Owie!

I cut my finger on Fri. and it’s doing better.
I’m glad to be able to type!

I have made out a list of 10 goals for next year, and thinking about where I want to be next year at this time; it feels good, dear son will be married looks like we will have the farm decluttered by then too.

Focusing on strengths is good, and on continuing to learn, books I’m reading.

My web. design class, and swimming lesson car pool time slots have been freed up for the rest of the this year, this is good so I can focus on the holidays and some things for the first of the year.

I took a long walk on Sunday 2.5 miles in mile sunny 51* temps and I was able to enjoy some great weather and process a lot that’s been going on around here. This weekend I enjoyed painting and drawing, I got some knitting done too. Dear granddaughters helped me bake up a few cookies.

Back From Town

I’m back from town got some errands done got on the pumpkin bread waiting list at the store. I found turkey napkins and plates for sides and TV trays wood like I’ve been wanting for a while! =D

At the thrift shop I "found" fish slippers (bass)! A basket in fall colors to match the house! We have rust colored carpet we love it this time of year! I also found an item in my favorite sent lavender this year. A wood unfinished shelf to paint. A container to paint for the reception to hold flowers sand or what ever. Got a book Bob Green’s Total Body Make Over, I enjoyed the make the connection one he did.

Last night I finished reading a book on Da Vinci (non fiction). Today I’ve been reading in the Christmas Box Miracle By Richard Paul Evans.

I'm getting weaned off the news again now after the hurricane Katrina I was riveted. This morning I woke up at 4:30 am I'll need a nap today!
I got a list typed up for gift baskets and entered in my Airsplanner group.

Rainy Tuesday

It’s a rainy Tuesday here, and we really need it! I’ve had a fresh juicy home grown apple from our tree this week, bottle of water and a new artists sketch book magazine came in the mail for a special treat for me before my “me time” after lunch. Some inspiring music is on in the back ground getting some good in put to fill the well of my heart after giving a lot it’s time to recharge.

I made up some healthy home made trail mix with no nuts Great for a snacks is good. Made up some home made granola too. Part of my eating program to get back to the normal weight range and being over weight. and obese was no fun I'm glad to be at a new goal with this today great news here yea!

I’ve cleaned out the clipping from my 3x5 file and put them in the box for
dear grand kiddos to use for gluing and pasting on cards. They will love these new additions to the craft supplies.

Shopping Fun!

I was at the fabric store last Fri. it was busy, and the sound reminded me of buzzing like a hive of bees with all the gals in there shopping. It was very inspiring just to be around all that energy. I was looking for some thing did not find it in there. A mag. personal journaling I can no longer find I think they have stopped publishing it, I really enjoyed that one I’m sad to not be able to find it. =(

We painted wood craft last weekend, and next we are doing to glue paper and I tore up some scrap booking papers for the girls to colage with for the next crafting project, now I need to find a container for them to collage. We have some paper craft ideas to use for our next crafting session with granny.They love it we have snacks and tea or juice in mini tea cups if they want. The girls had fun and visited like hens at a hen party! LOL!

While shopping I did manage to find some new books:

The Power of A Positive Woman
by Karol Ladd

The Martha Rules
10 essential for achieving success as you start, build, or manage a business.

It's Time

It’s time to blog again sick grand kids here this week so
my focus has been on that, nothing like a sick child to get your priorities back on order!

House building job offer watching dear grand son while his folks work on this.
Retirement party / open house b.b.q. to attend and get a gift basket made up for it have the stuff for it so it won't take long.

Swimming lesson car pool, knitting on a baby blanket it’s ½ done now.
I made up 4 more gift bags it felt great to be sewing again.

I’ve been super excited about learning my way around the paint program on my pc and learning some new things I can do with it so that’s where my time is being invested. I'm going to be checking in to some stuff for the pc port plug in memeory adapter, and I still need a printer cord.

We walked around the block to see the fall lights that are up and saw 4 deer last night. Rugby season is in full swing for dear son. Dear sis is excited about a new grand child. These are few new things in our week.

Busy Week

I have been busy this week class,
car pool begins for swimming lessons,
web. design class,
learning how to make tags,
and do stationery features have been fun
for me this week.

New grand nephew made his appearance this week,
our family is growing again now.

Not much time for blogging or journaling.
I’m learning to edit photos in some of the programs I have on my pc.
This has been fun!
Last night I got the book idiots guide to windows XP book,
I was disappointed in this one,
the 98 version has more info. in it.
I will be looking in to the web page design one next.

Grape & Raisen Pie

I had a great time yesterday with dear grand daughter in the back yard we were playing tea party, and espresso drive through at the play house. And then we played soccer, picked some grapes for a pretend grape pie, and I told her about grape pie, and raisin pie, and raisin sauce granny used to make.

I did some gardening and got some pruning done, the weather was great,
sunny with clear sapphire blue skies. Today I took some great pics. on my walk with the cell phone camera. The fall flowers are lovely after the much needed rains we had last night and this morning.

Today I’m got done with granny duty for the week. I finished the pink baby blanket and I have started on the next one green white and blue.

My sis said she’s going to be a granny again any day now, the family is growing, the granny thing is not a temporary job!

Tools of the Trade

Party decorations are like my tools, a carpenter has a hammer and nails.
I have bows bells and silk flowers to decorate for weddings, parties and other
events. My tools are kept in boxes.

Ack! A couple of people have suggested tossing the bows, and table clothes
when done with the event. There is so much money that can be saved by
reusing these items. Another way to save is by getting them at yard sales
and or thrift shops. I get my things out that I need, after the event separate
out the colored things and set aside the white bows and bells from the colored ones
and see who needs them for upcoming weddings etc.

Tossing them unless they are totally ruined is just not acceptable,
we have used some of these items in like eight events! I have cleaned them
up to reused again and if we can't use them then I'd at least like to donate
them to a place that will recycle them for the next party or other event.
My challenge has been to get others to understand this.

Seasonal Workout Changes:

Fall swimming lessons are starting up this month.

Swimming and working out at a gym, fall makes us think about things to do to increase our indoor exercise activity level. Considering renewing or getting a gym membership?
Getting out the pedal bike or indoor stationery bike? These are a few things that might be worth considering. I need to remember that Washing walls, windows, moving boxes.
and other cleaning, for holiday prep. counts for exercise too!

As well as fall yard clean up, fall gardening mowing and yard work count too.
raking leaves, hauling wood and or branches off, we have that to do here this fall.
Hubby mowed yesterday it was his turn this time of year I don’t have to worry about him mowing over any of my plants they are done for the season now! LOL!

I’ve been know to just do some Walking in place in front of our favorite TV shows. It’s a great to get the blood moving also. So is doing some shopping.

This past week I got some rubber tubing at the pharmacy it’s good to use on my walks for resistance exercises, and this fits in a pocket, purse, brief case or book bag, for a portable work out on the go when traveling, or on a break. I have a ped-o-meter and that is a one way we have used to gauge our amount of exercise.

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What is Fall?

What is fall?
We went for another walk my granddaughter and I she’s five now earlier this week she was asking, “What is fall?”

We gathered nuts and she started collecting leaves that had fallen, yellow and green ones. It was such a delight to share in her experience of “discovering fall.” I realize that fall is something you can’t explain it has to be experienced! Like the festival with hay rides, pumpkin picking, and corn maze they went to last weekend complete with cider and freshly picked apples at a local orchard.

So what is fall to you?

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Note: I wrote this last year it's from my peelsplanner yahoo group.

Sat.~ File Tweaking

Note: I wrote this on sat. As a draft but could not get in to the site because they were doing updates & tweaking of their own.

File tweaking I have been moving some files and clearing out excess ones from one of my groups that was over loaded with them and moved them into the other one today. I decided journaling is a hobby I moved journaling prompts files to my craft / hobby group. While I was doing that I was able to update one of my programs (Adobee) for the XP version and the PC is working so much better now! Yea!

I got a letter off to mom this week, and the girls got some pictures drawn for the next one.
Fri. I went to a yard sale and got some more netting and tulle in four inch wide rolls for decorating the wedding reception for dear son. Hubby said there was snow up north Fri.
Sat. morning I got seven boxes of wedding decorations loaded in the truck to take up to dear daughters; but she was not home, so I was not able to accomplish my mission not yet any way. After I got that stuff out of the sewing / craft room kitchen/dining area. I was able to put the yarn I'm working with for baby blankets in containers I empties out and it's nice to have some room to put stuff again now. I get it out of the main living areas upstairs.

Well the guy did not buy the boat I have mixed feelings about that.

For fun I have been drawing some sketches in my journal and using colored pens on them!

Dear grand daughters are here more this weekend their mom is out of town.
She is going to try go get a flower girl dress dear grand daughter will be a flower girl in two weddings in the next eight months, the first one is in a few weeks their back up sitter who is sixteen is expecting and getting married. She will be getting the first baby blankets I've been knitting on.

Looks like the neighbors are moving out they have split up and she said they are getting a divorce.