Is it Really sliding into the End of the Year??

I cannot believe I haven’t posted for almost 4 months now. If you're on Facebook, you know I’m still alive and kicking! Actually, I’m still alive, not so sure about the kicking-Ha ha!

After my last post I did have to have emergency eye surgery. I was unable to look up for 2 weeks and couldn't see out of the eye for a little over 3 weeks.   It’s been a long recovery and am doing drops in both eyes for another couple months. However, I did have a great report in reference to the pressures last week. So that is wonderful!!

My son Randy took this picture, unbeknownst to me! And put it up on Facebook, while asking for prayers. Bless his heart!

Yes, fall arrived and my front room was all decorated with warm colors! It looks so pretty as the morning sun shines in through the window!

 

We even spotted a monarch butterfly as they were making their trip to Mexico!

I also had several cardinals this fall and winter.  (I plan on making another post of the birds I’ve spotted.)

One Saturday my grand and my greats came to visit-those are always such special times!

 

Here are Lorelai and Maggie! They are just too darn cute!

I even had a buck in my back and this fall!

My son and daughter-in-law took me to my great nieces wedding. It was so beautiful and fun!

Another weekend my other greats, Eden and Ivy came to visit. The are so cute and adorable!

Then the *snow* came along! Winter has arrived!

Some wonderful and surprising news! I had a call from Susan Branch's office back in the first part of November. She said an anonymous person bought me a cup of my choice! I was so excited - I started to cry, to think that someone would do that for me. I love the big cups for my coffee each morning, so I chose the one with the Corgi on it. The queens favorite dogs!! 

I had to go in for my 6 month checkup on my MS.  Not far from their office there is a pond full of Canadian geese. Their here year round. I always love visiting it so I can snap a shot or two. And by the way my check up was good!

Here was my front room, all decorated for Christmas! Yes, my friend put my tree out before Thanksgiving...I really didn’t mind, as I love all the lights etc. But she also put it away right after Christmas. .  What do you do??

This was taken at my son and daughter in laws house on Thanksgiving. We were watching football, and the the greats. Those girls are all so adorable!

Every year our Bible study group celebrate Christmas, with snacks and a gift exchange. Our paster wasn’t able to come, we missed her. But we did have lots of fun!!

My neighbor girl who helps and cares for me..made this beautiful wreath.  It looks so pretty on my garage!

Here is my son, Randy and granddaughter Lorelai. He took her to the Father-daughter dance the first of December, as her dad was recuperating from having his appendix surgery. 

Here are my Georgia peaches (smile). Daughter Brenda, granddaughters Amanda and Ashley. They were celebrating Christmas at Brenda and Johns house! Aren’t they beautiful?

I, on the other hand was at my son's house on Christmas. I was reading Maggie, a Dolly Parton book...on colors. When I finished she read (her story was made up from pictures in the book!) her book, on the red truck. Her story telling was amazing ! You can tell she gets read to a lot!!! 

Before we left I got this picture of me with my greats..we were all laughing so hard, because Maggie and Lorelai's dad, was standing behind whoever was taking the picture and making rabbit ears...etc! Wish we would have had a camera to reverse this shot...ha! 

And finally here is my Christmas picture of "Winter" and I by the fire.

I wanted to do a short recap  of the last four months, so am sorry I didn't use all the great photos I had.  But, each year I do a Blog2Print book, so needed to finish 2019, before I can do my 2020 resolution of blogging again. I hope you had a good year in 2019 and are looking forward to blessed new year in 2020!

Bye for now.

The Birds of May

I thought I'd share some of the birds I spotted in May! I am always excited in the spring when I spot a Oriole at the feeders. They are so beautiful. 

And how I love these little guys! My neighbor girl calls the Hawkeyes! (After our football team here in Iowa! And their school colors of course are yellow and black!) However, I really didn't get a lot of them this year ...sad..

This was the food those oriole's loved! Breakfast food...ha... oranges and grape jelly!

As I looked out my office window, I spotted this house finch. So pretty!!

And the woodpecker was busy getting the feed off this block of seed. They continued to stay all spring and summer. 

I've had lots of mourning doves and cardinals. These birds both come in pairs. 

And the robin ..it showed up early again this year, so saw it eating the seed we had put out in the pans. I didn't think they ate anything but worms!! Ha! Ha! Silly me.....

This was the only picture (if you can call it that) of the hummimgbird! I only spotted s few this year. But I just love them! So fun to watch as they flutter in and out! What a unique bird. 

Do you bird watch? If so what species do you have?

And now there is "Winter"! Seems the minute I get up to go somewhere, guess who jumps in my chair, and rolls up and goes to sleep. 

This last week has been crazy. Wednesday, I went to our monthly potluck. (That was, as always fun!) Thursday I went to the doctor and got the results of my Dexascan, (uggg) of course as we get older our bones continue to get thinner. So, ended up on another pill. Friday, I had to go to an eye doctor, and had to have an injection in my eye! It was pretty sore that night and again Saturday. So I couldn't do too much using my eyes. Sunday my eye was better and had the joy of having my son, daughter in law and grandson Jesse here for lunch!

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It's always such a blessing to get a big ((hug)) from my grandson.  He lives in Denver, so don't get to see him that often. But absolutely love it when I do.


Pray all is well in your corner of the world. 

Bye for now!

Birds & Answer

A bird in a cage. Do you see the chick-a-dee in the round squirrel proof feeder? Always amazies me how they squeeze through those wires and get in there!!! 

Even the big Downy woodpecker has been at the feeder. There have been several of the smaller ones there too. Maybe his sons??? Ha!

This was why they were hitting the feeders!! This is about all we got. Not much...,thank goodness! Today we woke up to ice!!! Ugggg Schools started late, which was the responsible thing to do. But our temps never got very high today, so we’ve still got ice on sidewalks etc. 

Here was my birthday cake!! One of the ladies from our Bible Study made it for me!!! She left me a couple pieces and I finished it off today for lunch. It’s was so delicious and very thoughtful of her!!! (No candles-as I would have had way too many!!) 

My daughter shared this with me Sunday night. She said, “I looked out the bedroom window before church this morning and look at the visitor we had..  I must admit I felt a sense of love, weird huh..  Like Tom was here..  Crazy...  I very rarely see a Cardinal...

My house is full of cardinals, which I will show you in another post. Their suppose to be a symbol of a loved one who has passed. So to me it’s Tom!!!

Now to the answer you’ve all been waiting for......😁 My favorite, of course was the picture!!! Love those Grand Girls!!!!!

What is your weather like in your little corner of the world?? I’d love to hear. 

Bye for now....

Windy Wednesday

Today our forecast was for 50 mph wind gusts!! Ugggg But they were only about 30, so that was bad enough but much better than 50. smile... Our temperatures have been dropping all week, which I hate to see. My daughter is flying in tomorrow to get married! It's been a busy time this week (for me), but can't imagine what they are going through... The dresses came in last week, my son came over and brought the box in and hung them up!! Someone asked me if I had opened them and I said "no" I'd seen pictures, but will wait for them to see them in person!! I just hope that the prediction for this weekend is wrong. They are saying cooler temps. Uggg

 

I can't believe it, but the lilac bush is putting on buds already. I hope we don't get a hard freeze before the official spring arrives..

Yes, we are getting cardinals back at our feeders again. They are so pretty. Each time I see or hear one, I think of this slogan I received from a friend.

 

So...I just know it must be Tom visiting...smile...

We've got Downy Woodpeckers here too. I love seeing all of them. They seem to get spooked easily.

 

My friend was here today to clean the house. It is always so nice to see and visit with her as we have been friends for years. And of course having a clean house is also a wonderful feeling!!

 

I hope your weather is being good to you and that you're waiting for Sunday (first day of spring..) smile..

 

Blessings....

Tears, Trials and Puppy's Love

"Sunrise one early morning"

It seems that a day doesn't go by that I don't shed a few or several tears. There are many things that remind me of Tom and how much I miss him. And so often it doesn't seem like he's really gone. Mixed emotions... I'm so thankful for all your wonderful comments, those of you who are praying for me, and those who have and are suffering a loss also. I'm trying my best to continue on with little things that I routinely do. And before I know it another day has gone by. I've started to read a little more, shutting the noise of the TV off and being whisked away into another world. But......those lonely thoughts creep into my mind anyway. I've been reading Susan Branch's The Fairytale Girl. She was writing about growing a garden, and putting this herb with that vegetable or planting flowers--and suddenly my thoughts turned to Tom. He loved his garden and bringing in his "first" tomato of the season...just for me to eat.. (tears) And for flowers he planted which will bloom for years to come.. 

Cardinal

Trials....oh yes, we all have them don't we?? The first of the week, I had a doctors appointment with a foot doctor. (I have a fungus laden toenail!!) So, I head out to the garage, go to get in the van and my battery is dead!!! UGGGG... So, I come back in the house and call Triple A and cancel my appointment. (I knew by the time they got here and I found out what was wrong, I'd never make it to see him.) Turned out, they jump started it and the dome lights were on. I let it run and the next day my son stopped by and it started 'no problem'.

 

The next morning, I headed out to run an errand and guess what? Again, it wouldn't start. There was however, enough juice to open the back door to put my walker in.. Once again, I called Triple A and also my son. When we were talking I realized without a battery I couldn't open the back door, where my walker was..uggg So...bless his heart...he came over to help me out (literally..) He just pulled on the door and manually opened it. The dome light was on again, thus running the battery down. Still trying to figure out what is going on with it.

 

"Tubby Squirrel is Back"

Puppy love...that is the same as the name Rusty. He is such a good boy. Normally he has a schedule of what he eats and when he wants out etc. But the other day, he drove me crazy...lol Out, then In..again and again. Then yesterday, he was starving (I finally figured it out). He had 3 bowls of food!! Yikes..I know.. Then I thought...well some days I'm like that..just eat all day long. ha!

 

We think there was a kitty running around on our deck.

We woke up yesterday morning to this!!! Looked like a lot, but it was gone by today. Our temperatures have been so lovely. Tomorrow it's to be 64 degrees!! Whoo-Hoo!! What's your weather like??

 

Until I blog again....

 

Just a Quick Post

  

Thought I'd share a picture of our incredible snow storm.. Yesterday we got over 7 inches of snow! It was and is a winter wonderland out there. I took a picture this picture (it was on the news channel last night!) Anyway, I thought, the only thing missing was having a cardinal in the picture...smile..

And look there he is...hard to see I know but he sat there for a long time this morning!!

 

Also thought you'd get a laugh out of our little squirrel digging in the snow trying (and succeeding) to get some seeds from the seed pan that was buried in the snow...

 

I had to stay home for the last two days, and really missed being with my Tom. Things are not improving for him, so would really appreciate your prayers and good thoughts for this amazing man.