Makin' Paintin' Easier!

Today I picked up my new paint sprayer because I didn't win the giveaway over at The Polka Dot Closet on Monday - darn!

Well - to tell the truth I didn't expect to so on Friday I made a trip to Ace Hardware in Mora and Kevin, our great hardware guy, looked up this model (Carol over at Polka Dot loves this sprayer), special ordered it and now I am the proud owner of one too!  I can't wait to report back to Ace on how it works for me!  I couldn't be more excited!!!

So tomorrow after I get back from Curves and Coffee and Mardi's birthday party, I'm going to start paintin'!  Woo hoo! 

Do you see my pretty white mums peeking around the box - well - here I'll take a picture of them...

With our early spring, I'm really anxious to see flowers in my gardens but unless they bring out the pansies pretty soon, I'll be settlin' for cut flowers!  These were on sale for $2.62 at Walmart!  Couldn't resist and next time I'm there, I'll be looking for more 50% off bouquets!

I hope to show you some newly painted projects tomorrow.  I'm on my way to open up my sprayer box and will be digging out the instructions!  Yay!

Take care,
Bonnie

My Girls...

I love this picture of them in their
2011 Ugly Christmas sweaters!

Sometimes I look at my girls and think - who raised those beautiful women???  My dream was for them to grow up to be happy, good, kind women who cared about others. 

It's fun to be with them - they are cared about out there in their worlds.  You can see it on the faces of their friends, the people they introduce me to or when I'm reintroduced to people they have kept in contact with from their childhood.  I see it on the faces of their children when they call them "Mom or Mommy!"  They have good husbands and they are loved.

Their Dad and I will always and forever be so proud of them - and we raised them!!!

Take care,

Bonnie/Mom

Sometimes You Just Can't - Even If You Want To...

After a few days of excitement and anticipation, I'm having a day of sadness.  I made plans to see if my Dad and I could go on an Honor Flight to Washington D.C.  with 100 other WWII vets.  Our applications were in and accepted, hotel reservations made, new walking shoes ordered, and all our relatives/friends notified of our adventure.  Dad was so excited - he said he felt like a kid.

Today I received an email from my Dad - he wasn't sure he had the strength to go.  We would have to stay in a hotel the night before our trip, early to the airport at 5 a.m., take off at 6 a.m., spend the day in Washington D.C.,  walk a total of two miles to see the WWII memorial, other memorials, Arlington Cemetery, (I would push him in a wheel chair), fly home returning at 10:30 p.m. and stay the night at the hotel before we drive home again.  I could hear the tremors in his voice.

He worried himself into thinking he couldn't handle it - he wouldn't be able to enjoy it - it was too much for him.  I respect his decision.  But I'm still sad...we would have been making such great memories.  He knows the other vets would be just as tired but he just couldn't do it.  Some of my sadness is because he's 88 and he's slowing down.  I'm scared. 

He edits his Marine Company newsletter with help from two amazing ladies in far away states.  He loves his gardens and they look much better than mine!  He loves his family and his gigantic orange cat.  He has a million stories.  He is my hero.

Take care,
Bonnie

Making Plans While The Sun is Shining...

Yesterday was one of those days...rainy and gloomy.  Sometimes the weather influences my outlook on things.  Today the sun is shining and the huge issues from yesterday seem to have gotten smaller.  The issues are just as important but more manageable.

The huge snow banks are almost gone and the driveway has puddles!  The weather lady said that the frost should be out of the ground by Friday, March 16.  It never got too deep so I wonder what the perennials will be like.  What a different winter we've had this year.

It's supposed to be 70 tomorrow...I want to go to the nursery and get some plants!!!  I'm going to check my little hen and chicks planted in the split railroad tie.  I have a couple of cute ideas for planters and I looked at them and they are still green.  Yay!Bringing them in the house and transplanting them should invigorate their growth so they would be pretty good size by June for the sale.  Good idea - makes more sense than getting too excited over tomatoes or anything else.  It really is too early - while we have 70's this week we could still dip below freezing in the next month or so.

Little rubber roses...
Hubby's favorite!

Bloom isn't that pretty
but makes lots of new little ones!

I'll show you what I'm doing with them when I get things together and planted.  For being mostly water, you'd think they would freeze but they come up every year.  They are quite prolific also...lots of new babies!  Last year they bloomed which isn't that pretty but it produces lots of little ones and then Mom dies back...sob!

So now I feel better than yesterday and I've been creative and have plans and life is good. 

Take care,

Bonnie

The Lost is Found!!! It's Me!!!

For the life of me I couldn't figure out what I did to lose control of my blog!!!  I couldn't get in from the inside (Blogger) but I could see my blogs if I came in from Facebook but I couldn't create a new one or do the million other things you do to create a blog!  I created a new blog last time this happened and it worked for a while and then it didn't and now it didn't again and I didn't know what to do and it really isn't life threatening if I don't blog but I like to!

Yay!  Long story short - a couple years ago when I downloaded an update it locked my whole computer up.  A big Service Pack to speak the truth.  I talked to everyone on the continent and other continents.  Then I had to have my computer unloaded and reloaded - well, you get the picture.  All of those things I couldn't do myself - being so untechy - so it cost me days of my life, my sanity and then actual money!!!

But today I just took a chance and did what I did last time without calling foreign countries for help and it worked!  And then I could download the latest browser and wonders of wonders!  I'm here and back in business!  I just amaze myself some days - most days I'm not that amazing.

Whew!  So glad to be back!  I will write something valuable tomorrow.  Right now I'm just so happy I did it all by myself!  Woo hoo!

I'm off to sew something - all of a sudden I have renewed energy!  I'm not so dumb after all!

Take care,
Bonnie