival. He got home right when I was wrestling with an outdoor extension cord that was buried under stuff piled in the shed. Bri isn’t one to stack nicely.
Of course I was so happy to see him. He made good time-3 hours, but said the traffic was rough.
Mom has a follow up eye appt today, so I hope she’ll just get rain. We plan to take her to a wholesale club tomorrow or the next day and help her put up her tree. She wasn’t feeling well at all yesterday.
Today I plan to do some gift wrapping. I have almost everything I wanted to get-not a lot this year, but enough. One of Bri’s gifts is on back order, so I may try and find if locally.
Stay warm and dry!
~~Thanks to all who stopped by and looked at my slideshow yesterday~~ I plan to check more out too and leave comments.
~Update-Bri came home and showed me an obituary in the local paper, it was of a teacher from Sean’s elementary school that he had briefly in first grade. She was only 52. I left this condolence-
When we think back on Sean’s time at New Garden, Vicky is definitely a stand-out in our memories. She was so sweet and her niceness was contagious. Sean had her briefly for a teacher, so we always chatted when we saw each other over the years he attended the school and if we ran into her at the store,etc. She touched many lives in a positive way, I’m glad we knew her.

Dec15

Boo Mama’s 2008 Christmas Tour of Homes

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I think this is my third year participating in this fun event-what a great idea and thanks Boo Mama! What’s neat is that I will surely add more photos as I get things the way I want them. We haven’t really decorated too much outside, I’m hoping Sean will help with that on Tuesday.
The slide show should load quickly and if you mouse over the photo, it tells you about the photo. Enjoy and please leave me a comment-I love comments!

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Here’s last year’s slideshow too!
And my first share from 2006!

Dec14

I Recommend-#7

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Welcome to the seventh edition of ‘I recommend’. As the name implies, this is a share to recommend just about anything you like or have tried. It can be a book, drink, food, movie, music CD-anything. Mister Linky will open to another page (that’s how it works on WordPress). Please add your link there and don’t forget to leave me a comment here.

Fun stuff!

Ok, so you are plum tuckered out and need a break. What do you do? I like to play on the internet. My brother sent me a link to this site and I could make flowers all day. I bet you could print them out and make some purdy cards too-

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I call this Dahlia.

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This is a fun place called Txt2pic
They give you images that you add words too. I think LL Cool J said something like this when he was on Rachael Ray (but he said ‘the 40s’):

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I’ll be back to add more links as I go through my bookmarks through the day.

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It’s your turn:

Dec13

Sneak Peek #2

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We are a bit out of focus-gotta get Bri to use that camera more. Plus Mr. Cosmo didn’t like posing with his hat on, the poor guy!
Used ornaments I haven’t used for years! Well you’ll see a portion of them on Monday. I found a big box of those ‘bubble’ ornaments at the Goodwill last year-about 18 of them for only $2. I was going to make photo ornaments-maybe sometime down the road, but I like them so much the way they are too. I actually have two more big crates I didn’t look in yet! I know the one is the Victorian stuff. I plan to go through and donate some of the ones I was looking at today, just not my style anymore.
I have a terrible tickle on the right side of my throat-not all the time, but enough to be annoying. I think that’s where I have post nasal drip-drip. As soon as I get out of the dust, I’ll be better! Happens every year (and I worn a dust mask the last few days).

Dec13

Photo Hunt-Favorite

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I could mention a favorite food, etc. but I decided I’d show one of my favorite family photos that I also used for my Christmas card this year. The bigger girl is my maternal grandmom Ruth, who was cuter than this; her twin brothers William and Frank and little sister Edna. I know it was probably the 4th of July and my grandmom had just turned 8 or 9 the day before. Two of their siblings are missing-an older girl Ethel had passed away about 3 years earlier from pneumonia and little brother Albert wasn’t born yet. Ruth helped to raise me and my three brothers as my mom was a single parent. A friend who received this said it was her favorite Christmas card ever, which made my day!
I used music at the top as they were all musical, the boys later played in a band and Frank may have been in the Leo Reisman band in the soundtrack of ‘Paper Moon’. ‘Mom mom’ had a lovely voice and could play piano; I think Edna could play too.

Dec12

The tree is up-the tree is up!

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Brian got the tree out of the attic and it sets up quickly. I had trouble locating the multi-color lights I planned to use. Over the past few years, I’ve done pink and white, white and blue and red and white, so this is back to our ‘traditional’ look.
I met my mom at the Farmer’s Market, which was crowded and then thinned down. First I stopped at the TD Bank and got $117 for the coins I had. It kept telling me I had a lot of coins-no kidding! I split it up and saved $50 for Bri, but used the rest at the market. What a great feeling! I got mostly stocking stuffers for Sean. I have to watch what my mom picks up, so that makes me a little nervous. Got lots of yummy candies and Amish made salads, etc. for tonight and the weekend. We had pulled pork on rolls with fruit salad tonight. It was so much better than what Ruby’s passes off as pulled pork (I had it last Saturday and it was all dried out on top). Mom bought us half a chocolate cake-yum! I bought a little red poinsettia that looks like it has pink spatters on it and a new Christmas cactus-one of my favorite plants.
While in the end store I saw someone who looked familiar. I asked if she had gone to my high school and she said yes and I asked what year and she said ’77’! It was Lynn my old classmate shopping with her daughter. It’s so ironic as I am friending so many of my old chums on Face Book and Bri and I just went to that get-together last week. : ) I told her to come next time. She was a brain and great tennis player in high school.
I got an ornament exchange from Peggy in NC today-a great surprise! She sent a penguin made out of a light bulb-adorable!
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She makes soap and lotion from her goat’s milk, so she sent me some. I’ll have to take photos tomorrow. I have her ornies almost ready to go. I had to make a few too.
Tomorrow I’ll decorate the tree-can’t wait. I hope my back holds up!

Dec11

Sneak peek

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Close up of snowmen display, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

You’ll have to wait until Monday to see everything. Everything isn’t up yet-not the tree until the weekend. I like to leave our tree up until ‘Little Christmas’-January 5th or so. It’s not real anyway.

We are getting pounded with rain, that cold drenching kind. We were going to a diner tonight, but Bri just went through McDs. Maybe next week. Right now we hope our basement stays dry!

May meet my mom at a farmer’s market for stocking stuffers, etc. tomorrow.

It was definitely one of those days to take a nap-which I did while trying to watch Ellen. I cuddled up and 15 minutes later the show was over. Try to go to her website and enter the 12 Days of Christmas giveaways. Today they all got Kindles-the portable readers-I was so jealous! Rachael Ray has some good giveaways too. Regis and Kelly are giving away a car in January, but you need to collect 7 of the 10 clues to enter.

Stay warm and dry!

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Dec11

Facebook fun

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Happy Birthday MaryAnne! (my sister-in-law)
Playing around in Facebook and found this connection thing on someone else’s page. Most of the blue circles are high school pals:
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Sent off a few packages and went food shopping Wednesday. Exciting stuff, I know. It was raining and about 65 degrees out, so wore a sweat jacket, that’s it. A deluge is expected later, so I get to do more inside stuff. I tried to find my pizelle maker-couldn’t. Oh St. Anthony!

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