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Here is our new CH !

Wish I could put up a graphic for you all.

Anyway:

Happy St. Patrick's Day !!

I wish we could put up graphics and I wish I could upload pictures these days. Just can't make it happen.

Glad you didn't have damage from the storm, so many people did. We got 2 inches of rain from it and a lot of wind but no damage.

We will all be wishing we had the rain this summer, huh ? Glad that is all that you got as well. We were very lucky ! And thank you.

Good Night

Good morning all, we have been getting quite a bit of freezing rain lately. It is a strange Winter.

We are finally getting the March winds. I hope they blow in some warmer weather.

Happy spring! I'll not literally see it until the end of April here though.

I used up the last of my frozen blueberries in muffins this morning, they were good while they lasted.

Not really spring weather here either. The winds we had blew in cooler weather. Only 40 but that is not 70 - 80.

Oh, homemade blueberry muffins..yum !! Sorry that was the last of them.

I finally got the right color curtains hung today. They look great and are totally black out. Love them.

The temps have been nice but the wind will knock you down.

Yes about the wind. That is a problem here as well.

Glad that is you got your curtains and that they are perfect. So happy for you.

Happy March 21st.

Happy March 22nd.

Windy again but going to try and do a little yard work. I have a table I want to spray paint but it's been so windy I can't get it done. Yesterday I washed down the screened in porch and today I'm going to finish putting everything back on it and cover everything with tarps to keep the pollen off and just remove the cover as we use it. Otherwise I'll be washing that stuff off all summer. It doesn't look lovely but it works. I went to revival last night so didn't get everything accomplished.

Changed the hummingbird nectar. They should be flying in soon.

Gotta a man out there working on replacing some of the fence posts.

Wish I could hire a man..there are things I want done but Rod would not hear of it..
Mind you there is very little that I want done that he deems worthy of him doing.

I think I read that I should put out my hummingbird feeder next week. Seems kinda early yet though.

Happy midmorning.

I'd like to have a handy man here every day. Seems I've always got things that need to be completed.

I work tomorrow and then not again until the end of April. I'm trying to cut down but they just won't let me. I'm not answering my phone in April if I get a call.

That is why there is caller ID. Good luck.

I am glad that spring is somewhere, enjoy the fresh blooms.

Yes, caller id is a wonderful thing.

Good morning friends !!! The sun is shining here. YAY !!

Fully into spring here Sunny but when your flowers are gorgeous mine will be long gone. I so wish I could post pictures because right now my yard is white and yellow and red and pink. God's beauty is just a sight to behold.

I'm out of work until the end of April!!!! Yippee. And yesterday we had a meeting that lasted over an hour and a half - brutal - and guess what someone in admin has decided is a good idea. It's called "streamlining email". We have (supposedly) at least 3 nurses on campus at all times (which is a big fat lie) and we have 3 nurse emails for the 8 different residential cottages because each of those nurses is assigned a cluster of cottages (if that makes sense - I work the upper cottages which is a total of 4 cottages with 8 boys in each cottage so Upper cottage has it's own email. ) Upper cottage gets emails from the legal guardians, dentists, labcorp and other places - the emails are specific to the boys in the upper cottages. Same thing happens for the other 2 nurses assigned at the other cottages. Well.....it has been decided that from now on there will be one email for all the nurses, which means that email info about the boys in the upper cottages is going to be mixed in with the emails for the other 32 kids we have on campus. It's going to be a disaster.

My goodness! That is sure to be a mess. I will hope it does not cost you a whole lot of trouble.

Yay for a mini vacation ! Enjoy your time off !

Goodnight to you all !!!!

Bestofour, it seems these days that if the old way works...then the new way should mess it all up. ~I don't know who comes up with all these new ideas. You should see the mess at DH's work place. The old way is that the supervisor manually wrote down the hours worked for each guy and sent it to payroll by fax. The new way is that each man puts in his own hours by email, the supervisor opens all the emails to approve, to send it to payroll. Well, guess what?? The supervisor forgot to approve the emails(in three divisions)....and no one got their two weeks pay. So no pay, no work....half the crew refused to go to work until they got paid. What a mess.

It snowed a bit through the night, I miss the sun shining.

I do not blame the Men, Sunny. Working without pay is never a good idea.

Sunny here. Today I bought an African Daisy yo put out, and I also put out my potted lilac bush. I really should give it to my daughter. She is the one who originally bought the bush and planted it out on the farm. I took a cutting back in 2005 and have been nurturing it since.

I used to have a beautiful outside growing lilac bush. It's was sooo pretty for many years and then just died no matter how I tried to prevent it. I was looking at pictures of it the other day. Smelled delicious too.

I'm with your husband and his friends Sunny. No pay no work.

IF I would give this bush to Valarie and she would plant it into the ground, it would flower. As I remember the flowers in this lilac bush was white.

We had a beautiful lilac colored lilac bush when we lived at the farm. It too just up and died one time, Sheri. There was really no reason for that to have happened.

Going to bed soon. Nite--nite

Oops, here I am again. . One more nice day here before possible rains. Rod is spraying for weeds outside. ( Here is hoping the Bermuda grass does and the fescue takes over.)
I have a few errands to run today. Then I need to wrap my sister's and DD's birthday gifts.

Happy Thursday to you all.

lilacs grow beautifully here, I have 4 of them. Bought them for $4 at Walmart on clearance.

Yesterday our loader broke down so DH planned to take today off to fix it(vacation day) then last night the television gave out. I swear sometimes there is a bad luck halo over us.

You are so fortunate that you can grow lilac bushes. That makes me smile.

Bad luck it seems is always around. I hope you get things back up and running soon, Sunny.

I went to a friends today and we decorated a flower pot. Was fun.

That sounds like fun Bestofour, did you take one home with you?

Junie, lilacs are probably the only thing that we can grow better than y'all, it must be the cold Winter that does something to it.

Yes, you are probably right, Sunny. And it is warmer here than in IL. So lilacs do probably need the cold in the winter.
In the winter here though, while we do get snow, we are more likely to go straight to ice, which makes no sense to me.

Sheri, I have a painted pot..my DD made it with her kids for Mother's Day last year. I love it. I am sure it was fun to do. I too wonder if you have a pot for yourself ?

We each took our own supplies, that we shared, and decorated our own pot. Junie, pictures are on FB.

Thanks, Sheri.

This morning I went to a womans ministry thing at a church I don't attend but it's not far from my house and I gotta tell you it wasn't that wonderful. Maybe it's just me and my frame of mind and it's been a long, long time since I've been to one but I wasn't overly impressed although it was nice. Maybe I was expecting too much.

Anyway, gonna work on figuring out what to plant in my newest flower pot

Sorry the meeting didn't go well. I find sometimes that happens.

I say put a plant in your pot, not a flower. flower might compete with the beauty
Of the pot.

Plant some flowers for me as well while you gals are out and about with your pots.

We are getting a snow storm tonight with freezing rain for tomorrow...the kids are certainly getting their storm days this year.

While I am sorry for your storm, I am glad that the kids will be safe at home. That part always makes me smile.

We had another thunder storm this afternoon/evening. It has passed already.

Happy April Fool's Day!

And a Happy April Fool's Day to you !!!

Rhonda woke me up this morning. She barks at the strangest things.

Good morning.

We are at a 5 out of 5 weather alert today for bad storms. The kids school is seriously considering letting the kids out at noon. I assume to avoid having a large car line out in the weather at 3.

I pray you are all o.k. Junie. I seen the news this morning from Kansas City, Missouri. ~Is that near you?

We are getting another snow storm today, they cancelled school just West of GG's school but not hers. I kept her home anyway...I wouldn't travel in 8 inches of snow so why should she??

I looked it up. Kansas City is 355 miles away to the NW from us. About a 5 hr drive away. As you look at the Missouri/ Kansas State lines Kansas City is right on the 2 state line about mid state. We are just above the boot heel. 15 minutes South of Cape Giaradeau. Anyway not real close.

Glad that you kept Madi home. To my way of thinking, that was a good call.