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This was taken back in January at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA. This is an outdoor water show and the lights change colors and the fountains change shape. The snowflakes are in the trees behind the fountains. I plan to get a pass to go here as much as I can for exercise, to enjoy the gardens and to photograph things like crazy. The wind was fierce, it blew all day and even knocked down my big plastic garden bench. But it was the warm weather-close to 70 degrees that was so unusual. It got so warm in here, I turned on the air conditioner for about 15 minutes to cool the place off! Yes-in December. It was a jinx as the power went out for a few minutes right after that. I don’t like warm weather in December. It throws me off like you wouldn’t believe! And we were expecting ‘severe’ rainstorms all day-it went through about 7 and lasted about 10 minutes or so.
I went down the basement to look at the jumble of Christmas decorations and picked up one basket and a cloud of dust erupted from it! Ugh! I think it’s the kitty litter settling on everything. I asked Bri to switch to the crystal stuff-looked in the box and it was the sandy stuff again. That means I have to be like a bandit and cover my nose and eyes everytime I go looking for something.
So I did pack up the last of the Thankgiving/Autumn decorations first (opps-forgot my hutch!) I’m getting the decorating itch!
Thanks to Sean, I had a nice evening last night. When he came home from classes, he said he had read that James was going to be on PBS at 9. It didn’t take me long to realize it was probably the show honoring him from March of this year-Musicare’s Man of the Year award show to be exact. It was really a great program! Lots of musicians singing JT songs. JT looking so fine and modest in the audience in his dark suit and ice blue silk tie. Seeing the little 5 yr old Taylors-Rufus (I thought it was Logan) and Henry booging with their uncle Livingston on stage while dad got into ‘How Sweet it Is’. So this was a treat for me and I know what to ask for, the DVD for Christmas!
…more than once for me! I’m still celebrating my birthday 10 days later thanks to AnneMarie from the Netherlands and my friend Angela from N.Y.
Here are the surprises from AnneMarie. What a wonderful stitcher and a perfect finisher she is!
The Prairie Schooler is my favorite cross stitch designer, so AM did a black bird autumnal design for me. The book is a pretty DMC one featuring fruits. The two kinds of fabric will be well utilized. Thanks so much AM! I’ll send you off one of my special collage cards soon.
Today a package came from Angela. She had designed 3 gorgeous scrapbook pages for me! One for my birthday, one for Cosmo the cat and one with a Victorian flair. I’ll add some photos and share with you.
I am making some goodies in the form of gifts. The glue isn’t cooperating, but I plan to make 6 on these ‘items’ to start off with. I don’t want to say what they are, but I’ll show you in a couple of weeks. I put on James Taylor’s Cmas cd and went to town. That’s the best medicine. : )
I ran across this at Rocks in my Dryer. Shannon wanted to know some cool Christmas ideas. I would say the Christmas Memory Book I did about 11-12 years ago was pretty neat. I went through my mom’s photos and added many of my own to the collection. I made nice scrapbook like pages on 8.5″ x 11″ paper. I went from when my siblings and I were little to when our kids were little. I asked each family member what their best memory of Christmas was. I got some interesting answers! Everyone had their own page which I typed up and used different fonts for everyone. I got enough copied for all my brothers and our mom and put them in red plastic report folders that I decorated with sparkly snowflake stickers. I still look at mine!
There’s still leaves to be raked up! This in the front yard under the dogwood tree. It was about 60 today, so I raked up various piles around the yard. I can’t pick them up, but raking them in nice piles isn’t too bad (I make great piles of papers and books too!)
This is awesome grass. All those pretty fuzzy things are seeds and once they root, they are hard to dig up.
And my biggest surprise-Calendula (I think) still blooming! (It’s in a black plastic pot with a black handle).
I so wanted to go to Odessa this year! We passed the exit on the way to Dover and I mentioned it to Brian. It’s not that far away. It is only held one day, this Saturday. But it’s also the day of something else. I can’t mention what it is. What would you do….what would you do? : )
Just look at the name on the sign-I was meant to be there!
So I bit the bullet and found out about my ultrasound-yes I have fibroids and they aren’t too bad. And I have a shadow on my liver, I’ve been told that before. Whether or not my family doctor wants me to get that checked out is up to her. I have fatty liver as does my younger brother. It seems to be a family issue. I still think Lyme Disease is playing with my system after all these years. I’ve never been the same since 1997, so for the last nine years. I was just reading that you can get it through mosquitoes too! I had a few terrible bites on my leg, one of which is finally going away after 4 months-I kid you not! It was healing funny, like overscabbing. Colleen said little Tori had the same kind of bite. My Uncle and my mom’s neighbor have been infected by LD more than once.
I was looking at a correlation between women’s cycles and Lyme disease and found a page about the nervous system. There was a questionnaire and I could relate to a lot of the questions-being in crowds, feeling like I’ve been touched and haven’t (oversensitive, maybe I really am! My mom always said I was the loudest baby in the nursery like the other babies and noise or lights were bothering me. To this day I prefer the evenings to the mornings. I did not grow up in the most stable environment (divorced parents) which surely didn’t help a sensitive little girl. I am writing this in hopes that other people who may have these issues will write to me. It’s hard to have issues that you just can’t pinpoint. You try to live a normal life and enjoy the little things-that’s all you can do.
Jimmy Stewart from Indiana, Pa. played George Bailey the character who felt like everything he wanted to do got pushed aside. I loved this character and I think Jimmy was such a gentleman. It was just his voice that was a bit grating. I hope you’ve seen this move and if you can’t make out my phrase there, it says ‘Every time you hear a bell, an angel’s got his wings’ or something like that. : )
Ok, I agree with Barbara, Jimmy had a very memorable voice-maybe it was the people who tried to imitate him that made me think his voice was annoying. Shame on them! ; )
I was wondering all day where my mom was. She had a 12:30 eye doctor appointment and we chatted at about 11 this morning. So 2 pm went by, then it was going on 3. I called mom’s house. Nothing. By 5:45 I called my brother thinking she was over there admiring his newly ‘faced’ (with stone) fireplace. Not there. I called Ken again an hour later to ask him to go over to mom’s and the phone beeped and it was her! I was upset with her for not taking a second out of her 5 hour shopping excursion to call me. She apologized. I had gotten a 5:30 phone call from the doctor’s office and the nurse said my culture didn’t look like a UTI! I could have told her that. I know it’s the fibroids or a groin pull or both. Geez. Wants me to give them another sample. What fun! I am calling the gyn office about the ultrasound I had last month and never heard about. We have to fork out almost $400 for that.
I wanted to shop online today, but I need a few days to collect myself from yesterday. We aren’t going gung ho with gifts…we decided that months ago. I’d like a new camera (that would be gung ho), but Bri never can chose one. He did get a few bucks from an old bank account through the PA treasury or something. Maybe we could use that. Come on Bri!!!
This is going over the St George’s bridge and is a mixture of my reflection and the Delaware Bay. It’s a high bridge!
Ahhh…my favorite bookstore-and I was very selective too!
The address is 1159 Dupont Highway-the month and year of yours truly’s birth! No wonder I like it there!!
We also went to the Dover Mall where Sean and I used some gift cards (we bought a few little things for us and gifts for others). We ate in…where else, The Olive Garden! I also hit A.C. Moore, Dollar Tree and Kohls. I got a little shopping out of the way! And I felt better, but not 100% yet-the guys thought it was funny when I almost walked into a glass wall at FYE!
Collages & Creative Goodness 