Time

It doesn't seem like so many weeks since I was last here. Time , it just speeds on by. I told myself I couldn't play until taxes were done and I behaved. Scary. But all the taxes are done and on their way to the places they belong so now I can play. This weekend I'm dying lace and ribbon and shipping tags, and I have a half finished bunny. It's just a tiny bunny, about 10 inches or so with a sweet face. Its mohair is very sparse and carmelish in color. It is an it until it comes together and shouts I'm a boy or girl bunny. It feels good to be playing again.
I am patiently waiting for February to end. It is not my best month. The shop was robbed last February, our house 3 February's ago and so it goes. February was when I dealt with my breast tumor all those years ago. On the plus side for the month my oldest was born in February, and this year he turned forty. He's feeling old this year. I had to remind him that our friend and his honor grandmom just turned 80 and celebrated by putting a new roof on her garden shed. As in she did all the work. All of it. The ripping off of the old roof and laying the new. Hanging from the ladder and everything. She's what I aspire to when I grow old. It is all about the time

celebration time

It is party time, at least until the last load of laundry is done. You see, right now, for the first time in months I think, the ironing basket is empty.......At its peak, on New Years Day, it was at least stacked 3 feet tall. I really hate ironing and it doesn't take much for me to really really need to finish other things much more important. I am smugly sitting here looking at the empty basket, but I know the fool thing will grow again.
Yesterday honey and I took some time to play. We stopped by Today's Country Store to check out Kris and Amy's new look. It is wonderful. The colors so blend with what they do, and it was beautiful. They worked really hard to get all of the redo done so quickly so stop in and enjoy. Their store is soul food. Enjoy your week.

Blessed New Year to all

My honey would really like all cleaning and purging posts to stop since he says it means more work for him. He is beginning to hate the word simplify. We spent most of last Sunday purging the basement. Now it's only one small room. At one time it was the coal cellar, we had turned it into storage. One load to recycling, one to Goodwill and one to the dump and you can actually walk on the floor. No more climbing up and over piles of stuff and yuck. It is organized and logical and somewhat clean and should stay that way for awhile. Till the next time we don't know what to do with something and into the basement it will go. So another major project is done.It feels so good to get the big ones done. This weekend, after we take down Christmas, he can rest.
Stop by the shop next week the primroses will arrive on Monday. Can spring be far behind. Have a blessed new year everyone......

The day after

We hope all had a wonderful time with friends and family. We have eaten way to much around here. Horatio is hibernating this weekend and will be awake and ready for business on Tuesday.For the first time in three years all seven of our children, my cousin's two and my five, were home for Christmas. When they were little, it was tradition that they sit on the steps in my cousin's entry way for pictures. The last time they ranged in age from 11 to 27. Now they are 24 to 39 but they literally squeezed onto the steps to pacify their mothers. This year we also got my five grandbabies on the steps. I'm having trouble adjusting to my first born turning 4o in February. Where did the time go???? So on my first day off in weeks, what do I do why go to Christmas sales to replace the 6 dozen Christmas tree balls that the cats and Hannah's tail have broken in the last couple of years. Now, since it's so cold outside I'm also defrosting our big old freezer, so it's back to reboiling my kettles of water. Happy weekend.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all........

We're having a heat wave

Wow it's almost 35 degrees and it's 10:30 at night. It's almost warm. Today was clean and decorate day at home. It was suppose to snow so we decided to go early to the market and to pick up the tree. Then we could clean house and decorate and enjoy the snow. Well the kitchen is clean, the living room is clean and decorated, the tree is up but still naked.It snowed for a few seconds here and there. Such a disappointment. Maybe tomorrow it will snow for a bit while I finish decorating the dining room. The plan is to put the lights on the tree too, but not the ornaments. They'll have to wait a day or so. We've got our son's kitten and it's his first Christmas. In the kitten world trees are really great jungle gyms, at least for a day or so. Mr Mittens is having great fun tonight.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr

It is officially 13 degrees in Puyallup. Wow a warming trend. At 7:00 this morning it was 11.3 degrees. I am now officially praying for snow, because then the temp will rise and it will be almost a heatwave. At least we have sun so it is beautiful. The cold is an excellant excuse for hot chocolate with whipping cream.