Happy Valentines Day

     

  Happy Valentine Everyone.  This is my first Valentines Day  since Don passed in November, 2011.  The last few years he had been getting me roses for Valentines.  Usually sending our daughter to pick them up.  She is working today but over her lunch break she went and got these beautiful roses in his memory.  She said the one was called tie-dyed,  it is really beautiful.  I love them both.

Now on to other things.  I have a little cross stitch happy dance.  

Just a little NeedleMagic, Inc kit that I got at Hobby Lobby last month.  Daughter likes frogs so I made it for her.    Now to go back to the OakHaven Designs 2012 SAL that I am stitching.  January was this little kitty.

  I finished it as a small notecard.  February is a cute little puppy.   Next was this plasticcanvas piece that I ran across when I was sorthing things to set up my craft closet.  

  Then last I was working on crochet 6inch granny squares for the Online Angels Charity.  I don't have a picture of them yet.

Better get this posted and then on to other things that need done.  

Have a great day!  

Another Photo Hunting Blog

I found another Saturday Photo Hunting site. (Click the title for link)  The theme this week is Tree Branches.  Anyway over the last few years I have taken many pictures that fit this theme so here goes.

 2007 Osage County Lake in Kansas

Same tree Osage Lake

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Next 3 are in my yard just different times.

 2007 Ice Storm.

 August 2010 Summer

January 2011 Winter  Same 2 trees.

Glad this is not this year.  Although we could use the moisture.

Saturday PhotoHunt a day late.

Here is my bling.  My husband bought this ring for me for Christmas 2004.  I had never had a diamond and the rubies are our birthstones.  I love this ring and will wear it for the rest of my life.  It reminds me of all the good times that we had and how much he loved me.    RIP Don I love you.

Free Plasticcanvas Bookmark

Bookmark  made using the Mosiac Stitch.
Size is 10 threads by 36 threads (9 holes x 35 holes)  using  7 count clear plastic canvas.
I used 2 different colors to be able to show how to do this stitch.  Can be done in 1 color also just follow the pattern as shown for the different colors.

To begin come up at A and down at B, up at C, down at D,  up at E, down at F.  This makes the square that comprises the Mosiac Stitch.  To continue the pattern count over 5 holes starting at E then come up at G and down at H.  Continue following your pattern till you have completed the first color.
For 2nd color begin at 1 and come up then down at 2, up at 3, down at 4 and continue as numbered on picture.    

Created January 2, 2012
By Barbara Shultz.

Saturday PhotoHunt

The theme this week is gather.  So here is my picture.  Family gathering around truck at son's house in preparation for the fireworks on July 4, 2011.  Such a great evening.

Happy New year everyone.  I will be spending at least part of it over at my sons house.  They don't want Mama (me) to be alone this evening.  Depending on how things go I don't have to come home as our motorhome is over there and it has 3 extra beds for anyone who doesn't want to drive home.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends here in the states.

This will be my first Thanksgiving without Don but I do have my family and friends to make it a good day.

A meme

I found this on another blog that I read.  The link goes back to the original poster.


The Faceless 4th of July Meme



1. Last movie you saw in a theater?

How to Train Your Dragon
2. What book are you reading?

A Harlequin Super Romance Called "Finding Her Dad" by Janice Kay Johnson
3. Favorite board game?

The original Monolopy.  Although we don't play very often.
4. Favorite magazine?

Readers Digest 
5. Favorite smells?

Fresh air away from any city.
6. Favorite sounds?

Sounds of nature when out camping. 
7. Worst feeling in the world?

Losing someone you love.
8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?

Getting Hubbies medicines
9. Favorite fast food place?

Sonic
10. What's under your bed?

A mirror, cat toys, Oxygen bottles and Lots and lots of dust. Lots of it. Ick.

11. Finish this statement. "If I had lot of money I’d…?

Pay all our bills then help the kids with theirs.
12. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?

Sometime.  I have a small stuffed elephant called Bump that I rest my wrist on when my arthritis is bothering me.
13. Storms – cool or scary?

Mostly cool, though I have seen many scary ones also.

14. Favorite drink?

Diet Coke

15. Finish this statement, "If I had the time I would…?

...probably waste a lot of it."

16. If you had to dye your hair another color, what would be your choice?

When I have the money a med brown to cover the grey.
17. Favorite place to relax?

On the beach at a private lake.
18. Name all the different cities/towns you’ve lived in?

Over the last 45 years Topeka with an approximate 10 year stretch in the country about 25 miles north of here.  The 18 years before that was Topeka, Pueblo, Lafayette, Indianapolis, Hutchison, Wichita, Huntsville, Tulsa and DesMoines
19. Favorite sports to watch?

Football.
20. Would you like to be born as yourself again?

Not really

Grand Ole Opry Member Mel McDaniel Dies

Grand Ole Opry Member Mel McDaniel Dies He will be missed. I first met him when I was 15 and he was 20. I loved his singing then the first song I remember hearing him sing was at an audition for a band he wanted to perform with. In the mid 80s we got to see him perform at a club here in Topeka, KS and we enjoyed it very much. I always wanted to see him again but never got to. I will always remember him and love hearing his songs.

Happy New Year

The last couple of hours of 2010 are here and it has been a very busy year.  The last couple of weeks over Christmas was the best.  Our 17 year old granddaughter came to visit.  We had not seen her in several years and her Dad had only seen here for short periods of time so we were all very happy to see her for the 10 days she was here.

Taken on Dec 28 at the Kansas City airport while we were waiting on her flight out.

Erika we love you and you made your Grandpas Christmas very special by coming back.

Update

I don't know where all the time went.  Last post I had just watched the super bowl on TV.  Now it is middle of April.  So I guess I will try to let you all know what has been going on.  February just flew by.  We took a 2 day trip to Boonville Mo ( about 200 miles east in the next state.)  Didn't do much visited friends.  Went and took a few pictures around the area and Friday evening we went to the Isle of Capri (a riverboat casino) and had their seafood buffet for supper and checked the casino out.  No luck just a relaxing evening.  Drove home that Sunday into a snow storm.  Highway was not bad but the city streets were once we got off the highway. 

Then later that week on Thursday the 25th of Feb Don woke up not feeling good and running a fever.  So we called the Dr and they said they could not get him in (not the regular nurse for our Dr) so instead of the minor med clinic we to him strait to the ER.  Good thing we did as he had sever asparation pneumonia.  He ended up in critical care for 3 days on a breathing machine.  Then a week in the medical unit doing testing to find out why the pneumonia.  Turns out he was not swallowing properly and was asparating food into his lungs.  They put a tube into his intestine and he is now getting tube feeding at night.  Once they got that worked out and he started feeling better they transferred him to the rehab unit at St Francis medical center.  He spent 10 days there getting started on his rehab then was released to come home on March 17.  Since then he has been doing rehab every day.  Physical therapy on Monday, Wed and Friday.  He finished that part this past Friday.  Starting when he was in the rehab unit they started a therapy to see if he could get back to swallowing properly.  They are doing a technic called vital stem.  They hook up electrodes to his throat a stimulate the muscles to strengthen them and get the swallow to working the way it is supposed to.  He is doing this 45 minutes a day 5 days a week.  It is working but very slowly.  He is keeping at it because he wants to eat again and get rid of the feeding tube.

So that is what went on the last few months.  I am now just starting to get back to some stitching.  I had my other carpel tunnel surgery in December and since it was my right hand it seemed to take longer to get back into the swing of things. 

I will try to post more often.  And have a great day everyone.