WINE ANYONE?

A few days ago Ted came inside and told me his wine cooler was not working.    I expected to open my refrigerator door and find all the wine bottles stored in there but no, he put them on the floor in the garage.

They would be fine there until hot weather arrived or someone lost control of the truck while parking it in there nad then we WOULD have a mess.                                                                                           

 

Ted took the old cooler to a guy to fix but no luck there.    He said it was beyond repair.   SO...today we went to Home Depot and WALLA  - all is taken care of.

Now all we need to do is find a place to discard this old box.    SIERRA, WHERE ARE YOU WHEN WE NEED YOU?                                                                                                                                          

If The Crick Don't Rise

Well, it's really a river I'll write about today but there isn't a saying about a River Rising that I know of.   The Littel Duck River.    Last summer when Jordan came to visit Benjamin came out a couple of days and Ted took them over to play in the river.   It was just great fun.   A small rapids was just enough for them to enjoy without being in danger of going out too deep.

Yesterday after lunch Ted and I drove over to that same spot to see what it looked like.   We couldn't even get close to where they had played.    It's not out of it's banks but sure is FULL.

Magic

Yesterday Ted noticed the granny smith apples piled on the kitchen counter.   He thought he was going to get a pie.                                                                                                                                                         

By noon this was all that was left of the magical appearing pie.

By tomorrow it will be an empty plate.   

Didn't know I was a mgaician, did you?   HA  HA HA

FINALLY RAIN

This morning very early I woke to the sound of thunder far off.   I LOVE to hear that and know we are getting some badly needed rain.

Got up and unplugged my computer and fell back into bed in a deep sleep.   This is what our deck looked like this morning.

 And this is what it looked like just two weeks ago today.

I'll take the rain, thank you very much.

Pictures

Today I'm going to add a picture.   Yes I am.    I don't know which one but I've decided I want pictures or I don't want to blog.

So...here goes.    Stick with me on this.

Well, this is Marks mouse, Player.    It's a little white mouse and he takes it out of it's cage and puts it in this ball for exercise.

It goes all over his apartment, will get behind a chair, stop, and turn around and go the other way. 

Mission accomplished.

PACKRAT

Yesterday I decided I'd go through some more books and see what I could weed out.   I also found a pile of cards and pictures I thought could probably be discarded.

BUT...when I started looking at them they were cards from some of the grandkids that they had made and cards from the four kids, a few from Ted that I don't want to toss, and the very last card I ever got from Ted's oldest brother, Wendell.    

Wendell and I always sent each other goofy cards for our birthdays.   One year I got a really nice card from him and called him up and asked if he was mad at me.   The last card I ever got from him had a $1 bill taped inside it.    I called him up and asked what I was supposed to do with that and he laughed and said he couldn't tell me.  

I also found a couple of special letters from my Uncle Bill.   He was just a special person in my life.   I heard he did not share the information about his war days with the other nephews and nieces so those letters were not discarded.    Kermit and I (mostly Kermit) worked to get the benefits he deserved because he had been a prisoner of war in WWII.  He did receive his due the last five or six years of his life, but should of been getting this money for 50 some years.   

I used to call him every now and then just to check on him and we enjoyed talking to each other.   About six months before he died I called and he did not remember me.   It broke my heart and I called Jim.   Jim told me he only remembered him as a young man and of course Bill did not know me at that time.   It still hurt.

All in all, as I went through these cards and letters I laughed a little, cried a little, and put most of them back on the book case.   Sorry, I just couldn't discard all those wonderful memories.

SPRING FEVER

It is to be 71 degrees here today, never mind it's only going to be 50 tomorrow.   Today I have Spring Fever.

I'm ready to open doors and windows and let in some fresh air.   I even made some hummingbird food this morning.   I know, it's too early but you never know, we might just have one brave soul trying to get north first.  You know they saying, the early bird gets the worm.

Well, I'll be ready if one does show his beautiful red throat.

Ted planted Hummngbird vine yesterday and we have daffodills and tulips up - no blooms but they are up.

This is my time of year.   I was born in the Spring and married in the Spring.   BRING IT ON!!!!!