tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54617581720262875882024-03-13T04:16:12.713-04:00Forget-Me-NotMy life, a patchwork quilt, filled with many loves and interests and you are a part of it.Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.comBlogger414125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-57865100629413795922019-02-13T15:35:00.000-05:002019-02-13T15:35:39.148-05:00Happy Valentine’s Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For all you who celebrate Valentine’s Day, have a happy and safe one. </div>
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I thought I would share with you my sweet little Lori Mitchell figurine. </div>
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I believe she about says it all ❤️</div>
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Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-45139291137410544982019-02-13T10:02:00.002-05:002019-02-13T10:02:51.125-05:00Creature of Habit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I’m winging it here for now. Not quite sure about the widget changes that are listed in the yellow box in my layout page. I’ve gotten to the age where I don’t like, nor do I tolerate change very well, so when an internet site does this sort of thing I feel like the rug is being pulled out from me. I find my comfort zone and tend to settle down in it. So, until I can figure all this headache out I will continue with little bit postings.<br />
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Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-17602468278936714132018-10-30T23:32:00.003-04:002018-10-30T23:56:47.309-04:00Total Confusion & Getting My Blog Back on Track<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello everyone. I have been away for awhile, but this time I'm back and going to try and be faithful to stay. The last time I posted I messed around with my FOLLOWERS LIST and was in the process of moving it and lost it. My own fault, grrrrr!<br />
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What have I been doing, plenty, and I do have so much to share with all of you. I suppose you are all so tired of my promises to return and post, and I should be ashamed. Now that the colder weather has arrived then I will have more free time. I just don't think people understand the life of a widow and how busy it can be. I remember back when our daughters were growing up and all the things I had to do, but back in those days my husband was still alive and we shared the load. The kids have grown up and been gone from the nest many years. They have jobs and homes of their own. In January it will be 6 years since my husband Roger passed away and my life changed drastically. A widow often has to depend on the kindness of others to do the work that is impossible for her to do. Basically you need someone with brawn and muscle. You are often waiting to get things done because you can't do it yourself. You really don't understand this unless you are a single woman or a widow.<br />
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I'm going to end this post for now. I have some work to do on my blog. I will return. Hope all is well.<br />
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Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-7031083210445858652018-06-24T09:56:00.000-04:002018-06-24T09:56:32.710-04:00Finding Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Summer is here and so am I.</div>
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I feel like the movie "Ground Hog Day" mainly because my life has become like a routine happening. Since warmer weather has rolled around I find less and less time to do the things I do for enjoyment. I keep thinking about this blog, how I have on several occasions come back only to promise over and over again to once again return to posting. Summer brings more work for me and I'm barely finding time to do it all. When I'm outside working then I'm thinking of all the work needing done in the house and vise versa. I have been doing the work, that use to be shared by two people, for the last 7 years. I take care of a house and a little over an acre of land. People suggest I sell the house, but I have lived here 38 years now, and my husband built the house for the two of us. We raised our children here. There are memories, not to mention 43 years of belonging and the usual stuff one accumulates for living a life. It took me a few years to work up the courage to start giving away my husband's belongings. I'm still not done with that task. There is a woodshop, with the tools. I have done some knitting and crocheting these past several years, mainly because it has been my salvation, my healing therapy to help with the heavy feeling of loss. I had to keep my sanity through it all, the overwhelming indescribable feeling of loss that dogged me from sunup to sundown. I can make it through my days now without constantly breaking down in tears. </div>
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I can focus now on tasks and not so much on my grief. </div>
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I have been able to get more work done. </div>
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And so I hang onto my blog, hoping to be able to once again sit down and share with all of you interesting doings instead of sharing sadness. I believe the human spirit craves happiness, and I want to bring all of you some sparks of it. </div>
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I also want to start my quilting again. I burned myself out with the yarn and my hands are feeling the ache of arthritis and occasional cramping. </div>
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So once again I'm asking for everyone to have patience with me.</div>
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I still care and hope you do too.</div>
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God Bless Us All. </div>
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First off, let me wish all of you a very Happy New Year!</div>
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I bought this Mary Maxim kit back last fall and got busy right around Christmas time. </div>
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This one was for me.</div>
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I found this pattern on Pinterest. It is called WindowPane Scarf.</div>
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The pattern shows a cowl, but I made mine into a long scarf. </div>
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It is a simple, easy pattern and works up quickly. I made it for my youngest daughter Meghan.</div>
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She loves purple.</div>
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I had a whole plastic container full of these little balls of yarn and used them for another afghan/blanket.</div>
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I am not very savvy anymore with all this technical stuff. Just keeping the cords straight to what belongs to what is a feat. I will have to one day sit down and put tags on them all. Some days I am proud of myself for figuring things out and on other days I get frustrated and walk away from it. My biggest problem is that I don't do the task on here often enough to really get the hang of it and then weeks go by and I'm back to square one. I can understand now why older people get upset when taken out of their comfort zone of ignorance. Can you believe it, I have 5 younger brothers and 2 of them have never had a computer in their home. They just recently got cell phones. </div>
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It annoys me that they won't move up a notch or two into this computerized world, but on the other hand </div>
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They just don't know what they are missing!</div>
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I love comments and want to thank the friends that take the time to continue to read my blog and </div>
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post a comment. We live in a busy time and I know from personal experience how demanding life can get.</div>
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I still need to get that "Followers" list back up on my blog. Heavens, maybe when I was adjusting it I might have lost it? Sometimes a person just needs to leave well enough alone. </div>
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And, by all means pass on some kindness. It doesn't even need to cost you a penny.</div>
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Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-11856180114949095832017-12-12T15:29:00.002-05:002017-12-12T15:29:32.361-05:00My "Scrappy Coat of Many Colors" Afghan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My, how time just slips away. I feel like it is slipping right through my fingers and I can't slow it down. </div>
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I looked to see when I last posted and it was in late October. Has it really been that long?</div>
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I didn't mean to be absent for longer than a week, but then the leaves started to fall and I spent several days cleaning them up. One day it was so windy that it was pointless in trying. </div>
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Since I have posted I have been busy with yarn. </div>
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I kept looking at the bag of scraps and racking my mind on what to do with them. </div>
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I am a hoarder when it comes to waste not want not. </div>
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I save every scrap of yarn and fabric. </div>
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So, I share pics of the last project because there have been 2 other things and I will post them next time.</div>
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I call this "My Scrappy Coat of Many Colors Afghan"</div>
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The only other one that I know of is the first one I made 41 years ago when I was expecting my first baby. </div>
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I still have it in my living room and it is still going strong despite all the abuse it has suffered over those years from family and my one little dog. It has been wadded up and used as a pillow, the girls use to hide under it and peek through the tiny openings between the dc clusters. Everyone has covered up with it and also wrapped themselves in it on chilly days and evenings. </div>
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It has gone through the washer and dryer more times than I can count, yet it endures. </div>
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So I grabbed my crochet hook 3 weeks ago and started another one.</div>
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There is no rhyme or reason to the color scheme, only to try and keep similar colors from being too close.</div>
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My biggest headache came when it was time to weave the yarn tails in because you see, I hate doing that and kept putting it off. Next thing I knew there were hundreds of tails. I hate myself when I do that, I really should know better,</div>
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About halfway through I thought to myself I should have counted all those tails, or at least saved the pile.</div>
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It took me almost 4 days on and off to get them all done. One day I spent 12 hours straight working on them while marathon watching Hallmark Christmas programs. </div>
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There were tails to do on both sides and on both edges and for a long time I was not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.</div>
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I am happy with the results and sent my youngest daughter some photos of the finished blanket.</div>
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It was a wonderful way of using up short and long pieces of leftover yarn. </div>
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She said it looks great. It is for her.</div>
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Next time I share with you the scarfs I did, one a knitted kit, </div>
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the other a crochet pattern I found on my favorite site Pinterest.</div>
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Good Monday morning? Let me start out by saying I am so stinking frustrated with Blogger, so if you don't want to read my gripes it might be smart to visit another blog. I want to apologize to all my followers because last week I had to edit and remove the list. It came about with a GOOGLE ERROR #502. I put up with it a couple days thinking it would take care of itself, but we all know how that turns out. So I took an hour messing with instructions to go in and do all kinds of things including getting history/cache cleaned out and of course that worked real good, NOT! Let me say, it is never good to be gone from one's blog for any length of time because things change. I go to the layout page and it isn't anything like it use to be. I will go back and deal with their error when I have time to waste, say about a week when I have nothing to do.</div>
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Then it brings me to the above pic of the jigsaw puzzle blanket. Dug this out during the weekend and the more I looked at it the more I absolutely hated it. It will take days to frog it, but that is exactly what I intend to do. I also found the start of a granny square blanket (arthritis be damned to hell), I'm gonna get my crochet hook out and work on that while I sit and watch some tv now and then. Nothing worse than watching television with idle hands. I've had enough of that these past few months. </div>
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Today I go visit with my grandson Holden at his 1st grade class to have lunch, recess and go to the book fair. My daughter has instructed me to not buy him any books because he has a ton at home and besides that, they bring books home from the library.....since when did she become my mom and tell me what to do? Anyways....if he wants grandma to buy him a book, grandma will do it. Can't spank grandma, lol.</div>
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Good rainy and cold Saturday morning. </div>
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I don't have much to share with everyone this morning.</div>
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So, I went through some of my photo albums. </div>
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In backing up a few months I ran across these pics of my youngest daughter </div>
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Rayanna Meghan and her friend Chris. </div>
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They made a trip to Washington state to visit with Chris's brother and his wife.</div>
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Meghan has a bucket list. One of the things she wanted to do was climb Mt. St. Helens. </div>
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If you are interested yarn is double knit "Special" by Stylecraft.</div>
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It is 100% premium acrylic, 295 metres/322 yards. </div>
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Halloween typically comes on the usual day of October 31st, but for my little grandson Holden, it came on Saturday October 14th at the campground.</div>
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My oldest daughter Rachael searched around on Pinterest (we love that site) for a different kind of costume to make. She didn't want the run-of-the-mill Walmart standby.</div>
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This is what she found and made. It took her 9 hours, but well worth it.</div>
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He won the trophy for the best costume in his age group (5 year old). All his mother's hard work paid off, and he loved his costume.</div>
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One of my friends at the campground is a dog groomer, but she has a passion for crafting. One evening we were all sitting around and she brought over this neat fire bowl she made. I had never seen or heard of one before. She had painted hers with a Mexican/Indian sort of design. There is a can of Real Flame Premium Gel Fireplace Fuel that is down in the center covered by a round piece of screen mesh surrounded by small decorative river rock topped with fire glass. There are decorative red gem stones embedded in the top rim. The bowl itself is made of concrete that she molds. When it dries she seals it, then puts on the base paint using your color choice, then puts a design on that you want, it is all sealed again. My color choices were to go with my Old American colors of a federal blue-gray base and old gold colored stars. I did not weigh the bowl but I would say it weighs a ton. After all it is made of concrete and the rocks and stone all add to the weight. I ordered it from her and when I went to pick it up she told me it was already paid for....what a surprise!</div>
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Thank you Rachael for the early Christmas present. I love it!</div>
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I never knew about these flowers till my electric co-op published an article about some people saving them for years, some even 20 years. The article said you can remove the plant from the soil before the first frost, then you cut it back to where there is just some green above the soil line. Then store the plants in a paper bag in a cool dry place, like your basement. Well last fall I set all those plants in my garage and never bothered to remove them from the soil. Even though I was in and out of the garage with my car all that winter the plants remained green and when spring came I trimmed them back and they were just as pretty and healthy looking as the year before.</div>
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Here are the plants before I got to dead heading the spent blooms. I love geraniums because they can tolerate a bit of dry soil and like sun and shade.</div>
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Cannes are a perfect patio plant and they do well in big pots. When my mother passed she had a flower pot on either side of the overhead garage door. She always had smaller flowering plants in the them but I thought they were the perfect place for the Cannes a friend gave me. They were pretty red when they did bloom and the hummingbirds loved them. I love the large green leaves.</div>
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If there is a weed I love it is this one. I think it is called a corn flower. It grows wild along the road. I love the blue color and I just had to include it in this post.</div>
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Then of course there is Queen Anne's Lace. I always marveled at the very center where that tiny little bit of color is always located. If you ever picked a bouquet of wildflowers you have to include some of this in the bunch. They are such a delicate flower.</div>
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My trumpet vine. It has become a monster and got a good trimming back this summer. The hummingbirds, bees and unfortunately hornets love this vine.</div>
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It is an evasive plant. See all the little new ones sprouting in the yard surrounding it. I keep them mowed down. Over by gate post you can see the long seed pod. The vine will be loaded and I usually pull them off to try and keep the seeds from scattering once the pods dry and crack open.</div>
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The farm field across the road from my front yard. See my pretty weedy bank. Well if I were to stand out there the bank would come up to my chest. My husband always kept it trimmed down with the weed eater. The state came along with their mowing equipment and made a pure mess of it, so from then on I hired my neighbor to keep it trimmed down with his weed eater. It looked wonderful all this summer.Nice and clean.</div>
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I feed the birds all year long. I usually have 3 feeders going and a couple of suet blocks. Then of course the raccoons become pesky and so I had to use shepherd's poles. I would come out in the morning and the sunflower feeder would be on the ground and those critters were smart, they could get the bottom off the feeder. In May when the hummingbirds come back the raccoons would go after the nectar in those hummer feeders. </div>
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More hens and chicks only these were given to me from my mother-in-law years ago. They are a different variety than the ones from mom. This summer I had to tear the little wooden barrel apart and replant them in other containers. I hated losing the barrel but it was falling apart and squirrels had planted corn from the bird feeders in it. </div>
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A year ago in July I made a big decision. I bought a 32' camper that sits on a seasonal site about a half mile from my house. Actually the camper was a good buy, but it was for the above pic that I bought it. I found out later this year that the seller only planned to sell it as a package deal although the camp site is a separate yearly fee. They knew that the fire pit area was what would sell the camper. Smart! I found out later that a lot of people were wanting that site and my daughter who camps out there the last 3 years is the one who tipped me off to it. </div>
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They were right, the little private area behind the camper is awesome. It is like being in another world. The campground owners allow renters to improve on their lots within limits and some restrictions. Mr. B is the one who made the pathway over the little ravine to build the area for the fire pit. He did not want to sell any of it, but his wife had 6 years of camping and wanted to spend time at the lake with their children.<br />
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They fed the yellow finches and she had a lot of nick knacks scattered here and there. This is looking to the right off the back deck.<br />
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This is the view looking off to the left of the back deck.<br />
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This is the back deck. The steps in the back ground to the left go up to the porch area to camper doors. The white lattice is the back of the chopped wood pile storage.<br />
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This is a view of the camper while standing in the gravel path to the little bridge. On the far right is a dog pen they built. They had 2 Yorkies and a Papillon.<br />
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Here is a closer look at the dog pen I have 2 Yorkies too.<br />
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The split wood storage bin. Behind my little storage shed.<br />
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She left all these potted plants behind. There was only a couple things she took, a cement bench and one of those big umbrellas that are off center. Not sure what they are actually called, but both those items were gifts from family.<br />
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This is the front of my camper, what you see when you drive up.<br />
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Like I said before, she had a lot of nick knacks. Many of them are glow in the dark things. There is a little electric fountain to right of front steps. Love the sunflowers :)<br />
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Looking back to the fire pit area. I never get tired of looking at it.<br />
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These are all pics from last July. There have been some changes. I'm so grateful to my brother Michael. He has been a god send to help me with whatever I want to change. First I cleared the site of all the clutter. I wanted to keep it simple and not a place to work me to death. It was coming to the end of the camping season anyways and things needed to be put up and stored. This year we took the leaf blower and got leaves cleaned up. Mike brought his trailer and we went after some finer gravel. The big stuff was hard to walk on and tends to roll since the area leading down to the fire pit area is on an incline. We started with new gravel back around the pit and came up the path to the back of camper area. Next year I plan to complete that project with more gravel. I had Mike remove the lattice on the wood bin from the side toward the camper to the back side where it was open. I like to see my wood pile. We removed the black plastic edging that was holding gravel back in the main area of the camper back and replaced it with flat pavers. That black plastic wasn't doing such a good job anyways and gravel was escaping over it. I sold the outdoor propane heater and a propane smoker that I had no intention of ever using anyways. Mike changed up the little bridge a bit. He thought putting wood posts on the edges would make it nicer. I agree.<br />
I'm sorry I don't presently have pics of the changes to show you and hope to get them on here next camping season. There is more changes in the plans, but the season is over and the camper has been winterized and closed up for the next 6 months.<br />
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Thank you for visiting and if you feel inclined, feel free to leave a comment.<br />
Susanne :)</div>
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About the middle of spring I looked out and had to take a double take of what I saw under the bird feeders. Yep, a black squirrel. Oh was that a surprise since the ones we have are red and brownish red. He was pretty fat too. I guess he liked the sunflower seeds.</div>
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I wanted to get better pics of him, but was afraid he would see me and take off. See that little concrete bird bath that is tipped over in the back ground....raccoons! The weeds had taken over too.</div>
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He did eventually see me and ran next door. I followed him over to my neighbor's house and found out from them that they had seen this little guy a couple of times. Truth is, I thought he was a skunk at first.</div>
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Run little squirrel, run! And, just like that he was gone. Haven't seen him since he went next door. Wonder what happened to him. I hope no one shoots him come squirrel season.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Good Friday morning blogger friends. I'll start out with the recipe I promised so here goes:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I found recipe on Pinterest, and the credit goes to a blogger amandathevirtuouswife.com.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Stuffed Bell Peppers</u> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 8 bell peppers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.5 lbs. ground beef (cooked & drained)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 onion, chopped</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">2 cloves of garlic, chopped</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">1-8oz. can of tomato sauce</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 cup instant brown rice (Minute Rice), uncooked</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shredded cheddar cheese</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Salt & pepper</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wash peppers, cut off tops, remove seeds and inside white areas. Cut a bit off of bottoms so they sit flat.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">She mentions to chop up left over top and bottom pieces to add to meat and rice mixture, I did that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Combine cooked meat, onion, garlic, rice, tomato sauce, and extra chopped bell pepper. Add salt & pepper to taste.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Stuff peppers. I stuffed mine full and placed on a parchment lined 9x13 cake pan. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">We cooks like to taste test, and I found the meat/rice mix to be quite tasty (lol, I could have eaten half the pan), so I stuffed my peppers quite full and I added more tomato sauce to each top.</span></span><br />
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I then added the cheese. I took the pan of stuffed peppers to the freezer, then once they are frozen solid I will put them in labeled containers.<br />
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Just a few of my alterations.....<br />
I had various sizes of peppers so more than 8. <br />
I used ground chuck instead of ground beef. I don't like paying for meat that cooks up and floats in a ton of grease.<br />
I used uncooked white Minute Rice instead of the brown. <br />
I had to substitute Velveeta Shreds because I didn't have shredded cheddar cheese.<br />
I used more tomato sauce and topped them all with about a tablespoon extra before putting on cheese because I like my stuffing to be a little more moist. I found the uncooked rice will absorb the sauce once it is added to the meat in the pan.<br />
If you want to follow her original recipe then here is the <a href="http://www.amandathevirtuouswife.com/search/label/ground%20beef#.Wen7G09crEU">link</a> and it is listed under her label ground beef. You will find the recipe on that page plus she has many other recipes and interesting things on her blog.<br />
ENJOY!<br />
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I realize it has been ages since sharing any yarn projects but I do have pictures of several of them. I'm not going to add details because it has been awhile since these were worked on and completed. It would take a bit of digging for me to share patterns and I am willing to do just that if time allows. So bear with me and I'll do what I can if need be.<br />
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Well, there you have it, a few projects I managed to finish before my hands started hurting me. I have good and bad days with the arthritis. I managed last winter to crochet and knit up the bulk of my yarn stash into winter scarves and sent around 30 to the Cherry Street Mission in Toledo for the less fortunate and homeless. It was the perfect project for using up bits and pieces of yarn and putting it to a meaningful use. Then along came the Woman's Movement and I found myself once again drawn to a cause, buying pink yarn in various shades, and knitting a couple caps, one for my sister-in-law and one for me. I plan to make more, hand pain or not. I'll just have to work through it and not be a cry baby.<br />
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I am happy, no, I am thrilled to be back here again. None of you know how much I have missed all of you.<br />
Have a great weekend, and I hope to be back again real soon. Don't give up on me, I'm still just as interesting or boring as I have always been, depending on what is happening in my little corner. All of you take care and God Bless you all.<br />
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Susanne XOXO</div>
Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-8597364575949848132017-10-19T23:05:00.000-04:002017-10-19T23:06:29.246-04:00Posting on the iPad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have pictures on my Apple Smart phone and don't ask me how, but I did get them on my iPad. I am not the sharpest tool when it comes to "the cloud" and I have all these pictures on both devices yet how on earth do I get them on my blog, grrrrrr. Smart phone.....owned by a dumb person. I will have to do my blogging on my PC if I want to add pictures. I figure I'm gonna have to take a picture of a picture to download it from my camera to the PC.....I don't have weeks to figure it out.<br />
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Earlier this week my brother Ralph dropped off some green bell peppers on his way to work. Today I got to doing something with them.......yummy stuffed peppers. Yeah, I got pictures and tomorrow I'm going to share them plus the recipe.<br />
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I also have pics of my little grandson Holden in the Halloween costume his mother made from scratch. He won the trophy at the campground last weekend for his age group (5 yrs). His mom made the costume from scratch from a Pinterest idea. We love Pinterest. I may not have many followers here on my blog, but last time I looked I had 994 followers on that site. I have a lot of open boards, but just as many secret ones. Someone asked me once if I have ever spent any time on that sight and after I got done laughing I said, "Oh yeah, what I thought was only an hour on there was actually three, and that was my first visit."<br />
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I have the camper all closed up and winterized for the winter. I have a seasonal site that it sits on and the best ever firepit site. My brother Michael always lends a hand opening in the spring and closing in the fall. Now maybe I can find time for some sewing. I'll have leaves to clean before long. The tree leaves are turning, but slowly. We just need a good hard frost.<br />
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Well, it has been a long day and I'm headed to bed. I will be back in the morning and give you some pictures and that recipe I promised. Take care,<br />
Susanne<br />
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Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-6733341184821090142017-10-18T13:58:00.000-04:002017-10-18T13:58:47.247-04:00Blog Clean Up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wow, being away from my blog and blogging has left me with decisions to make, one being a good fall cleaning. I have given my corner a quick once over but no real decisions as yet. I need to sit down and purge bloggers from my list who have changed their status to private or who have not posted in years. That saddens me because at one time I liked/loved the blog well enough to include them on my list. For some reason or other you were special and most of all I found you quite interesting. We are all different, and special in our own way. We should take pride in being unique. I rest my case.<br />
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Now I need to speak about a couple of things, just to set the record straight. I honestly try not to bring unpleasant or negative issues to my blog, but I'm smart enough to realize there are outside forces that can affect everyday life. There are things that can be beyond our control. We may be compelled to react and to speak out. Our blog is ours alone, it is not meant to be the soapbox for the visitors and since anyone can comment I reserve the right to jury those comments a decide what is published. We are living in troubled times. You have one of two choices, if you don't like the way things are you can either do something positive or you can complain and continue to be part of the problem.<br />
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And I am going to close this post with my deepest condolences to the families of the four American soldiers who lost their lives in Niger. My hope is that their faith brings them through this unconsoling grief, and that they find comfort in the love and caring of their families and friends. I pray that God wraps his arms around these souls and comforts them in their time of sorrow. His words are more important than those of any man. Remember that.<br />
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Peace be with you all. God bless and keep you,<br />
Susanne ❤️</div>
Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-77788374017196678632017-10-16T09:40:00.002-04:002017-10-16T09:40:21.312-04:00Touching Base With Blogland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It has been over 4 months since I last came here and posted. I always come with good intentions, but along the way back I get way laid and life is what happens when I planned something else. No need for me to make my excuses, like I've said before, I stay busy. I mentioned before that I'm suffering with arthritis in my hands. Needless to say I have still not picked up a crochet hook or knitting needles in quite some time to do any large projects. The only thing I have made was two knitted pink caps for the woman's movement. It didn't help that along the way I lost my mojo. I believe that happens from a combination of things, but who am I to complain, I am blessed compared to other Americans who are suffering from the after effects of hurricane flooding, winds, and raging fires. I have absolutely no reason on this earth to complain when others are struggling to survive and grieving the loss of loved ones. My heart goes out to them.<br />
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I wanted to share some photos with all of you, but I'm on my iPad and I am clueless as to how to get them on here. It is probably a simple fix, but so far it eludes me. I guess I'll have to rely on my tried and true PC for doing that. Another thing, this cookie thing, what am I suppose to do about that? Again, I need to go look at blogs to do some catching up. I suppose I have lost some followers and I wouldn't blame them for leaving me. I mean, after all, why hang onto a blog that appears to be a dead end street. Just to let you know......it has been 6 years since I have sat down in front of my sewing machine, and that was to be my escape. So, I truely have been busy.<br />
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God bless you all ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️<br />
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Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-61046680925321085142017-06-06T17:29:00.003-04:002017-06-06T17:29:58.739-04:00Still Alive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
How many times have I come here with the best intentions and promises.....a few too many times, as you know. There never seem to be enough hours in a day. I stay busy constantly. I miss blogging and I miss my blogging friends. I miss reading your blogs and what you are up to. I have met some great people on here. I do hope to get back to this, but some things have changed for me and mainly my crocheting and knitting. I am suffering from arthritis in my hands so I have not done any kind of needle work in a good 2-3 months. Life for me has become boring in the sense that I am trying to clean out many problem areas. Slowly, taking baby steps to remedy those issues. There is a basement, wood shop, garage and shed that need attention. I do what I can when time allows. Last July I also bought a 32' camper and it sits on a seasonal site. It came in great condition but I will scrub it down inside and out, ceiling to floor, as time allows. I still babysit my grandson Holden and he is a joy! He is my bright and shining star. He just graduated from pre-school a week ago Thursday. Anyways, forgive me for not being faithful, but I'll try harder in the future ❤️❤️❤️</div>
Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-62170614176318858702016-11-13T18:39:00.000-05:002016-11-13T18:39:43.271-05:00Back Again!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I can hardly believe that it has been since March since I last posted on my blog. I half expected to find that Blogger had closed my little place up, but it is still here and for that I am so glad and grateful. I will have to read my last post, I'm sure I made some promises to all of you, and forgive me if I haven't made good on any of them. I know I last posted on the well troubles and I did end up having a new one drilled. I have pics to share. Despite being extraordinarily busy this Spring, Summer and Fall, I have had spare time in my evenings to knit and crochet. I also read some V.C.Andrews paperback books that were squirreled away in the cupboards under the bookcase. They are now in boxes and have become garage sale fodder for warmer weather next year. I bought a 32' camper that sits on a permanate camp site and has the neatest fire pit area. I bought it about mid July and didn't get a whole lot of free time out there, but did enjoy it a bit before the camp ground closed up for the season in mid October. I really hate it that it took me so long to get back to all of you, but better late than never. Hope to see you soon, I have plenty to share plus, as usual, I have a ton of catching up with reading your posts. ❤️❤️❤️</div>
Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-63981363610371304132016-03-18T10:58:00.000-04:002016-03-18T11:04:21.728-04:00Christmas Advent Calendar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There all kinds of advent calendars out there. I suppose you could make one for just about any holiday, but Christmas ones seem to be the favorite. As a kid I remember one from Germany, a house made of sturdy paper. It had windows that had numbers on them and as the count down to Christmas began on the first of December, we started day by day to open the little windows. As a child it was magical, behind each window was a picture of a little figure, a deer, a sled, a cardinal, etc.. All we cared about was opening all those windows and on the 25th you got to open the front door to the house. The advent calendar has evolved and become a lot more interesting.<br />
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<span id="goog_676225798">Rachael made this one for her son Holden. She got the idea from Pinterest. The hanging shoe organizer is relatively inexpensive and can be purchased from Walmart or a discount store. It comes with hooks at the top so you can hang it over a door. She cut scrap booking paper to size for the back of each pocket. Christmas designs were the best. There were 24 compartments, that worked out well for counting down to the holiday. A number was placed on each pocket, then came all the fun. You can do about anything. </span><br />
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<span id="goog_676225798">Day #1 Today we decorate the Christmas tree</span><br />
<span id="goog_676225798">Day #2 Today we write a letter to Santa </span><br />
<span id="goog_676225798">Day # Today we make a Christmas ornament for the tree</span><br />
<span id="goog_676225798">Day #4 Today we bake Christmas cookies</span><br />
<span id="goog_676225798">Day #5 Today we make a gingerbread house</span><br />
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<span id="goog_676225798">Day #6 Today we read the story about baby Jesus </span><br />
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<span id="goog_676225798">I know my grandson loved this advent calendar. I know Rachael had a lot of fun making it for him. There are all kinds of great ideas that you can use for activities for family. No doubt all of you have ideas of your own involving charitable works and giving for the Christmas season and these could be incorporated in a calendar like this. </span>I know I am still stuck back at Christmas, but I wanted to share this idea. Time passes so fast and before we know it it will be that time of the year again. I like a big head start and so do many of you. Hope this inspires you to make one or something similar. Have you any ideas or have you made something similar?<br />
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Hello friends & fellow bloggers. As promised I am gonna show you what I'm working on as well as some finished projects from recent months. Above is the current crochet obsession. This is the ripple or chevron design that has been around for ages, but with a new twist.</div>
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The pattern starts out by chaining a multiple of 18 minus 1. It is done by alternating single and double crochets. I ran across this on Pinterest and if you are interested in trying something new then look up the Rumpled Rainbow Ripple Crochet Baby Blanket Free Pattern. katiecooksandcrafts.blogspot.com will give you an excellent tutorial on how to make this pattern into a scarf and instructions for making bigger items like a baby blanket.</div>
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She has a pic of her Rainbow Ripple Baby Blanket and it is so pretty. Below is a baby blanket I finished using her pattern. I went into my stash and I'm still trying to use up yarn in the tote.</div>
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Sharing with you a couple other baby blankets (see below) I made, just trying to put another dent in the store house of yarn I have squirreled away over the years.</div>
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Yeah, these books are exciting for anyone who loves quilting and scrappy looking piecing. I hope to get to the sewing machine sometime in the next several months and to finish some old projects and start some new. </div>
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I want to share this book with all of you. I don't think any book has had a greater impact on me and my beliefs (secondary to the Bible). It will certainly shake you up and pull the rug out from under your feet. See, years ago when I was 16 I was baptized in the Baptist faith. I admit to being a backslider when I got married, and in those 43 years of marriage I continued to believe I was a good person, loving God and my family and friends. It took the death of my husband to bring me back where I belonged with God. I had not been to church in all that time. Things have changed for the better in my life and so have old beliefs. Two weeks ago on Wednesday I was baptized only this time it was for all the right reasons. I know talking religion is a personal thing, and I also know when a person avoids it it could be due to their own feelings of uncertainty and indecision. I am not here to preach to anyone or push my beliefs onto people reading my blog, but I hope you will be open-minded to read this book. You don't have to buy it, go to the library and borrow it. No, I'm not a Holy Roller Bible-Thumping believer, I'm just a plain and simple, humble, God-fearing "Christian" woman. No fancy labels on this gal. I'm not even a Baptist anymore. Imagine that. Yes, this book even changed that. And here I thought I had all the answers and knew it all.</div>
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If you want to read the exact words that the Bible has to say about worry and tomorrow then read Matthew Chapter 6:34. Basically it tells us not to worry about tomorrow because tomorrow has its own troubles and tomorrow will worry about itself.</div>
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I come to the death of old faithful, meaning the well we had drilled 36 years ago. For 3 weeks there has been a problem with the well water. I have had the Culligan man here, the plumbers twice in a week and yesterday the well drillers. Yesterday the guys tried flushing out the well and the end result was nothing but muck and dirty, nasty water. The well is shot so to speak and the only remedy would seem to be drilling a new well. Can life be so simple, heavens, I think at this point it is a complicated mess. </div>
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I had to run into Tiffin to the Health Department to get a permit for a new well to be drilled. Mind you, none of this is cheap, there is a sizable price tag. Let me just say I spent over $600 so far and still have no water. I have not even gotten the bill from the plumbers yet. I won't even go into what the new well will cost, but it has to be done, because the alternative of living without water is is not even a choice. One does not realize how many times in a day you use water, bathing, laundry, cooking, dishes, and flushing the toilet. One does have to adapt, but thank goodness this is for a short-term time frame. I could not live like this for long. I'm grateful that my children live close enough to be able to shower and that Walmart sells bottled water 24/7. I have watched episodes of "The Hoarders" and how those people can live and not be stark raving mad from not having usable running water is beyond me. </div>
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The power company was right on the ball. While I was gone to the health department they were here to red flag the power cable. I have yet to see where the phone company was here to mark anything. maybe they will come today???</div>
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Yet through all these troubles the sun will still shine and my little crocus have popped their heads up to brighten my day and make me smile. </div>
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The little daffodils are faithful to come up too. I have been meaning for years to thin them out but that would be a job for this fall. </div>
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I'm not going to explain the next pics but they are the missing ones that I couldn't get to download from my last post about Rachael's surprise birthday party. Hope you enjoy them.</div>
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Forgive me for back-tracking. I know everyone has moved on because here we are just about in the middle of March 2016 and I'm dragging all my readers way back to around Christmas time of last year. I wanted to share a happy time in December when my oldest daughter Rachael (bottom right) turned 39. Her husband Chris (upper left) decided to give her a surprise ugly sweater birthday party (even Santa came). She was surprised. Not a single soul left the cat out of the bag and she had not idea. The only one missing from the picture is my brother Ralph (feeding his face in the kitchen) and my brother John and his wife Panee who rode around the block 3 times unable to find the place, so they headed for home. Of course, like any typical male he would not stop to ask anyone where the house was, and he doesn't have a cell phone so he couldn't call me. The party was fun and we all had a good time. </div>
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I know that this post is rather pitiful. I had started it weeks ago and downloaded a lot of pictures. There were plenty photos to go along with the one above but blogger isn't letting me into my picture files. I'm disappointed because I wasn't able to show you the neat birthday cake decorated like an ugly sweater. Several attempts and nothing happens. Grrrrrrr! All the pics of projects are missing too. I'm shaking my head, rolling my eyes and restraining myself from pulling out my hair. Time is so precious and it is frustrating to have to feel like one has wasted time. Seems like nothing gets done unless it has to be done twice.<br />
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I will be back. I have plenty to share. Today just doesn't seem to be the day. Before I go though, I want to thank all of the people for visiting and commenting. A question was asked if I send out a news letter and sorry to say no I don't. If I was more organized and less busy I might do that but right now it doesn't seem to be possible.<br />
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Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-48872479997544953832016-02-06T13:13:00.000-05:002016-02-06T13:13:26.777-05:00Back Again, Mom and a Recipe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It has been too long, has it not? I think so, and now I find myself in the midst of the month of February celebrated with hearts, candy, flowers and love. Where has the time gone? I feel it has just slipped through my fingers, like so much of my life. There has been 10 deaths in my family in the past 5 years, that is not counting those friends who have had losses too. Sooner or later it all comes to us and we have to face it. I'm starting to know a lot of widows and widowers, but love stays doesn't it, and life goes on. </div>
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I did not want to come back here with a depressing subject, but life is not all about roses. My mother passed away the end of October. By the way, her name was Rose. She was 84, would have been 85 this past December 10th. She lived a good life for the most part and was able to live in her home up until in July when she fell at home and broke her hip. As with so many of the elderly she went down hill from there. It is a blessing to know that she is no longer suffering, and I hope in a better place. And with that I will let this story lay to rest as I hope she is at rest now too.</div>
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So, I imagine those of you who have been faithful to me are wondering what I have been up to, what I have been doing. I have been busy. I still babysit for my grandson 2 days a week. Just plain and simple, he is a joy. I can always depend on him to make me laugh and to brighten my days. I have also done some knitting and plan to share with you soon the most recent projects.<br />
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Another thing I have been up to recently was doing a bit of cooking. I got the bug up my butt to teach myself to make egg rolls. I have a sister-in-law, Pawnee, we call her Penny, she is from Thailand. She makes excellent egg rolls. Years ago she made some for us and they were delicious. I know they are time- consuming, I know they can be expensive to make especially if you don't have the ingredients on hand. I found dozens of recipes on Pinterest. I went to Meijer in Sandusky (I love that store) and loaded up on what I needed. If you are ambitious, the recipe follows all the pics.<br />
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Chinese Egg Rolls<br />
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1/2 lb. ground pork or chicken, beef, or omit meat and use veggie filling<br />
2 garlic cloves, minced<br />
2 tsp. fresh ginger, or 2-3 tsp. ground<br />
4 green onions, sliced thin<br />
1 egg beaten with 1 tsp. water<br />
1/4 c. soy sauce<br />
16 oz. bag shredded coleslaw mix, I used Dole<br />
1 tsp. salt<br />
1 tsp. sugar<br />
veg oil for deep frying<br />
1 tsp. sesame oil<br />
12 egg roll wraps<br />
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Brown the meat with ginger and garlic in pan, drain grease.<br />
Mix salt, sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil. Add meat and mix well.<br />
In large bowl combine cabbage mix and green onions.<br />
Pour hot meat over vegetables and stir well. Let cool slightly.<br />
Lay wrap in front of you so it looks like a diamond.<br />
Place about 3 tablespoons filling in center of egg roll.<br />
Pull bottom point up over filling and roll once.<br />
Fold in right and left points.<br />
Brush beaten egg on top point.<br />
Finish rolling.<br />
Continue with remaining filling.<br />
Heat 2-3 inches of oil in frying pan to about 350 degrees.<br />
Fry egg rolls for 3 minutes on each side.<br />
Drain on paper towels. <br />
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Just a few hints, you can use a head of cabbage, but the bagged coleslaw makes it a less messy job and a nice short cut. I used the minced garlic in a jar. I measured out what I needed and left it drain on a paper towel to get rid of the extra liquid. I forgot the fresh ginger and used 3-4 tsp. of ground ginger that I had on hand. The first batch I did I forgot to do the very first roll of the wrap (that is what happens when you don't read instructions very well), but they turned out okay. I also tried deep frying them in more oil, but once I tried to flip them they kept flipping back to the side that was done. The following week (second double batch), I tried 1-2 inches of oil in a large frying pan and that problem was solved. I made egg rolls 2 weekends in a row. I loved doing them. I didn't count how many I had the first week, but I had enough filling for 51 the second weekend. After they cooled, I divided them up into quart freezer bags and into the freezer they went. Of course I am sharing with family. The only down side to all of this was the mess it made on my stove top. Next time I am going to try baking them and see what happens. My brother Mike and his wife said they were better than the ones at the Chinese restaurant :) If you make them you will not be sorry, they are great!<br />
By all means check out Pinterest, they have tons of different egg roll recipes, and you could even tweak them to suit yourself.<br />
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Do you know what this is? It was one of the things my mother brought from Germany when she came to Ohio back in the early 50"s.<br />
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I highly doubt that anyone uses these any more, but back in the early days you needed one cause socks needed mending.<br />
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It is a darning egg, not your usual shape. Do you have one from your mom or grandma?<br />
I found it among mom's sewing things. It is a treasure.<br />
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She said she kept these little tights she made me. I searched for them, but it was my brother Ralph who found them.<br />
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This is the back view of them. She didn't have a pattern, just a great love of knitting and a little girl who needed to be kept warm in the cold winter days in Germany.<br />
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Here I am in Germany wearing the tights that my Mutti made me.<br />
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I wanted to keep them safely tucked away and went on Amazon and bought this Herbal Moth Repellent that I can add to the storage bag I put the tights in. It does not have the odor of moth balls and actually has a pleasant smell. The little tights are safely tucked away now in a dresser drawer.<br />
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It feels good to be back here again. I have missed all of you so very much. I don't think anyone who spends time on here can not get attached to those people who spread their kindness and loyalty to others. I have seen it written so very many times that blogger friends are the best, and I have to agree 100%. No where else can one find people who share in all the happiness and give support in sad times. It means so much to be able to escape to the keyboard and visit people who have only known you a short time, yet it feels like old friends are so close. Thank you for visiting me, thank you for being a friend. God Bless you all.<br />
I am truly blessed.<br />
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Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-54921291276018683872015-09-28T21:06:00.001-04:002015-09-28T21:06:17.849-04:00Meghan's Hot Dog Birthday Bash, Mom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Back in June my youngest, Meghan, gave her annual birthday bash. This year it was a hot dog bar with all sorts of recipes for various hot dogs. I was unable to download the pics cause for some reason I couldn't steal them off of Rachael's Facebook page cause she took them with her cell phone, bummer.</div>
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Meghan always makes her parties interesting. There were prizes and I won this pretty blue bowl and some seed pods, bottle of fertilizer and potting soil. She had also included some gardening gloves and small tools. The plants were for an herb garden and included sage, basil, dill and cilantro. Look how pretty the seeds did. I put the bowl on the deck rail and they got plenty of sun and rain.</div>
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I don't know if you can see what was going on with the hummingbird feeder, but one day I looked out and this large bird was hanging from one of the perches. It could be that it was after the ants that always find their way to the sweet nectar. I hesitated about even posting this pic.</div>
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I have to explain my absence again. For the past 3 weeks I have made daily visits to the nursing home with my brother Mike. My mother has been so sick and her health is failing. Her new hip is again out of place thanks to someone on the nursing staff. No one seems to know how this happened but we all know that she has been bed-ridden and unable to get up, so she is not responsible for this. I am sure when the staff sees me walk in they cringe and say, "Oh no, here she comes again!" There is a list of complaints and I am so tired of making excuses for staff. The brothers are upset too but more forgiving. Being a nurse myself (for over 30 years) makes me aware of dos and don'ts. I have been on both sides of the spectrum and know what it is like to do this kind of work short-handed. I know what it is like to be a patient and again what it is like to be the concerned family member. Two weeks ago today they thought she was dead. They couldn't get her to respond and could barely get a blood pressure. She did come around finally. Of course we had all come flocking into the nursing home when we were informed. She refuses to eat, but will take liquids for us. She drinks like she is dying of thirst and we wonder if they even offer her anything to drink. She was never a water drinker but now she even agrees to drink that. I could go on and on, but it would get me nowhere. The choices for nursing care facilities was limited. I honestly wish I was able to take her to her home and care for her there but I am not able. I care for my grandson and the brothers are all still working their jobs. Since I became a widow life here at my house has doubled on my shoulders. I am seeing no alternative but to speak to the Director of Nurses and make her aware of the complaints. My brothers are like ducks, they allow things to roll off their backs. I do not. Also not being surprised one bit that they are all a bit passive aggressive, where I am not.</div>
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Out of the Mouth of Babes</div>
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In my lifetime I have had the privilege of spending time with 3 small children during their toddler years.</div>
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Two of those children were my own of course and the third is my grandson Holden.</div>
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As a mom we all realize that we don't always spend as much time listening to our little ones when there is work to do, and if we work out of our home even more time is lost with them.</div>
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I suppose if I thought hard enough I might be able to remember some of the cute things my children said, but in reality, I remember the actual things they did more than the things they told me.</div>
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That saddens me. I look back on those years and it was most definitely the happiest time of my life. I was so blessed to be a stay-at-home-mom right up until the day my youngest started kindergarten and I started my first day of nursing school.</div>
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That year was the most difficult. I spent that entire year studying. My children discovered there was no Santa. They found unwrapped Christmas presents because both my husband and I didn't have the time to wrap them yet. The clothes got washed but most times they were still in the clothes dryer and not in the closet or drawers where they should be. My husband bought us our first microwave. The kids ate a lot of nuked food like hot dogs. The three of them went all kinds of places without me. I was left behind sitting at the kitchen table with my nose in school books on nutrition, anatomy, fundamentals in nursing, pharmacology, and the books that described laws and nursing practice. There were drug cards to do and nursing care plans to write out.....and there were always 1-2, maybe 3, tests the next day, so what do you study first? I basically neglected my family. Had it not been for my husband cheering me on I would have quit, plain and simple. I wondered just what the hell I had gotten myself into that first day as I carried the huge box of books down a long flight of steps to my car. What fresh hell had I gotten myself into anyways?</div>
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Then years passed and my children grew up. They went to college. Then came marriage. And as time went by we finally got our first grandchild, a boy.</div>
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I spend a lot of time chatting with this child and he chats back to me. He is a joy and he is funny. I should have written down some of those things that have made me laugh and have vowed to do just that from here on in. So, from time to time I will share those funny little things he says to me or anyone else in the family.</div>
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Face it, little children are truthful, humble and most of all innocent. Keep in mind he turned 3 in March.</div>
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Last week he and I are watching cartoons. A commercial comes on for all things but Fungi Nail medication for toe nail fungus:</div>
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Holden: "Mamaw, do you have toe nail fungus?"</div>
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Me: "No Holden, I do not have toe nail fungus."</div>
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Holden: " I bet that would hurt."</div>
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Earlier that week his mommy is spraying weed killer on a patch of stones where they had 3 pine trees removed. He was made to stand away from the spray out in the yard:</div>
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Holden: "Mommy, what are you doing?"</div>
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Mommy: "I am spraying weed killer to kill these weeds."</div>
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Holden: "Mommy you shouldn't do that. You shouldn't kill things God made."</div>
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This past week my mother returned to the nursing home by ambulance from Toledo.</div>
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The orthopedic surgeon there managed to pop her new hip back in place without doing surgery. They kept her for a couple days just to make sure everything was going to be okay.</div>
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She came back with 2 different devices to prevent her from moving that hip causing further damage. Basically they are both considered immobilizers, one made of thick foam that rests between the legs and is fastened to the legs with velcro straps. That one is for bedtime. The other is a more hard copy actual brace for the left leg that has a bar and a heavy plastic plate that rests against the stomach. That one is to be worn during the day and when she is up. She does not like them. Face it, none of us would want either one of those contraptions. She asked me how she got in such shape in the first place. I reminded her that she got that way, and to quote her because her words verbatim, " I am very careful." that is what you said mom. In reality she was just the opposite, she refused to use either walker or cane when she was at home (she has both). Picture, Weebles Wobble But They Don't Fall Down, well this Weeble fell down. It was only a matter of time. She refused a Life Alert to be worn around her neck in case she fell. She refused her $6,000 hearing aides. She refuses to answer her phone. She refuses to eat nutritious foods. Her foods of choice were junk and sweets. She complains about her bottom being sore, and there is a bit of skin breakdown that a wound nurse is attending to. She is restless and up and down constantly. I sometimes wonder if her lack of appetite is because she is starving herself to die. For anyone who doesn't know, the #1 way the elderly commit suicide is by refusing to eat. Her Living Will clearly states, "No feeding tubes."</div>
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Then this week my good friend Barb (and her family) in Fort Myers are dealing with Hospice being called in for her husband. Her husband and mine were in Vietnam together and that is how she and I became friends. Both our men were exposed to Agent Orange along with the other thousands of troops. Her husband got sick about 10 months after mine was diagnosed with the cancer. It has been a hard time for them because they were well under way building a new home when they found out he was sick. They had also just moved back to Florida after selling another home they built in North Carolina. I know what she is going through. I have walked that same path, wearing those same shoes and it is so hard to watch a strong man reduced to what cancer does to the body and spirit. My prayers are not enough to bring a miracle, but maybe God can bring comfort to this family and peace to their loved one.<br />
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I have found some free time in the evening to knit. This was my next to last project. A stash buster scarf of all colors left in the RH stash. Some rows were more rows than others, no definite color scheme. The pattern was cast on 20 stitches on size 6 knitting needles, then knit 2 rows then the next 2 rows were knit 2, purl 2 across. Repeat those 4 rows for entire scarf pattern in length desired. </div>
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I made up a quick diagonal stitch baby blanket because I wanted to use up a skein of worsted weight pink. As my luck would have it I ran out and had to make a trip to Joann's to get more. I will donate this. I have one project, another skull cap, on my circular knitting needle. It is my on-the-go-project. I have packed the rest of my yarn away and do not plan to get it out again until maybe well into this winter. I want to play around with my stash of fabric and finish up some of my sewing projects I have started. I am burned out on the yarn.<br />
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It is that time of year again. I stopped at the fruit market last Friday with the prime intention to get a few salad veggies and ran across a lug of Roma tomatoes. That led to buying 3 pounds of onions and some banana peppers. I had garlic bulbs at home. I have made my own spaghetti sauce for almost 43 years. The recipe can be found on my September 3, 2012 post. I got 13 quarts total. </div>
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The sweet corn was just too pretty to pass up so I bought a dozen ears. I blanched them and put 10 ears in the freezer. I figure you can guess what happened to the other 2 ears. </div>
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I never thought the time would come when I would be saying I miss the garden my husband use to put out every year. It was so easy to walk out there and pick fresh veggies right off the plants. When I saw the price of that lug of tomatoes was $20 I about flipped. When I got done doing my shopping I had spent close to $40. When we had our children at home I use to can and freeze everything I could get my hands on. Nothing in the garden went to waste because we both came from parents who had made it through WW2 and the Depression. We heard about people starving and waste not, want not. One year I had a goal to fill every canning jar and every freezer container we had, and I did exactly that. We always bought a 1/4 of a beef and half a hog for the freezer too. We hardly went out to eat. When you are married to a meat and potatoes guy you better learn to cook. Life is so different now. Cooking for one person is a whole new ball game. I hardly cook at all.</div>
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Susanne Tyreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04271812578614840958noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461758172026287588.post-58119058524857443482015-08-16T14:14:00.003-04:002015-08-16T14:14:47.040-04:00Organizing/Removing All the Clutter & Trixie Belle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I love this dog, my little Trixie Belle. She will be 10 years old on September 4th. We all know what that age would be in dog years, 60 years, little old lady. I took this picture of her some years ago. She is grayer now, especially around the muzzle. She is slower too, of course. I have to take all that into consideration when I let her in and out. My dogs are not allowed down in the yard. They get treated for heart worm but last year Chewy came in with a tick. They have never had fleas. I have the medication to treat them but do not like applying it. I have an aversion to chemicals. Giving them the heart worm medication is bad enough, mosquitoes fly, they can still get at my dogs. We went all the way to the other side of Indiana to get her. She was about the size of your fist. She had a bit of a cough and came with a bottle of medicine. I fussed over her like a mom would her small child. I still do. The life span of these dogs can be 14-15 years. </div>
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Last evening was spent at the ER. Mom fell at the nursing home and dislocated her new hip. They tried to pop it back in but was unsuccessful. Her surgeon was out of town, his associates were unavailable, so they shipped her by ambulance to Toledo. They got the hip back in place without doing surgery. She will remain there for 24 hours and then back to the nursing home. Those who thought she would be safe to go home or to an assisted living are seeing things a bit more clearly now. I have thought all along she was not safe to go home and way past appropriate for assisted living environment. Things do not look so good for her. She does not follow instructions and I am sure her comprehension is at a low point. She does not want to eat the wholesome healthy foods for her nutrition, but prefers the sweets. At this rate she will not get stronger. </div>
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I mentioned in my post heading that I am doing some organizing and removing the clutter. On and off I work on my sewing/craft room. I'm sure you are thinking, "when will she ever get that done?" Well, since I have been basically pecking away at this little by little, I am seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. The room is small, there is not a whole lot of places to store stuff and I am still relying on totes. There is a closet that is jam packed with all sorts of things, and more totes. Getting to a bottom tote requires moving the ones on top and what a headache that can be. That is where I often get myself into trouble especially if I am in a hurry and don't put everything back the way it was. Heck, I have to snap a pic just to see how I had it all in there at the start. The clutter removal, well, I ran into 2 more blogs that were made private and so I removed them promptly. That brings the total to 3 so far. I refuse to clutter up my sidebar with useless stuff. </div>
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That is how things are going for me on this Sunday. I did so little yesterday that I considered that my Sabbath, plus I spent 4 hours at the ER with mom, my one brother and his wife. I got home late and got to bed at 3am. I was up by 7:30 this morning. I will be wrapping it up soon in my sewing room and I think I will give Trixie a good brushing. I will have to pen Chewy up because he gets all rowdy because it always has to be about him. He can be a royal pain in the butt.</div>
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Happy Blessed Sunday to all of you.</div>
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