Some Days,

I just miss my daddy so much...

7 Inches of Snow to 70 degrees in 36 hrs!

How neat is this.....the snow was beautiful for a day and then totally melted away the next day! Kentucky weather......gotta love it!

We got to play with our electric Snow plow.....fun..fun

A few of my favorite things! I can't do without them. I listen to audio books on my mp3 player all day while I clean house....love them..download them free from the library.
My kindle...(when I can get it from Gene) Amazon has a ton of free books and they download instantly. I have read about 100 books on it and have never paid for any of them :) And to make it perfect, Drew and Lindsay got me this neat light for my kindle for my birthday. I makes it so much better to read in low light. I love the e-ink on the Kindle...that's one thing that keeps me from upgrading to the Kindle fire...E-ink is so much easier on your eyes and now that I have the light... it is perfect!!

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!

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Mother's first birthday and Christmas in the nursing home