Almost Wordless Wednesday....

....Just a little snow on the roof...

Life is Good

Man's Best Friend.....

Can you see the thoughts running thru Mia's brain....

Come-on PaPa.....
drop it...!!

I'm real good at catch and fetch...

Come-on....
Just a flick of the wrist...

Come-on....
I'll clean up anything that hits the floor....

What you don't see is Max playing back-up...behind Mia...
that turkey didn't have a chance....

Life is Good

Yuck....!!

Didn't even make it out the door this AM....!!
Suppose to be like this allllll day and then turn into snow sometime tonight...!!

No flipping of the coin today......today's a quilting day....
(with a couple of loads of laundry thrown in)

I think Mia's looking for a dry spot..to wet on...!!

Yep......wind is blowing rain all the way to the front door....

Life is Good

The Bad .....The Good......

The Bad..

Cold.....strong winds....overcast.....rain.....turning into snow...

Ugh..!!

I could have a bad case of the blahs...if i let myself...
Trying to decide which way to go......blah or get up and do something....
Maybe I should flip a coin....

The Good...

The Pioneer Woman's Turkey Tetrazzini recipe...

Yummmmmmmy....

and really uses up that left over turkey..
I left out the white wine....didn't have any and didn't want to run to the store and buy any..

But...

the Tetrazzini turned out great without it...
I think the block of cream cheese is the secret...

Had to send half of the left overs home with the parental units....'cause.....i knew i would eat every little morsel that was still in the house....

Do i know myself of what...?

Had a plate full for breakfast with four sugar cookies and coffee..

Breakfast of Champs....!!

Well......i'm off to flip that coin...

Life is Good

Tree Update.....

These pictures were taken this AM.....just as the sun was coming up..

The workers are loading the "big" trucks...
Shipping Christmas trees to a tree lot near you...
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I told you....if we found out about the emergency crews on Monday night i'd let you know...

Boy....was i wrong...!!

They had a tree worker fall off a trailer load of trees and die...
The management believes he either had a heart attack or the load shifted and he fell 10 feet to the ground - breaking his neck...
He was 61 year old....this was his 33rd season working trees...he leaves a wife and 8 children..plus his crew...
There has been NO laughter or singing from the fields all week..

The experts say....that logging is the most dangerous job in the world....
Could tree farming be considered logging on a smaller scale...?

Rest in Peace..

Random Thoughts for Black Friday.....

Another Thanksgiving has come and gone...
Couldn't stop the memories of the entire family gathering at Granny's house for the turkey meal....sometimes there would be 20-30 of us and we would eat in shifts...

Now we're so scattered there was just the five of us....

After dinner and football....after the parental units had ventured back up the hill....
Mom called to announce that my brother is getting married....
I really thought he would remain a bachelor for life....but....after 13 years with the same woman....
they decided it was time....Hummmmmm....

Talked to the female child......she had stayed home 'cause she was on-call for the hospital...she was making her midnight run list and waiting for the boys to get home with her turkey dinner....

The Male Child will soon be moving to Boone and starting his last two years at ASU....

MissKitty is sure i'll screw-up and forget what she wants for Christmas...
(can you buy World Peace...?......is it a new cat toy or a video game...?)

Mia doesn't want to be bothered.....buy her anything.....as long as she can eat it or tear it apart...

Max has been reading all the sale adds and now has crossed eyes and a headache...

Well.....Anyway....

If your shopping today.....enjoy it.....you won't see me there....!!
I love Cyber-space shopping...!!
The big Brown truck beings it right to my door....!!

Life is Good

Happy Thanksgiving.....

....Burp!!....

Life is Good

Mac Daddy.....

It's that time...!!

Time to drag out the Mac Daddy of all my crock pots...
(i have four)

The Turkey Roaster....!!

I've written it before.....and i'll write it again....

"I Love This Thing"

Cooks a 12 lb turkey in about 3 and a half hours....
Frees up the oven for all those side dishes...
Comes apart for easy cleaning....

What's not to like or love....??

The local Wally Worlds usually have them on sale around this time...
(not a Black Friday Item)

But.....you might want to invest in one....
just in case you should ever need a crock pot big enough to feed a hoard.....

Life is Good

Update.....

...still harvesting trees across the road...

Last night there was some sort'a emergency over at the loading area...
it involved two rescue units and about 8 trucks...
It was too dark to see much and too dark for pictures....(sorry)...
Everyone seemed to be OK ...... cause neither one of the units left with lights flashing and sirens screaming...
If we find out what happened....i'll let you know....

Until then...we're off to the Wal*Mart for the last minute shopping....

Life is Good

Sneak Peak....

The 5 year old sweetheart's quilt is done....!!

I'm giving you just a peak ... 'cause she hasn't seen it yet....

Now i just have to finish the "Buggy" quilts for her brothers....
they won't take as long ... cause...i'm using the quilt as you go method and the same quilt pattern..

I'm off to cut.....cut.....cut...!!

Life is Good

Not Our Night.....

...See this lovely cloud cover...??
That's what last night's sky looked like....
Not a star or planet to be seen....

The telescope wizards did hone in on Jupiter...
..but...
the little devil kept jumping in and out of the covering clouds...
we got a good look on the monitors in the control room..
..but...
we left the telescope looking to the troop of Girl Scouts that "excited" doesn't begin to describe..
We'll try again next month..

If the weather allows us to get there...

Dark Sky Observatory

Is really in the middle of "No Where" or was it Oz....?
I'm really not sure ..... the MaleChild was driving....

Life is Good

Rubber Ducky Your the Ones.....

Once again the cutting....sorting......stacking.....loading....has began cross the gap...

Yesterday we watched the yellow rubber ducky tree workers....
Hard at work....getting trees ready for shipment to a tree lot near you...

Why the rubber ducky suits....??
What you don't see in these pictures is the snow that was falling...

They're sort'a like the mailmen....
Neither snow.....sleet....rain....well.....you know that motto.....

Life is Good

Day #2......

...of this cold....rainy....yucky.....weather...!!
And
To top things off...the temp is suppose to start dropping and we may have snow flurries by this afternoon...
Days like today rob me of my pep....my get up and go....my quilting mojo...
Can't seem to get the body moving ....

Reading a good murder mystery..doesn't help either....
i find myself carrying the dang book in my pocket...
Just in case a few spare minutes should overtake me..

Hope for sun tomorrow....'cause i really need to get these quilts done...

Life is Good

Almost Wordless Wednesday....

....I think i need a better hiding place....

Life is Good

Keeping Watch.....

....that's about all we're doing today....

They'll let you know if anything happens...

Life is Good

Monday....ugh..!!

~Monday~

The Good...the Bad and the....Ugly...

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The good......i got the above picture of the sunrise...
The bad......the fur babies internal clocks are still off....
The ugly.....severe case of bedhead....

Ugh...!!!

Life is Good

Random Thoughts....

Mia sits funny...

Max needs a hair cut....

I'm still seeing shadows in my right eye....but....it's better than last month...

The leaves are almost gone....

Are those snow clouds behind the parental units lodge....?

Is this a line up for the bird feeder...?

Just a few of the photos i captured this AM from the front porch...Should have made a
smell-a-vision movie...

Cause

I hear chain saws in the distance and the smell of "pine" is in the air...

Someones cutting Christmas trees this morning...
and the smell is very holidayish......

Life is Good

11-11-11

"Long May It Wave"

Life is Good

Score......!!!

the MaleChild and i have many common interest...
..but..
The one we share most often is gazing at the night sky..
We're constantly watching the changes of the moon.....constellation positions....and the visible plants.....we even have "sky charts" bookmarked on our computers....

This pictured was taken Tuesday night as we set up the camera on the tripod in an effort to catch the asteroid as it flew by......we missed it....

Anyway...

Appalachian State University(http://dso.appstate.edu/) has an observatory just across the gap from us...

Hummmmm....imagine that...!!

They have several telescopes......the newest one is a PlaneWave 17-incher...
Construction is finished and they now have public nights...
These nights are published on facebook and with in minutes the tickets are gone....!!

Score.....!!!

Five......count'm......five tickets.....for the 19th of November...!!

Grab your coats parental units....
We're on our way to the stars...!!!!

Life is Good

What'da you do yesterday....

....well...
Monday the males went to a flea market in Wilkesboro...
CityBoy found Florida tomatoes...

...we were in desperate need of...
Mrs. Wages Salsa...
not a jar could be found in the pantry..!

So....Tuesday i made 14 pints of salsa and 4 quarts of plain 'maters...

What'da you do...??

Life is Good

Mornings.....

...seem to be fog and frost lately...
And beautiful..
Just throw on some sweat pants....a jacket....with a hood....
And it's prefect for front porch sitting...

Hummmmmm....

Coffee is cold and the dogs have deserted me....
Must be time to go inside the nice warm house....

Life is Good

I forgot......

...well...
Almost forgot.....to post pictures of my "Mad Hatter" quilt...
I hang it up for the Halloween season...

Cause i think it looks kind'a Halloweeny....
It's just the top that i made in a BOM club during the old life...
It's not quilted yet....but....i have the backing and binding all ready to go...or sew....which ever...
I've been trying to finish it for the last ten years...
maybe....just maybe...
2012 will be the year....

Life is Good

Here it is......

...see it under there....?

Finally..... i've got pictures of Sparky's cat cabin...

CityBoy took them for me..
..he was outside taking pictures of the men laying cable....
Cable TV and Internet are coming to the Twelve Acre Wood after the new year....!!

Here's a closer picture...the parental units burrowed it down into the mulch and looks like a little pine straw packed around the side.....to make Sparky feel right at home...

After all.....when you've been living under a Christmas tree...you need a little bit of the norm in your new abode....

Can you tell how thick the walls are by looking at the opening...??

Life is Good

ps....this AM's blood sugar...120....guess the meds are working....!!

Can you hear the hum.....?

Why i do these things to myself i'll never know...
But..
I took on the challenge of three commissioned quilts by Christmas...
Can you tell this first one is for a 5 year old sweetheart that picked her own fabric...
Hot pinks...purples....lavenders....blues....neon greens...with flowers and swirls...

I needed a new pattern that was quick and easy and would please a little girl....
i rummaged around in the sewing room and came up with....
Fatty, Fatty, 2x4
a Thimbleberries by Lynette Jensen
quick...easy and sooooo cute....!!

This is the fabric for the next two.....the brothers.....of the sweetheart....
and Yes..!!.....those are bugs on the bottom fabric...
(Please ignore knitted hats.....those go to a local charity)

Now i have to find a quick....easy pattern that would be good for "Bugs!"

Life is Good

They're back......

....is it a meteor......is it falling space junk.....is it SuperMan...

Nawwwww...!!

The jet jockeys are back...

I've noticed them in the early mornings for the last few days...
..but..
this is the first sunset fly over i've watched this year....

On this Thankful Thursday..
I'm thankful for the guys and girls that protect our country...

Life is Good

It's Official.....

(last night's sunset)

Yes...it's official....
After months of diet control and as much exercise as an old woman with breathing issues could do on a daily basis...

The doc said......we can't put this off any longer...
Your diabetic and it's time for oral meds...

AAAAHHHHHHHH..!!

So another pill has been added to my schedule and diabetic council sessions should start next week...

AAAAHHHHHH!!

Two things i had hoped to avoid....

Now .....lets move on to something happier....

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The "Cat Cabin"

A lot of bloggers have ask about where it was purchased....

OK

Here's the scoop....
We had the cat cabin built by our good friend Kenny, the carpenter...
it looks very much like a standard dog house....

...Except...

It has double walls with insulation between....
there is also insulation between the floors and the roof..
the entrance is a circle instead of the upside down "U" shape...
the roof is slanted....made of metal and removable.....for easy cleaning..

The parental units filled it with pine straw and catnip..
(Sparky moved right in.....no begging was necessary....)
it's under their front porch...so it is out of the strong winds we get up here...
(the space under their porch is about 3.5 - 4 ft high)

And since it's under the porch ... i don't have any pictures.....
maybe i'll get the malechild to crawl under there..

Life is Good