Happy House

Happy House in Abilene, Kansas.

Passing through and saw this one.

Checked it out on the internet.

$172,500.oo

Aint that a hoot,

d

$172,500.oo

https://www.kansasbestrealty.com/listing/213595669-150407463/600-north-spruce-abilene-ks-67410/

'Life Just Got A Little Easier' Simple Salad

Dining On The Prairie

just got a little easier with a couple handfuls 

of pre-washed Spring Greens,

mandarin oranges, 

a handful of mixed nuts, 

cheese crumbles, and salad dressing.

Makes up quickly.

Life just got a little easier and healthier,

d

WiLd Child

Mom, cousin Barbara,
me, sister Debbie, cousin Vickie.

That's me on the far left on the front row 

unbundled and ready to go out into the cold.  

Blonde curls.

I was about 8 years old.  

Contended to be unbuttoned.

A wild child,

d

Growing Up Takes Time

Somebody's balloon went pop.

All smiles.

Celebrated Grand's 4th Birthday 

which flooded my thoughts with past memories.  Already 4.

He smiles a great deal.  Very active and tries like heck to keep up with his older brothers.

Just in the nick of time to celebrate.  

 Games, cake, presents.

Always great fun.  

LOVE,

Granny d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A WONDERFUL

GRANDSON.

 I was a good girl and ate sugar-free cupcake 

and guzzled bottled water.

Oh What A Feelin'

The new mattress and box springs arrived on a rainy Tuesday afternoon with two movers carrying the hefty pieces up a flight of stairs and placing them on the bed frame.  

Happy to have ownership.  

Long time in the coming.  Almost two years since the house fire that claimed our antique bed which had a custom made mattress/box.  The oak bed burned up and went through the hard wood floor that had fallen through the floor into the kitchen below.  

When seeing the metal bed springs in the kitchen, I was in a semi-stupor wondering what are springs doing in my kitchen?

Nothing quite like breakfast in bed.  When coming to my senses, it hit home that the bed was completely destroyed not to mention the bedroom and kitchen.  

When replacing home items, there comes a time when the money for replacement spending comes out of your pocket first and the receipts are turned in to the insurance company to reimburse your spending up to a dollar amount.  So if you don't have the cash flow up front, you may not get a replacement item.  Time runs out and then you are scrambling to replace what was lost.  If ever.

Nice arrangement for the insurance company.  Makes me bite my tongue.

I am THANKFUL for the bedroom furniture, mattress, box springs, the room, the house, HOME.  Washing the mattress pad cover.  Then sheets and comforter will be purchased, laundered to make up the bed.  A little here and there.  

It is coming together.  
Oh what a feelin' to have it come together,
d  

Mums The Word

THIS YEAR, 
I cannot start decorating for FALL in August.  
No no noooooooo.  

I. just. can't. start.  

Perhaps in a week or so.  

PERHAPS IN A MONTH OR SO.

It's still SUMMER to me.  I'm pushing it wearing orange clothing in AUGUST, 
but I did when I had my hair done.  

The trees are beginning to turn and that's the way it is, but I am not psyched for the transition yet.  Deep down inside I believe that we will have an early AUTUMN this year.  
It's been rainy as of late making headway for HURRICANE SEASON.  Early.  

To me decorating for Autumn in the middle of Summer kind of feels like when the merchants have already placed CHRISTMAS GOODS out to sell in the DOG DAYS OF SUMMER.  Out. of. sync.  

At this time, I have no desire to create a wreath for the front doors or place pumpkins on the fireplace mantle.  Too early.  I still want to sip lemonade in the screened-in porch and listen to the birds chirp 'COME WHAT MAY!'

Truth be known, I have no idea where my AUTUMN WREATHS are at.  I can tell you where the CHRISTMAS ones are.  In fact, I know where a glue gun is with a wire wreath form sitting beside it.  Plastic Christmas ornaments in a storage box waiting to be glued to the form.  In September I may glue me a wreath so colorful it will scream hohoho celebrate.  ARGH.  No Bah Humbug for this wreath.

True Confessions.....I have been eye balling some mums wondering what color will grace the front porch this AUTUMN.  What will compliment the house?  Our house is a creamy yellow with black highlights.  When I think of AUTUMN COLORS, I brainstorm rust, yellow, oranges, browns, burgundy.  Some deep greens and purple.  Deep reds.

The spectrum of Autumn colors will not matter.  All will be inviting.  

MUMS the word,
d

Genesis 8:22 King James Version (KJV)  22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Just Out My Kitchen Window

WINTERED this geranium in the Kitchen Garden Window 
in which it did not bloom all season.  
When the temps were right, 
I placed the plant just outside the Kitchen door on the Porch.

Geranium loved the environment.  

BLOOMED.

WISH I had measured the bloom.

Largest I've ever had.

~grins~  

Hours of beauty to enjoy

on the Prairie,

d