Wednesday, March 6, 2024

💚Marching on to Spring💚

                                            Spring Tulip Farm

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I don't know about you but I am so ready for some warm weather! Our weather report has been the same for about 2 weeks. Rain and bit of snow, cold nights and sunshine breaks! My Mom always said never leave the house without a jacket because you never know!

I have been having so much fun playing around with AI for my themes and wallpapers. Spending way too much time at it. But I always get my work done!

One thing I should mention about my themes, they look much better if you add an extra toolbar at the top. Just go to View at the top/Toolbars and add another toolbar.

Had my 85th birthday last month, but we didn't make a big deal of it. Just another day! 

Our daughter has been doing most of our Costco shopping but we made a trip in this morning! So busy and we got there before they opened. But I had several things to return and don't ask anyone to do that for me. So we are stocked up for awhile. I have been cleaning out my clothes closets, too and had a backseat of the Xterra full of bags. Now I can start on some other drawers, etc. I am not going to clean out my cooking stuff because I never know what or when I might need something! I have been making a lot of different kinds of muffins with new recipes. Have to exchange sugar for monk fruit because my dear hubby has to watch the sugar. I am making one I call oatmeal cakes. I got the original recipe on line but I have totally changed it and they are so good and so healthy. Quite a job to make because they are layered and that always takes time. But time I have!

                                        Gnomes Spring Garden

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Well I think I will start dinner. I hope you are all having a lovely March. I know there are fires and snow and rain so I am sorry if that is what you are having. 

We have to turn all our clocks ahead an hour this Sat. night. New clocks that automatically update are wonderful but we have a bunch of old ones that don't! Cars have to be changed...there is always at least 1 that I forget. I usually do it on Sat. afternoon and then we are confused the rest of the day what the actual time is. I like to confuse my hubby once in awhile.

Going to our oldest son's home this week end for Nachos and Uno. We have so much fun getting together and are trying to do so more this winter. 

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY




 

Saturday, February 17, 2024

💖🦊February🦊💖

 

                                                            The Kiss

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Well, February is over half over...but I am finally getting to the blog. Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day and the weather is treating you well. Sounds like somewhere everyday there are weather problems.

Did you watch the Super Bowl? We had all the kids over, ate pizzas, played Uno and since the game didn't start till 3:30 here we started our celebrations at noon! Had a great time. Lots of laughs and love. And the team I was backing won~That is the reason I made the theme "The Kiss"! I know some people think it is really dumb but at least these 2 are actually "nice people"!  

Been using a lot of AI to make themes and having a good time. Because of my back I stand up at computer and don't do much sitting during day at all. Feel much better that way.

I will have my 85th birthday in a week or so. Hard to believe I can be that old. It sounds soooo old! But I am doing ok. My husband is 88 now and he is doing well, too. Both of us keep so busy I think that is a lot of it. You just can not sit around and feel good. 

Our grandson that had that horrible fall and brain injury is doing so well. He is going to have to wear a hearing aid they think, because the brain surgery, ear surgery they did, didn't really help his hearing in the one ear. But we are so thankful he is doing so well.

Our oldest son will be retiring in April and they are planning a 6 week trip to Alaska and get some fish! She is going to can some of it while they are up there and have the rest flown down. They are doing a lot of planning so I hope it is a wonderful experience for them. They both work hard and deserve this. 

We watched Oppenheimer on Peacock last night and really enjoyed it. We don 't go to movie theaters anymore, so were pleased we could actually watch it. 

The new medicine the Pain Clinic prescribed has really helped me. I wonder why a Dr. didn't prescribe it years ago. It is for Fibromyalgia and I have had that for 40 some years. It works on the nerves so has actually helped the nerves in my fingertips that would turn white and hurt from Raynaud's. And helps the nerves in my back and legs.

2024 is going to be fun year with all these politics. I am frankly tired of it already! And we have a long way to go!

 I got a nice letter from a theme user telling me I should have my grandson set up an account so users could donate some money for my themes. But I really don't want to do that. BUT I decided I would accept Amazon gift cards if anyone felt so declined. We order a lot from them because we don't go out a lot. I hope that doesn't offend anyone but I do work hard at it. I have to admit I love doing it, though.

Cold, yucky March is just around the corner so guess I will start on some St. Patrick's Day themes!

Have a wonderful end of Feb. and March. 







Saturday, January 13, 2024

💨🌨Cold, Cold January🌨💨

Light of Orchids

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What a start to the new year! Sounds like everyone in US is having weather problems. We broke the record for cold here at 3° couple nights ago. But with NE wind is was 22 below. We put a blanket between the family room and the living room. The family room has a gas stove in it so it would be fine but we have the wood stove in the living room and if you have ever had wood heat you know that is the only way to go. But my husband slept in his lounger in the living room to make sure to keep the fire going all night. We have a propane furnace, too, but the price of propane doesn't meet our current income status! I work in my computer room with a hoodie, gloves and fur lined boots!

Our youngest son is 63 today so our kids are all coming over and celebrate his birthday and play Uno. 

Really haven't been doing much, except my usual baking, cleaning and working on themes. Been making a lot of new ones but since I am still updating older ones I can only submit so many a day. But I am having fun and hoping my computer holds up. This is where most of them are stored. And my back up hard drive hadn't been updating since 2022 so I unplugged it. I need to get a new one but everything is so expensive.

My 85th birthday is next month. I don't feel that old, most of the time! 

I hope you are all keeping your Firefox up to date. It's very important for security reasons. So, if you haven't done it for awhile, check and see if you need to.

Hope this finds all of you well out there and not in the deep freeze. We got all 3 of our "shots" for the winter and take C and zinc everyday.

I didn't send any Christmas cards out this year so hope you all that didn't get one, had a Merry Christmas. Now lets hope for a great News Year....even though we are in the middle of elections season! 

Have a good week!


 

Friday, December 22, 2023

🎄🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL!🎄🎄

 

                                                   Singing Gnomes

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That time of the year, my friends! I have been so busy making new themes this year and having so munch fun. And it seems like people are liking them! Thank you for all the wonderful comments and wishes. 

We celebrated my husbands 88th birthday last Sunday. He is doing really well. Working hard but taking it easy at times, too. Not working out in the weather at all. But our winter has been amazing this year. It has only frozen a couple nights. Last year we had a northeaster at this time and it was 9 degrees out! So this year it is a blessing.

We are done with all our vaccines and check ups for the year! My new medication has really helped my Fibromyalgia and my back doesn't even hurt as bad. It's never going to get any better! You can't cure old age! Yet, anyway!

We feel so blessed this Christmas. Our family is all doing so well. Our grandson that had the horrible brain injury is doing better than anyone expected. The main thing that is bothering him now is his ear. They did surgery on it when they replaced his skull cap but he still can't hear well. It kind of comes and goes so they may have to do another surgery. He actually passed his written and driving test. Apparently you have to go through testing after a massive brain injury. Our oldest son (66) is retiring in March. He has worked so hard his entire life but then the whole family have been hard workers! We raised them to be workers. They worked at home and started picking berries as soon as they were old enough! They all worked during the summers, instead of running around and getting in trouble.

Looking forward to Christmas day. We are doing less food this year. I have to make my chicken wings and they take 3 hours to cook! Going to play killer Uno and enjoy being together. 

I would like to wish you all a wonderful holiday and enjoy your family and friends. Give someone a call you haven't talked to for awhile. I didn't send out Christmas cards this year and I noticed a lot of people must have decided the same thing because we have only gotten a few.

One of my oldest and dearest friends passed away a few days ago. I hadn't seen her for a long time and the last time we talked was during Covid. She was in a nursing home and her family, etc. couldn't visit her so she was lonesome. But she was real hard to talk to on the phone because she was hard to understand. But I am so sad for her children and grandchildren. She lost her husband, who was our best man and my husbands friend all through his 12 years of school, over 30 years ago.

Didn't mean to put a sad ending here but I type what comes to mind.

I would like to wish you all a wonderful holiday and wouldn't it be great to have people get along and not have such a divisive country. Let's face it, next year is not going to be pleasant! I just hope we can all do what is best for our wonderful country and keep us safe. But I have to say I am glad I am in the part of my life where I probably won't be around. We must keep this wonderful country what is has always been. A wonderful country. But I worry!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 

AND 

HAPPY NEW YEAR 

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

🎄Late November🎄

                                                       A Red Barn

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Wow, I didn't get anything written for a long time. But it is a real busy time of year. Right? 

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Most of our kids and a grandson and 1 great grandson were here for for dinner. My daughter in law actually cooked the turkey and the pies, etc. She really helped out. At 84 it is just too much to do it all myself. This was the 65th Thanksgiving dinner we have hosted. I keep saying I am going to hand it off but since I am doing so well, I will keep at it. Without my daughter in law I wouldn't be able to, though. I have a single built in oven and it is not big enough for everything. I made the candied sweet potatoes and dressing and that filled the oven!

On Saturday evening I listen to a computer guy on the radio and someone asked him which browser to use, Chrome, Firefox or Safari. I was pleased to hear him say that Firefox was the most secure! 

Some of my computer equipment is getting so old it is starting to go bad. In the past 3 weeks I had to buy a new battery back up and a new printer! Merry Christmas!!!

I have been making more themes than usual for some reason. The one I posted on this blog is one of my favorites. I am an old, old farm girl and love old barns. I thought this theme turned out especially good. And some Christmas winter gnomes!

My husband is replacing our outdoor lights with motion LED lights at our front and back door today. One is up and it looks great. 

If you read my blog a few months ago about my grandson that fell off the roof. He is a miracle child! He is doing so well for someone that had to be brought back by the EMT's. He had the surgery to put the cap back on is skull and work on one ear that he is having a problem hearing with. He takes his drivers test in a few weeks. He is trying to decide what he wants to do for work. He is not going back to house repairs! He has a degree in Japanese and was going to go to Japan to teach English but Covid hit and that kind of put  that though to the background. He is talking about working a the rehab place he has been going to for a lot of his rehab. We feel so blessed that he is so well. He told us that his neurologist said that he was doing the best of any of his patients for what he went through.

I wish you all a wonderful winter and a Merry Christmas. I doubt if I get back on before the new year. Being an old great grandma I really don't have a lot to blog about.


Saturday, October 28, 2023

🎃🦊End of October🦊🎃

Preview of Autumn River House by M♥Donna

Autumn River House

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It’s almost the end of October so I am getting slow in my old age! I just didn’t have much to write about. Cold weather hit here today. We have had a really nice fall. Warm and sunny. It’s still sunny out but the NE wind is blowing and we had our first frost last night.

🎃

Have been having so much fun making new themes. I finally broke down and got Photoshop Elements 23. Mine was 12 but it worked all right. I can do more with this version so have been making way too many themes. Halloween is such a fun holiday to work on, plus fall is my favorite season to make themes for.

                                            🎃

I have had Fibromyalgia for 40 years and not one Dr. has ever prescribed any specific medication for it. But with my back I was sent to a Pain Clinic. When I went back after the 2nd shot in my back which didn’t help much he prescribed a medication that has been out for years for Fibromyalgia. You have to work up to a certain amount to get used to them but they have actually helped. He prescribed it because it helps the nerves and that is what is causing a lot of my back & leg pain. They are generic so they aren’t expensive! The last ones he prescribed had to be compounded and our insurance wouldn’t pay for them and there was only one pharmacy in town that did compounding. I tried it for several months but it didn’t really help.

🦊🎃🦊

This year is going so fast. We have our local ballots ready for us to fill out our votes. So have to get those filled out and sent in. Local elections are almost more important than federal. It is the local people that have more impact on your life than the federal. Which the federal government is in such a turmoil right now, it is sickening. They are sent there to work for us, but the one party is not working, period!

🎃🦊🎃

We have gotten all our shots for the winter. Got the flu shot first, then the RSV and got the Covid one yesterday. First time my arm has gotten sore was from yesterdays. We have never had any reactions from any of the vaccines. We were quite surprised when we went to get our RSV shot though. There was a $40 co pay for each shot. Our insurance pays for all out preventative care so I had to fill out a bunch of papers for them, take them to the pharmacy and have them fill out a portion and mail it off. That shot is $400.00! So I hope I got the paperwork all filled out correctly to get the $80.00 back. That would pay for 2 weeks of our groceries! But at least we are as protected as we can be.

🦊🎃🦊

I was so surprised that a theme I made several years ago was the top of the Trending themes. That rarely happens so I am feeling pretty good about it. I just love working on themes and trying to find something different. I know a lot of mine are similar but I love nature and old barns, etc.

🦊🎃🦊

I hope you are all keeping your Firefox updated. Every update keeps your computer just a little safer.

🦊🎃🦊

Have a wonderful Fall and Happy Halloween. And thanks so much for reading this and using my themes. Keeps me going!


 

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

🍂🦉SEPTEMBER🏈🍁

                                                               Mustang

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 Hello, September. Fall can definitely be felt in our area. I am back in hoodies already. But I can't complain about our summer. Compared to the rest of the US the PCNW was really great. We are still in a drought so fire fires are still burning. The smoke hasn't been near as bad as last year, though! 

                                        Power of Orange

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Our grandson was scheduled for his brain surgery this morning in Seattle so everyone had booked hotel rooms, etc. to be there for support, etc. They got to the hospital and his skull cap (they had removed that after the injury and stored in another state!) had not arrived. The place that was caring for it, forgot to send it! I was so frustrated but he took it like a  trooper and thought it was funny! We were so hoping that this would be the last of the surgeries, etc. It was to make sure everything in his brain was ok and in place, reshape his head to replace the skull cap. Plus he was having ear surgery at the same time by an ear specialist because his hearing was not right in his right ear. So now we have to wait for another date, etc. 

🍁🦊🍁

I had cortisone shots in my back last week. They decided to put one in each side this time, It hasn't helped as much as the first time 4 months ago. I doubt they can give me anymore because they don't like to give you cortisone very often. I didn't realize it but it actually cuts your immunity so you have to be more careful. Covid, flu and the RSV are hitting our area so I am sticking pretty close to home. I can get my Covid and flu shot in two weeks and then will get the RSV. You don't want to get that one at the same time as the other 2, or so they say.

                                   WHEATIES

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I am missing all our fall tv shows that we watch! Watching a lot of Netflix, etc. But watching a lot of really bad movies!

🍁🦊🍁

We are pretty much prepared for winter. Propane tank is full, got the trees that we cut down, all cut and piled in woodshed, plus we bought a pallet of presto logs. I hate the thought of having to have fires but I can't be cold so. The furnace doesn't keep me warm enough....or I should say we can't afford to keep it high enough to do so! I am fairly comfortable at 78°.

🍁🦊🍁 

I have decided that this winter I am going to start posting about how my life was 70 years ago and how lucky people living now are. I have to admit, it was a hard working life but times were so much simpler and safer. I am going to sign off for now. I hope you all have a wonderful September! I don't even know if anyone reads this anymore so I may just be wasting my time!

🍁🦊🍁


 

 

                                                           

                                              


 

💚Marching on to Spring💚

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