On hold ...

I guess you could say my life's been on hold for a while.  Have been so busy with spring clean up (inside and out), trips to the dr., meetings and luncheons that I haven't had a chance to breath.  I did go to Vincennes with Margo, Teresa and Brenda a couple weeks ago and that was a fun day.  Had lunch at Pea Fections then spent the afternoon at Atkinson's Farm Yarn.  And Easter was a good day, too; we went for a nice drive after church.  Couple weeks ago we went to Michigan to visit the kids and see their new house (lovely).  In the same weekend got to visit with Mother and other son in Kokomo.

My head's been busy, too.  Working on a few different events such as the Cultural Arts contest for Owen County Home Extension (I'm chair of that committee), then trying to do all of the other things that the "homemakers" expect of their members (plus I'm treasurer of my local club), making 16 rug hooking kits for the HHRHG 10th annual Fiber Fair coming in mid-May, then last but most importantly plans for our 50th wedding anniversary celebration which will be in June.  To top this all off, we are re-doing both of our bathrooms this summer.  In fact we hope to begin within a few weeks if things work out.  (Keep your fingers crossed for us!)  If I play my cards right the only thing I will have to do is paint the walls and buy things!  Yeah!

We planted the (much smaller) garden last week!  Yeah!  Only planted radishes, lettuce, onions, garlic and spinach.  Tomatoes, peppers, cabbage and some herbs will follow.  This is the part of the garden that will be fenced.  In the "old" garden I'm going to plant rows of flowers; I am so excited about that!  Hopefully I'll have some pictures to share ... Since Wendell tilled the garden the deer have been out there dancing.  At least that's what it looks like.  They can't WAIT for everything to come up I guess.  But that electric fence will be a deterrent when W. gets it put up.  I have three of the five flower beds cleaned, mulched and Preened; two to go!  (Yeah!)  But one will need a MAJOR overhaul!  (Boo!)

Here's a table Wendell made for me with a lot of help from Neil (who did the top).  I LOVE it!  It's in the wine room in the basement.  We have a little radio/cassette player that will sit on it.  But you know, I think I would love to have this table anywhere upstairs, too!  Didn't the guys do a good job?

 
There are two eggs in the bluebird box by the garden and that makes me feel like spring is really here.  They are singing their little hearts out!

Have a great rest-of-the-week.

Home ... and it's snowing right now!

ARGH!  I guess we needed to stay another two weeks in AZ, at least.  But we're back.  Off to a quick start with an interesting meeting of the hooking guild Saturday.  I was caught up on the laundry and had flipped the dust bunnies around, so I went.  The Guild is moving right along with preparations for the fiber fair and almost everything looks good!  

Some interesting yard art north of Benson AZ

Some of the pictures I took in AZ were just unusual things I saw as we drove around.  What people put in their yards is always interesting to me.

Wouldn't you love to live next door to this guy?

Just north of Sunsites was this (what I call) helicopter graveyard.  This guy has a lot of them and scavenges parts to put together one good helicopter.  Then he sells them.  (You know, like the guy near you who collects old Ford pickups?)  But ... here's the question: would you want to fly in his "new/used" helicopter?

I loved this large rock that had been moved to the entrance to the new Pearce, AZ cemetery.  These holes were made when native Americans ground food on them .  I love seeing these metate rocks in their original settings, and they can be found.

 

 

Here's another piece of yard art in Sunsites: a barbed wire cactus (I guess there weren't enough REAL cactus there?) with a buzzard perching thereon.  (In the back yard was an OLD pickup truck with a cactus bed in the bed.)  It was a very interesting place.

BTW, I've moved all of the AZ pictures to the bottom of my blog.

Just wanted to let you know in this way, with these pictures today, I'm still thinking of the warmth and the BLUE SKY we saw on almost a daily basis during January and February.  And missing it.  But, I'm back.  God bless you.