In the good Ol' Summer time. Hubby leaning up next to the fence, and youngest daughter watching as well from behind, they have played this season on our church league softball. Fun to watch them play!

Youngest daughter (13) during a summer basketball camp we attended, Was an all day event and they played four games, we only lost one so they did an awesome job!!

Sunday night I took this photo...was so pretty but then not long after we ahd a bad storm...was almost a deep pink turning purple....I have never seen that before here,

I just couldn't help myself but tot ake this one....A good place for a mitt I guess huh

Well till tomorrow, or Friday......Im off the rest of the week, useing up some vacation before I lose it!

Have a good evening!

Tuesday Thoughts

Another cloudy cooler day and no sunshine.....and no rain, we are so dry and need rain! In spite of it all the crops do look good but certainly will not last long if the dryness keeps up.

I am still working on the sewing room/craft area...man I really need to reorganize and clean this mess up...I already have one very large box of just random books and things to send out to salvation army...In the midst of my cleaning I came across a box of OLD old photos from like 10 years back! So gonna get some of them sorted today as well as the rest of my fat quarteres moved...yep an all day project !!

I thought I would share with you a few little events happening in our lives through-out the summer months!


Hubby and daughter getting ready for a parade last weekend, our daughter (youngest) is the Threshing Queen, she has been in 11 parades this summer so far and gives up her royalty in August! It certainly has been a fun year of eating events and and parades, meeting new people and just haveing fun!

Ok, not exactly what I have in mind but I want to create and GREEN background and tried to fill the area with palm trees, not good I know but practice makes perfect, I like the tiger and not sure if I will keep that as is or not but is gonna be MAYBE my painting subject LOL,. subject to change though!

Well our little kittens are certainly growing! We bring them up t the house daily so they can learn to climb trees and just learn the yard in general. They are so tame and fun to watch at night! Even my little chi dog likes to play with them!

I took this one afternoon through a tree while out walking...I love photos like this! Just brings a sense of peace and bliss in...and with that I hope you all have a great day!

Its Friday!!!

Yippeeee am sooooooooooo glad it is Friday, one of the little gals from college came back to us at work and was seeking hours...Guess who could give her some!! YEP Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Oh I am sooooo glad to be off a few days!

Yesterday I was assisting hubby out by the grain bins, he decided to add a ring onto one to make more capacity for storage, simple enough right?
WRONG, after 2 hours of bending over with air wrench and lord only knows how many nuts and bolts taken out...we were part ways done!

Today I go to get out of bed and my lower left backside is in PAIN, it is slightly swollenand I took some tylenol and hit the old ice pack and groaned!

Not to mention I have been moving furniture and cleaning..Oh ya and I am moving my crsfting and sewing back to the basement, the little room just could not hold all of my stuff....now do i really need to clean out or what,

Which remind me...I like so much...I sew, crochet, cross stictch, trying to learn to paint by influence of my sister!! I also do embroidery work, collect nuemrous things,....I am luterally running out of room,...how do you choose just one thing to do..or choose to downsize...My fabric stash alone could fill a wall of a bedroom easily..I have s ome stuffed in totes, Im talking like 6 totes, I have 3 large shelves for fat quarters....one alone for books....LOL well I am sure you get the picture by now, I really do need to organize and clean out but how and where to begin when i love doing it all and want to learn more?

Ok so thats my brain picking for the day gonna go hit the bed and some ice packs again and HOPEFULLY dull the pain by morning!

have a great weekend gang!

Wednesday Wisdoms

Ok remember the site I posted about doing collage, .... I think it is in the previous post any how I decided to upload one of my collages tonight,...so far this one is my favorite...perhaps later I will go back and do some more embelishments and add some paint or inks.....but for now through this process I am very satisfied!! I hope others share their work too!



Oh man another hot day in Western Minnesota!...but still cool in the house so not turning on the air ....*whew* just might make it to the 4th and no AC yet!/

Kids are still busy working...I am proud of my daughters, earning and saving their way to things they want and places they wish to go to....Certainly helps a lot!

However my youngest this week had a terrible dose of reality hit her when a fellow classmate of hers was killed in an accident, new family within the year here and my daughter said even though she was not best of buds with the guy he was a great young man and everyone liked him....so she is now at 16 going to her first funeral outside of a family member.

My husbands uncle took a bad turn in his battle with cancer this week too....right now in the hospital and not certain what lies ahead there...so dare I say concern and stress all rolled into one...

Makes me think hard about this life of ours and all it holds for us, perhaps is a wise thing we can not see into the future.

I also dug out my water colors, tried to duplicate the floral painting we learned to do in class....well why is it it turns out MUCH better in class than at home on my own...*Sighs* BUT I did end up with a very pretty green background out of the cobbled up mess....LOL But Ill keep trying! Might turn those into ATC's.

I think tomorrow will be a heavy garden day for me when I get home...weeds and watering, radishes are all eaten up and not too much longer peas will be ready!! Oh FUN happy canning and freezing!!

Any how I am gonna work on another collage so will close this tonight and wish you all the best of what is left for the week!

Be Creative....FREE

I was just reading on another blog and came across this and wanted to share it with you guys!! I am sooooooooo excited to begin this,..it's free and hey you never know what we may create! What would be even greater is if those of us that participated shared our works of creativeness!

http://www.expressiveartworkshops.com/free-e-course-deepening-creativity/

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Well I did get the laundry done and the gardens are all weeded! Yard work is complete and the kitchen cleaned up!

I did start some cleaning in the basement, that place is a good hide away as no one ever sees it but us so I never really do a very good job cleaning but it does need to be tackled

I picked my first crop of radishes...oh man sooooooooo good!

Ohhhhhh good news too! Oldest daughter got a job today!! I am sooooo happy for her, right now its about 25 hrs a week, but beats the 10 she was getting before and then she had a 25 mile commute one way....now shes only got 5 miles!! just maybe she can gather enough money to cover her books!!

I was called out today to do a reiki treatment on a lady that is having some severe pain in her back, so I spent an hr working on her then went for a drive and bought a water and magazine and sat by the lake and listened to nature and read!

so now I am satisfied that I got a few things accomplished so will close this out and wish all of you a blessed weekend

Saturday morning

Good Morning Everyone!

Well I got the next 4 days off! Can't wait to see what all I got done, and I am going to try very hard to blog it here to share with everyone!

I am starting this day out by doing a load of laundry and making the kids pick up their mess they made last night! Hubby and I went to Fargo ND yesterday after I got off of work and took in an event at the Harley Davidson Shop in West Fargo actually, was a lot of fun, registered to win tons of prizes being given away, (which he didnt win) but they served some good BBQ pork sandwhiches, potato chips and baked beans.
I ended up haveing to buy a sweat shirt to stay dry in the rain they got.

We got home about 1:30 this morning to a lightening show, we had some rain..just enough so I can't run the tiller in the garden this morning (grrrr) the weeds are so horrible!!

Any how off to get some stuff done and will catch up with you all later...for now gonna read some blogs and go get a few things done.


Till later ~