People

I almost forgot that I wanted to post a few people pix.

Here are some of my favorites from the last few months.

Sweet baby Jude

Beautiful Ruby

Felix aka Dennis the Menace

(sorry for the picture quality)

Asher as the Star Wars cowboy

Luna on a crazy man's lap

and our sweet flower Keely

In just a few weeks we'll be adding grandbaby #7. How blessed are we!?

Kitchen window

I love my kitchen window.

Thirteen years ago when we remodeled this house and Mick first put it in I was disappointed. I did not ask for this window. I thought I was going to get a regular window with a nice little 6 inch sill to put a few plants on. I'm glad Mick made a different decision. I love that I can put my nature treasures in it and see them daily.

I think one of my most favorite things ever is to walk beaches, trails, wherever. I'm not a big hiker, mind you. A lot of my walking would even be considered wandering. I'm always on the lookout for a new treasure.

Confession: while sorting a lot of stuff lately, I unearthed BOXES of seashells and beach glass. They've accumulated over time, and have come from beaches, garage sales, etc. I also have jars of shells and beach glass on display in almost every room of my house. I border on hoarding! But alas, I'm not a real hoarder, as I am very happy to get rid of many. But I cannot part with the sweet feather-lined bird nest I found in our yard. Or the fossilized shell from a garage sale. Or the pieces of Robin's eggs found on a hike. Or the sheep's head shaped rock. Or the.....

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Does anyone ever really keep new years resolutions?

So much for monthly blogging! I get so caught up in reading other blogs that I've forgotten my own. I finally got some tips on how to resize my photos for uploading on the blog so am ready to jump back in here. It would take forever to upload a picture before, now it's just seconds! Thanks Hannah.

In May we did a lot of lawn work. Mick tilled up the high areas to knock them down a little, then we had some sand and topsoil brought in to fill the lower areas that were lakes during the rainy times. It was a couple of weekends of labor, but the after picture shows that it was worth it. (and hey, a little extra cardio workout is good for ya). We did the front, side and back yards.

Asher is king of the mountain!

As you can see, the before picture was taken before anything had budded out new leaves, and the after picture was a month later when everything was green.

We also re-did our raspberry bed in front.

You can't tell in this picture, but the rock area was beginning to lean, so now there's a good brick foundation.

Before:

After:

I've been meaning to clean up one side of the "wild mound" for years now, so finally got to that too. (We had lots of sunny days for yard work this spring). Here's the mound just after I started on it. It's about 10 feet wide and 4-5 feet back. I've added more plants and look forward to next year when everything bushes out more.

All the flowers around the house are so beautiful.

My hostas just get bigger and bigger. They're 4 feet wide now.

I've been nice to the spiders and haven't been sweeping away their webs.

And lastly...

The worms are HUGE this year. Here's a mama robin with a mouthful at Hannah's house.

And here's one of the babies she was feeding.

I'll post people pix next time. Ta ta for now.

Yowzah! Is it true that April is nearly gone?!

So here are a few pics from my new camera (Panasonic Lumix point & shoot). I'm pretty happy with it; just need to learn better picture taking and how to use settings.

I have one question: who are these kids and why are they always in my camera???

I did warn you that a lot of my pics would include grandkids! These are the first four. The next three are below:

Ruby, second from left in mama Ashleigh's arms; Jude, second from right in mama Hannah's belly; and surprise baby number 7, far right in mama DeAnna's belly.

One perk of being grandma is the time you can spend playing with toys; I mean playing with grandkids. I helped Luna make a Playmobil hotel, complete with a garden restaurant shown here.

Signs of spring in my garden

Hannah and Bryan's chickens Emily and Mavis. Sad to report that Mavis disappeared a few days ago; the end of Mavis as seen below.

Took a little hike the other day with Mick and Ash.

I love this picture of Asher

To sum up April: Spring is here, the weather is great, my family is the best.

Ta ta for now.

Holding to my resolution...

It's the end of March and I'm posting a quick blog since my new year resolution was to blog at least once a month. I'm on the verge of buying a new camera, so hope to blog more often when I have fun pics to share. Truth be told, Mick and I have a fairly boring life without the kids and grands, so be warned that most blogs may include a baby or two or three.

Well, just for fun, here are a few random images I found on the kitchen computer.

We have THE BEST Santa in Juneau. Luna spent several minutes on his lap and he was talking so sweetly to her. And that beard is real!

I'll leave you with this: the cutest little stories about ickle and Lardee can be found at mymilktoof.blogspot.com. I recommend you begin with the oldest post in March 2009 and read your way forward.

Later gator....

Puzzled...

Here's what I've been up to lately. It's the biggest puzzle I've ever done, but as you can see, it's a pretty easy one, even with 2000 pieces. I really thought it would be on our table for a few more days, but it only took two days to complete.

Let me be the first...

to announce the arrival of our newest grandbaby: Ruby Winter Ewing was born to Dan and Ashleigh at 7:38 this morning. She weighed 7lbs 4 oz, has lots of wavy dark hair and is beautiful! Everything went well for both mom and baby and we are all in love with her! Sorry I don't have any pictures to post, but watch Hannah and Asheigh's blogs soon.

Resolution...

I have been sooooo bad about blogging. My last blog was nearly 4 months ago. FOUR! My excuse for not blogging lately is the camera/picture thing. All of our pics from the trip south in October were uploaded by my sweet hubby, and I have not taken time to sit down and go through them. AND, we gave away our camera and have not yet replaced it. So, this blog is just a "hello again" and let you know I've not up and died yet.
As of today, I am very excited about our 5th grandbaby, to arrive any time now. Can't wait to see who he/she looks like. Even though it's # 5, each one is very special to us in their own way and we guarantee to love and spoil him/her very much!
My only new year resolution is to blog at least once a month; but don't hold it against me if I fail a time or two. Hopefully, this little blog will inspire me to write again soon.
Ciao!