THIS IS THE YEAR

Well, a friend of mine said I needed to update the blog cause I hadn't in days. Could be cause I have been inandated with school work. Now that I have gone back to finish my degree, I am hitting the books. BUT considering that my degree is in Information Technology, I decided to surf the web and found this.

This year my twin and I will turn 50 in November. I felt this picture was appropriate. Go ahead and laugh. My boss already calls me Granny and nothing else. So I might as well go with the flow. He's only 38 and I tell him his day is coming, and He is bald. So I can give it right back to him when he dishes it out. Here's this weeks update.

Brennie & Barbie

FAMILIAR FACES COME TO VISIT

We were so excited to have another set of friends come to visit this weekend from Florida. Don and Diane, our long time friends came in Friday evening and stayed with us. We headed off to dinner at the Yacht Club and then introduced them to our friend Diane and Richard where we had dessert and coffee. We got up and had Belgian waffles with blueberries and headed off to Alexander's (mall of Blairsville) and then attempted to go to the shooting range (to see who was the best sharp shooter this side of the GA/FL border) but everything was shut down due to TURKEY season. We tried to take them to Brasstown Bald but the roads were closed there as well so we wound up going to Helton Creek Falls to show them that.

Low and behold, they headed out about 4 p.m. and not a half hour later the door bell rang. I was sitting at the computer and thinking, OK , it's either the homeowners association or the Davis' forgot something.

Nick was in the basement playing his music tooooo loud to hear the bell so I darted down the stairs and could see through the cut class window - wood. Sitting on the front porch were two unfinished rockers! AND upon opening the door, there were the DAVIS' peering around the corner with grins on their faces. Earlier we were talking about needing two rockers for the back porch seeing we have the 2 on the front porch, they had them at the Shell station up the road and they went back and got them, giving them to us as a house warming gift. Talk about bringing us to tears. THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL. Now when they come back - to visit in the summer like they promised, we can sit in our chairs and watch the horses out back. They had been laboring about what to get us for a housewarming gift and Don strapped them to the roof of his Toyota truck and hauled them back to the house. The Lord has truely blessed us with friends that just leave us speechless - and that they did! AND GUESS WHAT - we have another project - I think we're gonna paint these white!


We enjoyed every minute of it - and we had them sign our guest book so we could keep the tradition.

This one was a snow globe with a history to it!

This Pinnochio has a very special story. When Emily (our oldest granddaughter) (now 7) was 1 1/2 years old, she was living with us and we had this snow globe of Pinnochio in our bedroom on my cedar chest. She came walking out of the bedroom proudly displaying the globe in her hands which probably weighed half as much as she did but when she got to the door between the family room and the foyer, the globe immediately left her tiny little hands. She was barefooted and I was struck with WHAT DO I DO NOW! Seeing this, I knew she would try to run and knowing she would dash across the floor full of broken glass and water (of course to no doubt slip and fall), I about panicked. You get those moments when you stop breathing and adrennaline kicks in, that's what happened. Fortunately, I was able to wisk her up before the tiny feet made a move.

At first I was heartbroken that the globe was broken (because it was a gift and held sentimental value concerning Robbie) but then I thought, it's just a "thing". I was so glad our little girl's feet were ok. I saved the globe, it has no water, it even has a piece of broken globe still attached, but the memory of Emily, living with us is precious and seeing how proud she was to be toting that globe to her gramma like it was a prize, was beyond words. Someday, I will give her that snowglobe.

It's a MIRIKOWEE

Wow, another project completed. Nick had to stay home today because we had a leak. Discovered yesterday when he went down to do computer work before we left for church, he heard dripping in the bathtub in the basement. ONLY to find out there was a leak under the kitchen sink that ran to the basement - that was leaking into the light fixture in the tub so we had to call the builder on a Sunday morning at 10 a.m. to come and tell us what to do.

While Nick was off, he managed to finish putting up the shelves for our Pinnochio collection in the game room over the garage. As soon as I got home tonight, I didn't even change out of my work clothes, I was into the eaves (storage area) found the box of our Pinnochio's tucked away and pulled them all out.

As I began to unwrap them, tears came to my eyes. I could not believe how many we have collected over the years. All the different sizes and kinds. Nick counted them we have 96!!

Above are a few pics of them, before they went up and then on the great new shelves Nick did such a good job on building in his handy work room down stairs - that didn't manage to float away due to the leak.

By the way, thanks to finding the leak, we also found out that the blower had come unhooked to the a/c heating unit in the basement and that's why I could not work down there lest I froze to death every time EVEN though the heat was set at 75 degrees. So the Lord works in mysterious ways.

Oh, and the story behind Pinnochio - when Robbie was still alive, he LOVED watching Pinnochio the movie, he could not say the name. He pronounced it Mirikowee. After he died, Pinnochio's became very special to us because of that. We began collecting them in his memory and when we go antiquing, we look for them in all sizes and shapes. The very first one in this group of pictures is the first one I got from my twin sister Barbie, and thus the collection has grown to 96!

The scaffolding project's end result

Here's what we were working on when we were up on the scafolding. We finally got the shelf brackets back up and then I announced to Nick that the wall color was TOO LIGHT - NOT A GOOD THING!

My girls!

I saw my girls updated their blogs, wanted to post some of them. Love seeing pics of those grandkids. Only a few more months and those 2 new ones will be here! Can't wait. Already looking at those boy clothes!

TWO SNOW DAYS IN A ROW

You're kidding! Yes I got up Friday the next day, drove into work and wondered why the bus cones weren't set up, my boss' truck wasn't in his usual spot and I was the only one there. NO SCHOOL AGAIN. I started to go back home but decided I could really use the peace and quiet to get some work done in the office. My boss did show up eventually but not long. I managed to log attendance and do a few things to prepare some projects to bring home to work on. Soooo, by 2 p.m. I was ready to go home and snuggle up and end the day. By the way, Mr. Snow man was all but melted come Friday night. Today he's gone, his stick arms are the only things left! Poor guy!

YES DEAR, TODAY IT'S REALLY A SNOW DAY!

We woke up today and we found this! Our first full snow day in our new home. I YELLED, GET THE CAMERA, ITS A BLOG MOMENT OUT THERE.

We've had snow before but nothing like this. We got 3 inches and school was closed. I had to get up and get my coffee in me and go out and make a snow man. Haven't done that since I was a kid. Felt like I was back in my home state of Wisconsin! (oh wait, I'm not from there) Gathered up a lonely hot dog for the nose, as we had no carrots, tried to use chocolate kisses (left over from Christmas cookies) for the mouth but that didn't work as the snow was so wet when you put them in, they went WAY in, so plan B was rocks. Nick found the sticks. We used his good bandanna from his motorcycle for the hat and rocks for eyes.

It was Nicks idea to put the Kawasaki next to him. Ulyses, Nick said he is waiting for a comment on the motorcycle being in the picture. Who knows why. Guess he figures you'd be the most likely to comment on that. Of course, he brings my cycle out, not his, in the rain, imagine that!

My hands were numb by the time he was built. Went back in and had more coffeeeee.

Just gonna enjoy the day off, catch up on some sewing projects and stay close to the fireplace.