Getting Ready for Mother's Day

I updated my blog today for Mother's Day. The photo's are of my Mom and the photo with the car is her and her older brother's. Mom was the baby of her family with 5 older brother's.

I have recieved several emails with questions regarding Desktop Nexus. I contacted a friend that is more involved with DN than I am to try to find out the problem. This is what I "think" happened. Their server crashed so they are moving everything to a larger server. They have been posting on their site it will be 24 to 48 hours! BUT it has been saying that for 3 weeks, so I have no answers for anyone on that regard. When they do get back up for sumbissions, it will probably crash again because everyone has a lot of wallpapers to submit. I haven't been submitting any themes that have wallpapers to match for several weeks now. I think I have submitted about 5 that do have wallpapers and will submit those as soon as I can. 

I don't have time to write anymore today but I want to get back soon and tell you a little bit about my Mom and what a wonderful woman she was. 

Ode to Mother by MaDonna

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ode-to-mother-by-madonna/ 

The photo's in the theme are NOT my mom. I made these from old pictures I found on line. 

 

Will be back soon.

 

Have a great day!

 

 

 

Spring Afternoon in the Northwest

Just had to post this photo I took out of our living room window yesterday afternoon. The thunder roared and the hail flowed! The lilac trees aren't very pretty today, but the hail is gone. 

We harvested our rhubarb this week for the winery so don't have too much left in the field. We had given some rhubarb to our grandaughter and she made a couple new recipes so I had her send me her coffee cake recipe. I made it this afternoon. My goodness, I had every mixing bowl, mixer, food processor, etc. out to make it. It better be good after all this work...and then the clean up! I even had rhubarb on the floor! 

Desktop Nexus is still down. Can't believe they can't get it up and running. They aren't accepting submissions at this time. So I haven't been submitting many themes that I have wallpapers for. 

Back to work! Have a great week end.

Frogs Love Spring by MaDonna

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/frogs-love-spring-by-madonna/

Beautiful Monday Morning!

Once in a Blue Moon

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/once-in-a-blue-moon-by-madonna/

What a beautiful day we are having! The weekend was really nice, too. We were very busy but that is good.  My husband helped our oldest son work on his truck. So there was 3 generations working on the truck all afternoon.  Then on Sunday we went to their house to have their "Easter" dinner. Too many places to go on the real Easter so they decided to have it later. That way the little ones got several Easter egg hunts! Which they enjoyed so much. It is fun to see them get so exicted. And our son and daughter in law did a great job of hiding them. I wonder if some are still out there!

I have been listening to my music and that always cheers me up. I usually listen to my favorite radio station which is kind of political and sometimes that gets a bit heavy! We are going to be inundated with politics for the next year and a half. I hope it doesn't get down low and dirty, but it will. You can see it happening already. I just wish money didn't have any influence in politics but it does. And dirty tricks seem to work, but it wouldn't work if people would stay tuned to what the actual facts are. I don't want to get political so will stop on that note!

The theme I featured today is one that didn't get featured on Mozilla but apparently people really liked it as it is getting used a lot. I have made quite a few "moon" designs and am using my purple one right now. "Night of the Purple Moon"

If you have read my blog at all you know how much I love Sons of Anarchy. Well, we finished watching the final season over the week end. Wow, what an ending? I had to get on Amazon this morning and download the music they played for the last scene. It was totally perfect for the scene.

I had the nicest, longest email from a woman on the east coast this morning and it made me feel like my work on themes is actually making people feel good! If she reads this blog, I thank her for the wonderful email. It made me proud. 

Desktop Nexus is still down. I think this is going on 3 weeks now I haven't been able to submit any wallpapers.  So I am just submitting themes that I didn't make wallpapers for.

I have been working on my blog picture for Mother's Day and am using my beautiful mother as the theme. 

Time to go fix some lunch for my hard working husband. I wish he didn't work so hard because his blood pressure is up again and he gets frustrated that the pills aren't helping. I just worry!  And worry some more!

Later.....

 

 

First Tuesday in April

April Showers

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/april-showers-by-madonna 

The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the lilacs are almost in full bloom. It is a month early for the lilacs. I believe in global warming!

We had a really busy Saturday. Had to go in and do our shopping and it poured rain! I had to roll the bottom of my jeans  up because they were dragging in the puddles! Looked really cool!!

Then in the afternoon we went to our daughter's house. Her daughter was up visiting and it was so good to see her. We had taco's and talked and laughed and laughed together. I feel so lucky to have at least one daugher, one grandaughter and one great grandaughter. Girls in my husband's family are few and far between. 

Yesterday we had Doctor's appointments and that is always fun! We are both pretty darn healthy. So the Doctor says! Did some shopping afterwards. 

Been catching up on work today. Already working on Mothers Day for the blog. Doubt if I make too many Mother's Day themes, though. 

Gotta start dinner so will sign off for now. Have a good evening and I will get back soon.

 Lavender Lovelies
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lavender-lovlies-by-madonna/

Desktop Nexus Down!

A Summer Dream

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/a-summer-dream-by-madonna/ 

Desktop Nexus has been "broken" for 3 days now, so I haven't been able to post any wallpapers. I hope it is up and running soon.

 Hope everyone had a nice Easter. It was our 58th wedding anniversary, too. We don't celebrate our anniversary's with any big horrah anymore. We did have ice cream after we did our shopping on Sat. I know that sounds strange, but we are just thankful we are well and together. Every day is a celebration! 

Saturday we got to see our oldest great grandson play lacrosse and that was so much fun. He is really a good player. I have never watched lacrosse before last year when we watched him play. But he is a year older and really into the game. He played goalie the last half and stopped 8 goals, So we were pretty proud great grandparents. 

It is funny about being great grandparents. When you are a parent, it is easy to say No, when you are a grandparent it is a bit tougher to say No, but when you are a great grandparent it is almost impossible! But it is so much fun being a part of their lives. I am very glad we had our babies when we were young because we weren't too old to enjoy our grandkids or greatgrandkids.

I was busy last week working on more designs, which I don't need to do but....

I love reading the reivews you guys give me and I try to answer all of them. I know it has to take you extra time to do so, but I really do appreciate it. 

I have been worried about my husband this past week. I can tell he isn't feeling as well as he usually does. But he never says anything, even when I ask. I know he is in constant pain from his back, but he is such a strong person he works every day. He has been really busy this past month getting people's cars working for them. I have mentioned before he repairs cars for people that can't afford to get them fixed. And there are always older cars that need repairs!

I am going to get busy and make a bread pudding now, so will sign off for today. Have a great week!

 Smelling Spring Poppies

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smelling-spring-poppies/

Habits or Schedules?

It is Saturday and we have our shopping done for the week. Thought I would check in since I am not working on designs today. I take the week end off, mainly because I don't have Photoshop installed on my laptop so I won't work on week ends. I have been shutting the PC down on Friday night and it doesn't come back on until Monday.

That got me to the title for todays blog. I have always been a person that is a list maker, has a schedule or habits. I have done this my entire life and it is too late to get out of the habit! I have been an exersizer all my life, from the time when I was 13 or so and thought I was fat because I didn't have a body like Elizabeth Taylor, who was my idol back in the dark ages! I used to run every day, rain, snow or sunshine until my knees got too bad from motorcycle wrecks and surgeries to repair them from the falls. So I walked every day and rode an exercise bike. One winter day when I got back and had to dry out my rain coat, pants and shoes I decided I would just ride the bike that goes no where. And I still do, every morning right after breakfast. 

I have a schedule for doing laundry, vacuuming, everything. It is kind of funny but my daughter used to think it was silly to have a schedule and stick to it BUT she has changed her mind and she has a schedule now. That is one way of making sure something gets done. I used to get up at 6:30 every Wed. morning and do my grocery shopping because I don't like crowds and one cold rainy Wed. morning about 3 years ago I started to get out of bed and could hear the pouring rain and thought "This is ridiculous!" So now we just go in every Sat. morning and do all of our shopping. Saves gas and stress.

Last week our weather broke 2 records, one day for the most rain and the next day for the warmest day. Everything is about a month early in the Pacific Northwest. The skiers and snowboarders don't like it much because they haven't got to play much this winter and it has been hard on the people that have business around the ski lodges, so I feel bad for them, especially the small business people.

I was looking through my theme and wallpaper files and I have so many made that I could subit 2 or 3 everyday for the next 10 years and still not have them all submitted. I really need to quit, but I can't seem to. So maybe I am in the habit of making them! Perhaps I need re-hab!

If you have read my blog before you already know that Sons of Anarchy is my favorite TV series, ever! The final season came out on DVD in Feb. so we will start watching that tonight. I usually start with season 1 and watch them all before we watch the latest season out, but this time we started with season 5 and 6 and will watch the last episode of season 6 tonight and start 7. I dread watching the last season of  6, though. One of my favorite characters gets killed and I did not want that to happen!

Well I better get to work. Dishwasher needs unloading. 

Happy Easter to all of you. Easter is also our 58th wedding anniversary! That is the first one that has been on Easter before.

 

 

First Love!

Night of the Golden Moon

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/night-of-the-golden-moon-by-md/

I hope everyone is having a great Saint Patrick's Day. I have to admit I don't have any green on today....

I have been using Plumrose Lane for the blog "theme" and aparently they had some problems with their site and that is why my blog went blank. I had messed around with the codes so much trying to get it back I didn't think I would ever get it back. Thanks to Magda who told me PL was having the problem and thanks to Plumrose Lane I now have all my "pretty blog stuff" back. If you have a blog and want to have a nicer looking theme than the choices from google blogger try going to Plumrose Lane. Their site is at: http://plumroselane-bckgrnds.blogspot.com/2010/09/backgrounds.html.

We had the rainiest day on Sunday that we have had in a long time and broke some records, I guess.

I read something on line that reminded me of when I was 15. I wasn't allowed to date until I was 15 which was pretty normal back then and should probably be what parents do now! Anyway, I was head over heels in love with this really cute guy in my class, dark curly hair and brown eyes. Went to my first prom with Jim, etc. We were going "steady" and it was great. He gave me a bracelet I wore all the time and I gave him a gold locket my grandmother had given me. This is during the 7 years my family lived in Iowa on farms. Anyway, Jim's parents decided to move to WA and it broke my heart. We exchanged letters for several months and then one day during the summer I walked the 1/2 mile to our mail box and was so excited about receiving another letter from him. I tore the letter open with great aniticipation.... and he had decided we lived so far away from each other that we should break up. Well, I sat down along the road and cried my heart out. I thought the world would end right then and there. But it didn't and I found another boyfriend that was a cutie and blonde, Bob.

That winter my folks decided to sell the farm and move back to WA.  After living in WA for several months I ended up and wrote a letter to Bob saying pretty much the same thing Jim had written to me a year before!

Then I met the guy that would be my husband. 

To make a long story short, after I was married and had 3 sweet little babies, I was visiting my folk's for the day.  My grandmother called and said a man had called her and his name was Jim, he wanted to see me. So he came to see me at my folk's that day. I guess he had second thoughts about breaking up with me all those years ago. But he was married and I think he said he had 5 kids! He wanted to know if I was happy! I was and told him so. And that was the last time I heard from or saw him. I hope he is well and happy. It is funny how you read something and the past will pop into your head. 

Well, I better get back to work. I may be back tomorrow because I am going to take Saint Patricks Day down and put Easter up. 

Have a super day.