Feels great to slow down. :)

Hmmm I was going to try and take a photo of my hair. Got it cut and colored today. My hair seems to blend right in with the tiger curtains. lol The curtains are beach towels. I put a hem in them and used them for curtains. I made the lion pillow about 10 years ago. The scarf on the end table is a towel. I got the comforter for the day bed at Wal Mart a long time ago. This is the room that I had to clean up for company April 21 st. Feels great to have it cleaned up. It is not a very big room so kind of hard to get around in it when the day bed is made out. Now I have to clean up the other extra bedroom. Does anyone do like me... move stuff from one room to the next??? hahaha! I am ready to sit back and take it easy for the next couple of days. All I have to do is load everything in the Blazer. Gary will be helping a friend move tomorrow so I will be home alone. :) It seems like since he has retired people are coming out of the woodwork needing something done... friends, neighbors, and people we know. Yesterday he had to weld a tractor for a neighbor, fix my step-dad's stool, and help an elderly lady with her electric lawn mower. Have not helped the kids that much... but really need to find the time to help them a little too.



Wishing all of you a blessed week... and please be careful if you are taking a trip. :) Will be keeping everyone of you in my prayers. Hugs, Janie

Finished with the flower arrangements! WooHoo!

My Granny use to say... "No rest for the wicked." I must be awful wicked. lol

Well I finished all the flower arrangements today. Gary also made the stakes. I have 7 saddles, 13 flower pots, and 2 hanging baskets. I am so glad that I started early. We will decorate on Saturday. I will be ready to do something fun. :) Maybe we can take the kids to the zoo.

Tomorrow (Thursday) I will get my hair cut. :) Friday I will load up all the flowers so they will be ready for Saturday morning. Sunday we will be in church and maybe we can go to the zoo in the afternoon; if not we can go on Monday. Wichita has a great zoo. They just got Tigers. Tuesday will be Assistant Living again. We really do stay busy.

Please be careful over the holiday if you have to travel. All of you are in my prayers. Wishing all of you a blessed week with lots of blessings. Prayers & Hugs, Janie

Made this for Terry Ann for Mark's mom

Mom's hanging Basket & Granny's hanging plant.

Top one is my Mother's and bottom is Granny's (Mom's mother) Had to sit in vase to keep from blowing away. lol

Photo of my mother's Memorial Day saddle

Well it took me about 1 and 1/2 hours to do my mother's saddle. The only roses the color that I wanted was on a wreath. It was really hard to undo the wire. She loved peach colored flowers. The center is a small plaque. The little boy and girl Precious Moments are window hangings. She had 2 whimsical pictures hanging in her extra bedroom of a little boy and girl. She said they reminded her of Stan and Terry Ann. I thought this was a little similar. I got 7 saddles and 10 flower pots finished in the last 3 days.

Hope this finds everyone well. All are in my prayers.

Love and hugs, Janie

Flowers for Sharon, aunt 1 week younger than me

I bought that little angel vase in the center at a garage sale for .25 cents. I wired it to the frame and put Styrofoam in center. All flowers are from LaBelle flower shop auction. Thank you for viewing. Prayers & hugs, Janie

Flowers for Grandma and Grandpa

Top photo is the front that will go on my Grandma and Grandpa's headstone. Bottom is the back side. Thank you for veiwing. Prayers and hugs, Janie

Photo of Headstone Saddle for my dad

I got 4 saddles for headstones made today. This is a photo of my dad's. Thursday I bought a rubber buffalo and rubber wolf for $1 at a garage sale. I put them in the center of the display. lol May be hard to see. I spent $4 for the metal saddle at Hobby Lobby. The flowers are from the action at LaBelle. Prayers and hugs, Janie

Have to take a break :(

I did not realize how busy May is going to be until this evening!!
Mother's Day
GGrandbabie's birthday
Step-dad's birthday
2 Grandchilden are graduation from Junior High
And then last but not least... Memorial Day and making about 35 decorations for the cemetery.

Wishing all of you a early HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, blessed, happy, and fun month. Will see all of you in June. Sorry but I won't be making any comments..... but that does not mean that you are not in my thoughts and prayers.
Hugs, Janie

Have we been too busy??? LOL

I sometimes wonder about Gary and I. lol Last Tuesday, the 28th we went to the Assistant Living and took my step-dad home. He had stayed with us for 3 days. I was waiting on 2 men instead of just 1. lol Wednesday Gary went to town for something?? When he walked in the door he had a bouquet of red roses that he had gotten at Dillon's for $13. He immediately said ... Well this is late. haha! I said... Oh our anniversary is today. He said... No it was yesterday. haha! We have been married 34 years... is that what marriage is like after 34 years?? hehe!

Well needless to say... I have been on SingSnap. It has become very addictive when you like to sing. I use to tell everyone that I would rather sing as eat. lol Singing has slowed down for me and I have gotten lazy on practicing. Not as good as I use to be with age. :) I recorded 3 songs Thursday night, 3 songs Friday night, and 2 songs tonight. Hmmm They have a community there just like blogger has. lol The Lord only gives me the friends that He wants me to meet. I have met one lady 50 years old and her husband is a minister in Kentucky. The other lady is in her 50's also. One is Sherri and the other one is Sharon. Nice ladies. They have some good singers on there and I am always amazed at how good some of the older people are. haha! I use to think anyone over 35 or 40 years old was ancient!!! haha! Isn't it funny how we all change our point of view when we get older. We even realize that our parent were pretty smart!! hehe!

When the rain quits some I have got to make 25 decorations for the cemetery for Memorial Day. Hmmmm that will be a week long job non-stop. The Lord has been soooo good to me by letting me buy artificial flowers and vines at auctions for hardly nothing. I have 6 BIG plastic tubs full of flowers and vines. I bought about 30 medium sized plastic vases last month for $7.50. They will have to be staked down in the ground so they won't blow over.

This is kind of a long entry so will make another entry about something that happened today. :) All are in my prayers. Hugs, Janie

UP TOO LATE!!

Hmmmm why do I do this to myself?? Been on SingSnap. :( Went into Wichita the last 2 days and have been staying really busy! Here is a song that I recorded on SingSnap. I love the message. "Keep Me In Your Will" So hard to do that. Our life is made up of the choices that we make in life. Wishing all of you a blessed week with LOTS of blessings. Hugs and Prayers, Janie

Lot of things have been going on

We had company last Tuesday. Saturday we went to a church party at a member's home. I ate too much!! My step-dad fell down the bottom step going into the basement. Gary offered to take him to ER but he didn't want to go. Sunday morning he called at 5:30 a.m. and wanted Gary to take him to ER. Gary is really good at helping him. They went to the ER in Wichita and sat for almost 3 hours. There was a lady there so sick that she was laying in the waiting room floor. They left and went to a new hospital in the city where we do assistant living lesson. The X-Ray showed that his ankle wasn't broken .... which is really good. He wanted to stay at his house but we told him that he needed to stay here. I told him that I had taken the sheets off of the bed and put clean ones back on. lol The ER doctor told him to go to his family doctor about water on his knee. Him and Gary left, going by his house, and then going to the doctor at 11:15. He is wanting to stay home but I told him he could stay here until we go to assistant living in the morning. Nothing like home, is there? lol

My step-dad got up early this morning and Lakota was guarding his door. He was able to walk around him and go in the bathroom. He went back to bed. When he got up the 2nd time he had to call Gary because Shawnee was blocking the hall way and would not let him come into the dinning room. She was not being mean... just being stubborn and not moving so he could get through with his walker. lol He normally does not use a walker but is using it now to take weight off of his ankle.

Well, I had best get up and get something done... even if it is not right! lol All of you are in my prayers. Love, hugs, and prayers, Janie

Air Balloon

Thank you Sugar for the beautiful tag I snagged a long time ago. :) Hugs, Janie

Wow! I feel just like a air balloon coming back down to earth. I am in slow gear right now. I did not get as much done today as I wanted... but it felt nice to sit a little. Hope all of you are having a blessed day. Hugs, Janie

Only 1 week ago??

Thank you Sugar for the beautiful tag. :)

It is hard to believe that it has been 8 days since I received a call about my aunt's funeral. It seems as though at least 2 weeks have passed by. Saturday I started cleaning on the house for company Tuesday. Good thing I have company once in a while so I will do some deep cleaning on the house. LOL I got the extra bedroom and the bathroom cleaned very good, used the sweeper, and did some picking up and swiping things down. By that time I said... forget the dust!!! haha!

The air conditioner and heater was in by the time I got back from the funeral Friday. Sunday we went to church twice and I sang "He Touched Me" in the morning service. Late Monday night I went on line to check emails and ended up looking at the news with the guy and Craig's list. WHAM! I got a virus!!! Ugh! I did not have time to deal with it since we had to go to Assistant Living and company the next morning!! Virus ware said it could not clean it up or quarantine it!! Trend said it was a temporary file. I went to the control panel, cleaned my hard drive, went to Internet options and deleted files and add on. I then updated my virus ware and spy ware. I then turned off my computer until yesterday afternoon. Yesterday I did 2 virus checks, windows defender, and spy ware check. Nothing! I took it to Best Buy this afternoon and they could not find the virus. They said I must have deleted the file. It was not a real bad virus .... just something that would make my computer act crazy!!

I sat here and waited on the county inspector from 8 until 12 this morning and he did not show up. I took my computer in, went to Aldi's, met Terry Ann at IHOP, and by the time I got home we met the 2 couples for dinner. Busy week!! lol Through it all I am just glad that the virus is gone... and I have a half way clean house. lol

Hope all of you have had a blessed week. All of you are in my prayers.

God Bless & hugs, Janie

Home

In the last 8 months we have had 6 funerals to attend. Out of the 6, I have sang at 4 of them. Yesterday when I took the CD to the church the lady said.. "This will be the microphone that you will use." I told her that I would not be singing them because I was recorded on the CD. She said... "Oh I was hoping that you would sing live". With Sharon laying in the coffin next to me... I explained that she and I were the only small children in the family until we were 9 years old. We were only one week apart in age. There was no way that I would be able to sing them live. She said she understood.

Things always go wrong. lol I had all the music for the funeral. We HAD to leave at 9:45 to make the 2 and sometimes 2 1/2 hour trip. Terry Ann took Carlie to school at 9:00 and pulled up at my step-dad's house at 9:43. lol We were leaving at 9:45. WooHoo!! Things looked great! We drove 11 miles and were stopped for road construction. We sat there for about 15 minutes. I made the statement that it was making us get there at 12:15 and the funeral was at 1:00. I told Terry Ann and Bill that we were where we were suppose to be at that time. As long as we were able to walk in at 10 till 1. I could always wear the jeans that I had on. lol We pulled into Coffeyville at 12:00. Wow! We made great time. We stopped and got a cup of coffee at the Quick Trip and Terry Ann said that she would like to go through a drive through and get something to eat. I pulled into a KFC and ordered. We sat there for about 15 minutes. Terry Ann said she thought we should just leave. (I have never done that before after ordering. lol) Bill spoke up and said... "It is 12:21 and if that funeral is at 1:00, you might want to get going." I pulled out of line and headed for Gary's mom's house. She passed away in 2004 and her home looks just like it did the day she passed away. I think her kids have finally thought about selling it this year. It is a older little house. It took me 10 minutes to throw on my slacks, change blouse, and change shoes. We got to the church around 10 till 1.

We were going to stop at my mother's grave site and my aunt had told me to stop by the funeral home and pick out a plant. I forgot all of that after the dinner at the church. I was going to go through town a certain way but there was road construction.... it got me side tracked while talking to Terry Ann and Bill. I just headed for home a different route?? No one said anything to me because they thought I was in a hurry to get home. I felt really bad about forgetting... but when I remembered I was standing on Bill's front porch!! lol

Hope all of you have had a blessed week. All of you are in my prayers. Hugs, Janie

Funeral Friday

My aunt passed away at 3:00 a.m. this morning. My Aunt Betty said that she did not suffer. Hospice was there with her. We had a lot of things to do today. I recorded music from 3:30 until 8:00 tonight. It took me a long time to record myself singing the songs. Emotions run high. Finally I got the 3 songs recorded on a cassette. I then had to try and record it to a CD. Hmmmm things always happen. lol Tried recording one CD and it did not record. I changed cords running from the Karaoke to the CD recorder... that was the problem. Finally got it recorded. It sounds better on a CD because of the clicking from stopping and starting. Taking both the cassette and the CD. Always go prepared for something to go wrong. lol The CD might not play in the CD player at the church??

The first song is "In The Garden", 2nd song is "On The Wings Of A Dove", and 3rd song is "Roses Will Bloom Again". The funeral will be at 1:00 on Friday. I will have to make a 2 hour trip there. We are having the furnace and air conditioning put in Thursday and Friday. Gary will stay home. Terry Ann and my step-dad Bill will go with me.

Hope all of you have had a blessed week. All of you are in my prayers. Love, hugs, and prayers, Janie

Prayer Request

I had a message on my voice mail today when we got home from the Assistant Living. I have a aunt that is 1 week younger than I am. She is 65 years old. She is Down Syndrome. Hospice is with her now. He body is shutting down. My Aunt Betty went to see her last week and they talked about death. Sharon smiled and told my aunt that she would get to see Momma and Daddy again when she got to heaven. She has been in an assistant living since my grandmother passed away. She has been very happy with her life at the assistant living. She considered it her home. She will have a lot of people at her funeral. Her and I were more like sisters. My uncle has taken care of her needs for many years. She has had a lot of things to keep her happy. It has been hard on him the last couple of years as he has a heart problem. Please keep all of us in your prayers.

Hope all of you have had a blessed week. All of you are in my prayers. God Bless, Janie

Miss Gracie wondering what is going on!! Fire

I will delete these after a couple of days. We were very lucky! The fire trucks did come out early Saturday morning. Gary was going to go to Promise Keepers that morning but I left a note saying that it would be pretty scary if the fire came on our land. The fire department would have had to open the front gate and Miss Gracie and Harley would get out! For once he listened to me and stayed home. It was real wet Saturday morning. If the huge cedar trees would have caught on fire they would have gone up like a bomb!! There is a big row of cedar trees near my neighbor's house! It would not have been too bad for us; but it could have set 2 neighbor's homes on fire. We have had so many fires in Kansas that they have decided to regulate them... thank goodness. Our neighbor set our field and 2 other neighbor's fields on fire twice. Fire trucks came out and the neighbor could not even be found!! The first time he set fire to our field... and his did not even burn... our dog let us know that it was on fire!! He set it on fire 10 minutes before we were leaving for church. I actually think he was planning on burning us out! He was crazy! Him and his wife got a divorce and they are having to sell the place.

Smoke of fire Saturday

Videos and photos of fire next door

Just a quick entry with some photos. Yesterday evening the neighbor told us they were going to burn their field. I guess the fire department came out this morning before I got up. Their field has many trees and stuff on it. Last week 2 men set fire to field and it killed one man and other is critical in the hospital. To see fire coming toward you is really scary!! All of the horses and Harley was watching the fire. It looks small compared to the real thing. The videos are real short. No talking ... just from my digital camera... not video camera.

This is the beginning: Hmmm videos would not load??


Well I hope this comes out alright... doing it html. HAPPY EASTER. HUGS, JANIE