A Blast from the Past – for Cindra

I use to listen to music 24/7. And sang. Not well or even carrying a tune, but I sang. I loved all the 50’s and 60’s music, all the sappy do wop, etc. My kids knew the words to every country western song – long before that music was popular.
A few weeks ago, Cindra told [...]

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My "Secret" Garden

This was our latest, and I hope, last big project. When we came home last spring we started work on my ’secret’ garden – and that’s what we’ve done most of the summer. We had the old 40’s garage that was beside my garden, torn down last summer. Behind where it was, we had [...]

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Favorite Photo

Thought I’d share one of my favorite photos. Color and clarity not of very good quality – had pretty cheap camera at that time. But the subject matter is of the HIGHEST quality!
Here are my girls, Cindra in pigtails (she no longer wears all that jewelry), and Brookie in the neat glasses (she always loved [...]

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An ‘Exciting’ Sighting

We had an exciting sighting at our house this morning! I’d cooked breakfast for hubby and went outside to check the garden. When I came inside, he’d finished eating and left the kitchen. I went in to clean up the dishes, looked out the window over the sink – and couldn’t believe my eyes! I [...]

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Happy Birthday, Melissa

Today is my son’s wife’s birthday. Melissa is a another of the special women in our family. She’s overcome some pretty good sized obstacles in her early life, and is one strong, empowered woman! Melissa is a stay-at-home mom with four kids, no small feat, especially when you take into account that she takes care [...]

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Family and Blogging

This “blogging with family” experience is affording me new insight to my family. I’ve found myself thinking a lot about our family, after reading daily posts from my sister, my two daughters, new friends who share about their families, and discussing it all with my unnamed sister who won’t join us.
Of course, I’ve always been [...]

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Close Encounters

Had to share this with Sister Quilly.
This little deer friend came to visit a total of four times this spring/summer. The first time I saw her, I was sitting on the edge of one of my raised beds, inside the garden gate, and digging away. My cat was stretched out in one of the flower [...]

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The Other Side of the Garden

Cindra loaded the template photo above, of the entrance to my garden (because she has a computer-challenged mother). Here is a view of the other side of this garden. I took the picture standing in the doorway of the ’secret’ garden.
We have to fence in any areas we want to grow things in up [...]

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My Potting Bench

My hubby built me this potting bench this summer, for my “secret” garden. I found the little sink at a garage sales (for 50 cents) and he used wood from the 1940’s garage that we tore down when we put in the new shop last summer. I decoupaged, using flowers and garden sayings cut [...]

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Don’t go there alone….or, We all have time…

I was talking to my daughter-in-law, Melissa, yesterday, about our family of “bloggers”. She has been reading all the posts from Scott’s Auntie, his sisters, and from me. And she’s been showing the grandbabies the pictures, etc., that are posted, but said she does not have time to blog with us. I have a niece [...]

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