{ Thank you... }

A million thanks for all of the prayers for my mom. She is stable and at home, but it will be touch and go for awhile. She is old and frail but certainly a fighter! Much love to you all who sent well wishes!

{ My mom... }

Please pray for my dear mother. She is scheduled for heart surgery tomorrow morning. She is in a very weakened state, and chances are high that she won't make it through. She's in Arizona and I'm in Oregon....I haven't seen her in two years. Not sure if I can deal with this alone.

{ Our Christmas }

 Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was very nice. Had a special Christmas Eve dinner at my nephews home. Turkey, Prime Rib...the works! They have a very lovely home and it was nice to have the family together.

  

My sweet Grandnieces

Christmas day was spent in my jammies! Hubby slept til noon, as he works a graveyard shift 7 days a  week. The puppers knew it was Christmas and Bailey couldn't wait so he stole a present and took it under the bed to unwrap and gut the stuffing out. Silly little boy!

This may be Violet's last Christmas with us so I got LOT"S of photos of her with her pressies!

 Violet

 Bailey

Hope the New Year brings you all you want...
and be Safe!! 

{ Having a lazy Sunday }

Not much going on here today. Worked a really long shift yesterday so I'm bushed. Just been donig a little painting, a little fluffing around the house. Thought I'd share a couple piccies of some of my favorite things around the house.

Two of my vintage planters. I am addicted to hens and chicks. Have them planted in EVERYTHING!

All three of these came from Goodwill. My favorite thrifty finds.

(the photo on the left that you see in the background is me and my little sister circa 1961. The one on the right is my lovely grandmother circa 1920-ish. I treasure these photos)

You can click on all of my photos to make them larger!

Have an excellent Sunday!!

{If all goes as planned.....}

My sister and I will be taking a weekend trip in June. We'll be off to see our dad, AND................. GO HERE!!!!

THE FARM CHICKS SHOW!!!!
(click)

I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself!!!!!

2010

 

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Take better care of myself

Be a better friend

Stay in closer contact with relatives

Post more often on my blog

COMMENT more on all the awesome blogs I visit

Quit procrastinating and finish my QUILT

Empty my mending basket DONE

Find a job...or not

WHAT ARE YOURS????

brrr... and YUM!

This is what it looks like at MY house....

We've had freezing fog for a couple of days now. It's pretty, but it's REALLY cold! I thought I'd do a little baking to warm the house... (Sheesh! Didn't I do enough of that already?) ...so I decided to try a Buttermilk Pie. It sounds yummy. I've never had one, but I love custard, so thought I would give it a try. Ain't it pretty??? Hope it tastes as good as it looks :-)

Here's the recipe I used. Easy peasy.

BUTTERMILK PIE

3 Eggs

1 Cup Sugar

2 T. flour - plus extra for dusting

1/2 Cup Butter, melted and cooled a little

1Cup Buttermilk

1 t. Vanilla

1 Unbaked 9" Pie Shell

Preheat oven to 325.

In mixing bowl, beat eggs slightly, then stir in sugar and flour.

Stir in butter.

Add buttermilk and vanilla. Stir until blended.

Dust pie shell with a little flour.

Pour batter into shell, then sprinkle a little flour on top.

Bake until custard is set, about 1 hour.

I'll let y'all know later how it tasted!!!
 Edit: OMG! It is scrumptious!!! You need to make one!!!

It's Christmas!!!

Here's hoping y'all have a fun day!!!

What happened to Autumn??

Looks like we went directly to winter!! This is what greeted me yesterday morning.




Good thing this is what I had planned for dinner! Yummy homemade vegetable beef soup and potato rolls!!



What could be lurking under here??







Yummo peach cobbler made with fresh peaches from the Fruit Loop!


A perfect snowy day dinner!

Road trip....

This past Saturday MDH and I took a road trip with my sister and BIL to cruise the FRUIT LOOP in Hood River.

This is the first place we stopped at...




and this is what we bought...



then I saw this awesome old farmhouse...



before we went here...




fun corn maze...




and we bought these...



on the way out I wanted to load all these in the car!!



After lunch, we stopped here...



Can you imagine this with the lavender all in bloom? I want to go back earlier in the year next year.



Hanging from the rafters...



We tinkled in the Lavender Loo..tee hee...



and I bought this...


Our last stop was here...



I fell in love with this chair...


and these hens and chicks in this log...



and bought some of this...



Tons of fun was had by all....



It's now officially Autumn :-)

Belated Mother's Day

I know that yesterday was Mother's Day, but I just came across these old photos that I thought I would share.

My mom's HS graduation photo..

Patricia Ann Riley. Would have been around 1948, I believe. Love the rooster scatter pins on her sweater!


My grandmother.....

Edith Irene (Holmes) Riley. Taken in the 40's sometime, I'm sure. She passed away several years ago. We called her Nannie. She was a statuesque lady of 5' 8"in her younger years, but oteoperosis did it's damage and prior to her death she was about 5" or so. Yes, I take my calcium :-)


This is my favorite...

Mom, Nannie and Grandma Holmes (May Elizabeth), my great-grandmother, at the beach around 1945. Beautiful women all, and I'm proud of where I come from.