Sunday, May 18, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Monday Evening~ to do....
A bittersweet note... the very last picture I have of my mother was taken in this gazebo~ I miss her so much.

Monday is Gazebo day~
I have a work schedule and if everything goes with out a hitch~ all will be ready for the graduation brunch on Saturday. Today I clean the gazebo, furniture and fire pit. I need to repair the awning~ we didn't take it down all winter and of course with some of the heavy snow~ it tore. I had it down for the worst of our snow storms tho'~ the April ones!! The tear is not terrible~ so today I scrub and sweep and sew. What are you doing on this fine Monday?
Friday, May 09, 2008
I know you all are coming back to grab the latest stash of tuffets ~ and there are none there~ my hugest apologies~ Graduation is May 18 ~ and I am not ready~ so I clean instead of tuffet~but there are some awesome tuffets on the workroom table ~ so join me after may 18 and "a'tuffeting we will go"~ in the meantime~ there are still some awesome ones left on my site ~ so grab them while you can ~
Thursday, May 08, 2008
I love this award~ it is from Kady at Life on Bonnie Lane, and she is a Kind Blogger, too. You just have to stop over to Life on Bonnie Lane and see why she is happy~ you would be too if you lived on the water.
Monday, May 05, 2008
Ahoy Ye' Maties!!!
Graduation is just 2 weeks away and my Darling Daughter has decided she would like a brunch all served on vintage silver~ yuppers ~ she's *my* baby~ that one.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Horaay Horaay ~ It's the First of May!

Aren't these blue Hydrangeas gorgeous?Someone said WalMart had gotten a shipment in ~ by this morning there were only three blue ones left~ I better hop back and get the other two. As you can see I have a lot of blue in my house~ but I have even more blue outside. I have blue shingles. When we bought the blue shingles the store told us they had only sold them once before~ now I see them more often~ but people know my house by the blue shingles (and the cat that sits in the bay window) It's not a bad thing.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
How are you today?

We having been having one marathon day after another~ getting ready for a graduation, an 80th Birthday Party for my Father-in-law, finishing college and moving out of the dorm~ all the fun stuff that spring brings. I had promised 'My Famous Lemon Squares' to my family and bloggy friends and even joined in on the Dessert Carnival~ only to realize I am not super-woman (sssshhhhhhhhhhh~ don't tell.) I missed sending my email to Cielo @ The House in the Roses~ so I posted my lemon bars here for you~ care to join me in some sweetness? So tell me~ how are you doing? oh! Be sure to visit the Dessert Carnival~Here~
Monday, April 28, 2008
Gifts for My Mother
My Mother lived to the tender age of 69. She has been gone nearly four long years. I miss everything about her. Her South Dakota stubbornness, her dogged determination to remain part of her children's lives~ even in adulthood, her admiration for my Father~ deservedly so.
At a very early age my Mother wanted to write, then wanted to go into nursing but neither happened. She married my Father, became a farmer's wife and a mother of five. She worked as a nurse's aide, then in housekeeping, and later as a "Visiting Neighbor" to the elderly around the county. She spent her entire life taking care of others~ to a fault sometimes.
So for Mother's Day~ I wish to give my Mother a place to write~ I hope she has just that in Heaven.
How about this pretty pink chair to snuggle up and dreaming of plot lines:

She didn't know a thing about computers but how to turn a monitor off~ but she certainly would have learned if she had decided to.

Of course she would need a pretty pink tuffet~(well, she was the one who indulged my love of silk and needlearts)
and how about a pretty piece of cake on her desk from Kimberly (faux, because she was a diabetic late in life)....and a nice bouquet of pink peonies~ Mom aways wanted peonies on the farm~ but as children, we mowed right over the peonies~ poor Mother, never had one bloomin' peony. You can find 100 peonies ~here~
I know for a fact that Mother would never decorate in pink~ it would be too difficult to keep clean on the farm~ but at most of the events she attended for my daughters, she wore either a faux linen suit or a faux silk suit ~ both in pink.Show and Tell Monday

.....and I have to tell you~ I have a lot of cleaning to do~ graduation is in three weeks. She's a beauty~ but is refusing to have her Senior portraits taken.....just doesn't see the need.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Stitch and B*tch

Yuppers~ You heard it here, I said the 'b' word~ but really that is all that fits today~ after all it is April 25 and we are in the middle of a snowstorm. The grass is green ~ but covered with snow. Geeesch!!~ so I am going to treat myself to a good ole' fashioned "stitch and b*tch"~ right here by my fireplace. I am working on this lovely needlepoint from the 70's~ feels just right to me.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Lemon Squares and Memories
My memory is playing tricks on me~~ for my recipe sharing today~ I was planning to share my famous (well famous in my family) Lemon Squares. I just knew which cookbook the recipe was in~ I just 'knew'~ so I grabbed my "Betty Crocker Cook Book for Boys and Girls" and........ Well first of all the recipe was not in there and second~ wasn't my Mom fabulous for buying a cookbook just for her children? (She hated cooking as much as I do~ it was her way to get her little darlings to do some cooking!)
Do you have this cookbook? I still have this one from my childhood~ but it has been reprinted~ my dear daughters received one as a gift a few years ago~~ but the new one is still in 'really new condition' (they don't like to cook either!)
Anyway~ the recipe for Lemon Squares is in my other trusty orange "Betty Crocker's Cookbook" ~ the one I got as a wedding present which is nearly the same as the one I used a youngster and was making afternoon lunch to take to my Dad in the field. We all loved the lemon squares and I made them often.
Here is the recipe:
(click to enlarge)In the meanwhile~ visit my friends from Make Mine Pink~ they are posting recipes on their blogs, too. See'ya later gator!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Show and Tell Monday
(Please DON"T click to enlarge~ yuck ~ what a mess)Saturday, April 19, 2008
Mother's day Garden Party Shop/Blog Hop

Make Mine Pink will be offering a Mother's Day Shop Hop starting on April 21st, 2008 and ending on May 10th, 2008. Join the Make Mine Pink Bloggers as we post our plans for a Mother's Day Event~ we will share stories and recipes, a garden hat or two, and stop and smell the roses along the way.

















