Temporary B&B website is up!

Well, I have been HTLM-ing. Did I say I hated it? Well, It's not easy, but I managed to utilize the old cut and paste to its fullest. I am proud of the results of my hours of Labor.
Please give me all your thoughts. All will be accepted graciously. I need your input and ideas.

~ I love a spring rain and the smell of 'old musty cabin' as I open my screen door
Sending cravings of a wanted get away to my soul
Nodding heads of new spring birth has me seeking the sun to see their blooms
And the sweet sweet songs at my feeders send me into a day dream I don't want to lose.

Just some quick thoughts from Lynne's head

~Photo by Naphatu


Out for a walk this morning then later this afternoon a therapeutic massage (wink wink). I'm looking forward to meeting the ladies at Hacienda this evening. I don't get out with the ladies very often in the evening because of the girls being in school now and my husband work hours. But we are on the cusp of spring break and I can let my hair down a bit and enjoy a margarita. I'll drink one for you Cindy and Annie. Maybe two!!!

Why I decided to write about this now, I don't know. Maybe because I was going through it and in some ways still, as it raises it's ugly head. And if so, I can figure out an alternative route to take. All good of course. A lesson in the making.

I am talking about control.

Did you know that being a control freak has nothing but unsatisfactory results in the end? every time?
Why would I want that? There is nothing rewarding about it. It's an upward battle of wills I would prefer to let slide.

The 'conrol' I do have within my personal life motivates me in creative ways. Helps to run a smooth homelife by channeling my energies in ways that have rewarding benefits.

I'm sure my ability to deal with other challenges of control as my girls grow will test me greatly. But I am grateful for some forethought on the subject now.

The circle of friends I have in my life are truly a rare blessing. I had no idea how lonely it is out there. People are starving for what I have in my life and some people are scared of it. interesting.........

~People either think I am crazy , or they respect me
~ I forgot who said this.

So Many Things

So many things going on in my life right now . I don't think I could list them all. (maybe I should ? )
They are all very exciting things. The things that need to get done and the things I can't wait to start. I am overwhelmed but joyful.

Both girls are back in school today. It was a long, long week and weekend of extreme mothering at its best. Side stepping all the germs has been trying. I am lucky to beable to get extra sleep in order to keep 'them' at bay. (fingers crossed & knocking on wood).

Spring! Spring! Spring! Ahhhhhhh! sniff! sniff! How sweet. crocus' blooming in other peoples yards (of course). Daffodil's with their heads peaking out . The renewed nagging of dividing my spring daylilies is upon me. Just add it to the list!

Jamin with the Friends this weekend. Looking forward to seeing everyone. Hope the sunny weather holds up for Saturday. Oops. nevermind...........Looks like rain. :>(

p.s. This photo is by Plow-Plane. (flower macro)

~"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere; it is within each of us."
~ Black Elk

Site number one.

Well I finally started a homepage for my jewelry making. I hope to put this siteon my business cards soon. Now it's Time to work on the B&B site. I think I'm getting the hang of it!!

Getting up Sunday morning knowing we have the whole day to our selves makes me breathe easier and knowing that Amy no longer has a fever helps also.
Grazing the Sunday paper, breakfast and a clean sweep of the house and we have the rest of the days to ourselves.

Bathingsuits are at the forefront of our daughters' thoughts and it's a really good thing that it was. Trying to find a suit any later in the year and it would be a sure disaster. Especially when one pieces are practically nonexistent. Everything has string ties behind the neck (which they both hate). It take some serious digging. I am so glad that Tom came along. Stop laughing! He was helpful until it came to the cost of a swimming suit with a skirt which is sold separately, but you have to have it because it makes you feel more comfortable with your body when your not swimming. You know what I mean ladies! None of the words have to be said out loud to my daughter. It is just innate common female knowledge.
Amy of course, is all about comfort and some nagging peer pressure in the back of her head of eairler; " what's cool bathing suit styles conversations" and who has what so far. Poor thing. Hold your head up high honey. Ooze what is really important, like not being a slave to fashion and embrace who YOU are and not your clothes. She knows. (hmm)

Barnaby's Pizza and home for an old movie Tom has been wanting to see for weeks. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Tom wanted to hear the words Bon Ami really bad!


up to no good:

• Not reading anythng! HELP!
• trying to finish B&B website
• Waiting on Photo's for B&W project
  
• Making jewelry, ideas I get off websites, nothing original
• not getting ahold of people and closing myself off.
• getting big time bloodwork done because I'm 45 :>(
  
• getting a mammogram, wha-ho-ie

I am being driven forward
Into an unknown land.
The pass grows steeper,
The air colder and sharper.
A wind from my unknown goal
Stirs the strings
Of expectation.

Still the question:
Shall I ever get there?
There where life resounds,
A clear pure note
In the silence.
~ D. Hammerskjold

I am so in the need to be in the Blue Ridge mountains with the sun on my face and the hum of the trees in my ears. I want nothing but the peace of a sunny afternoon to myself, but don't leave me there for long for I will become lonely.

Tom gave me a watch with a streatching band that pinches, so I change it. This is a gold coiling. You can do fun things with coiling! I don't wear watches much and Tom wasn't trying to tell me anything by giving it to me. Just a watch.

Sunday Sunday.

This is a photo of Amy lunch for the family this Sunday. It tasted as good as it looks!

Our weekend was a bit prempted by Kelsey's sleep-over the night before. This means both Tom and I were butt tired. But We made it up to St. Joesph on that most beautiful day. Dinner with a lake view, local brews , potato soup and window shopping. . The music for the night didn't start until 10pm and we didn't want to wait 2.5 hours for that so we headed home with the hopes of catching a movie we've been wanting to see. We never made it. Sleep over came us both. I thinnk we will have to continue the second half of our anniversary this weekend.

Back to work!

Good Years

Today Is our 14th wedding anniversary. This photo was taken 18.5 years ago on one of our many dates. This one being dubbed the Photo Booth Date!! I was greeted this morning with three long stem yellow roses (my favorite) dark chocolate and a very mushy card for Tom. I think he's in love, as I know I am. Happy Anniversary Thomas.

The Polovicks gave us yet another used washer this weekend. This time it came with a matching dryer! To us these are brand new. We feel like we've won a great prize!!! Now if we could only have this happen to us in the form of a vehicle. :>)

The Black and white Project is on its way. I told tom that I probably wouldn't have to do this again until we had grandchildren. He was a bit freaked out by that comment.

This weekend will be filled with many girls spending the night on Friday, an an
niversary dinner for two Saturday night, ending the weekend with family day Sunday . My life is so very good. I am grateful.


~"I just want to matter."
-June Carter Cash

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation. ~Colette, Gigi, 1944,

Another try with the home made photobox

Tom brought home another box in better shape and size so I could make another photobox. I need to do more research on lighting, etc...... But it is fun!

Ebay and Amazon have been steady. I was joking with Tom today saying that we needed to hire a part-time person. I am so grateful to have this job. I couldn't make this kind of money if I was working outside the home with taxes and all. I am constantly eating crow when it comes to Tom's method of buying and storing what I used to call junk. Don't get me wrong, There still IS JUNK! Just some of it just happens to make money.

Lent starts and the girls have given up gum and candy. Kelsey asked me what I was giving up for Lent. I said "my sedentary life style............"

Our weekends have been relaxing. We have found a good routine that almost feels as though we ever belonged to a church family. How sad is that? Tom misses church. He misses the people. I do to, but not enough to give up what we have now.

Kelsey is involved in this years play "The Wizard of Oz" and it opens next weekend. Lucky for us this play doesn't include a Sunday show. I have kept my 'sewing' hands out of the 'to need for the play' picture. Yes, I can do it, but I do plenty of other volunteer work at the school and I don't NEED to do it all. It is so nice to say "that isn't going to work for me right now." In other words NO! There are hundreds of very capable people who haven't done a darn thing all school year who can get their 'volunteer' hours in before the end of the school year. Yes, you are gently required to have so many volunteer hours per family. Sad to have to ask isn't it?



~I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.--George Eliot