50 Years

50 Years Ago

50 years is a milestone that if you had told us we would reach I would have told you that it would take a miracle with the roller coaster ride the last few years have been with the ups and downs. We truly believe that god has been there every step of the way for us. To give us the magical steps to succeed, when we really didn't think it was possible. 

We have learned to appreciate every day we have been given because you definitely don't know what tomorrow will bring. Saturday is the day that we were married on a beautiful fall day frost that morning, but warmed up enough to be able to sit outside at the reception which was held at his parents house. 

We are the only ones in our group that are still married. My sister, who was my maid of honor's husband has passed away and my bridesmaid who married our groomsman got divorced, he has since passed away. Our best man lives on the west coast. We took our vows very seriously and are renewing them. They will just bless my rings because they have not came off my hand other then to have them cleaned or to check the mountings. They have a very sentimental meaning. 

We love traveling this time of the year because of the fall color. Alot can change in 50 years the hair becomes grayer, but I refuse to pay the money to change the color. 

I hope to have pictures to post after tomorrow which will really be a big day for us. The kids and grand kids are having a reception and we are renewing our vows afterwards during mass. 

Good news on my eye surgery, at the present time I have 20/20 vision. I will go back in three weeks to check the vision and be fitted with reading glasses. It is amazing what you can see that you didn't see before. It is a kid in the candy shop. I am sorry for a long post, but I just thought I would touch base. Thank you for all of your prayers, e-mails, and good wishes. Have a wonderful weekend.

THE Big Day

The weather has been beautiful today, but if the weatherman is right we will be driving in the rain when I go Monday for my eye surgery. The nurse asked when she called with my instructions if I was a little anxious. I guess you could say I get a little more so the closer that it gets, but knowing that it will make a big difference in my vision makes it all worthwhile. 

 

I went to the Pumpkin Fest today before I went to the nursing home. I was on a mission to get peach and apple cobbler that they made in the dutch oven. If I could have figured out how to get the ice cream there with out melting, we would have it on top. It was yummy without the ice cream. I gave dad his choice of which one he wanted. He chose the peach so I had the apple. It was crowded with a lot of little ones running around and I did look at some of the crafts. 

 

I will probably stop by in the morning before I go to the nursing home. It will be the last day for a couple of days until I can drive again. We will talk on the phone which we do each night before we go to bed. I always hate when I just can't go out and go wherever I want to go. My grandson is ready to take care of grandma. I get his lower bunk bed again.

 

The plans for our 50th wedding anniversary is mushrooming for next Saturday the 19th.  Not only will the kids have a reception for us at the nursing home, but we are going to renew our Wedding vows. There is 5 at mass today with their heads together making plans of how that is going to happen. I have a wedding planner and how much fun it will be. Father is looking forward to doing the mass for us on our special day.  They told us to trust them not to worry it would be a wonderful day. They have helped push him in the wheelchair when I had my last eye surgery. They make you feel very much a part of it. 

 

The temperature is dropping this evening. It is already down to 49 degrees. You definitely know it is the fall of the year and the days are flying by. 

 

Have a wonderful weekend. Take care. 

 

This and That

 The sun was going down and I thought it was so pretty. I am not usually outside when this happens very often. The month of October is almost half gone. I don't know where it is going, but it is sure going fast. The weather reminds us that it is truly fall with the cool temperatures in the morning and warmer temperatures in the afternoon.  

It will probably rain this weekend because of all of the activities going on. We have the pumpkin fest where the club is selling home-made cobbler made in their dutch
 oven over their open fires. I know every show that we had where they did it they always sold out. I don't know if they will have the ice cream or not. They light the wall of pumpkins tomorrow night which is always impressive with all of the different face cravings. It is homecoming for our college and my grandson's school. The high school parade will be Friday with the college parade on Saturday.
 
Momma doesn't usually ride, but this is one day she got to. You can tell how cool it was, but by afternoon it warmed up a little .

One of my Christmas towels found a new home. It was fun to do and the hands are keeping busy. My eye surgery is Monday and I can't wait until it happens. I hope I have as good as vision as my left eye. 

I went out and met the school bus this week one day for my son. He is layed off at the moment because of the government shut down. My middle grandson doesn't usually get to ride the bus home, but has been while dad was home. They won't leave them unless they see someone is there to meet them. Big brother doesn't get home until later. So grandma helped out. He is getting to eat as much as brother. He was hungry when he got home. He had him some brisket that dad smoked, a piece of marble cake, and I don't know what else. He was happy because he had control of the remote because no one else was home. If it had been just a little longer, I thought he was going to go to sleep. 

My oldest grandson and I are going to do our craft show together in November. We always have fun. He said he would have to get busy and make some new things.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Got A Date

 Hooray!Hooray! My right eye surgery is scheduled for the 14th of this month. I could have had it a little sooner, but needed to work around my daughters work schedule. I am hoping it does as well as my left which I have 20/30 vision. After I get this done, I will have to take a new drivers test to get the restriction off my license. I just have to do the vision part. 

Tonight was my youngest grandson's music concert at the mall. It was compose of the 2nd and 3rd graders with some of the third graders having a speaking part and they did really well. It was a Dr. Seuss theme and you could tell which they like the best plus the type of music. 
I did not take my fall picture. It caught my eye with the sun setting.

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Meet my niece's baby that came early. He is growing and mommy's blood pressure came down to where she got to go back to work. He is such a cutey and is growing. If she had gone full term, he would have been a big baby. I am hoping the blood pressure stays under control. 
 
This month has very special meaning for us besides my eye surgery. The biggest thing will be our 50th wedding anniversary. More about that when the time gets closer. We have birthday's, our daughter's wedding anniversary, and getting everything in order for winter. 

I pray for the families being affected by the mess in the Washington. There is already an effect being felt for the new Obama Care. My hubby's roommate fell and broke his hip. He has been waiting for two weeks to be taken to the hospital. The excuse today was the ambulance got lost. Have you ever heard of anything so crazy? Because of the type of insurance he has they have to use a certain transportation company.

 

Besides riding his horse, they took his picture. I really liked it, but then I am partial. 

I have been lucky to win two drawings. I will be posting pictures of those later. 

 

We had rain today and then it got in the 80's. How much rain depended on where you were located. I just didn't really care about the thunder and lightening especially when it sounded close to the house.  I am not ready for the 30's and 40's that we are suppose to get down to this weekend. I just don't want to see snow yet, but I have seen it this early in the year.

 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend

October is Here

 First, no I did not take the picture of fall colors. It just makes me wish that I was going somewhere that this would be the scenery that I would be seeing as I drove through the countryside. I miss the drives that we use to take with no particular place in mind. Just get in the car and go. We were married in the fall of the year which is like the weather we are having right now. It is cool in the morning and warms up in the afternoon. We set outside at the nursing home for a while so we could talk without being overheard. They finally came to help him stand for a little while. He spent two days in bed last week. They first thought it was the flu, but they did all kinds of blood work. I still haven't been able to find out everything I would like to know about that.

My oldest grandson got to be the Pony Express rider for the Pony Express 5K-10K Run that was held last Saturday. He got to start the race which I was so proud of him. Fergie, his horse behaved really well considering all of the runners that they had. He borrowed some things so that he would look like the right era. 

My craft show went really well. It was rainy and cool, but I had a good day. I sold some, got a custom order, and the possibility of another show in an area that I haven't gone before. I might like it because it is on a week day instead of on the weekends. My custom order is done that I talked about previously on their way to a new home. I am trying to stay busy. I am still waiting on my second eye surgery. It is suppose to be soon. 

I have been doing some reading, just not to good at leaving comments at the present with the two eyes not working together. I noticed it the most when I try to read. 

You all have a wonderful rest of the week. Take care

Cool Weather

 We started off in the 50's this morning when I got up. The sunshine will warm it up to where we should have a beautiful day. There was scattered showers yesterday, but it didn't really amount to much. They are starting to combine beans in our area so you have to watch out for the farm equipment on the highway. They get over as far as they can, but the roads aren't really wide enough. Slowly you can pass if you are careful.

 You can definitely tell when kids get older and become teenagers. I don't know if I am really ready to accept that because we want to keep them a lot younger. As fast as time is flying they will be old enough to drive cars. My grandson and two of his friends talking at one of the shows we had this summer. He belongs to the same 4H Club. It will be interesting to see with him joining FFA this year in high school. The summer went much to fast to suit me.

Ah my little man with a Big horse. She wouldn't hurt him nor let him get hurt. He has to be boosted in the saddle at times but part of the time he grabs ahold of his saddle and climbs up like a monkey. His saddle looks awfully tiny on his horse. He is starting to get a little taller, but he still is little. 

My daughter and grandson who is looking forward to being my baby sitter again. He makes such a good one taking really good care of me. The people have finally came to start doing the repair work from the storm damage of several months ago. As I told her, you make them do it the way it is suppose to be one because they will shortcut it if they can get away with it. Charge you for material that they don't use instead of giving credit for the material. 

 

Well you all have a wonderful day and enjoy the sunshine.  

 

Happenings at my House

 Fall is in the air with the cooler temperatures at night warming up during the day. They are already thinking about Halloween and what they want to be. If they are going trick or treating, which isn't really that far away. The time is flying and I don't really know where it has gone. 
As of the first of October, hubby will have been in the nursing home a year. A year of roller coasters for me, with job ending, going into forced retirement, eye surgery the other eye surgery being scheduled as I

 write this blog. I have 20/30 vision in my left eye. Typing is a little fun so I wear my glasses with one lens popped out. I have the border on one tea towel to finish and then just one left to do on my custom order. 
The picture is a little far away, but Matt is trying to get Fergie to kick the ball between two cones in a trail competition. He accomplished that and they got first place. He has been riding brother's horse since he was thrown from his. This was the last horse show of the season. I kinda miss going to watch the kids ride. 
The kids carrying our flags are Miss Baylee, the queen, Miss Emmlie, the princess, and my grandson Jake. He has carried the flags several times this summer. It gives you a great sensation when you see the kids doing that. 
School has been in session a month and it makes you wonder where the summer has gone. Of course, I had my oldest grandson helping me most of the summer, which was fun. I still hear about how I spoiled him. Isn't that what grandparents are suppose to do?
My youngest grandson is playing fall ball. He is going to be grandma's babysitter when I have my right eye surgery. He didn't want me to come home the last time. I told him I would be back. 
We have lots of things to do this weekend. The Southside fall festival .the LeBlond carnival is here, plus music fest down town. The southside festival is full of entertainment with lots of crafts. I want to go one day, but I am not sure that I will get to do it. LeBlond is our catholic high school. 
Well it is time I need to head up to see hubby for the afternoon. Take care and I will eventually get caught up with you.

Update

Fall is going to be here before we are ready with the cool weather at night and warms up in the morning.

 

First eye surgery was done on Monday and  I am doing fine. We aren't waiting a month to do the second eye surgery. I will find out the 17th when he checks my first eye when the next surgery will be. I will be hit and miss here in blog land and I appreciate all of the prayers.

 

My niece had her baby boy and other then being jaundice, he is doing good. He weighed 6 lbs and 13 oz 20 inches long. He would have been really a big baby if they had waited another month. She is still having a horrible problem with her blood pressure. They can't seem to get it under control for some reason. 

 

I have been staying at my daughter's for a few days and will stay again when they do the second operation. It was so cute with my grandson sitting beside me wanting to know if I needed anything. He would get me water if I needed a drink or whatever. He is so special. I have to wear colored glasses whenever I am outside which is no problem. He wants me to make a towel with a train on it for his grandpa. 

 

We had rain last night during the night. We could use some more. It is suppose to have some more. I hope everyone is doing o.k. Take care

Checkin In

Fall is in the air, football season has started for everybody whether  it is the little ones or the NFL. 

 

Hope everyone is going to have a beautiful weekend. Mine will be very busy with baseball, horse show, and visiting the nursing home. 

 

My youngest grandson had a make-up game last night. They won 12 to 6. They may end up playing under the lights as quick as it gets dark. He plays again tonight.

 

The older two's  horse show starts tonight with the games. I don't know if momma is going to let my middle one ride or not. He is wanting to so bad, but after watching him go off his horse earlier this summer, I just don't know. Of course, I want to be in both places at once. Wish I could fly maybe that would let me.

 

Hubby goes back to the eye doctor today. They did a laser treatment on his eye to try to help with the blurriness. I don't know if it is just down and back or if they will do some more. My cataract surgery is  Monday. Busy, Busy.

 

Please pray for my niece. She is in the hospital and they are bringing the baby on early. They are afraid to wait any longer. They know the baby is a little boy. I just pray that they don't wait to long before they decide to do maybe   a c-section.  They had her doing bed rest, but that wasn't helping. 

 

Have a wonderful weekend, but I need to start my running. 

HAPPY LABOR DAY

 I got woke up early this morning by severe weather. We had wind clocked at 70 miles a hour, thunder, lightening, and rain. It came fast. The lightening sounded close to the house. I never can go back to sleep when that happens. It makes me relive when lightening struck our house. The only thing that saved it was we threw the breaker inside and the electricity went off outside. Back then your appliances were all depreciated, but  things didn't cost like they do today. I have a few small branches down, but other then that I am o.k.

Have any of you had problems loading your pictures on Etsy? I have tried to put my Fraidy Cat and my new Joy Christmas tea towel and they don't like the size of my pictures. I have yet to figure out exactly what size they should be. 

How is your weekend going? I am going to my
da ughter's this evening for supper. We are doing some belated birthday celebration. All the family will be there excepting my Louisiana son so I will be spending time with my three grandsons.

I thought I would sleep late when I went to bed last night, but that didn't happen. I spent time with hubby yesterday and took him outside. It wasn't as hot as Friday which was triple digit for us. No air, just what little I was out was almost more then I could handle. I  hate when it is that hot even though you take precautions, you can still get to hot without realizing it. They cancelled the ball game which I was really thankful for. 

Can someone tell me if you can transfer a digital pattern so that you can use it for a hand embroidery pattern? I found some I would like to use, but who has them can't answer my question. 


My red Christmas Joy linen towel all done in white. I have been doing a lot of embroidering to keep my cool. I get so frustrated that I cry. Why can't people just be honest instead of giving you the run around?

Where has the summer gone? Each month seems to go faster and faster that it will be Christmas before any of us are ready. I keep wishing it would slow down just a little at least give you time to smell the roses. Some  of the trees are starting to turn, which is much to early. Does that mean we are in for a rough winter? 

I know the ground hog did see his shadow. I keep teasing my hubby about that because he was born on ground hog's day. 

You all have a good rest of the weekend. Take care.

Hot Weather is Here

 We have been having really hot weather the last few days with the heat index in the triple digits. I am hoping that it will cool down for the three day weekend. I haven't decided what I will be doing for sure, but will spend part of it with family and of course, nursing home visits. 

Hubby had an eye doctor appointment yesterday in the city. It was suppose to be a simple eye exam, Right? Well they ended up scanning the eye and lasering it to try to take away the blurring. We will go back this next week and I have already been informed that the nursing home can't take him. Well I gave her a message of two that can. She just has to call and make the arrangements. 

Yesterday was something else. Both my hubby and my dil's father had doctor appointments. Would you believe that the paper work got mixed up and when my dil got to her dad's appointment, she had my hubby's paper work. Well, they ended up faxing hers down and mine ended up being remade. It was quite a day in more ways then one. 

I thought I would show you some new things going to be listed in my etsy shop. All of the work I show you here on my blog is for sale, if interested, you just need to send me an e-mail. I am working on a custom order that I have taken off the days of the week and added the saying that they wanted.

The next two pictures is a close up of the design on my table topper that I showed you in a previous post. It was fun to make and I love the way that my butterflies turned out. It is called butterflies and orange blossoms. The burp cloth with the little monkey was embroidered for my niece's baby shower. She has been put on bed rest. I just keep praying for her and the baby. We know it is a little boy. I am going to have some burp cloths in my shop before long.

You never know what you are going to see. I have a new red Christmas tea towel, but for some reason I could not get it to load. 

The schools here in town let out early because of heat and some have ac. It just does not make sense. My older two grandson's didn't get out early. They have gone to school all day. They have ac. It may only be window units in some rooms, but they are managing. 

 
 Miss Lindalee is having a giveaway over at her blog Crossnmystitches. If you click on my sidebar it will take you there. I have admired some of her counted cross stitch. One of these days I will get so that I can do that. I just haven't got up my nerve to try. 

I am sorry this post is a little long. I hope everyone is staying cool. Take care.

HOT SUNDAY AFTERNOON

 W hen it is hot, you try to find a shade tree to cool off under. When the humidity is high, sometimes that doesn't even help. He climbs all over his horse and she is usually very calm, but as we all know sometimes she is not. School has been in session for a week and so far so good. Everybody likes their teachers even my grandson who started high school this year. I just don't want to grow older, but having a 2nd, 3rd, and a freshman in high school they do make you age. We are in the 90's.

When it is hot, you can use these coolant towels that you dip in water and they really do work. I didn't catch it in time, but he was wearing this under his hat. He would have been in trouble for that one. We were under tents that day which really came in handy. 

 

This afternoon I am off to a baby shower here in a little bit. It was fun shopping and hard to make up my mind what to get her. I made her a burp cloth using a diaper and embroidering a monkey on it with a cute little saying. I am going to be adding them to my etsy shop, but first I have a custom order that I have to complete.

 

My eye surgery is scheduled for the 9th of September. My daughter is going to be there the day of surgery and I think my son will take me the following day as he has some vacation time that he needs to take. I  just know I will be glad when it is over. My other eye will be done about a month later or at least that is the plan now. 

 

The medication that they put hubby on hasn't done any good. It was suppose to help his legs heal, but they don't look any different then before they started it. It just caused more problems when he tries to do things. It makes his hands shake more. I want it stopped. I will succeed, but it may take me a day or two. I get tired of fighting to accomplish what is best for him. 

 

I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend. Prayers are going out for those in need. I am trying to make my way around to visit. I do read, but don't always get to leave a comment. Some of the new gadgets aren't for me. Take care.

Happy Birthday to Me

 Flowers for my birthday. We started celebrating a day early for my birthday with my two oldest grandsons. They started to school today. Yesterday was a beautiful day to be outside watching them ride. I got home at 11:30 and was going to sleep a little late, but then hubby called to wish me happy birthday, then my daughter, and then my daughter-in-law. I talked so much on my cell today that I had to put it on the charger twice. 
After lunch, I went window shopping or at least that is what I call it. I was trying to get ideas for a baby shower. It has been quite some time since I have been to one. Please pray for my niece, she still has 33 weeks left to go, but her blood pressure is causing problems along with some other issues. She was having to stay in the hospital over night today. They say the baby weighs 5-6 lbs, but I don't know if they will let it come early or not. I just want both to be o.k.
 My youngest grandson called to tell me Happy Birthday and about his first day of school. He told his momma that she could just drop him off that she didn't need to walk him to his room. He is getting grown up for only being in the 2nd grade. 
I have to learn how to set the date on my camera, still haven't managed that yet.The sun was going down as I was coming home.
I don't know if I showed you my butterfly and orange blossom table topper. I really like the way that it turned out. I have a craft show I am getting ready for this next month. I have never been there so it should prove interesting. 
 Taste of Home cooking school is coming to our city again this year in November. The girls and I are already planning on going again. We had so much fun last time and I was lucky enough to win one of the door prizes. 
Everybody had a good first day of school. The older two was getting ready for bed. They have to be on the bus at 6:45 A.M. in the morning. 
My birthday has been enjoyable and yesterday the weather was awesome so it was an enjoyable weekend. 
Hope all is well with you all. Have a great week. 

Weekend Happenings

An update from my house to you all. The doctor appointments went well. I can no longer postpone my cataract surgery because new glasses won't help again. They are in the process of getting everything ready that they need for the surgery. My primary doctor was happy with me. My blood pressure was 136/72 after the drive which was good for me and he liked my weight. Everything checked out that was needed for my surgery.

I am going to start walking, but I think I will do it at the mall instead of the neighborhood being I will be walking probably most of the time by myself. I think I would feel safer. You never know who is in your neighborhood that has no business being there. We have some people having work done on their house that the workers don't look that good. I miss running the steps that I did when I was working.

The kids have already told me that they are taking my car so that I can't drive before I am suppose to after surgery. I will let you know exactly when. They will take good care of mom.

My youngest grandson played his first ball game in the fall league tonight. I had about forgot  if he hadn't asked if I was coming when I talked to him. It was fun to watch.They won.

 Sunday, The older two will be showing their horses. I have told my oldest that my birthday present from him would be for him to do the reining class. He doesn't really like that class, but we shall see if he will do it. I am hoping they have a good day. It isn't suppose to be hot.

They all start school on my birthday. The summer has gone by so fast. To be honest I think the whole year has flown. It seems like one month just starts and it is gone. 

 I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Take care

Fast Summer

 Where has the summer gone? Hasn't the months seem to just fly by or is it a sign we are getting older? I know it seems like a month just gets started and you blink it's gone. We have had some cool nights, but we could use some more rain. 

Last week was a busy week with my baby-sitting the three boys. I was glad for my oldest grandsons help with the younger two. They can be a handful especially when you are only use to having one or two of them at a time. I know by the end of the week I was exhausted. 

School starts in a week in our area. Both mom's have been shopping for school supplies, shoes, and clothes. It  is hard to find some of those in between size as I like to call them in jeans. 

Matt enjoyed his art camp and is already talking about going next year. He told his brother he was ahead of him in school. His brother said I don't think so, little brother said yep because I am going to college. He thinks he his art camp puts him ahead because it is on the college campus. 

You remember seeing Matt going sailing off of Cleo's back. Well this is  a picture of just how gentle she is. He was sitting there with his feet cocked around the saddle horn. We will have a horse show this coming Sunday. I will probably go watch as it stands at the moment. 

I thought I would show you another one of my tea towels that I have ready to put an edge around it. I am making a set of red and black tractor pillowcases right now. That is just some of what I have been doing to keep myself busy. 

Tuesday is the eye doctor and Thursday is the primary doctor appointments. Find out about my cataract surgery. Hopefully the right eye will be ready to do the following month after the left eye is done. I have to have a checkup to make sure that health wise I am able to have the surgery. My left eye blurs and waters more then it did so I know it is getting time for it to be done. 

Well friends have a good week. I know that mine will be a busy one, but that makes me happy. I don't have time to think about things and worry. Take care.