Gifts for those I love...

     Well have been working on a few 6x6  scrapbooks for family members and I made one for a sil.. okay we drew names and I got her.    Also another member of her family and a niece from a different family was chosen.  Now if you do a gift exchange isn't it just good manners to send a thank you .. especially if the giver was not able to make the exchange... hmmmm... maybe I am being old fashioned but a quick thank you would have been nice even sent via Facebook.    The niece did send a message.. and she is a teen.. yet she knows better...lol..  dunno... maybe it was not good enough.. :( but I tried.

    A-hum.. speaking of scrapbooks I am now making one for my grand daughter.. all about her favorite things.. frogs .. maybe I will post on here about that later.. it is not finished yet and I am going to Joann's today to find more goodies to embellish it with.  Joann's is my very favorite store and I can spend days in there looking around .. everywhere I look I get more inspiration and soon Im sure I would just explode if I didn't rush home and start crafting..sigh...yeah.

   Okay just for the heck of it here are a few pages I have done in the last month.. for gifts...

  Well these are just a few... but it is getting time to go be a Mom again so I will just add a few more real quick... 
 

This one was not finished when the pics were taken but you get the idea.  Hope you all have a good day!! Hugs

Almost Time to grow up

    It is November.  Sigh.  It seems summer is passed me by again and again I feel like I have not gotten anything accomplished.  South side of the house needed a coat of paint- the shutters needed to be painted as did the trim.
  
  The house for Jack was made but the roof will have to wait until... well you know how it is.. he does have a roof but not a good one that he can jump onto and get out of the mud with. Poor dog got himself tangled in his chain this morning.. its one of those plastic coated cables and the plastic had frayed and tangled in the hair on his leg.  I saw it while making breakfast and had DH bring him inside so I could work on it.  He is such a good dog.. he whimpered a bit but let me get it untangled.  Jack used to be an inside dog but he hated being inside and I swear it could have been a Disney movie all the trouble he got into... lol...yeah.  

   I think our chicken count has risen to about 3 dozen... minus about 8 roosters that will go to a friend to be butchered for her family.  We had 3 hens hatch out babies in October so we have several tiny fully feathered  chicks running around.  There so cute.

   Cold outside now.. 34 tonight and some snow but nothing that has been sticking down here.  Don't mind the snow to much just don't like to drive in it.  

Good Afternoon!  Well it is 91degrees today and 100 is expected for Sunday.  Wow did you ever think when we had those cold 55's in June that it would ever get this warm? or hot!!  Me neither. 

 One thing I do like about this time of year is all the little ones we have here at Stargazer.. although we don't have the goats anymore .. except one older doe named Willow .. we still have lots of teeny peeps here.    So far, 3 hens with 8, 9 and 3 baby chicks.  Just the cutest balls of fluff.   And so far my cat, Miss Priss is behaving herself and has left them alone.   One of the reasons we have so many chicks this year is the fields are just full of cheek grass..     and the nests are hard to find out there.  So we have lots of junior hens and rooster wannabes.  And I'm sure we will have an over abundance of the little cock-a-doodle-doers  too. so if your needing a 6am wake up .. your welcome to a barnyard alarm.  

Creativity

These past few weeks I have been spending a few minutes making cards ... I do this first thing in the morning as my husband gets home from work.. mostly to avoid him.. but whatever.. I go in there to be alone.  I have been thinking of selling card and have sold some but certainly not enough .. or often enough..but I wanted an opinion on what you think.. if there is really anyone actually reading these posts..lol.  

So here are a sample of my cards..and thanks for looking.  I will take pics of some of the others when I get a chance.   

Its Been a While

I have been thinking about Camping a lot lately.. now that's its summer its almost like I need to get out to the mountains for a while to keep me sane.  Maybe thats what living in the desert does to a person, or maybe its just me.    

Just a little ol pit....

I have been busy! I actually enjoy having something to do.. lol.. and now with the wedding stuff I have been working on and my new project...dum da da dum... I am finally getting the patio around my fire pit started.  This has been something I have wanted to do for 2 years now.. and without Margaritas urging I never would have started it, mostly because of the expense..  but at least it will not be the weed covered eye sore that it has been and we can do baby steps..lol.  And yes the weeds were out of control there and were so nasty that I could not wear my flip flops for fear of being poked by something sharp and unruly.

So far we have dug down a few inches and cleared all the weeds out.. might I add that Derek is also helping and he is really amazing .. he can do in 10 minutes what takes Margarita and Me a half hour or more.  I love also that if he sees us out there he will just come out and grab a shovel and help.. gotta love that boy.

Here is how it is looking as of right now... and that was 2 or 3 days work, but wow I am impressed.. This goes way beyond what I had expected to get done this year.   Yeah ok I have very low expectations lately.  But what worries me still is actual cost ... we still need cement and sand and maybe gravel and ha ha .. no pick-up to haul it in.  Just my 92 van that is showing its age big time and puffing and farting more than I do!   and that's saying a lot..lol.    But Im not going to let that stop me .. I cant let that stop me.  I will survive, and with any luck I will have my nice fire pit before Im to old to enjoy it!

hugs all

Well its Friday afternoon and Iam just sitting here on Facebook and killing time.  Yesterday my grand daughters Megan and Becca graduated from high school...it was so awesome watching my little girls .. lol.. getting there diploma.  I have gone to many of these over the years and its always bittersweet because I never "walked the walk".. nope i never graduated from high school. At the time of my graduation I was 7 months pregnant with my son ...  And yes i did get my GED several years later but some how its not the same.  I feel like that is something I have missed out on, and it makes me sad.  Watching the girls made my eyes teary... silly i know but ....  

 Around here Memorial weekend is usually wet no matter where you go.. and true to form it has been raining all morning altho it has slowed down for a while I can see the clouds moving in again.  No wind tho and thats nice.  Its only 57 out but since its very calm it feels so much nicer out.  I used to go camping this weekend .. back when i was able to go camping.  Sometimes I would go up to Horsethief Res. but it was always so packed up there.  Kinda nice tho but usually slept in the van because of the rain.  Still went tho..lol.  All the grand kids were small then ... /smile.. gosh i miss that.

Than near the middle of June we would go camping again.. nights were still a little cold but who really cared.  We would have a nice fire at night and Me being the earliest riser would make a cozy fire in the morning and start the coffee on the stove.  By the time people were stirring I was all washed up and sitting with a cup over at the fire.. I also put a pan of water on for hot cocoa for the kids.   I enjoyed making the fires ... used up a good amount of matches the first few times but I got the hang of it real quick... gosh now I make these awesome little fire starters and all i need are 2 matches tops and i have a great fire going.  Very nice. My fire starters are not pretty but sure work good. 

Raining again.