Let it Snow!

We went to Newport to visit with Drew and Lindsay and had a great Birthday lunch at the Hofbrauhaus. The food and the company were great. It was a really neat place.

We had a really big snow yesterday. We got about 7 inches. It was a heavy wet snow

The trees were really bent over from the snow. Thankfully we didn't loose electricity.

Thankfully I made it home from the nursing home without any trouble, and I hadn't been home 20 minutes when the roads got really bad, real fast and there were wrecks everywhere.

As beautiful as the snow is, it makes me sad because I can't help but think that it is snowing on daddy....

Just Sad Times

Yesterday I said goodbye to my favorite Aunt. I have talked her on the phone almost daily for the last 8 years. She loved my Dad and Mother so much, it broke her heart when daddy died. I will surely miss her.She is buried beside my daddy. The wreath on the left is what I put on daddy's grave for Valentines day.

I am just so tired of being sad.

Rainy Day projects...continued

I am trying to catch up on a lot of projects (anything to keep from cleaning the house :) )

Our porch swing cushion was a mess and I couldn't find one that was the same size; so I had this new shower curtain that I had bought a few years ago and i just used it and covered the old cushion with it...works good and is water repellant. It is actually black and white, but my camera does strange things to color sometimes.

Then, I had some fabric remnants that I have had for years and decided to make a draw string back pack to take to the camping shows and on our camping trips. This was my first experience working with grommets and it went well. I like to use these light weight back packs because they free your hands up.
Well, if this weather stays gloomy, I will be fat, but have lots of craft projects complete.

Lesson for the day! Don't make craft projects without a Pattern!

This year the grandkids were really into the gingerbread man. Aaron had a gingerbread man festival at his school. So, all through the holiday we cut out and colored gingerbread men. We even made homemade play dough and cut out gingerbread men. We made cookies for Santa and the reindeer and the cookies were shaped like gingerbread men. So, on this snowy, cold day I decided to make them some plush gingerbread men. I ran across the brown plush fabric in amongst all my remnants and decided to make them. Well, I didn't have a pattern or anything, so I just decided to wing it. Well, here is the result. We laughed and laughed at the finished products. The "gingerbread girl" came out looking like a voodoo hooker.....too funny!

And

Mother's first birthday and Christmas in the nursing home

Continuing with the "Firsts"

Gene has spent his first night in the hospital.
Not bad to be 57 and never been in the hospital. All in all he liked it. Just push a button and get waited on......that did not carry-over once he got home.

A Year of Firsts

My first Thanksgiving without daddy; very little food, very little eaten.

My family always believed in "giving". We loved to give gifts. What wonderful memories I have of my daddy's family all getting together at Christmas with presents piled to the ceiling. We always had over 50 family members all crammed into my Papa Copes little house. Presents, presents, presents..we all bought for everybody.

This year, for the first time, I can literally get all of my Christmas gifts "under" the tree..not around it, literally under it......thanks Scrooge, bah humbug!

So, this is a year of "firsts". I don't like it at all.

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