Spring Has Sprung

~Oh HAPPY SpRiNg~

This week ushers in SPRING.
I am beyond glad.
Our past WINTER was a longer than usual one for me and I had to deliberately think on the things of GOD that brought hope.

A friend of our's passed away, then Husband was in auto wreck that destroyed our car and another friend passed away.  With the rainy weather, it was like nature weeping. 

Thanking God that my Husband is mending and still on planet Earth for awhile longer.  Thankful.   

Dreams of Spring.

Soon our HOME windows will open and the heat will be turned off.  
Hopefully we will be in the position to use no major utility for a few months to even out our utility expenses.  That will be refreshing to the BUDGET.
 
After some mild rain and winds the past three days,
the morning sky is a beautiful shade of blue with no wind in the air.

Yesterday, Lil Miss and I went on a GOOF OFF DAY to get out of the house and celebrate SPRING coming.
ATE a delicious cupcake and went to the THRIFT STORE.
Purchased a much needed new mattress cover.  They do not give those away.  
Used a 20 percent off coupon.  If she works, she'll get washed, dried and placed on our master bed.  Should be comfortable.

Hubby and I crunched numbers late last night to see if a second-hand auto was in the forecast.  
Believe we will be getting a good second hand auto to replace our lil economy car that was destroyed close to three weeks ago.  I NEVER want another small petite auto ever again  EVER.     

Going to TOWN with Lil Miss to have LUNCH with DAUGHTER.  Later, Hubby will be taking me to pick-up a second hand auto.  THRILLED.   A wonderful way to begin SPRING.

Our week-end looks like a busy one.
LORD WILLING, we will be able to make progress where progress is needed.

SWEET SPRING TO YOU,
d

Jibber Jabbering

With a trip to the lumber yard, we began our task to replace the backyard fence.  The white wood fence we have now on the property is quickly looking unloved.  Estimating that the fence is about 9 years old, it has been a challenge to keep it looking good.  It has not aged well at all.  

A few years back, Husband rebuilt the very back of the backyard section because it looked horrible.

A huge disappointment that it curled like nothing I had seen before in a wood fence.  The section he has replaced is still looking good, but other parts of the yard aren't.  So we began our task of replacing the rest of the fence with CEDAR not white wood.  What was used was just the worst.

He'll begin this SPRING creating a different wide gate by the garage. Through out the year, I will set aside cash for a new fence altogether.  Figure by next SPRING, the funds should be there and the new fence will be made of CEDAR.  A deep breath and away we go.

Still figuring out the details for replacing our paid for auto that was destroyed March 2nd by a young woman that more than likely was TEXTING on her new phone she had.  TOTALED.  My Husband is mending from this auto accident.  Yes, we are thankful he is still alive and not paralyzed or disabled.  Very thankful.
   

One of our friends passed away this past week from complications from open heart surgery and my heart is heavy.  He was only 44.  A Husband and Daddy.  A very nice guy.  A very nice man.  The first time I saw him was at our County Fair.  He was holding a little blonde headed girl that has grown up to be one of Lil Miss's BEST FRIENDS.  He and his Wife are some of my Daughter's BEST FRIENDS. Daughter is heart broken and hasn't experienced the death of a friend before.  With lots of tears, we cry.  


His funeral will be this week and I am so sad.  He's in HEAVEN with no pain.  This isn't what I'm sad about.  I'm saddened that his Wife is without her Husband and his Daughter is without a Daddy.  So sad. 

Life passes quickly.  So fast.  Life is short with eternity being longer. This present life isn't all there is.  Praying.  Praying.  Praying.  So many have placed their trust in money, works, false gods and false religions.  Through CHRIST alone we have salvation.  For the asking.  Call on HIS name.    

Winter has been a very long one.  It will do me some good to get out of the house and go to the discount store for a few minutes. I will deliberately drive slower than usual so I can look out at the landscape that is starting to green up with SPRING.

The trees and bushes on this property are starting to show off buds.  PRAISE GOD.  It's SPRING!!!  Have to rake the left over leaves out of the flowerbeds and elsewhere on the property.  Have to.  Have plans to do so this fine SPRING-BREAK WEEK.  PORCH must get a bath and the porch furniture as well.  ALL this freshening up will lift my spirits.

HOPE your life is beautiful!

Here it is SPRING BREAK and I'm ready,
d

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