Beauty Of Spring.....

   While I was having fits of craziness this week (previous post), spring was doing it's thing . The crabapple has bloomed.

   This tree is covered in blossoms. it smells nice too.  The apples on it are about the size of a cherry.

   The weeping willow is very green with lots of streamers. The spirea is  turning green also.

   Can you see the little line along the driveway? It's the blossoms from the weeping cherry tree.

  Lots of soft pink petals. makes me feel like royalty walking done to get the mail. LOL

      The weeping cherry is leafing out. so green now. It's a light shade of green .

    Caught the bus dropping off our neighbor boy. He's a great kid. Sharp as a tack too.

   This is the mulch that Ted and I put in the flowerbeds on Thursday while waiting for the bug man. You can see it's a course mixture. Not to my liking, but it was given to Ted . I think he just heard "free" and was all for it. :):) It was a full trailer load , we were a bit sore from shoveling and raking it.

 My pansies are starting to look a bit nicer too. I will want more color for summer. So I better get busy deciding what I want to plant. I am not putting anything in the ground, flower wise. Don't trust that all the rabbits are gone. While mulching I found a rabbit's nest. It was grasses and fur from the mom rabbit. The babies have moved on.  The neighbor live trapped one. So has Ted.
   Well today is a bit calmer than this past week. Yippee on that. Going to be 67 here today and possibly 80 tomorrow.  Hope all of you are doing well. Get outside if you can and enjoy the good weather.  XO

Have You Ever......

 .....ever , had a week you were glad to see it end ??? This was one for me. Thankfully I did have Joy in most of it...cause I count my blessings. Had to reschedule Monday's  dentist appointment till Thursday . That ended up well( I guess). The dentist picked and  probed and x-rayed, said there was nothing wrong. (Awkkk) Still calling it sensitivity . I will have to have it x-rayed again in July when I get my cleaning. OK ..that will be good.

 Tuesday afternoon, I found an ant on the table !!!!. I got rid of him...then sat down on the sofa and there were  two on the cushion with me and two on the end table....I am instantly insane.  I get rid of those and go searching for more.. I find them near the fireplace., about seven more . Then I think , there's three small logs still in the wood box. Thinking that's where they are coming from, I take that wood out, I do not see any more ants..but I spray Raid anyway. I get up twice in the night to see if anymore are around. No...good. I go Wednesday to get my mammogram and bone density scan. Wow, so lucky, in and out in half an hour. ....because the scan room and mammogram area are side by side.  I beat it home and call the pest control. They set up to come Thursday at two. So as I told you I went to the dentist., Thursday morning,.The timing was good.

  The young bug-man comes , he is  so polite and professional. (refreshing). Treats the house inside and out. Told us it was just ants..not the dreaded carpenter ants. (Blessing) Ted and I had just put out all the mulch before he got there. Now it is raining on and off the whole day. While the fellow sprayed, it did not rain. He said as long as it was not a downpour...it would work and once it dried it would be better. As soon as he leaves it rains a bit. Later it rains more , stops and rains again later. Then In the night we had thunder storms. Mild.  Today I got my blood work finished. You know that cholesterol check.   No ant sightings so far.  Right now I really do not have anything stressful  to dwell on. Hooray !!!!
  Looking forward to this weekend. Hope all of you can enjoy your weekend also.  XO

Ocean Decor........

    These are left over photos from a shop in Middlebury, when I was with my daughter Kathy. If you click on the pictures , they will enlarge and you can see the smaller items.

   This looks like something fun for a pool house. Or sun porch at a lake. I think I wore a suit like that blue one when I was a kid. :)

    I wish I had touched this whale statue...just to see what it was made from. I loved the color of it. I do not think those coral pieces are real....they surely just manufacture  those things now.

  This is a jumbled up shot. I was going for the driftwood mobile and the wooden whale on two dowel rods sitting on a wooden base.

    I thought these lady figurines were cute. Kind of old fashion in their attire. Body covering suits and swim caps.

 

   These figurines were placed along side serving dishes  and coasters. Don't you love their poses?

      Lots of seaside blue color. The paintings of the sail boats ...I really did like them.  Candles with fresh scents. I like the big lantern . My daughter like the signs. Coastal and  beach spelled out with rope and sewn to a piece of rabbit fencing.

This picture has little lights for the stars and the lighthouse beam. I thought it could be a nite-lite  possibly. Love the color of the  cabinet it is leaning against.
   Had to reschedule my dental appointment for Thursday. Just more time to fret. :)   Mean time I just keep brushing, flossing and praying.
   The weather has been so good here. A thin cloudy look with sunshine today. Yesterday, opened  the windows and aired out the house. It was heavenly.  Listening to birds singing and squabbling.  Ted dug out the fire pit and hauled all the wood ash to our friend's garden.  Then he got  our water features  cleaned and freshly filled .  I cleaned up and rearranged the porch.  Still some things to do there.
   Hope everyone's Tuesday is good.  Let's keep those in danger of floods in the south, in our thoughts and prayers.  XO

Sunday Bouquet....

    I could not resist picking some blossoms off the weeping cherry tree.

   To me there's no fragrance in these blossoms. But they do have beauty. Yesterday was a wonderful day in Indiana. The best blue skies and warm temperatures.   I did get all the pansies planted that I bought at the end of March. 
  People were out and about in our town.  Even I went to the grocery....the shelf stockers were smiling down on me . The store was not crowded and did not get crowded while I was there. I saved 10 dollars with my coupons too.

  The day ended without a cloud in the sky.  Today is to be just as nice. I will be joining my daughter for brunch today.  We may get well into this week before the weather changes. My first thing to do tomorrow is go to the dentist....well all of you know how happy that makes me.   Yikes , my hair is already standing on end. I need an x-ray , the thing my dentist keeps calling sensitivity . I think is some thing else.
  Wishing all of you lovely people out there a glorious Sunday.  XO

Friday Fun Day.....

  I am going to show some photos of spring here, while I tell of my Friday. Because some times we are too surprised to take pictures...or take along our cameras. You can see how nicely Ted mowed on Thursday .

  The weeping cherry tree is blooming . The plum bush is leafing out with it's burgundy color.

   You can see the pale pink of the cherry blossoms against the green pines.

 

.  It's been sunny here for five days , counting this Saturday morning. I think spring is here to stay .

 

   Yesterday my daughter Liz called and said she was coming over to visit. When she arrived she had her daughters Lynzie and Emma with her. Emma was out of school for the built in snow day the school had left. They also brought baby Max. :):) As soon as we were on the road, I realized I didn't bring my camera. Waaa.
    We went to eat lunch at Dairy Queen. Emma  likes to go there. Then we went to the florist shop to ask the owner how her husband was doing. Visited the antique store also. Then we went to the school , signed in with my daughter Angie's permission. Angie's class was having a swim period. We got to watch the students swim and visit with Angie. 
  As we were entering into the area of the natatorium , I could hearing singing. The high school choir was rehearsing in the next hallway. They sounded so good.
  Liz brings me home, I get hugs and the day is over. It was a fun surprise and I truly enjoyed the whole day. Hope all of you are having a fun weekend. XO

Sunny Days...

    I know it's been about a month since Spring arrived officially.  With the sun shining the past 3 days, I think spring may truly be here. I surely do hope so.  Ted mowed the lawn today...twice, had to rake it too. It had grown so much with the rain we had. After his shower and he was dressed, it was time for a good lunch.   So off to Red Lobster we went.  (Gert, wish you could have gone with us. ) I just could not eat my lunch. Gave most of it to Ted...who by then had eaten 4 biscuits.  Almost had to roll him to the truck. LOL

 He basically gets the same thing all the time. Sailor's platter. Fish, shrimp scampi, and fried shrimp. Gets broccoli and a salad. This time he drank water...no tea.  I told him he worked up an appetite. Mowing and weed whacking. The lawn looks good...should have taken a photo.
     Hope all of you had a good day. Thank you to everyone who commented on my blogging for 5 years.  I appreciate every one of you. You are my extended family. Bless you. XO

Blog Anniversary....

     I have been blogging for five years now. Hard to believe.  This was the first picture I ever posted. It's Emma when she was three in their flower garden. It was an older picture because she was 7 when I started blogging.

  These are some of the first photos I posted, when I got started. This was one of the post I did of houses I liked.  I still think this home is adorable.

   This was a photo of when I went to Washington D.C.  It's a bus with a van mount on top ..I thought that was a funny sight. It had a rack of surf boards behind the van.

  We did visit the White House. But there were no tours at that time.

 My daughter Liz in her little blonde wig, while going thru chemo.  I love this strong girl.
   When I first started blogging...I was impressed with Donna Reyne's (Jenkins) blog. I bought a shopping bag from her booth at Horton's and it had a tag with her BlogSpot address on it. I looked it up and wanted to blog too. So my daughter Angie helped get me started. I still need lots of help.
   My first comment was from the beautiful Nana Diana.  I know that many of you bloggers know her. She gave pointers on blogging once..or at least after all these years, I think it was her. I did not even answer the comments I got at first...because I did not know what I was doing . Oh boy, now you all know I still don't know much about what I am doing on this site.
   I just wanted to thank those of you who follow my blog and /or leave comments. I apologize to anyone I may have not have responded to their comments thru these five years. Some blogs I visit I can't leave comments....because  their sites won't allow me or I do not know how to get around some obstacles. I do appreciate all of you.  Bless your hearts. XO