…and again

posted on 8 February 2010 | 1 comment

Snowing again.

is the week over?

posted on 6 February 2010 | no comments

Car trouble. Cold weather, more snow coming maybe. Need new glasses so I can see again. Jerry’s bone scan showed nothing… next is an MRI. Head hurts {not related to the glasses thing}. Yadda yadda yadda. Been one of those weeks. Again.

*sigh* Sorry, there are times I just have to let it out, so that I can let God take it from me.

we interrupt this winter…

posted on 4 February 2010 | 1 comment

…for a warmer and much more pleasing climate.

A couple of the locals.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this brief interlude from the bone-chilling temps and seemingly never-ending icy mix falling from the sky. We now return you to your regularly scheduled winter season.

proof it’s still january

posted on 29 January 2010 | 2 comments

{Have removed the Blog Frog widget. The new widget interfered with coding and made the sidebar look horrible. Maybe I will go back to my Google Friends widget? Or maybe I’ll use nothing?}

Snow, snow, snow! Oh yes, more snow! No, I did NOT want it. I’m sorely in need of sunshine myself, and I’m just hanging in there until Spring… but hey, this storm was impressive. It was beautiful coming down. So thick and fluffy. Like a pure white blanket from God, calming the earth and making it hush for a while. Shhhhhh…. listen…..

Son, John, shoveled the walks out front, and around the vehicles… mainly because he has to go to work early tomorrow morning. And who wants to have to do something like that before you go to work, right? Here’s right before he got started…

It was so cold out there… bitter cold. I stood at the kitchen window. Warm me. LOL!

John really did make short work of it. Jerry can’t handle doing that anymore, and I would have been running back inside every couple minutes. Almost done…

Oh, wait… we got a text from someone…. ROTFL!!

When John was done, we measured the snow right at the edge of the sidewalk…

The tape measure was held crooked, and I could only get down so low without plopping into the snow myself, but you get the idea. {approx. 7.5 inches}

Ah, well…. Spring will be here at some point. I just won’t be sitting out back right now….

ketchup {catch-up}

posted on 27 January 2010 | 1 comment

Since I last posted….

Last Friday was my birthday… I’m now 53. Not really a big deal, but I was trying to think back to when my Dad was my age and I remembered it was about this time in his life when he really began to feel “the slow-down.” Although I’ve tried to deny it, I know that’s what I’m feeling now. It actually began creeping up on me when I was in my mid-40s, but now it’s really caught up with me. Which led to the gift I got from my kids for my birthday… because I gave them hints a few weeks ago… that I really, really wanted a bicycle. A certain one from Walmart. I also planted the hint-seed that it would be very easy on them if all four of them shared the cost. The surprise was, they did get it for me!

I can’t wait for the weather to get warmer… and the snow to stay away… and I will be out riding! It’s been years since I had a bicycle! Thank you, John and Christen, Jeff and Amanda! You are sweet, sweet kids! And yes, I took it out for a quick… very quick, because it was so chilly… ride the next day. Fun!

Here’s what was on the whiteboard from son, John, when I woke up that morning…

The circles-squares-triangle things are confetti. Love that he added those, LOL!

Look what I’ve started making… possibly to sell…

It’s a little something you can carry in your purse or other bag… and when your little one gets cranky, like during church, or in the doctor’s waiting room… you pull it out for your young’un, they open it and get to play with these…

Aren’t they cute!! Three little dollies, a blankie for them, and a tiny notebook {yes, it has paper… you provide something to draw with}. It’s a pattern I ordered a while back and just got around to doing this week. I’d been working on my own homemade pattern in the same type of idea when I came across it this one online. Today I worked on my own version, but don’t have it done. Too many interruptions and what-not. And it really is very thin and light-weight, perfect for inside mommy’s or grandma’s purse or bag…

Anyway… Since today was really nice, but not warm enough for a bike ride {durn, LOL!}, just a little chilly, but I walked over to the park and all the way around it, enjoying the sunshine and blue sky. Because tomorrow the weather is going to change. Snow. Maybe 4-8 inches or more. Phooey. Bleah.

This first picture… well, does it crack you up as much as it did me when I saw this underneath the bridge? Someone drew a door, complete with a handle and “exit” sign. LOL!

The other side of that “door” is in the next two photos… what the ducks and geese are swimming in, LOL!

On around the park…

Till next time, God bless!

jerry’s page

posted on 21 January 2010 | 1 comment

I have Jerry’s medical page {mostly} ready for family and friends. There is a link at the top of this page under the banner or you can go here.

library

posted on 19 January 2010 | no comments

A dreary day, but I needed to go to the library. I can read a novel in one or two days. I learned to speed read back in junior high, so I have to tend to my voracious reading appetite quite often.

Our library is not as big as in other cities, so I have to use inter-library loan quite a lot.

My favorite genre is Christian Fiction. Right now I’m reading the “Abram’s Daughters” series by Beverly Lewis. Thank goodness for libraries… I could never afford to buy books at these prices! I’ll be back at the library probably in another week… maybe two at the longest. LOL!

how about that fog, love for haiti, kid’s artwork

posted on 18 January 2010 | no comments

Okay, so we’ve had fog going on here for what seems like the whole month so far! Actually, they said on the news it’s more like a little over a week. Truly an unusual occurence for us to have fog for so many days in a row. Just before sunset {which was hard to determine, LOL!} I walked over to the creek and took a few photos. The first one I took with the flash on… what you’re seeing are the fog crystals… after that I turned the flash off.

Can hardly see the geese… their honking sounded so strange muffled by the fog.

Shouldn’t last much longer… our Kansas wind is supposed to be back to blow away this fog in another day or so.

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LOVE FOR HAITI: Skip To My Lou is giving away a download for valentine cupcake toppers, cupcake wrappers and also digital files as a thank you to anyone who makes a contribution to a charity of their choice to help Haiti. My birthday is Friday… and I’ll be donating all birthday money I receive. By the way… that same post has their awesome recipe for the Cream Filling and Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting they use in and on their cupcakes.

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I would love to do this with my kids’ and grandkids’ artwork: My Kids’ Artwork On Canvas

nothing new

posted on 17 January 2010 | no comments

Still icy on the creek. But it was warm enough in the afternoon I took a quick walk. I sure miss my walks with my neighbor and her son.

*sigh* Two months until Spring.

granddaughters, a recipe, and a googly-eyed rooster

posted on 14 January 2010 | no comments

Back on the first weekend of the month, Maddie and Kara had stayed overnight with us, as is usual pretty much at least once a month. Well, it was a bit unusual this time… for the first time their older brother, Drew, did not come along. He’ll be nine years old in a few months, so I knew it was a matter of time before he would stop “going to gramma’s house.” *sigh* I missed him. But it gave us the opportunity to be more involved with the girls without them and their brother going through their little tussles here and there, vying for attention.

Of course I made my homemade spaghetti. Ever since Drew was able to eat big people food when he was a baby, any time any of the grandkids have come over, they have always asked for and expected my homemade spaghetti.

Kara does not let one speck of her spaghetti go to waste. If she can’t catch what is left inside her bowl with her spoon, out come the little fingers. Mmmmmmmmmmm!

This one is always drawing nowadays. I have plenty of paper and drawing items, but Maddie wanted to use Kara’s new doodle pad.

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Thought I would share another recipe with you that I’ve been making since my boys were young… wow, that would be, uhhhhh… 20 or more years. It was originally a recipe given to us by one of my aunts on my dad’s side. The first time I made it was for a Cub Scout dinner. I made two large foil pans of it. Nothing came home.

HASH BROWN CASSEROLE
½ package frozen southern hash browns (approx. 15 oz. of a 30 oz. package; these are the diced, NOT shredded)
1-2 cups slightly crushed corn flakes
1 cup shredded cheese
1 16 oz. container sour cream

Mix all ingredients and pour into greased baking dish. Bake at 375° for approximately 30-45 minutes or until heated thoroughly. Serves 4-6.

I really recommend using the diced hash browns; I once tried using the shredded hash browns because I didn’t have the diced on hand… believe me, all you’re getting is mushiness with the shredded. We like it using the sharp cheddar cheese, but I’ve used other types {mozarella, monterey, etc.} with no problems; just gives you different flavors. All the ingredients can be varied in amounts depending on your family’s tastes. I usually add pepper, but never add salt {we are pretty much very low salt anyway; extra salt just exacerbates Jerry’s medical problems}.

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Lastly, I have to show you what Drew, Maddie and Kara gave me for Christmas….

A rooster-themed notebook with extra pages and extra recipe cards… which I really, REALLY needed… and a googly-eyed ceramic rooster. {My kitchen is rooster-themed.} I had taken a picture of the googly-eyed rooster one day while browsing through Hobby Lobby while in Hutchinson and emailed it to their mom, saying how much I would love to have it myself….

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