Autograph of Jets

No...not the football team...jet trails in the sky.
I love watching jets flying overhead and then following the vapor tails they leave behind.

Here, you can see what's left of the trail and down below, the lights from Mount Ashland ski resort are shining in the dusk.

One Guess..

Just one guess where I hung out today when we went to town:

I have some girls at school I want to give little gifts. Too much fun.

There is so much put into the nail polish these days....diamonds, glitter, hearts, stars, metallics....every color under the moon and who knows what else!

Going to town is such a pain in the ___, I hate it. I don't know when I've been to town and made it home again in under 8 hours! That's a job, for crying out loud! Then the unloading the car and putting everything away takes another 45 minutes.

I usually come home with part of my list crossed off, saving it for next time! Yeah, sure. I think I've had some things on my list for a year and never seem to manage to buy it. Either I can't find what I am looking for, I can't make it to the store where they sell it, or our stinking "city" just does not sell it!

Oh well, I'll make some sweet girls happy from my excursion so that's what matters, right?!



Cat Nap

Just more of my Hookster. When I get home, I enjoy going outside or down in the basement to love on my cat. One day, he just peeked out from his new, soft bed and that was it. I can't reach him on that top shelf so I grabbed my camera and took some photos.

Hot Apple Pie

I walked by my freshly baked apple pie and saw the steam pouring out of it. Mmmm. Just thought I'd share the scene with you.

Come on over and I'll share my pie!

(In case you don't see the steam...it goes from the pie up into the white triangular jar opener that's mounted under my cabinets.)

 

Demo Has Begun

Demolition team in action....
Having way too much fun knocking down walls and building new ones.....
Out with the "old" and in with the new.

Yup, we are remodeling our bathroom. I guess Jack just loves building things then changing them. Either that or we watched too much HGTV when we had satellite service. We stopped the service to "save money"...Hmmmm, now we are spending it? Makes no sense to me but I'm along for the ride just the same.

It seemed that everyone on t.v. wanting to buy a home would get all ga-ga over the double bathroom sinks. Jack and I share quite nicely but we decided for "resale value" we would add a sink. (No we are not selling, but as long as he is able to do the work and wants to do it, now is the time.) Then came the thought that we had to somehow "hide" the toilet behind a privacy wall. Finally, we will get a jacuzzi tub for Jack's back so that will take more knocking things out.

In order to make the vanity longer, we needed to go into our closet. Then for the toilet space, we had to go into the closet too. So where to put more closet space? In the attic, of course. Since I emptied the attic of everything EXCEPT the bats, we had the space to expand.

I didn't think I'd have to select things like faucets, sinks, lighting and toilets, but we will be out looking on Saturday and making our selections. We have surfed the net to narrow down the basic styles we both like so it should be just a matter of getting what we like to fit our budget.

 I thought I best take a photo before it all started breaking down.

 Attic space to the left as you exit our closet.

 Attic space straight as you stand in our closet.

Attic space right (you can see our current closet door with the white frame.)

I'll post more as the work continues.

Highly Prized #3

Okay, I just don't seem to be sketching like I should. But three little ones are three more than I sketched all last year so it is an improvement. I woke up at 4:00 a.m. while quilting and decided not to run my sewing machine so dang early. I read for awhile and sketched this little drawing of my sewing machine. I do love my Bernina!

I'd like to learn how to photograph my artwork. The paper always turns out yellow even after I adjust the exposure in my photo editing program. Oh well, it is only for practice. I'm almost embarrassed to publish this, it is so out of whack! So no comments, okay?



I've Got Mail! (Again!)

Life is so delicious...I received more mail from my granddaughter, Zoe. She is so precious. Evidently, she just writes her notes/letters then gets the envelopes and stamps out and mails them all without saying a word to her mom.
I love our rural post office....as long as Zoe gets the zip code and house numbers close, the letter arrives in our mailbox. Amazing, but true!
Okay, okay.....this is what I'm so excited about.....marbled paper she made with her mom. How cool is this?