Marching into Spring!

 

Spring Fresh by MaDonna

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Can you believe it is March 2015? I can't. I remember when I was a kid time didn't go very fast. Remember how long it took your birthday or Christmas to get here? The older you get the quicker the time goes. Which shouldn't be the way it is, but...

Our weather has been so great. We are going after another load of wood this afternoon so thought I would update the blog for March. Put a little bit of green in it!

We went to our oldest great grandson's basketball game yesterday. Took our daughter in law with us since their was no reason for us both to drive down. It is so much fun to watch these kids play. They put all their heart and soul into the games. He also plays lacrosse so he had a lacrosse game in the morning and the basketball in the afternoon. That seems a little bit too much. Most kids don't get enough exercise so it is great for them to get some, but it seems our kids, grandkids and great grandkids certainly get their share. 

Same goes for work. Our 3 kids are workaholics! Both boys are blue collar workers, except their blue collars get way too much work. Both are working 6 or 7 10 hour days. Our daughter works over time a lot and some Saturday's. I wish they didn't have to work so hard so much. Wish we were rich so they wouldn't have to, but that train passed the station a long time ago. Both sons work in industries where welding is involved, a lot of welding. They can't get good workers. They need welders so badly and I wish highschools would push this kind of work a little bit more. They seem to think everyone is going to college. They aren't. Plus half the kids that go to college can't get a job. Maybe they should take some welding classes and become a certified welder and they could get a good paying job. They may have to get their hands dirty but dirty hands is what built this country and our boys wouldn't have to work so many hours.

I am so glad that we live close enough to our family that we can be a part of their lives. My husband worked for the U.S. Forest Service and to really get ahead you have to move a lot. As I have mentioned before, my family moved a lot when I was a child and I hated it. When we got married we lived close to a ranger station in the mountains for the first 10 years. And we all loved it. It was a great place to raise kids. Our water came from a creek and the kids grew up in the woods. When my husband had his first chance for a higher paying job, it was in Alaska but with 3 little ones we didn't want to be too far from a Doctor, so we didn't take it. I had said I would move once because I didn't want our kids having to change schools all the time like I did. So when the chance came for him to get an "upgrade" and it wasn't too far from our families and we found a home in the country we liked, we took it. And now we can be part of our kids, their kid's and their kids lives. We never made the money we could have if we had moved around the country. But money isn't everything as far as we ae concerned. We have learned to be pretty self reliant and that helps. So we are just one big happy family. The little one's get mixed up with so many grandpa and grandma's I am sure. But they will learn!

I had better get my work gear on and so some logging!

Have a great week and be back soon.

 

Thinking Back!

Me on my 175 Yamaha

I had a dream last night and I was riding my dirt bike. Great dream! I am too old to do it anymore so the only time I get the thrill of riding is when I have a dream. And I dream about riding a lot. Either my dirt bike or my road bike. But last night's dream I was dirt biking. Climbing the coal piles at Cle Elum, WA. We used to camp there every summer holiday with my family and friends. We rode the trails and the hills all day long and sat around a huge campfire, drinking wine, roasting moose meat sausages from a moose my husband had gotten in Canada, marshmellows and telling tall tales about the trails we had ridden that day. It was great! When our youngest son had his first dirt bike (he was about 10), he and a friend his age put 300 miles on their bikes the first day! They came in to gas up, and gone again. 

The reason we would go to Cle Elum was because it is on the east side of the mountains and is really nice weather almost every day in the summer. On the west coast it is much different. So we loaded up 4 bikes, 3 kids and lots of food and headed east. 

I would love to go back to those days but since my husband is 79 and I will be 76 next week those days are long gone. Only in my dreams.

Birthday Month!

Spring Garden Serenity

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February seems to be the month for lots of birthdays in our family. Grandson, great grandson, sister, mine and of course the Presidents are all in Feb. I make our family calender with lots of graphics and picture of the birthday person on their birthday date (along with their age, because at my age, I can't remember!) But February calender looks very busy! 

I am working on some spring designs now, such as the one I highlighted today.

I have tried to figure out what happened to my blog to the pretty background, but haven't  figured it out and doubt if I will be able to. I worked on it for hours and something got changed and I didn't change it.  At least I got the backround red for this month.

We went after another load of firewood yesterday and when I got up this morning my knee didn't want to bend. It is getting better as the day goes on, so am thankful of that. I have had 2 surgeries on this knee because of motorcyle accidents when I was competing so it hasn't been vedry good sinced then. 

I can't imagine what the people in the eastern part of the US are going through with the cold and snow. We have been so lucky this winter. We have broken several heat records. It was 59 degrees yesterday. It was beautiful up in the mountains. How can anyone deny climate change?

Just thought I would pop in and say hi and thank all of you wonderful people that leave me those 5 star reviews on my themes. I really appreciate anyone taking time out of their day to do so.

Butterflies in the Meadow
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Enjoy the rest of your week.

Blog Gone Crazy!

Hi, all. I don't know what happened to my blog but for some reason the background is missing. Just plain now. I will try to figure out what is happening but in the meantime, I am sorry about it! 

As if I needed more to do.

We have been going up to the mountains getting firewood every nice afternoon and that is hard work for us elders!

In the meantime, have a nice Valentine and let your love shine!

February Update

Beautiful Rainforest Butterfly by MaDonna

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You may have noticed that I have started adding "by MaDonna" on my themes. The reason for my doing that is I am running out of titles that will be accepted. You can't have a theme with the exact same title or it won't be accepted. So rather than try adding dots, underscores, etc. to a title I decided to just add by MaDonna. It is not an ego thing!

We have been really busy lately for some reason. While everyone back east was having horrible snow storms we were having early spring weather so we decided to go up in the mountains and get some fire wood. We used to be able to get 2 or 3 loads a day but since my dear hubby is 79 we can only get 1 load a day. And the last load, he waited till the next day to unload it. We have found out since we have gotten older and neither one of us have a lot of insulation on our body we need more heat to keep warm. I have Reye's Syndrome (which goes along with Fibromyalgia) and my fingers will turn white and numb if I get cold. I used nitroglycerine ointment on my fingers (Dr. prescription) and it helped some but not completely. Then the pharmacies quit compounding it. I decided to try Niacin pills as I know it opens up blood vessels and it is working wonderfully. Better than anything else I have tried. So I am thrilled about that.

Well, needless to say I was devastated about the Super Bowl. We were jumping up and down with excitement because we knew we had it won....and then the last play of the game. It still hurts and will for awhile. Our son dropped by and gave us really cool Seahawk hats with sparkling lights around the logo. You can turn them off so mine is off till next year!

If you read my blog very often you know I am a Sons of Anarchy fan and the final season will be released Feb. 25th so I am really looking forward to that. We don't buy DVD's because they are just too expensive so these are a real exception for us. We usually start from Season 1 and watch them all through the latest one we get but they are usually released in the summer and TV is pretty poor in summer so I doubt if we do that this time. Or we just may wait until summer time to watch it. Haven't decided yet. 

 

Fluffy Little White Birds by MaDonna

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Perfect Poppies by MaDonna

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Brand Thunder is adding a few more of my designs. They wanted some Kim Kardashian designs so I made one and I didn't think they were going to put it on but it is finally up. You can find it at: https://gallery.brandthunder.com/en-US/theme/kimkardashian#.VNPD-C7tyUk if you are into KK. Then they wanted one that shows more skin so that is in the works and should be up soon. 

 

 

 

I hope you all have a very Happy Valentines Day

Ready for some football!

I AM SO READY FOR THE SUPER BOWL!

Got some munchies for tomorrow and really looking forward to the game. 

GO HAWKS!!!!

Long Time!

 Winters Delightful Chickadees

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I just love these little chubby chickadees so I am going to feature this design today.

 

I can't believe it has been almost a month since I checked in to my blog. I am sorry about that. For some reason I have been super busy or maybe I am just getting slower. I do know time is going too fast. My 76th birthday will be next month and that sounds so old!

I am so excited about the Super Bowl game. I am a Seahawks fan, of course! They seem to be the miracle team that can pull a miracle out of a garbage can! The team members seem to really care about each other and that is just one thing I like about them. I don't like to watch the game with a lot of people because I don't want to talk, I just want to watch. Our daughter usually comes out for the game so it is just the 3 of us watching. She says she has more fun watching us than the game! My husband has the tendancy to try to coach the game and he gets so upset when things are going wrong. I have faith and KNOW they will pull it out. So while he is complaining I keep telling him, "They are a second half team!" We each have a remote control in our hands and he keeps turning the volume down and I keep turning it back up! He actually left during the first half of the playoff game and went out to the shop. But it wasn't long before he came back in. Needless to say I am looking forward to the game. I even made some Superbowl Persona themes and wallpapers and of course I made a Russell Wilson theme, too. He is amazing, but I have to admit I like his hair shorter than it is before the big game. Last year he let it grow before the Superbowl, too. But I don't think many theme users are really football fans.

I just realized I have to get my butt in gear and work on a February design for my blog. That usually takes me a day to do and I don't have a lot of time.

Well I am going to sign off now and get to work on that.

GO HAWKS