I'm Still Here

It seems like forever since I have posted. Monday and Tuesday were cold and crummy days and I didn't get a lot done. Monday I started sorting boxes of pictures. Still have a ways to go. Today was nice and sunny, went out and watered my flowers. Took a short walk. Then this afternoon we did something that we have never done before. While we were in Colorado we had some car trouble but thanks to a son who is a mechanic it didn't cost us as much as it could have. The car has 191,000 miles and we decided it had made its last trip. We went to town just to look and we now have 2008 Chevy Impala and paid cash for it! We have always looked around and have never before paid cash for a car. The GM dealer assured us he wasn't going to be put out of business.

Kathi, I went to the Cuttlebug Spot but it won't let me leave a comment. Did you have trouble with it?

One of these days I'll get back to posting cards.

A Grandson's Handiwork

A few years ago I had made a rock garden.  Then a couple of years ago a lady came flying around the corner in her car and did my rock garden in.  Last spring we left it alone to see what plants had survived.  This year Sam said he would give me 8 hours of his time on a nice day to do anything that I wanted done in the yard.  Yippee.  So today I gave him some basic instructions as to what were plants and what were weeds.  This is what he came up with.  The pink flowers are from an ivy germanium that is on a shepherd's hook.  The bush in the rock pile is false indigo and gets neat seed pods in the fall.  Right now it has blue flowers but they aren't showing up.  We worked outside today and I got all my plants planted in containers.  Still have three perennials to plant when I decide where I want them. 

I grilled hamburgs but they didn't compare to the ones that grill guy did in Trinidad at our granddaughter's wedding reception.  LOL

Now it is housecleaning time as Samantha (Sam's girlfriend) is coming up tomorrow evening for a couple of days.

Hope you all had a nice 4th.

Mountain Top View

Good Evening,

Our son and his wife live on the top of a mountain in Colorado and this is the view they see.  The mountains off in the distance are the Sangre De Cristo mountains in southern C0lorado.

Today was cold, rainy and miserable.  However late this afternoon it started to clear up and the sun is mostly shining.  Cleaned off a kitchen counter that held a 30 year old 5 inch analog tv.  That was mostly Jim's counter and now he has no place to hide all his collection of stuff.  Outdated coupons, etc. most of it went in the trash.  If I can find a place to recycle the tv will do it.  LOL.   

Yesterday I left the house at 8:15am and returned at 9pm.  I picked up a friend and we stopped at a couple of greenhouses on the way to Alpena (a 2 hr drive one way) for my dr appointment.  That went well.  Most of my aches and pains were nothing.  Did find out that I have arthritis in my left thumb but it doesn't hurt.  It took almost two hours at the dr because he was behind and I needed x-rays.  After that we went to Wal-Mart, Staples and Culver's for ice cream before heading home.  We had a carload of flowers so hope to get some planted tomorrow.  It is supposed to be sunny. 

Paul and Noreen, I mailed a cd of wedding pictures to you today.  Talked to Leola today and she was busy scrubbing the tub in their new apt.  Said it looked like no one had lived there in a long time. 

What A Yucky Day!

This photo of cosmos was taken a couple of years ago.  I have been just whipped since we got home from Colorado.  Yesterday I could hardly put one foot in front of the other.  Today is better.  But it was very frustrating.  I made a cd of the wedding pics we took for Leola and PJ and for his folks.  PJ's folks lost their camera.  I didn't have any trouble making the cd's but when I went to make a label  oh  brother!  I ran into all kinds of problems.  Probably due to the fact that I didn't have the right paper for the software.  Hope to remedy that situation tomorrow.  It has been cold and rainy the last two days.  Guess I will go make a list of all the things I would like to get tomorrow.  I have to go see my orthopedic doc in Alpena tomorrow and a friend and I are hoping to stop at some greenhouses to get flowers.

Thanks, Kathi, for your kind comments about Leola and PJ I have passed them on. 

Unity Candle

   Leola and PJ are lighting the unity candle but I wanted to show you how pretty the  back of her dress is.

Flowers

Went and got a couple of hanging plants today.  Now the front porch looks more user friendly.  We have had a few sprinkles.  Just enough to make it humid.  Perennials are doing really well.  A lot of them were blooming when we got home.  Got the tail end of the poppies, they had nice big buds when we left. 

Congratulations, Paul and Noreen on your 25th wedding anniversary.

Retake

Here is a much better picture of the Little Brown Church in the Vale. The church was started in 1860 and still has the original wooden floor. The sun is shining here but supposed to rain this afternoon so want to get outside and play in my flowers.