Showa Has a New Friend!

Showa was feeling a little lonely without her friends from Ioka (Gunn, Bonez, Hershey, Lefty, and Sioux)so Grandpa decided he needed to buy her a friend. Meet her new friend......it's a boy. He is a "paint" horse. (That's a horse with different colors.) He has one brown eye and one blue eye. He is 8 years old and came from a ranch in Idaho. He is very nice and likes kids. We want to give him a new name so put on your thinking caps and get your suggestions in to Grandma by Sunday, April 25th. Then Grandpa and I will decide on the winning name and the winner will receive a prize in the mail!! The contest will end at midnight (MST) Sunday, April 25th and the winner will be announced on Monday, April 26th. Hurry and make your suggestions!!

Loving this New Gift

As you know, we were given this really neat quilt for Christmas from our darling daughters. Well, I finally got around to hanging it and wanted to show you how cute it looks on my quilt rack. No lectures on the amount of time it took me to get it hung. If you want an explanation see my earlier post on the mysterious illness--probably enough explanation there! Anyway, it looks great and makes my living area feel very different than the black and tan quilt that was there. Thanks girls! We love it!

I've waited for these for a loooooong time......

I have wanted black couches for a really long time. I think since we bought the brwon leather set way back when. Anyway, this year Dad said if I could sell my other set, I could get new. Surprisingly that was ENOUGH motivation for me. So, I did just that. I surprised myself and Dad. There are things I miss about my old furniture and things I love about the new set. Glad it worked out for me. I still have pillows to make and want to make a seat cushion for the time out bench. I also need to change how the deck door curtain is tied back and a few other small things but for now I'm happy and excited that black is in my life!

My Cute Clock

Bought this vinyl clock kit while I was in Georgia at Christmastime. Then I bought a round wooden circle from Lowe's and put it all together. The result---I LOVE IT!!!! I hung it down in the basement family room. LUUUUUURVE IT!!!

Ummm, a VERY Mysterious Illness

This is what happens you when you have several stress filled years and then find out that cancer has invaded your body. Then you allow doctors to remove the cancer and then give you all kinds of drugs known to man and the medical profession. Eventually the meds interfere with your body and this is the result of a body gone wild. It started out as hives and resulted in THIS all over my body. I itched like crazy and couldn't get much sleep. Soooooooooo, the doctors gave me more meds and more meds and..........the cycle of abuse for my body continues! Not sure if my body will ever recover from this cancer thing--seems like things just keep cropping up here and there because of it. There's a saying that says if the disease doesn't kill you, the treatments will! I'm starting to see the wisdom in those words! Anyway, thought I would show you why I was off the radar and off the highways for 3 weeks. All the meds in my system made it impossible for me to drive so it forced me to stay home and not drive anywhere. Not to worry tho, I'm driving again and hitting all the stores as usual! And just so ya know, I spared showing you any private parts but rest assured I had this stuff from the top of my head to the cracks of my toes (and EVERYWHERE in between)!!!

My Man is Handy!

Dad made me this cute shelf for my living room. I hung it above the old antique sewing machine. This guy is sooooooooooo handy. I saw a picture in a catalog and the sell price was $140.00. Dad made mine for under $20 and I had another $12.00 in knobs that I bought at Hobby Lobby while they were on sale. I LOVE this cabinet and definetely the man who made it!

Ain't She a Beaut?

Dad was so kind as to buy me a laptop for my bday. I did get it early (like in February) and that proved to be a good things as it had to be returned for a bad CD drive. Only took a few days and a replacement showed up. I love not being tethered to a desk. I love that I can take this silly thing ANYWHERE in the house. Yep, I've even been known to carry it into the bathroom a time or two! Shock, shock. I'm still waiting for Dad to reload some of my scrapbook software onto it but for now I am LOVING this new little beauty. She has made my life complete! BTW, I loaded Skype onto it yesterday so am able to Skype anytime you want to show me my beautiful grandchildren. How's that for a hint?