Another Load to Give Away. :)

 We finally took the yard sale left overs to a place locally that is sort of like Goodwill.  This is how our van looked loaded up.  Glad to have this taken care of. 

Tree :(

One morning before I got up I heard a sort of fluttering sound.  It sounded like a branch was falling down & disturbing the leaves on other branches.  We tried looking but didn't see anything.  A couple days later I heard it again, not quite as loud or as long.  Well a few days later we happen to finally notice that there is a good size top of a tree down.  It has two major size branches that are now leaning on other small trees.  So we will need to get it cut out of there soon.  

You can sort of see where the top of the tree is.  It is off middle at the top right side.
It missed the corner or our bedroom area of the house by about 6 feet.  Also just missed the LP tank.

Curtains, Curtains, Curtains

I needed to redo curtains in our kitchen, dinning room & living room.  I had it in my mind & was thinking on them for several months but had other things that were more pressing.  Part of it too was I had in mind what I wanted for the kitchen but was having trouble finding the right kind of fabric.  The picture at the top to the right it the kitchen curtain.  I have also cute chicken accessories sitting in the kitchens too.  Middle picture is the dinning room.  I had to piece it to make it work.  So I covered the seam with black ribbon.  The bottom picture is the living room curtains.  Most people won't even know they are new as the fabric is the same.  I had left over fabric from making them before. Since we liked the pattern/design we wanted to just use it. There wasn't quite enough so I had to add a dark blue ruffle to the
bottom.  So I am well pleased as the curtains didn't cost us much, just mostly my time.

My Knee Surgery

         


 March 1st I had knee surgery for a torn meniscus.  This is my first knee surgery & Ed has had many & he said this would be a piece of cake.  So I went into it thinking that.  If this was a piece of cake I don't know as I want to have any more.  Guess I should back up a bit, first I had to have an MRI & a stress test as my EKG looked bad. (It ended up being just a bad machine).  I have catastrophia So both were very stressful for me.  But I got to surgery day ok & all went well.  A few days later I started bruising which made the leg really hurt.  Of all of Ed's surgeries on his knee only once did it bruise like mine & he said that one hurt more than the others.  Sure wished mine hadn't bruised.  I am still have pain in the muscles behind the leg.

 

Visit to Arizona

 We made trip to visit our oldest daughter & her family in Surprise, Arizona.  We were there Jan. 28th to the 4th of Feb.  It had been 5 years since we had been there.  Following is just a few pictures of the time there.

Speical Dates

This is our latest project.  It started out as my idea but since I couldn't do some of it my hubby did most of the work.  He is such a sweet guy.  We soon to have 22 grand children & I thought it would be neat to have all their birthdays listed like this.  We also put in our kids birthdays & their spouses plus their anniversaries too. 

Happy 91st Birthday

 My Mom turned 91 on the 23rd of September.  We had a party for her at Pizza Hut.  She enjoyed herself.