Friday

Stormy Weather

I didn't get to go make cards with Sandy because of the stormy weather we were having. It was a slow moving storm and it was producing tornadoes. We got 1 1/8th inch of rain. It rained really hard and the wind blew but the worst of the storm missed us.

I went to Relief Society tonight. I attended a class Krista Brown taught about cleaning products. She has her own business cleaning houses. She used to work for a company that did that, but then she went out on her own. There was only one other sister in the class. She was a young mother and I was an old granny and it was fun! Can't say I'll clean my house any better, but I never know. Maybe I'll chase those dust bunnies harder now! Our dust bunnies have character. We're almost to the point of naming them!

I've been invited to the High Priest's party at the Decker's house tomorrow night (Fri). I believe I'll go for a little while. It will be good for me to get out of the house.

Trudy only has 11 days of work left! I can imagine the great feeling she'll have on the last day!

Mary Kate's new addition is almost finished. It is adding a lot of extra square feet to their house. I know they are very happy about it. After dad and I go the happy hunting grounds, the first thing my children need to do is to DE-CLUTTER this house. It will be a different house minus the extra things we have added over the years! If dad goes first, all the clutter in his room will be gone fast! If I go first, who cares! Ha-ha! The only thing I want to take with me is Belle's ashes.

Blog Time

I'm tired tonight. Didn't go to exercise class today because I was tired from Tuesday's drive to H'ville. Tuesday, I was tired from the exercise class and it all caught up with me. Karen and I went to Lowes and looked around. I thought I wanted a shrub but it would be better to plant one in the fall instead of the Spring. I won't have to water it as much and one planted in the fall will have time to establish a good root system and will be ready to begin growing well next spring. I bought a 25' garden hose and a bag of bird seed.

My mood has been better and perhaps I'm on my way up. Tomorrow, after lunch, I'm going to Sandy Herwig's house to make cards. She lives off of East Limestone Rd. I hope I won't get lost trying to find her house!

I've been taking pictures of the flowers outside, Trudy, and hope I can learn how to put them on the blog. Looking forward to seeing Forrest and Sadie!

Busy Day

I was awake at 4:00 AM but didn't get up until 6:00 AM. I guess as one gets older, the need for sleep is less, and of course I'm usually asleep by 10:00PM! I read my scriptures and after breakfast I did climb back in bed for about an hour.

We left for H'ville around 12:45 PM and stopped at Target to return a package dad had bought on line. It was neat how we could return the package at the store when we hadn't bought it there. Dad hadn't been in Target and he was so surprised at the number of cash registers he saw all in a line!


After seeing the Dr., dad decided he could live with his problem instead of having an operation. I don't think he could survive and operation like that. We drove straight home after the Dr. visit. The trip was bad on dad's spine and he's running a low grade fever now. He'll probably feel really bad tomorrow morning. I have exercise class tomorrow morning and then will get together with Karen, I hope for a little R&R!

Let's Exercise

I'm a slow learner. It's still a bit cool outside and it's way cool at the Wellness Ctr. yet I go bopping of in short sleeves and knee pants! I saw another lady that had a shirt with elbow length sleeves in it and that's what I'll wear next time I go. If I get too warm, I can always take it off. My body didn't want to exercise but it did feel better after it was all over!

I had a package to take to the P.O. and then I went to get my nails done. I'm thinking about having them taken off, but than again I don't want to do it. Who knows (The Shadow Knows...)

I made 4 cards tonight and then Mary Kate called and wanted to know if I had a "cow" stamp. I did, in a set of stamps Trudy gave me. Mary Kate had two friends who had helped her get her spinning routine ready for testing and one of the songs was about a cow or something. So, I kept on making cards. I made one and was on the second one and noticed I might be getting low on adhesive and forgot to adhere one of the parts of the card on. They (cards) were to be identical, but I got too busy thinking about the adhesive, and forgot to put one of the pieces on the card. Oh well, if I hadn't have told, no one would have known!

Tomorrow, I have to take dad to H'ville to a Dr. appointment. That will be the adventure for the day.

Gert has been in his container for 23 days now. I sure hope his leg is healing well. After 30 days, I'll take him back to the vet. Hopefully by then, he'll be able to go back into his cage. What an ordeal for the both of us!

Sunday Sunday

Today was Fast and Testimony day. It was a good meeting as were Sunday School and Relief Society. It's still chilly enough to wear a sweater especially since the wind was blowing and at church there are certain rooms are cooler than others.

I used two of my new stamps tonight. One looks like a dandelion bloom. I stamped it in black and put some glitter in the bloom which makes it sparkle. I didn't put the card together because I'm waiting for the ticket punch which will make the corners look better than just right angle cuts. My other stamp is of cattails. I stamped it in dark brown on light beige paper. I'll put it together with two different colors of paper. Again, I'll wait on the ticket punch to do the corners.

Happy Day # 2

Ha-ha! It's okay to have another happy day...Trudy, Sadie, my 11 yr. old granddaughter, and I met at Hobby Lobby today and made a half day of shopping. We went to Hobby Lobby (of course), to the Old Pottery Place (if that's the name of it!) and Madison Square Mall. We had lunch at the mall. I got a new pair of New Balance shoes, which I needed badly. I usually just wear one pair of shoes all the time. I do wear sandals in the summer. Tennis-type shoes don't hold up much more than 6 months if they are the only ones worn. I got 4 new stamps and some water color paper and a black re-inker.

Dad and I finished the lunch I brought home from the Mall. It was Chinese food. It was good the first go around, but not so good the second! It was food, and a Tums took care of what it did to my stomach! We watched the Kentucky Derby while we ate. Big Brown won but the second place horse broke both front ankles and had to be put to sleep where she lay. Sad.