Throwaway Thursday

  Here it is Thursday already. Not sure where the time goes. Sleeping I think. I've got a gift to put in the mail and need to do that soon. Just realizing that I do not have an address! Guess it will be late after all.
I wonder if my sister has finished the tag for said gift? I know she's been busy. lol

This is from last year's poker run to raise money for a local LEO that was injured on the job. In the end we all opted not to draw cards and donated the money for the couple. We had a really nice ride. In case you can't find me, I'm on the left.

Here's Aiden in his first Packer shirt he got for Christmas.

It's 8:35 and already 79*. Gonna be a scorcher today. Under a heat wave advisory. The heat index will be over 100*, something like 105* for this afternoon. Got my watering done and feeding done that I can do. Tim has to go to the feed store afterwhile. There's always something isn't there?

Guess I'd better go find something to throw away.

Sister's birthday, this and that

Today is Sandi's birthday. Won't say how old she is but I sure wish for her a wonderful day.

This is from 2 yrs ago I believe. Jay is on the left, Steve in the middle and Michael on the right.

Getting ready for one of her cookouts.

It's party time! She always puts on a good feed!






 
  Almost got the bus running again this weekend. The kill switch was stuck but now we need to "prime" the fuel.
  Was able to turn out Spike yesterday. He was getting around much better. Must've been a stone bruise. No swelling etc. Jeannie's was too. She was immediately better. Dick's swelling is going down from his surgery and the other spot is healing nicely. Yay!
  Tim cooked hot dogs and hamburgers for us yesterday evening. Really good. You can hardly go wrong with hot dogs though. lol I'm anxious to get the other grill that Sandi and company have put together for us. One down and one to go. Thanks Sis! I even bought a big bag of charcoal last week for 2.99 in anticipation.
  Talked to cousin Kate a few days back. She's hangin' in there. Carrying a pretty big load taking care of her folks. Wish I could make it better for her. I think we need to go visit soon. Seems big D is taking a meal to Foofie every day and checking on her. I think it's just now hitting him that his mom is needing care RIGHT now. Not some point down the road. It's a hard road as we all know. All three of us have already dealt with it, unfortunately.
  "Ran into" cousin Jenny O online the other day at ancestry. I have her new email in case anyone would like it. I'll drop her a line later today.

Want to share this picture I nabbed(SP?)from FB last year of the next generation of Atteberry "boys" and their families. I believe it was at their reunion at the coast last year. Someone please tell me Jeff's daughters name. Don't make me go look it up!

Found this in the way back machine! What a wonderful group of women!

I love this picture! Looks like Cayden Joe doesn't it? Hey, big brother, what a cutey you were.

  Now here we have another great group of women! I look awful but that's okay. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.

  Dang it's humid out there! Got my chores done and back in the house. That's pretty obvious isn't it?

Windy Wednesday

Another windy day here on the plains. No surprise there. Temp at a wonderful 69*. Was 62* when Tim and Dez left this morning. A great beginning to the day!

Waiting on Buck to finish breakfast and have done the outside "chores". I actually have 2 tomatoes! Poor little plants. They're hanging in there quite nicely.
 For some reason I'm not able to upload my pictures today. A blogger problem no doubt. Maybe later. I was planning on uploading a couple of Dick and his stitches. We had him cut yesterday and a cyst removed from his side. He's doing just fine. A little sore of course.

Too much time?

  Do you suppose I have too much time on my hands or is it - idle hands etc? lol Working in the yard after chores yesterday morning and found myself thinning the lillies(sp?) and the next thing I knew:

I was standing at the bbq weaving a basket. When the sun got too high I moved into the house.

It's a funny little basket but I enjoyed it.

We'll see how it looks when it's dry.

This is the lid to Marge's basket that I made for her. Of course I haven't given it to her yet. She's still using an album cover for a lid haha.

Here's a few of the smaller baskets that I have made in the past.

One more:

A favorite of mine that I made a long time ago.



















Enough baskets for the day. Ann and Mitch dropped by for a short visit. Stayed about an hour. Just left a little bit ago. Started dinner. I'm done..

Last day of vacation

  I hope Tim can sleep in today. He's been getting up fairly early (for him) for most of the vacation. The first day he slept in til about 8 and then slept another 8hrs during the day. He was plumb used up.

  Yesterday he took two trees out of the yard that needed to be gone. One was rotten and of no use and the other was just too close to the foundation and waterline. I'll miss that one as it was helping shade my back porch. Oh, well, I'll figure something out to take care of that. I have a canvas drop cloth I can use as a curtain. Maybe I'll hang it today.

 Tim tried getting the old girl going this week and she just didn't want to start. Makes no sense. One day she'll run just great and the next she won't hit a lick. Dangit!
 She's sitting out front now and patiently waiting for something to happen to her. lol



I finally dug up my hops plant and now I need to figure out where it might like to live now.. the orchard was not a good place for it.
  Got the feeding and watering done. Gotta go for now.

Something different

 I decided to throw in some old posts that I had posted in the past and deleted. Checking back I started this in May '09 - deleted all of it late '10. With that said:

 Our first home. We hauled it from Forsyth on the lake to twenty acres on Gramma's farm in Willard. We lived in it 2.5 years. Tired of close quarters and hauling water for us, pets and horses we bought our house in Willard.

This is our place now. Minus the green Dodge and the green VW bus. Add a couple more horses lol. Needless to say we are horse poor. We do love it here though. Close to the hwy for Tim's commute yet still fairly private. Do have more traffic than I expected but I can live with that even though we're right on the road.

 The first pony ride that I remember. I'm hanging on to Allen's hair with Cousin Billy at the reins. Boy ,wasn't I something?! I love this picture. I sure did envy them. I mean, gosh they had a pony!

Here's our first and only pony we had as kids. Patty. Mom told me she was an old circus pony or some story like that. Only tricks I remember were dragging you off with a tree limb or sitting down with you. lol I loved her anyway.

Either the sun was in my eyes or it was my InjunJo impression. That was one of my nicknames as a little kid. The other one being "Needles". Not sure where that one came from but Aunt Mary never let me live it down.

The first picture was taken at Uncle Paul's house in Oregon and the second taken at Mom and Pop's place "in the country". Mom and Pop being our Sprinkle grandparents. (Some people that may be reading may not know that.)While growing up I tried to talk Mom and Pop into letting me get another horse but Mom said one would run the beef off the cows. Seemed to me on 80 acres there would be enough room for both. 

Took me an hour to piddle in the yard with feeding everyone, brushing and spraying a few of the horses for flies, watering plants blah blah blah so I'd better post this and get to my house work.   

Another Monday

   Had a really nice Sunday. Slept in until 5:30. Went to Israel and Brenda's to watch the race and have lunch. Nothing fancy but really good. Beans, corn bread, fried taters and if that wasn't enough you could have a hot dog. lol Was fun watching the kids play. Aiden and Israel had gone fishing that morning. Aiden caught a little perch. Wish I could have seen that. He's such a cute little guy. Not that Dahlia isn't either. She's a card and so much like her momma and her gramma. Temper, temper. Their's, not mine.

Isn't this a pretty flower? Didn't expect it to ever bloom again. Sorry if I have already posted it. It's hard to keep track sometimes. NO, it's not my age! This brain carries around a lot of important information....

I've got to go check and read a couple of my last posts. See ya later today.

 

Typical Tuesday

  Working on a beautiful day in the Ozarks! About 70* and the sun is coming up. Will be hot and muggy shortly but what else is new. There was another earthquake in Mo this a.m. about 3:00. 4.2 . SSE of Sullivan. The size of the recent quakes has lessened but the numbers are still up. They stopped the drilling in Ar that they thought might be causing the "swarms" but as I said the numbers are still up.

  Got my outside stuff done early along with feeding. Now to gather some eggs and take another head count and check water levels.

Monday, Monday

T has gone to town to see about front tires for his pickup. Greg seems to think one of them is square. lol

  Oh, oh. I found a new flower in my yard a couple of days ago! Never has grown here before and where it is, it has had plenty of chances. Right next to the old well house that used to decorate the yard.

You can see the "stickers" on it's stem.

And here's it's leaves and pod. Best I can tell it's a variety of "prickly poppy". It's color is more of a salmon color instead of pink. I have orange Cal. poppies in front. These prickly poppies are a wild flower that grow every where except the PNW from info I found online. Pretty cool!







And here's a picture of my Amaryllis that Linda gave me a couple of seasons ago. Last year it did not bloom but look!

Isn't it nice?


Made it back from my AAA call to town. 88* and almost noon.

Not sure

 how this "pages" thing works on here so will play with it a few days and decide what to do. May not be worth it. lol I can't figure out why it's got 2 links of the "about us" part. I can't seem to get rid of one in the editing section. Maybe I'll find it later. I assume that I really don't need separate pages as I'm not really posting that much - just wanted to play with it.
Back to the "pages" the question is do you have to post to them separately? I think so.
I've sent S an invitation to read along but she either hasn't actually received them or doesn't recognize them.

On to other things. Here's the basket lid I made for Marge's laundry basket. I sure hope she likes it. If she ever gets it that is. They have already gone to Mi for the summer and won't be back until fall.

Here's a picture of one of the unfinished baskets.

And here we have a few of the tree ornaments that I have made for the stockings. Have several more to make this summer. Easy,peasey.


Dez got to spend some time with her kids this week while she was on vacation.
ILS wants to get together on T's next weekend off and watch a race and bbq. We're excited about that.
Oh! Another wonderful thing! Athena and Brandon are having another baby! What a blessing. I guess I'd better get really busy with the quilts I'd like to make for the great nieces and nephews. Riiiigghhhttt. Like that will happen. lol

My kidlet  brought the trailer he borrowed back this afternoon. It's always nice to see him.

Throwaway Thursday

  Well, didn't get to throw anything away today- will have to be tomorrow. We drove to Spfd this a.m. to pick up T's truck. Steve wasn't quite done with it. T stayed there and the dogs and I headed home.

She's home again. Don't panic.....this is the pic from the day we brought her home. Not a picture from today while it's 90* and T has a coat and cap on. lol

It's actually been a beautiful day. They just said on the news that about 50,000 people have volunteered for the clean up. It will take months. They've raised over $70,000 in Spfd at BPro. and the day is young.

  All the horses were trying to stay in the barn awhile ago. The bugs are out in the heat. It's still too damp in there but I'm afraid to turn the fan on for fear Betty or Buck may get into trouble. Mostly Betty Boop. She's young enough to be very snoopy. Dang them all anyway. T left the pickup in the pasture the other night and of course one of the little brats scratched on my mirror until it fell off! It actually broke off at the brace. I'm guessing Betty.

  I finally got around to editing a few of my pictures. I took one of my most recent baskets back in Jan..

That's an 18" doll in the basket. It was mine when I was a little girl. One of things I need to throw away yet have not. Anyway, there's the baskets. All sizes and shapes. I'd like to take the time to weave a few more but can't seem to be able to make that happen.

  Some days are diamonds, some days are stone.

 

Day three

  of our 4 day vacation. Yesterday we got our round pen put back together from being feeding stalls. This morning we put the final touches to the west yard fence. I use the term "we" lightly as all I did was sit in a chair and visit with Tim. Tim was able to get most of the brushhoggin' done before the alternator/generator gave out on the tractor. It's already repaired and he has gone to town to pick it up.

This is from last year since I didn't take pics this time around.

 It sure helps keep the dang weeds from taking over the pasture. A few more years and we may have it licked. lol




  In the next day or two I'll post a couple of pix of the horses helping T with the fence. You know that bucket of fence supplies sure sounds like feed? They sure think so.

  I may finally be "over" the dang stuff on my hands. Almost, which means I could wake tomorrow with both hands covered. Sure hope this thyroid-thing recovers quickly - whatever  it does. lol It might be what's causing it. I was inclined to think it was 2 different meds that I take that can cause rashes. Don't know why whatever it is affects my hands and nothing else.
                                                                                  

Cotton 15yrs old

Jeanne 17 yrs old

Jo 18 yrs old

 Spike 10 yrs old

I'll post more later...........