~HAPPY BIRTHDAY PICKET~

You say its your Birthday !!!! This is our birthday to you.... LET THE PAR-TY Begin.... And whats a party without some fire works...

I CALLED EVERY ONE IN BLOGLAND TO COME AND HELP YOU HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY GIRL.....

Told them all "Howdy" Today is a special day for a very special Lady... And invited them all....

Told them all to dress in something SEXY as TODAY was the day to help celebrate our Sweet Pickets Birthday..... We all Hopped aboard our PICKET buggy....Hitched up the horse's and came trotting as fast as we could get to PICKETVILLE...

So Let's get the music started and do some dancing...

We all pitched in our Virtual money to hire only the best dancers for you girl....We got the CHICKEN-DALES got to love these boys...Check out the tail feathers on BIG Bird... Go ahead and toss him some SCRATCH Girl...We won't tell Bill.. Now lets all do the FUNKY CHICKEN Dance !!!
And what a Birthday without your spanks ?? and one to grow on... All the girls were so excited when I told them we were doing a BIRTHDAY lunch for you....

And for Lunch being your on a diet and all we decided we would just have HOT DOGS....


With a plate of your FAVORITE Vine ripen Tomatoes... Fresh from the fruit stand..

And what Southern lady wouldn't drink her sweet tea...with a slice of lemon..

NOW !! its time for you to make a birthday wish and blow out your Birthday Candles !!!! Now remember don't tell anyone your wish or it won't come true...


OH Girl !! no expense was too much for our Birthday cake for you..... 2 guys sacrificed and drink all this beer during Super Bowl Sunday...and they even made the cake with candles for you !!!

Even your ICE CREAM was special ordered just for you... As we all know how much you love CHICKENS.....This is "TOM and SCARY " new flavor made just for you it called "CHICKEN BY THE SEA" Yum !!!

Hey Sweet Picket I hope you enjoyed your blogland BIRTHDAY Par-ty girl...you know we love ya more than our luggage....

For those that don't know Picket...she is one of the sweetest and kindest ladies you will ever meet..she has the most incredible love for her God, her Family and home...her humor is beyond words... I met her on "Rate my Space" over a year ago and she became my spirited sister in my heart...she always has a kind word for everyone and is the first to laugh with you, cry with you, and pray for you...if you want a true friend and see a wonderful blog PLEASE go see Picket and wish her a "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" http://picketsplace.blogspot.com/

Now as for me I am Dog tired after all this partying...and need to go home !!!

Hope all of you have a safe and Blessed day.......

Hugs and Smiles Gloria

♥♥ I WAS A LUCKY ONE !!! Were You ♥♥

THOSE BORN 1920-1979

READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat..

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.......

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had try outs and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

While you are at it, show it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!



The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

'With hurricanes, tornado's, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'


Hey!! guys hope all of you have a safe a blessed week end...as for me Its Len's Birthday so I need to take out the Swifter duster dust off some of these cobwebs from sitting here at this dang computer and show him I can still made a pretty darn good carrot cake...Take me a long bath, do my hair,put a bow on my head, put on my make up, put perfume in all the right places, wrap myself up with just saran wrap on...so Len can say "What left over again "

I will see all of you on Sunday as its Super Bowl day...And the only moving parts Len has on that day is his mouth and bowels... So I am free to Roam alone...YAHOO!!!

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

~WHATS ON MY WALL~

Hey girls !!! we have a brand new thing to do on Wednesday its "called whats on your walls" this is hostess by Barb at Grits and Glamour http://gritsglamour.blogspot.com/ Please go pay her a visit and see all the great ladies today with all the great wall eye candy for you... Now every one knows my love of Second Sunday Swap meet where they have over 300 vendor's and many have asked me what I got 2 weeks ago when I went...well here it is my new shelf..I love all things that are wood craved and when I walked by this just SCREAMED Gloria to me so It had to come home with me...Len just got it hung today for me in the Living room it lived in our garage for 2 weeks...now I did have to bribe him with a Scampi dinner to get him to hang it...oh girls the things I do for antiques....the little gold bust I also got that day and the white bust I won on EBay 3 weeks ago...I just love this shelf because it has a plate groove on it so I could add some of my R.S. Prussia plates... This I hung above my antique wood craved sofa... Please feel free to click on any picture to enlarge them...but remember the Dust rule...I don't want to hear about my dust...after all its antique dust... ( sounds good to me ).

Now here is my French Mirror I got last year in an antique shop in Reno, NV and the sweet little girl picture I got also last year when once of our local shops was going out of business and I love the way she is reflected in the mirror...this is a corner fireplace so very hard to decorator...and here is also my new Bust Len got me for Christmas...I have moved this bust all over this house trying to fine a spot for her..I call it have bust will travel...

Another French shelf also Second Sunday find...just loved the colors on this piece and love how my R.S. Prussia plate with my piano babies look with it...

I found this picture my first trip to Second Sunday...also very French and antique.. again it was the colors I loved on it...

Also got this mirror and wall table to put in my entry way...loved plate holder also from Second Sunday and again it SCREAMED my name as I had never seen one with candle holders on it...

Here is a close up look at it and of course hanging next to it is another one of my Yard longs...this one is called" Courting" and from ca. 1910....

Now you can really see just how pretty this plate holder is....and just another R.S. Prussia plate..those pictures you see there are tins ones..

These are old bridge supports...when I found them they were really rusty...I had them sand blasted and then powder coated and I have these hanging on each side of my door way going into my Living room... this is the right one..

And here is the left one...these are all iron and very heavy...I had these in the barn for Years and Len just got them hung for me last year after we painted the Living room... Well girls I hope you enjoyed seeing a few more of my antiques and Please go see Barb today...Thanks also Barb for hosting this for us gals....

Hope you all have a safe and blessed day...

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

~ OCEAN SPRAY & TREE SAP ~

Good Morning Guys...Well I thought Susan at Between Naps on the Porch and her new thing Met Monday as I call it would be a fun thing to do.... Please go by and see Susan to see more great spaces today..http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ Susan is the one who does all those BEAUTIFUL Tablescapes on Tuesday...

Now this is my Sun room...we just added this on to the house in 2005 and never did any thing with the cement flooring...we were at Lowe's one day trying to find tile for it...but told the sale man I didn't want anything thing that when wet we would slip on...as this room is attached to my kitchen door and we go out and in it every day..we have one of those homes that no one ever goes to our front door.. You know the old back door guest are the best ??? any way we got this paint that is for garage floors...First Len had to use an acid bath and scrub it...wait for 48 hours to make sure it was dry...and the paint went on then ...

Here is Len rolling on the paint and of course he is also fogging the air with his mouth...which he does every time he into a project...Oh!! my sweet little ears and what I have to listen to when he gets into a project...sounds just like the dad in the movie "the Christmas Story" fixing the furnace lol !! This floor is so great as I can just mop it and nothing stains it..and girls Len did a wonderful job on it...see where he taped off the glass even.. he did that because he didn't want to hear me fog the air ha ha!!

Now girl I love my Sun room...and the reason we painted the floor Ocean Blue is because I live in the mountains but do love the Ocean..so I tried to give this room a Nautical look and also I had so many Nautical stuff in my barn that I needed to find a home for... So Girls " WELCOME ABOARD " my mountain top...


Click to enlarge any picture

This is whats called a Four Season Sun room all glass ceiling and walls...and its so great to sit out here and watch the deer come out and eat...we have at least 6 bird feeders here and 3 Peanut boxes to feed the squirrels... I love doing dinners out here during the summer months

Just look at that sky is it not pretty ?? and you can see all the cedar and pines trees we have here..and that is a blue light in the ceiling fan which also has clear blades on it...

See how pretty that blue floor looks ??? and by the chair there is my Lemon tree...which I love when it comes into bloom or the sweet smell is wonderful in this room then...

Now this is from a ship it a 1910 Anunciator from an engine room ...and those things at the bottom are ships Cleats... The Ball hanging above it is a "fish Ball" that my Aunt and Uncle gave me years ago...these were use to float fish nets with...they bought this back from Guam to me...

Now here is a Fish net and an old Oar that I found at my Second Sunday swap meet last year and the straw hat was my Dad's Fishing hat from their home in Cabo, Mexico and just some shells I have hanging...I made S hooks so I could hang things down in here as it has no walls.. and Girls I can't stand to have any thing naked...

Now here is an Old port hole that I also have shells in and that Picture above is the "Hole in the Rock" in Cabo...My mama had a gal painted that from a picture she took one day when we were out on a glass bottom boat...and the little Picture is of their home they had in Cabo...

Now!! this is my Newest Oldest thing in here...its a driving helmet from 1941 USS Navy its all brass and cooper...Len got this for me for Christmas... Is this not the coolest thing?? it sit on top of our soda frig... Told you girls I like weird things...Maybe that why I love Len....So there you have seen my Mountain, Ocean Sun room...Thanks for visiting Sure hope all the ocean spray didn't ruin your hair do and that the pine tree sap comes off your shoes...

Have a safe and blessed day dear friends...

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

♥ Another Pink Saturday ♥

Hey Girls !!! well here we are at yet another PINK Saturday....This is hosted by Beverly at "How sweet the sound"
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/ Please go by and see all the wonderful Pinkness today...There are so many great Pink Ladies..... And a BIG thank you to Beverly for this fun PINK day...

Today I have just Random things to show you in my home and of course the color of the day is think PINK... This is just a Victorian lamp that hangs in my living room...just love the pretty PINK flowers on the shade ca. 1860

This is what they call a Tiffany style lamp I have in my hallway...Most of these style shades are made by Dale Tiffany...not Louis and that's why they are called Tiffany style....

Now this I just love...this Wheel Barrel...its all wood and the sides come off of it to make a flat bed barrel out of it...I have this of course filled with dried wild flowers in PINKS and yellows and you can see even the old watering can has PINK flowers in in...this is in my Bunny Bathroom...which one day I will show you Ann, I have this bathroom all done in old gardening stuff with lots of bunnies....see you can even see part of an old picket fence...which I made into a towel holder...

These are just PINKS I have in a cabinet...Melissa did a PINK post on her Hope and I have the Peace one.. My Brother and his wife Tina started this collection for me...

A Yard long picture...these picture were at one time give aways as each one has a calendar on the back side of them....EBay still have them for sale...this one is called "Prom night" I stopped collecting these like maybe ten years ago because they got very expensive to collect so I only have 13 of them...these I have going up my stairs....

Now this is just one of my Victorian Pictures...just had to have it...loved all the sweet cherubs and PINK roses on it....

Homer Lauglin dishes I have these hanging in my doll room...and yes my doll room is PINK !!!

This is a whiskey bottle from the "Mustang Ranch " I know all of you know about the Mustang Ranch now don't you?? hey I collect weird stuff as I have told you...This is Mustang Sally with her PINK dress...

Just some more Pink and another figurine my Brother and his wife got me..

Now here are a few of my PINK doll...this one is called Sunday Best...just love the sweet little thing with her bible in hand getting ready to go to church...

How about a white wicker baby buggy with a Hi-Loo doll ?? Love the PINK satin lining in this buggy ca. 1920 and those baby shoes on her belong to my sweet little Grand daughter Candace and the PINK socks... Boy I really do save every thing don't I !!! This girl will be 27 in August...

Now this is one of my all time favorite Dolls...this is from Franklin Mint and it's a Gibson Mother and Daughter doll...I got this for my Mama's 70 Birthday as it reminds me of her and I...as I was always looking up to her...This my Mama always had in a special place in her home....I got it when my Mama died in 2007...now you know why its my favorite doll...

Hope I didn't bore you to death with all my PINK today..Told you to start with I could show PINK for a year and never run out...ha ha!!

Now many of you have asked me about Kyra Shea...well Tuesday she had to have a feeding tube placed in her stomach as she could not drink and swallow like she should...and the Doctors are going to do her second heart surgery in 2 to 4 weeks to repair the hole in her heart...they want to wait until she can gain weight...My daughter said she now has a button on her tummy...so she really is "as cute as a button" I want to thank all of you for your prayers for Kyra and her family...I will keep everyone updated as I get news on her... God Bless all of you...Blogger's are the most caring people I have ever met...There are days when I am so worried about Kyra and I turn this dang machine on and see all the love that everyone shares here and it just makes my day complete...God does work in strange ways..he gave me a computer to find all of you with...

Hope all of you have a safe and blessed day...I know I am very blessed...

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

♥ FUR BABIES ♥

Excerpts from a Dog's Diary......

8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing! 9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing! 9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing! 12:00 PM - Lunch! My favorite thing! 1:00 PM - Played in the yard! My favorite thing! 3:00 PM - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing! 5:00 PM - Milk bones! My favorite thing! 7:00 PM - Got to play ball! My favorite thing! 8:00 PM - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!11:00 PM - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!

Excerpts from a Cat's Daily Diary. ..

Day 983 of my captivity.My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects.They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength.The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet.Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a 'good little hunter' I am. Bastards.There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of 'allergies.' I must learn what this means and how to use it to my advantage.Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow -- but at the top of the stairs.I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released - and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded.The bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicating with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe. For now................

Is this not the Truth !!!

Hope all of you have a great day...will see you all for PINK Saturday

Hugs and Smiles Gl♥ria