Remembering Toni....

The lady on the left is Toni, on the right is my sister Pam. Toni passed away last week. When people live alone, they need to keep in touch with someone daily.  Toni's best friend remarked to another lady she knew well, that she had not heard from Toni for some time, and she wasn't answering her phone. The other lady lived nearby and said she'd go over and check on Toni. When that happened, the neighbor lady found Toni . She had passed away.  It was a sad situation. My sisters who live alone, call each other every day. Or go by each other's homes. Sorry, the point of this post is to remind us that others need us, some times. If you have loved ones , friends, or neighbors who live alone , please check on them. They may need you. Blessings for the weekend. xo

Nine Below Zero Today......

That is how cold it is here today. Nine below !!! So I dug through some photos. These are some flowers I saw at Shipshewana, Indiana, a couple springs back. I'd love to be shopping for some of these right now. :) Wouldn't you love to own that flower cart? I may see if we could come up with a couple wheels, we could make our own cart. I do love wave petunias.
 I have played rummy with Ted about every afternoon since the middle of January. Wrote my sister a letter almost everyday. Some times I put two letters in one envelope. LOL Kept the laundry done, cooked, cleaned, sorted papers and shredded old things. Read many, many things. All I can say is..."Come On Spring !!"

Thinking Spring....

 This is what I am seeing...Only it's covered more with about a foot of snow. Can you see the town in the distance ?  That is Tipton , my hometown. I love that place.

Now this is what I am wanting to see. I am beyond ready for Spring. :):) I know a lot of you are also. Mostly, I just feel the need to get out and about. I think we may be able too in a day or so. I did stand on the porch yesterday and enjoy the sunset. It was a pretty one.
  Hope all of you are safe and warm. Be careful when going out. xo

This Wednesday....

This is just one drift around here today. I have shoveled to the mailbox...as if, the mail carrier will come today. Ted is snow blowing the driveway by the garage. I almost have our other drive cleared. We are to get a couple more inches of snow. Then it be nice and cold the next two days. Then more snow for the weekend. I know , I know, I am counting our blessings as we did not get the ice.
 I am praying for all of you who did get ice. I pray if you lost power, it isn't off long. Our roads are not good anywhere. I hope everyone will just take their time getting to and from their job, the stores, or schools. All schools are closed around here. Heard where the children's museum is closed today in Indy......so this would be a good time to read to the kids. Or watch movies, bake cookies, play board games.
  My girls and I would always play scrabble, or spill & spell, any of the word games. We had one that had verbs, nouns, prepositions, everything to make a sentence. You would shake it up , then dump the words, then form a sentence if you could...so funny. Some of those sentences were as if we were just spoke choppy English.
 Stay warm and safe today dear friends. xo

Dig,Dig, Dig.....

This is becoming our exercise program.  Digging out from big snows. One coming in today and going on into Wednesday. Today we will be filling the wood box at the backdoor. Having that box so close has been much easier than going back and forth to the wood pile, every time we need wood. It takes 6 wheelbarrow loads of wood to fill the box. We get it done in one workout.So that will be a bit of exercise too. Who needs a gym ? :):) To be honest, I would rather  dig in dirt and plant things, rake around the yard, ride a bike, take a walk...than dig more snow. Stay safe blog buddies. xo

I Just Needed These....

I felt like I needed to see some flowers today. Can't get out to the store to buy any.  We had a lot of snow on Saturday night, but we were lucky the wind was blowing . The neighbor boy off to school on time this morning, no delays. I think some of you need to get to the stores and get some supplies for these next two weeks. Hope Teddy likes peanut butter :):) Blessings to all you wonderful people out there, take care.xo Happy birthday mommy!

I Found Something.....

My goodness...I was playing around, and found some old photos. I am in shock. I did not even know I had this. This is a photo of my mom and dad holding my twins. So odd that I found this in a file on my blog. I find this odd as ,tomorrow is my mom's birthday !!!  I miss my mother and father so much.
  We got more snow...more than forecasted. I wish all of you a beautiful day. xo