It’s been quite a busy couple of weeks. We bought a new van!! Technology sure has changed vehicles in the last 13 years. The new van has a backup camera, a side camera for changing lanes, and it pairs with my iPhone so I can listen to the music on it, and hands free talking on the phone. LOL, I can answer the phone with a button on the steering wheel, and if I want to call home, all I do is touch a button and say who I want to call, it pauses the music and places the call, and when I’m done, it resumes the music. Really neat. And the last row of seats fold down into a trunk area, so we don’t have to take out the seat to make room for hauling feed. Just so cool!

My nephews were up to work on my greenhouse yesterday, but they didn’t get much done, it was way too hot to be working outside. Hopefully they’ll be back up this weekend to get the plastic on, because I’ve got a bumper crop of tomatoes, three rows, 30’ long. Next year, LESS tomato plants and further apart!!!


Here’s a batch that I stewed down and froze,

I went down and picked up my nephew last week and had to take a picture of his granddaughter. Oh, what a cutie pie!

And a picture of Pip sucking up to James, one of Mark’s boys,

I’ve found out that Pyr is a cat magnet. If he’s in the studio and Suka is not, she comes out and does some serious snuggling,

I need to get some beads listed tomorrow,




And here’s a couple of funny internet photos:


I can certainly relate to the last one!!!

I am SOOOOO glad I decided to replace our central air unit now instead of next spring! Hot and humid weather on the way, but I’m trying really hard not to complain, since it’s the end of August, and there’s not too much warm weather left for us.

Life is good right now, the boys are fed and watching wrestling, I just finished listing on Etsy, and I’m listening to an Alan Jackson show. Just love his songs…

Some of my latest creations:

I am so excited, spring is finally here! Well, except for the next few days, in the 40s and 50s. But we had a few days of 70s and 80s and things are starting to pop.

Lilac buds that I’m hoping are going to explode into blossoms,

Sand cherries budding out,

and YIPPPEEEE, a Baltimore Oriole!!!! He’s all puffed up because he’s so darned cold!

Now that’s it’s warming up, I’m trying to get back into listing beads, so here’s some new ones,

A big sigh of relief… After 3 days of 90°, a cold front has moved in, and it’s a lovely, refreshingly crisp 49°. I love it!! I just wish it would stay like this another 3 months, but it’s not going to. We’re going to get frost tomorrow night, so I’ve started moving my plants indoors. Now comes the struggle to keep them alive until next spring.

Some new beads from me, a focal with silvered ivory and silver murrini (I just wish people liked to buy them as much as I like to make them), and a sheeny, shiny big hole bead.