~THINK BLUE~

Hello!! Girls...Well it really was a THINK BLUE for me weekend....You remember back in December 2008 I told you my Grandson Jacob was going into the Army...Of course you do lol!!

Is he not a fine handsome young man....I am so proud of this boy!! Right now he is still in training at FT. Leonard Woods, in Mo...and will graduate on May 8....Oh Girls when I got this picture I just got all teary eyed seeing this young man that use to play with toy soldiers on my floor was now Playing for real....does he not look like a BIG GI Joe....

Well In December we also had the BIG question asked of Morgan his girl friend...is this not sweet Jacob on one knee....Of course she said YES and a Thousand times YES!

Well since that tme Jacob and Morgan got married, he left on January 21, 2009 to go to training... So now my family is all getting ready for the BIG day when Jacob comes home for 2 weeks in May and the upcoming event of his Son's birth on May 22, 2009....Now you know how as a Mother you get those moment where you get so chocked up with just seeing your children and what great people they have become....of course you know...Well let me tell you I had that yesterday when I seen what my Daughter Dawna (grandma to be) my granddaughter Candace and her step- sister Jessika did for Jacob and Morgan...these girls put this whole Baby shower together....without asking for my help... Oh No!! maybe they don't need me any more...Look at the food table that my Dawna and her daughter Candace did...Oh girls it was all so YUMMY!!

I just loved this Cupcake trees and look at the little baby sleeping on top ...is this not just darling...

Now here is my Granddaughter Candace with the Cupcake tree... Jessika did this tree.

Oh!! and girls she got so many wonderful gifts to start this little guy off in life with...

Morgan unwrapping her Son's gifts...
My pride and joy my Dawna with Granddaughter Candace....Mommy to- be Morgan, Candace and Step- Sister Jessika....Jessika did all the decorating and hostess this shower for them....
These kinds of Pictures are very rare for me to get....My Daughter Gina, Me and Dawna....Oh look a Blond, Burnett and a red head...Well an old red head with a little help from my best friend " Miss Clairol" Hey ! if its on the drug store shelf its on my hair and look girls I even took off my Old Red Robe for the day ha ha!! Thats also rare...

Jacob I am so PROUD of you!!

Now Please go by and see our very own Miss Smiling Sally at http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

And see all the wonderful BLUES that await you today...Thank you Sally for hosting this event...

May you all have a great and blessed day...I know I have been "BLESSED" Big time with my family...

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

~ BAG LADY~

Hello !!! guys today is once again FOODIE FRIDAY Hostess by one of blogland best http://designsbygollum.blogspot.com/ Please do yourself a BIG FAVOR and go by and see all the wonderful Recipes today..This is the day to have fun with food or just fun... Now I just thought what the heck are you going to post about this week...well being this is all about Kitchens I thought I would give you one of my HOUSEHOLD HINTS...Now we all have to buy Food... and these annoying little plastic bags seem to end up every where you can stash them Right? Of course I'm right...

Now this is what I do with mine...I save my empty Paper towel tubes....

Take the plastic bags and fold them length wise...roll them up and stuffed them into the empty tubes...you can get about 20 bags in each tube...

There now you can see how I put them away with all my other paper products... and when I need one I just pull it out...Its makes life so much neater for me...and they fit so nicely in my drawer....Is this not better than having them stashed all over your Kitchen?? Any way in a round and about way this was a post about FOODIE FRIDAY....Hey you have to bring that Food home in something...

Now go by and see Gollum to get some great recipes today... I know I Will !! "Have Fork travel " today ha ha!!!

May all of you have a GREAT day, and thanks for coming by and seeing this crazy bag lady!!

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

Now Kyra will be having yet another throat surgery today....every Friday until she can eat on her own...Please pray for my Little Sweet Baby...this makes 8 surgery now for her...Thank You and God Bless...

~ YARD ART ?~

Hello!! Everyone today is Outdoor Wednesday with our great hostess Susan at http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/ Please go by and see her and all the wonderful outdoor spaces today !!! Now I live on 11 acres so I have a lot of Yard to work with here on my Mountain top....Last Nov Len planted 600 Daffodils bulbs along the drive way...They just started coming up last Saturday and I wanted share what we have so far and show you some of my YARD ART...Now I know this is not for every one but remember I march to a guitar!!!

An Old Hay picker upper...it was used for round or square bales...see all the bulbs around it yet to bloom??

This is going down my driveway away from my house...Oh look their Len now walking his 16 1/2 year old dog Rex... See all the old tractors wheels these I just love...also Old power poles line each side of driveway... Our local power company was replacing all our poles up here 10 years ago and seen all the weird stuff I had in my yard and came to my door and asked if I wanted them YAHOO!! they even laid them all out for me....

Got to love an Old broken wagon wheel and Plow....

How about an Old stove sitting on a pile of brick...also someone was getting rid of these and asked if I wanted them...

Another smaller Old tractor wheel and pulleys...My Grandson in-law Branden gave me the Granite rocks...see he even knows what a mess I am !!

Another Granite rock from Branden

How about an Old Well pump with an Iron pot hanging from it...I put flowers in the Iron pot in May after all our snow is gone...and Len made the Rock planter for me when I first met him for my smoke tree which is just Beautiful when in Bloom...right now you can see more daffs but will have Petunia's in it also in may... Now all that yard you see in the background is mine...Oh and my Girls Swing that Wally made for them when we bought the property in 1976 and it still swings... Wished I could say the same lol!!
This is one of my plum trees just started to bloom its beautiful Pink Blooms and Yes that is part of my house in the background...what you see is the Barn and silo part of it...told you I had a strange house...the upper desk is for my guest room...the silo holds my stairs and the right is the hall way to my bedroom...One of these days I will show you the whole outside of what was my 1 room cabin and just kept growing.... Hope you enjoyed my just blooming yard and YARD ART today!!

Now Please go by and see Susan and really see some great space's today...not like my out door junk ha ha!!

May you all have a safe and Blessed day dear friends...

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

~BLUE MONDAY and Even the Kitchen Sink~

Happy BLUE Monday to you all !! Today is yet another fun day with Sally at http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/ To show all our BLUEness...Please go by and pay our hostess a visit and see all the wonderful BLUE's awaiting you today... Now can you love the color BLUE so much that you even has a BLUE sink...Of course you can and I do....Now girls this is my kitchen sink...its french blue I special order this in 1996 and I have never grown tired of it yet !! when I got this sink everyone was into SS at that time and of course I told you I march to the beat of a guitar lol!! I just knew I wanted a BLUE and white kitchen so I even tossed in the kitchen sink... So today I am showing you things around my sink area...

Now Girls see these Sweet little BLUE and white tea pots...these were a surprise Birthday Present last year from my dear friend Glenda or as we know her in blogland "TOOTSIE TIME" She send me these all the way from Canada is she not the sweetest thing and if you have not been to her blog and wish to see the most amazing yard and gardens you need to pay her a visit... http://tootsietime.blogspot.com/ Her whole garden she does all in her own seeds from her greenhouse just BEAUTIFUL...so PLEASE go pay her a visit...you won't be disappointed trust me!!

Now this is a glass rolling pin from "Golden Grain " Bread Company c. 1940 Len got this for my Birthday last year...Hey I make out great on my Birthdays...I don't celebrate the year any more but still take gifts as my tokens he he!! behind it is a "Horlick" Malted milk tin in what else but BLUE and white ca. 1910 and this all sits on a "Wonder Bread" grocery store display sleeve from the fifties...and that not dirt on it, its age...hey!! you live to be over 50 and you also will start showing some age....

This is my BLUE Delft hand lotion dispenser but I keep dish soap in it and the cute little BLUE box is for my SOS pads....and Look at the "HIRES" Root beer dispenser in the back ca. 1900...

So girls you now had a BLUE tour around myBLUE sink... Thanks for coming by today...May you all have a GREAT day...Now I am off to check out all the Wonderful BLUES here in blogland today...


Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

~Saturday Thrifting ~

Hello Girls!!! Well we have a brand new thing in the wonderful World of Blogging now...Our great hostess for the new event is Anita at Interior Rooms...http://bridalblooms4u.blogspot.com/ I think this should be tons of fun...Now we are suppose to show things that we have shopped for durning the week...Oh now you know we all go shopping...after all we are women and are born with the shopping gene in us... So anything you have bought this week and want to join in this NEW FUN day....Please do a post show us your eye candy and lets give Anita a BIG SEND off with this new adventure....Even if you don't want to join in the fun PLEASE do yourself a BIG favor and go by and see this wonderful woman's home ...Trust me you won't be disappointed.... Now!! I really wanted to join in today...but living in Farkleville like I do my shopping is very limited here in the mountains... But we did have to go food shopping today and I told Len I wanted to check out the Hospice Thrift store, as I love what Hospice does and all monies go to support their cause...Now our Hospice store is a Huge one and always well stocked with everything....

Is this not the sweetest little bunny planter? she was One Dollar and not one chip on her...oh I can just pictures what kind of flowers I will put in her basket...

How about a bunny dinner bell...its says Avon 1984 on the inside of it... 50 cents.

Found me an Ironstone soup tureen with the serving plate...Girls I did my " HAPPY DANCE " over this piece....

Just look at the handles on it.... and the wonderful side view with the plate...

Now can you see that price ? Well when I got up to pay for it...all white tags were 1/2 off today Ok girls now I am doing my "BUNNY HOP" at the counter....Ask the gal at Hospice why "as is" as I could't fine a chip in it...its because the ladel is missing...

Then I spotted this hanging on the rack with curtains and bedspreads...thought at first it was a table cloth but its 4 yards of fabric....Look at the sweet little Bunnies hiding in the flowers and the colors just say EASTER to me !! This was one dollar also... So have you girls been doing the math....dah dah...$ 5.00 plus tax.. Not bad for a day at Hospice Now I want to give a BIG thanks to Len for letting me stop...this man hates thrift stores he just stands by the door with his arms folded and gives me the LOOK !! Oh we all have had the LOOK!! Of course this is the same man who thinks going to an auto parts store for an hour is like a trip to Disneyland for me!!

So this was my fast run through like the house was on fire thrift store shopping day for me...Next time I go I will drop Len off at the auto parts store Ha ha!!

Now Please go and see Anita that what I am going to do right now...

May all of you have a safe and Blessed Sunday...May God embrace each of you...

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

~FOODIE FRIDAY and IT"S LIVES AGAIN ~

Now today our dear friend Gollum does FOODIE FRIDAY and its all about train wrecks in the kitchen...girl's I have had train wrecks and a few miss-hits thrown in for good measure.....



Now I was always in the kitchen with my Mama...she was one of those that felted if you were big enough to eat it you were big enough to learn to cook it....Same thing with washing the dishes if you were not tall enough to reach the sink she gave you a stool to stand on...Tied an apron around my neck and I was good to go....And don't think for a minute my Hawk eye Mama didn't check to make sure they were clean !!



Now on Thanksgiving and Christmas my Mama always cooked for days ahead of the big day...lots of pies, candies, making homemade noodles....And when the Big day would come she would get up by 5 am to get the turkey in the oven...now durning this time I was in bed so I missed that 101 lesson on how to do Turkey...



Any way I got married when I was 15 and of course my first Thanksgiving as a new dumb bride I was going to cook a Turkey....now remember I missed that class...So days before I baked my pies, did my candies....Now Thanksgiving morning I got up at 5am just like Mama did and put that Turkey in the oven....Now that took a whole 20 minutes so why did I have to get up so dang early?



Now my landlady was the sweetest thing and she was going away for the Holiday and she had a Spider Monkey and asked me if I would also Monkey sit...Hey what the heck I love all critters and it was in a cage and all I had to do was feed and water it and change Monkey Diapers....




Anyway I got the rest of the dinner all done....Oh girls the smells were so great in my Apartment and I just knew my Mama would be so proud of me for doing this BIG dinner all on my own !!! So all my family comes for my BIG day...we get the turkey out of the oven and my Mama stuck a spoon into it and pulled out a BAG of turkey innards...Well girls I looked at my Mama and told her "Mama why didn't you tell me to buy a stuffed one" I really thought they came pre-stuffed...now the mystery as why she got up so early was solved...Also why she had all that bread drying for days in paper bags...




But just about the time we got all the dinner on the table minus the stuffing... my Brother Norman who was just a little guy opened the door on the Monkey cage to play with him and girls he made a mad dash to the table.... where he jumped into every bowl of foods I had sitting out lol!! He tossed mashed potato all over my kitchen walls, knock over the gravy sat in the corn grab a biscuit and took off run running into the living room where he climbed my drapes with biscuit in mouth !!!it took us as a family to get that Monkey and put him back into his cage... Oh what a fun Thanksgiving that was and one I have never forgotten in 50 years !!! I think we did Pizza that year....one of these days I'll tell you about my Hairy Roast story....



Now did you girls hear a LOUD Squeal and thought it was Picket?? It was me this time not only did I squeal !! But did my "HAPPY DANCE" when Len came carrying my life back in the door I fell in love with him all over again....well maybe I exaggerate a wee bit here....but girls if you have ever been without your computer and couldn't send emails you know what I mean !!!




You know I got my first computer about 15 years ago...but all I did with it was play games...Oh YES I came a long way baby lol!! Now it seems my whole life is in this dang machine....All my pictures and files....Now I am going to back up every thing and also put it on my laptop...just in case... That is as soon as I get my laptop back from DR. putor...so I won't be struck in the OUTBOX any more.... ha ha!!!

Now Please do your self a big favor and go by and seeing our great hostess and all the others Train wrecks today I am sure its going to be a funny day !!!http://designsbygollum.blogspot.com/

Thank you for coming by and seeing me !!! may you all have a safe and Blessed day...

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria ps. Kyra has yet another surgery again today this makes 6 now...PLEASE pray for her....

~~ HAPPY ST.PATRICK"S DAY ~~~

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of you !! May the luck of the Irish be with all of you today...May we all find our POT of GOLD at the end of the rainbow....

I think I will get me day started my taking me a shower with "Irish Spring " soap have me an Irish coffee that should jump start me day or put me under....Put away me old RED robe for the day and get out me GREEN one...hey I have Holiday Robes here...I am always styling...

Do my LORD of the Dance jig in my kitchen while cooking me Corned beef and cabbage, maybe have me a Guinness while I make my Irish soda bread....well maybe just a wee sip I need it for the bread....

I got my potato with all the eyes on it ready to plant by Midnight so I will have Good luck next year....

What are all of you doing for this fine day ??? What ever its is ....may it be a safe and BLESSED day for you and your family....Now I better go check and see if I can find me Leprechaun and shake him until he Tells me where me POT of GOLD is.....

Hugs and Smiles Gloria

ps girls I have my laptop just can't send emails from it....my desk top is now in hospital and will be done by Thursday...that's the one that holds my life...laptop have no pics or files on it...and can't send emails so really I still have a computer just a half of one !!!

~Luck of the Irish~

Hello !!! Well I am Irish and Yesterday was also Friday the 13th....Well Yesterday I was having a pretty good day going around and trying to visit everyone. Go get me another cup of coffee and I hear something in the other room....Well I am home alone !! I just know something had fell off the wall but couldn't find a thing wrong or so I thought...



Get my coffee go to sit back down at my desk and what do I see but a Black screen in front of me... Well I see my printer is on, my monitor light is on, the fax is on...so why is my screen Black ??? now mine you I just got this new 24 in monitor after Christmas...So right away I am cussing out Staples that they sold me a bad monitor...Well I look at my computer and the light is off...I tried to turn it on NOTHING, Unplugged it and tried again NOTHING ...unhooked everything from it took the hard drive in another room plugged it in and you GUESSED IT NOTHING!!!



Well you can only guess the panic attack I had at this time..its like 4pm so can I call and its a Friday...I have a laptop in the kitchen..but all my files and pictures I keep on my desktop....so there goes my PINK Saturday post I was doing . So then I thought not a big deal I still have the laptop and at least I can comment and email until Monday when I get my hard drive in for repair.



WRONG !! I can receive mail on my laptop but it won't send its struck in the OUTBOX...Now my Internet provider works until 4pm on Saturday, so first thing this morning I am calling and calling and no answer...I then take my laptop down to them and tell them the problem...and get this the guy tell me I can't help you here, you have to call us and will try and help you !! Its like WHAT!! If I call you don't answer the phone and I am here right now but you can only help me on the phone?? Told him to hang on called him from my cell phone and asked him then to help walk me through this problem. So here I am standing there with my laptop on the counter talking to this man right in front of me on the phone..Its seem they can do only phone help cannot touch your equipment...Its blew me away...

Anyway we did everything to get this laptop to send mail and it won't its stuck in the out box...So now I have one desk top that has a power box out that I can't get fixed until Monday and a Laptop that won't send mail..So Girls if it can't happen on Friday the 13th it will happen to me!!!



So if you email me and I don't answer its because I am struck in the OUT BOX... I guess it could be worse I could be struck in an OUTHOUSE for 2 days...



May all of you have a great weekend !!! Me I am going to eat a box of chocolate's now to ease my pain... ps that noise I heard was my power box blowing up!!



Hugs and smiles Gloria

~FOODIE FRIDAY & A WINNER~

Hello !!! Well here we are with yet another Foodie Friday Hosted by our great Gollum... http://designsbygollum.blogspot.com/ Please go by and visit her today to see all the Wonderful St. Patty's day Pot luck she is having...But please take your best table manners and a Fork...I have a feeling its going to be great Today...

Now I thought I would show you a recipe I got many years ago went my Mama was at Loma Linda heart hospital getting a 5 way by-pass... I went to a cooking class there so I could learn how to cook healthy for her... These are Baby Back Ribs, that are slowed cooked in the crock pot...I just cut them up add Lemon Pepper, Onion powder, and Garlic salt then add a half bottle of Honey Bar-B-Q sauce to them... Cook for about 5 hours...

Lemon Cabbage, with toasted Sesame seeds...oh girls this is really good...

I like to cut it in slices....

I Like to take the Sesame seeds about 3 tablespoons and add 2 large wooden spoon's of country crock butter and melt it in my wok ,add the Sesame seeds and toast real brown.....

Add the cabbage and then 1/2 cup Lemon juice...cook it all down...the Lemon just gives it a pop of flavor..Now this is what it looks like all done...it really is great tasting and healthy...Now Please go see our hostess Gollum !! Thanks Gollum ....Now Remember today was the day Mr. Random Thingy did his picking...well I had 63 that tossed their name in the hat for some fun Easter things give aways....well he did his thing and picked number # 7 with was Cynthia at Applestone Cottage...she has a wonderful blog so please go and see her ...Cindy I am so glad you won girl..
I want to Thank all of you that came by and left your name...I do so enjoy all of your comments...I wished I could send everyone something...as I love all my Blogging buds here..May you all have a great and Blessed day...

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

~ Some Bunny Loves you ~

Hello !! Every One...Well I told you I had so much fun doing that last Gift away I wanted to do another one !!! Well I went out Shopping on Saturday with my Grand Daughter Candace and Girls the Easter stuff was all so CUTE out there...So many things were just SCREAMING Gl♥ria to me!! Now this is just some of the CUTEST Things I got that I would love to fine a good home for.... I just thought this was the sweetest dish towel and hot pad....

Oh and look at this cute little Bunny candy dish with the cabbage leaf...would this not be Darling with candy eggs in it ??

This is a note pad with bunnies and watering cans on it...

And what fun the Easter desserts are in this little Book... Now Please if you would like a chance to win all of this just leave me a comment and I will again have Mr. Random thing pick a number for the winner... This I will be doing until Noon on Thursday March 12th...I will announce the Winner by 5pm pst. I will ship this any where within the United States and Canada ...Sorry about the time thing...but I have FOODIE FRIDAY to get ready for... Good luck to all that who enter...

May all of you have a safe and blessed day....

Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria