Snow... Snow...Snow...GO AWAY!!!

The snow is beautiful but I have had just about enough. Our last day of school was an early release on FEB. 5th and it hasn't stoped snowing since... It seems every night when it gets dark it starts pouring it down, covering the roads again... Last night when it started again I just couldn't believe it! We are suppose to get a break the next few days, but another storm is coming on Sunday night and Monday. Just in time for another week of school! This is my back porch today. I haven't seen the tables or grass since the first of the month, and it doesn't look like it is going away any time soon.

We just keep digging out.... Especially for those little dogs of ours. They run out to their little spot and run right back in. Toooo Cold for them...LOL

My neighbor even Plowed a path from her house to mine today, we keep running back and forth with our knitting projects.... In our big boots!

The ice is beautiful...

Drip... Drip...Drip...

Feb 8th

Feb 6th

This is our main street somewhere under all of this. I don't live on a back road or a side street, this is the main road!!! LOL

I used to say," If you don't like the weather Wait a Day". But that hasn't been the case this month! Maybe next month it will be better. I sure hope so. But I really can't complain, I love the time at home just being a couch potato. I hate going out in the winter!!!

Have a Good one and Stay Warm,

Lynn

The newest member of the family!!!

(click on picture to inlarge)The newest member of the family...

Aiden Alan Jenkins

He was born Feb 13th at 12:10 pm ... 5 lbs. 10 oz and 20 inches long...
He is my Great Nephew, I can't believe my nephew Michael can be old enough to have 2 beautiful children of his own. My girls use to babysit him and his sister...
We went to the hospital on Sunday and took my parents to see their new Great Grandson. They were thrilled to get to hold him. He is just so cute and sooo tiny, I knitted him his new Blue & Gold hat and I thought it would be to small, thank goodness it wasn't. He still has room to grow into it!!!

SNOW SNOW SNOW...
We had our 6th snow day(in a row) today from school and it is still snowing. I can't imagine we will have school for another couple of days... ENOUGH ALREADY..... You know me I hate winter and the cold weather. We need sunshine!

Please say a prayer for my mother-in-law she is still in the hospital and not doing well at all...

Have a Good One and stay warm!!!
Lynn

Red Cross Shelter Evening!!!

Last night I got a phone call asking for our help, It was snowing like crazy of course and the roads were terrible. It was a call from a friend trying to find someone to man the Red Cross Shelter at our Fire Dept., that just happens to be 4 houses down the street from us! I can look out my front window and see it! There are still so many people without power in our county.There was only one gentleman staying the night that had been without power for days. One of our other neighbors that was volunteering was warn out, because she had been working for a couple of days there and needed a break. We had never done this before but were willing to give it a try. I was so glad we did. When I got there it turned out to be an old grade school classmate and we all had lots to catch up on. After I got there with all my knitting and a book I decided to call my next door neighbor and invite her down for some fun. So we had a knitting party. She has been wanting to learn how to knit and what better time!!! We sat there until midnight laughing and talking about old times.... Than Tom took her home and we all went to bed. Even our two little dogs stayed the night!!!LOL

Some times it is just what you make of a situation, and this one turned out to be a great 24 hours. We got up this morning to a phone call telling us that all we had to do was run to Cracker Barrel and pick up our breakfast, Cracker Barrel is just about 1/2 mile down the road... So Tom took the dogs home and ran to get breakfast...They made us so much food and it was great as always!!! Than I called my neighbor and her Grand Daughter, and my daughter and we all continued our knitting party all afternoon... Around 6 this evening we got to come home, his power was promised to be on by the time he got home from midnight shift tonight and all was well!

I hope all that have had to stay in shelters during this crazy winter weather had the enjoyably time that we all did !!!



Stay Warm and Safe Everyone,

Lynn

The Sun is Shinning and More Snow is Coming!!!

The sun is shinning bright today, which makes the snow look even more magnificent!!! We had no school of course. The rural roads are a mess and so many without power all over the county. My daughter moved into my mother-in-laws house with the dogs and brought some of the saltwater creatures to put in our tank hoping to save some of them... They tell her she may be without power until the 18th. Now with another major storm on it's way in the morning who knows when she will have power again... and we may not have school all week!!!

How do the branches on pine trees hold the weight of the heavy snow? These branches are touching the ground and normally I can't reach these branches. It is just amazing.

"Remember Miss Petunia"

Well here she is last summer just starting to grow...And here she is now covered in snow, all she needs is a carrot and a scarf around her neck!!!LOL... I can't wait to see her in bloom again...

Well we are bracing for another storm, but while we can still get out we are going out to dinner tonight and to the fabric store. I haven't left the house since Friday afternoon when school let out early! So it is time to get out of here for a while...

Stay Safe and Warm Everyone!!!

Lynn

How Many of us Have S.A.D. ?

Do you suffer from S.A.D.?

At northern latitudes, many people experience a lower mood, irritability, decreased energy, and changes in appetite, starting around now and lasting until spring. About 10 percent of people in northern states experience full-blown Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), with depressed mood, anxiety, irritability, fatigue, carbohydrate-craving, and weight gain or loss. Another 30 percent experience sub-syndromal SAD, a low-grade version of seasonal depression.

This has been a tough winter and usually I fight the Winter Blues by keeping busy, but this year with having surgery and not being able to do the things I usually do it has caught up with me...

Too much snow and too little light makes things tough. I am taking lots of Vitamin D3 for all that added sunshine in a pill. But it sure would be nice to see some sunshine...

Although we had 12 + inches of snow yesterday and this morning, around 5:00pm the sun came out for about 20 minutes putting a beautiful cast of color on the white trees...

The skies opened up to the beautiful color of the sun and made things just about as beautiful as it gets this time of the year!!!

Just to catch you up on what has been going on around here, It has been the marathon Birthday Season in our house!!! My Oldest daughter had her Birthday on Jan. 26, My Birthday was Feb. 1, and the youngest daughter was Feb. 4th... So we have done nothing but eat for the last 10 days. Going out to dinner, making the girls favorite meals at home and eating Cake, Cake, Cake!!! I am scared to get on the scale!!!LOL
My mother-in-law has been very ill and in the hospital for nearly 3 weeks. She has been moved to rehab and doing a little better, just trying to get her strength back from surgery... Please add her to your prayer list!!!
I am thinking of nothing but SPRING it is just a little more than 40 days away, I put up my plant stand and lights and planted some seeds yesterday. It felt so good to get my hands in some soil. I can't wait to see those little sprouts coming up!!! My husband gave me my usual Birthday Gift that I ask for every year... A big thing of Pro Mix potting soil, we laugh about it every year! But he knows that is what I really want and he has fun telling everyone he gave me dirt for my Birthday!!!
Thursday before the snow started Tom surprised me with dinner when I got home from work!!! He is a great husband, when I drove up the driveway I could smell it...THE GRILL WAS ON AND HE WAS GRILLING OUT... It was only 33 degrees and there he was outside cooking dinner... Life is good and HE is Great!!!
Well I hope everyone is OK in the crazy Winter Storm and you all have power and keeping warm. Spring will be here soon and the Sun Will Be Out shinning strong!!!

Have A Good One,
Lynn

I need help from all my garden friends!!!

Here I am at the Readers Walk Garden Booth this fall with one of the Grass Head People. We made kits up for all the kids so they could go home and make their own. We had a ball with them and the kids loved them...

So what I need is your help, I need to come up with a new idea for something like this that the kids will love, and where better to look than right here. I know some of you are bound to have some ideas for me!!!

1. We will need something that won't cost a lot to make kits with, we will be making 100+
2. Something fun for kids
3. Educational
4. With a garden theme
Look how cute they turned out and this was only after 1 week...

This was the instruction sheet we put in baggies with the grass seed...

So I am counting on you all to send ideas, pictures, links or what ever you have!!! Start thinking!!!

Thanks,

Lynn

Experiment #2

UPDATE...

Lastnight when I posted this all of the following lines were in different fonts, but now they have changed. this is wierd. I guess it isn't going to work after all. Have any of you used this???

This crazy thing I just logged on again this evening and all the pretty fonts are back!!!

This one looks like a pretty font…

This one would be pretty but will we be able to read it???

Maybe this one…

To fancy and not big enough!!!

This one is beautiful but hard to real also…

Well let’s see if the white picture thing is fixed…

Tell me what you think!!!

Lynn

Experimenting!!!

Just trying out something new, I want to see how it is going to work and LOOK!!!

This is called Windows Live Writer, I down loaded it last night and wanted to see how it is going to look. So far I am impressed. But we’ll see…

Lets try some pictures…

I can change the way the frames look or round the corners, like the second one… …or change

the fonts… Even put a drop shadow on this next one…

So lets go see how this looks?

Have a Good One,

Lynn

Ok I don't like the white background on the pictures I have to figure that one out!!! But I like the fonts and how I can tilt the pictures. I will keep working on it...

SEEDS, SEEDS, SEEDS...

It is that time of the year again that I love! All the catalogue's are coming in the mail like crazy! My husband says he is going to start hiding them from me!!!LOL He knows I go crazy. We went to Lowe's the other night and I picked up some stuff for the herb garden and I placed a big order from Park Seed Co. it is one of my favorites... Everything came yesterday, well almost everything. I guess I will need to reorder a few things.... I can't wait until we have real baskets of veggies to eat!
Keep those seeds coming....
My daughter says the basket in the bathroom is getting too full, "I DON'T THINK SO"!!! I just love looking through them. They just remind me that winter will be over soon and I will be outside in the SUNSHINE once again!!!
Everyone have a great weekend,
Lynn

My Daughters Attic Project...

My oldest bought her first house in September, she had been living in the house for almost 5 years. but until she bought it she was unable to do any remodeling. She always wanted to do something to the attic so she would have space to do her scrap booking and not have to do it on the dinning room table. So her project started. Here it is just storage,old drywall and unfinished hardwood floors. It had great bones just needed work... So down came the drywall, she did this herself...What a job, and what a mess...

This room is about 33 ft. long, 11 ft, wide and only about 5ft.10in. high right down the center. So with a table and her sitting down she will be quite comfortable working up there! With lots of room for her craft stuff...

Her father taught her how to hang the new insulation and away she went!!!

All decked out in her work gear!!! Cute look Colleen!!!

With the insulation up it was time for drywall...

This picture was even taken before her new windows were put in.

She hired this part out, Mike my friend Jeanie's husband is GREAT at drywall... What a job he did, it turned out wonderful!!!!

Then it was time to refinish the floors, so she rented a sander and away she went. What a dusty mess!!!
Finally the windows were put in, paint went on, moldings went up and it was time to decorate. She swore in September it would be done for her Chrismas Party, December 12 and it was!!! What a difference, she did a wonderful job and learned a lot in the process!!!

They put in extra wide window sills to put plants and whatever else she wants...

This was a really nice added touch, where there had once been old doors to get into the craw space of the attic, Tom made shelves on henges so they open but you can't tell they are doors. One of those Wasted Spaces Tricks!!!

Doesn't it look great!!!

Here is the other end of the room where the steps go downstairs. The shelves on the left do the same as the ones above... I love how the lanterns look on the rail around the steps. She found a cute shelf to put decorative stuff on going down the stairs at a yard sale last summer and painted it...

I think you can see in these pictures she used antique doorknobs as tiebacks for her curtains, each one is different on the two windows and they look really great!

I think this room was a wonderful idea and she will enjoy it for years to come...

GREAT JOB COLLEEN!!!

Have a good one,

Lynn