Better Days Ahead

SPRING is not too far off and I will WELCOME it with open arms.  Looking out the window, buds are starting to appear on the side lawn trees.  This is a encouraging sight to see as I have dreaded this extremely cold season that we call WINTER.  

HIBERNATION is the best word I can think of that comes to mind as I have stayed indoors so much this cold season.  Hibernation, but not asleep.  My nest has been neglected as I have been unable to do much.  Not a bad attitude, but dreadful side effects of having thyroid cancer.  I do my best to stay positive…still I'm being real about reality.  This is the way it is these days.

Such a long winter.  Concentrating on what is uplifting and good about life helps with the winter blahs.  A deliberate action in the mind field.  Waiting for Spring to erupt while biding my time added interest to the indoors.  

This past week-end, we laughed as we watched the movie, ALEXANDER and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day having no idea that our Monday was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day of our own.

Daughter woke up vomiting due to a horrible migraine.  She went back to bed.  Around noon I was ready to lie down and take a nap.  A power nap.  The phone rang and Hubby was involved in an auto wreck that totaled our paid off automobile.  He's alive...bent, but alive.  My favorite pair of earrings lost a crystal out of them and then another.  Time for a new pair of favorite earrings.    

A trip to Manhattan to pick Husband up and take him to the Doctor to be looked over.  Meds from the Pharmacy took longer to get so we went to look at our damaged car.  I took some pics and soon we'd return HOME.

A young lady ran her vehicle into the back of our little car with such force that the driver's seat which my husband was sitting in was broken and the ash tray forced out of the console.  The backside of the car is demolished.  No skid marks on the road, because she didn't hit the breaks.  

He is very sore today, but very much alive and not paralyzed or lying in a hospital bed.  

Our daughter said she is very glad her Dad is alive and it was Pearl that died.  Pearl is our name for our little auto that no longer has a home with us.  God will have to show us what to do about a second car.

So with all of that said…better days ahead.
d

Birthday Boy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDSON!

Hugs and all the best.

Much love,

Grandma

Seems like yesterday that you were born.

Wish we could spend more time together.

PSALM 119:2

DIY wooden picture

Granny Nanny Chronicles and Movie Time

Waiting for popcorn and a cold beverage 

while relaxing AT HOME watching a movie.  

Time with Grandpa.

All in good fun,

granny ~d~ nanny

Heart Day

Only the BEST to you today!

d

Decorating On The Prairie: Making A Splash With Kitchen Tile

Decorating On The Prairie 

is grouting along.  

Recently Hubby finished the back-splash above the sink 
then continued to tile the area above and behind the stove.  
He did it.  Waited a week to grout.  

The neutral color tones are pleasant to look at 

and enhance our tiny Kitchen that we use every day.

It has been an exercise for our patience.

The Kitchen Remodel has a story all it's own.

Life happened and we lived to tell about it.  

Persevering 

DECORATING/REMODELING 

has been character building. 

 Grrrrr.  

See my teeth…I'm smiling.

Next step on this JOURNEY

will be to buy the wood, build cabinet doors, 

hang, prime and paint.  Hardware to follow.  

Thanks for stopping by,

d

KEEPING IT REAL

Modern ART.

Behind the stove.

Seeing Yellow

~Yellow Mums~

were given to me by my daughter and granddaughter

for helping out when Lil Miss had the FLU.

Thank you.

Lovely,

d

Beauty In Winter

With chilly winter weather at hand 

I have to deliberately look for things of beauty 

that bring joy when the weather is so undesirable.

I didn't have to look far.

The floating rose.

Beautiful winter vision,

d

February First

Officially relieved that February arrived.  Sounds of the howling winter winds escorted littering snow dusting the surface of all that it could cover.  Grey skies at morning and dancing tree branches swayed a love song stretching the imagination of how the Kansas flint hills must look to those traveling across the rolling prairie.    

Thankfully it's February with Valentine's Day to celebrate and two Grandsons having birthdays. Thinking on what to give them as gifts.  I like giving my children and grandchildren valentines, so I had best go to town this week to get the goods purchased and mailed.  No HOME-MADE valentines from this semi-homemade woman.

Thoughts taking place of how my Husband and I will celebrate our Sweetheart date. 

This morning, Hubby and I chatted about our childhood homes with Moms that both stayed HOME cooking for their families in their dainty Kitchens.  In my mind's eye I know every inch of that tiny kitchen on Roosevelt Street.  612 North Roosevelt in Liberal, Kansas was a cracker box house built when the OIL BOOM took place.  

Dining took place in the kitchen eating area where there was not a separate dining room for the house.  Two small bedrooms on the main floor with two bedrooms downstairs where I slept in a shared bed with my sister.  I was the bed hog that also was a slob when it came to keeping our room tidy.  I had much to learn and I loved piling my worn clothing on the chair.  I think that this habit still exists.  Oops.  I managed to upset my sibling. 

How did this tiny, itty, bitty house hold so much love to where it weren't bursting the seams of the structure?  I'm surprised that people driving by didn't think the house was shining with light.  Our little house was indeed tiny and yet I have a lifetime of cherished memories that comfort my thought life when they come to mind.  Pleasant nostalgic moments to remember.     

THANKFUL that there are cold weather holidays to take my mind off of how I dislike the COLD in itself.  It helps me perservere till SPRING comes. 

God bless,

d

Skin Care For The Aging Broad

NOT to be disrespectful to the older woman,

 because I am now officially an older woman.

Cover up and stay out of the sun.

Lower your level of stress if possible.

d

 

A Few Years Ago

My darling daughter posed for me on our porch.

As I went through older photos, I came across this one 

and thought it was a decent one to share again.

Not for throw back Thursday.  Just because I liked it.

Liked the subject matter, lighting and environment.

From a few years ago when our porch was in sad shape.

Still like the pics.

Spring is on her way.

Better run.

The tub is calling my name.

Blessings to you where ever you are.

d