2010

It's a new year, and one of my goals is to phase out this blog. I won't be posting very much or very often. Not really my thing. Yet, I'm glad I gave it a whirl. So with that said, have a happy 2010. There is life after blogging.

Happy December!

Christmas decorating postponed

I brought out the Christmas decorations today, and started putting up a few of them. I came to a box of my clear, crystal snowflakes that I used to hang every year in the windows of the dining room of our home. I don't have a dining room in the house we are renting as we wait for the short sale to finalize. A flood of memories hit me, and I couldn't bring myself to continue opening the tissue wrapped snowflakes.
That was such a beautiful room. It was a perfect setting for the holidays.
Instead of decorating today, I am going to change my focus and count my blessings.
It's not December until tomorrow anyway.
There is always tomorrow.

Thanksgiving

......is just around the corner!!!

I was in the hospital last Halloween....

......not because I was sick, but because I got to watch my first grand daughter being born!

Since the day was Halloween the family joke goes like this: "It was a baby ghoul". But let me tell you, she is anything but ghoulish. In fact, she is, in my very biased opinion, one of the most beautiful babies I have ever seen!! (or have the privelege of being related to) My son and his wife did a pretty nice job! Thanks you two :)

I can't believe this little punkin will be a ONE YEAR old on October 31. Time has just flown!!

So in honor of Harper's birthday, I am sharing this video made by her mom's cousin Sammy. You can see what changes can happen in a little person in just one short year. And her birth has made a change in the rest of us forever.

I Love you Harper!!

~bobbi

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Delights of Fall

A walk through a pumpkin patch
Donuts......and cider

A pumpkin cannon

(a closer view)

An apple cannon

Riding on a hay wagon

Turkeys getting nervous for next month

My roof's got a hole in it and I might drown

(singing): "Ah, ah...oh no, don't let the rain come down. My roof's got a hole in it and I might drown. Oh yes, my roof's got a hole in it and I might drown."

Do you remember this song? I am not sure who composed it, but I remember it being sung by the Serendipity Singers. I think an all guy group sang it, too. (Man, am I dating myself)

I've had this song stuck in my head since yesterday when I walked into the kitchen to turn off the tea kettle and felt a drop of water land on the top of my head. It had been raining most of the day, but not indoors! As I glanced up at the ceiling I could see where water had saturated a small area of the taping up there and was beginning to drip down. This is when it pays to be a renter. LOL!

The roofer will be here this morning to look over the problem and get started on correcting it. Meanwhile, I am recalling my 60's childhood and humming along to the tune ..."ah, ah. Oh no, don't let the rain come down..."