Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Birthday

Guess whose birthday it is Friday....




who spends his time in different ways...
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he sometimes does some sleeping here.....
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and must always have.....his bike near...

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riding it in the drive or yard






for him...getting it dirty isn't hard...






climbing on those fallen trees...





leaves him tired as can be!






Now riding on...his green dirt bike...





is one of the best.....things he likes.





Happy 13th Birthday Andrew!!!




Sunday, March 29, 2009

Finally Managed

Cloudy days have been with us all weekend...
bringing rain along with the cooler temperatures.
.


The sun tried it's best to break through Saturday morning...
.
but it remained a sunless day....
.
but that didn't keep the pear trees from knowing it's spring...



and time for them to sprout their blossom buds...

which they managed to do!



The Forsythia blooms are getting thicker too...




they could almost substitute for the sun.





Herhusband and I did manage to do some yard work.
He cut and I stacked the wood he removed from a limb
that fell a while back...
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We're leaving the main section to serve as a bench


or something for the grandkids to play around on and...


just hope they don't manage to get hurt.






Herhusband managed to find time to split some logs...






and I found time to cook a few meals...

Sausage & Peppers & Baked Pasta...



Salmon & Kale Salad...




..and Reese's Cups Cookies for the grandkids...
their favorite!




The later it became...the cloudier it became





... the sun kept trying but never managed to break through.




The end of March last year was a little sunnier...
I remember...because March 30th is my birthday and...
in this photo of the spring flowers I received...
you can see the sun is very bright.
.
The poinsettas on each side...
I managed to keep over from Christmas!




This is a photo of the very last flowers given to me...
by my Mother...2 years ago...for my birthday.
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and this I received yesterday from my sister Joyce...
a beautiful card and 2 book markers she crocheted.
We both love to read when we manage to find the time!
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My daughter and I went to a Julie Zickefoose Lecture
and book signing...
... this is her book I bought for myself...
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...and...this is a photo...

...I finally managed to post...

of myself...


...but only because...Monday's my Birthday!!!
"64"

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Waiting

Living in the moment, being thankful for my ordinary
everyday happenings is what I try to do. But in February,
with all this sunshine, I’m finding myself waiting.

Waiting for spring, waiting for the Bluebirds to return,
and waiting for our brown field.....


to finally turn green!


Waiting, waiting, waiting.....it's not a good way to spend your time.

Unless of course, you are waiting for the birth of a child,

as I was in the month of February in 1970.


Our youngest son’s birthday is this Friday, February 27 th



Happy Birthday Steve!


Anyway, over the years I have learned to be in the present

and aware of all my moments here and now. At this moment I am

enjoying blogging, mostly because of the new friends I have made

.....in Canada, Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

It fills my time and keeps me from only......waiting for spring.

My granddaughter Alivia usually comes down on Tuesdays,

so that helps keep my mind off waiting for spring too.

We played scrabble today..... "her way of course"!




and since I still have to cook, I made potato soup and cornbread
for lunch.




Then Alivia and I had fun baking a cake together.....







or I should say Boston Creme Pie!








But anyway.....I'm still waiting on Spring!



Saturday, February 14, 2009

Valentine Gifts

It's Valentine's Day



So, Happy Valentine's Day to all nine


of our grandchildren..... here in this collage of photos-






and here's a collage of just a few Valentine cards saved over the years.








This next photo is of the unusually bright planet Venus.
It was taken during that very brief thunderstorm we just had.
Because of my "shaky camera syndrome"-
the blurred image came out like this -


-HONEST-





"a heart shape I will be keeping "





Another heart shape I've had for a while is this
"enormous"
pink heart shaped box, which was full of chocolates back in 1962.



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But our favorite St. Valentine's Day Gift is from February14,1965.

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Our daughter--- Annette Marie!!!

Happy Birthday Annette!
&
Happy St.Valentine's Day!