more fun...

I got to babysit my grand baby, Avery, and was trusted to give her a bath! It was fun, and she was so good. She is such a good little girl. We get to see her fairly often. Boy, does it bring back the memories of being a mom with a baby. It's a lot of hard work!!

fun

Craft night at the Boyce's was fun. Ashley (Scott's Ashley) and Tiffany, (David Fackrell's wife) came over and made some fun wooden words.


Oh look, here are Ashley and Scott right now...so how do you like your wooden words, Ashley?

BRRRRR!

Baby its cold outside. We got about 4-5" of snow last night. Poor Oscar has been shoveling snow for 3 days. And did you know that some people just can't drive in the snow? I'm glad I grew up learning to drive in the snow. I have a lot of funny memories trying to get up our steep hill in Pullman and pulling in to our drive way and sliding into the junipers, or sliding all the way back down the hill. Now we live on a very flat street.

Guest room...come and stay!

I wanted to fiddle with painting plaid walls, and a color other than blue, since my whole house is blue...so I chose apple green. This is a guest room I did a while back. It was fun, but the taping and leveling of the plaid was difficult to do as one person. (I now know why I always wanted a twin....oh, I have one...((Oscar)) ...hahaha). But I digress. So, I held the blue tape in one hand and the level in the other hand and used my head and teeth to get it all to stay on the wall at the same time. I also had to use some of that math that I thought I would never use after High School. But you'll be proud of me; the curtains are twin sheets that were $3 each at Walmart!! Now THAT math I like! I could never buy that much fabric for $3. I'd like to tweek it a little, maybe add a shelf or something on the big wall, and I am trying VERY hard not to sneek something blue in there! Therapy anyone??

Bye bye summer...

Before snow comes I wanted to see my window boxes like they were this summer--not all withered and brown as they are now...

...and the stone wall we
put in. A big improvement
over the old wood. Do you see "stalker kitty" on the
steps?

My dad was here a little while back, so we captured a four generation picture with Scott and his new baby, Avery. My dad is a proud 91 and Scott is 22 and Avery is about three weeks old here, and I am somewhere in between!! I never thought I would get a four generation picture, so I was really happy when we did. Life is good.

A little mishap last week...Oscar's truck got a boo boo. So.... I guess it is totaled. It's been a tough month. We had just put a new transmission in that truck. Rats. Well, that's how it goes sometimes. No one was seriously hurt. That we are thankful for. We cleaned it out and said goodbye. Now for all the paperwork....

Sad day

It was a sad day for the neighborhood kitty. The cat that always sunned itself on our porch and mewed at our door was hit by a car. She belonged to the neighbor across the street, but the cat didn't like them, so she spent all of her time at our house and another neighbors house. She was nearly 15 years old, so she was quite old, but we will miss her. She has curled up on our porch for about five years or more. We nick named her "Stalker Kitty" because she was always here and always following us around. She even kept me company while I gardened. Even an occassional mouse was left at our door. Goodbye stalker kitty. We will miss you. :(

Carter is doing really well in California. He is in Gilroy right now. Gilroy is the Garlic capitol. They grow a couple thousand acres, at least.
I think that boys will be boys, as this picture depicts.

But, as you can see he takes every opportunity to be happy and have fun.
We are excited for him and the work he has done so far. Carter is on the right in the top picture, and on the left in the bottom picture.

WELL......

Well, here I am, sitting at the computer, nearly three hours now making this new blog. I hesitated a long time in getting a blog, mostly because I thought I would never have anything fun to write about, but I had some encouragement from my niece, Cory. She helped me over the phone for nearly two hours today getting it all set up. She was great! Thank you Cory! Now, I look at this blank page and think...there's nothing to say that will interest anyone. So I decided I would keep this just so that I will write down some things I want to say and remember about me and my family. A journal of sorts, on the computer, the one device that I don't usually get along with very well. But as of this very second we are friends. Me and that nasty little computer. If it will only do what I say and cooperate, everyone will live another day.

Now, what should I start with........