IT HAS BEEN A SAD WEEKEND

Good afternoon to all my dear friends. This past week and weekend have not been too good around here. First of all my sweet daughter in law has to have surgery on Tuesday morning, she has a to have her Ovaries  removed.  But they are keep her Uterus and they are going to burn the lining of it. She will be out the same day, which is a good thing. It is not cancer Praise the Lord, but it is something  not good. In her Right Ovary she has a sort of  baby, in there. It is not a live one but one that just seems to have taken up space in there. She was fixed after she had their last child, so not sure how this came about. The Dr. told her it happens  One in so Many Millions, She is doing pretty good right now, so just keep her in your prayers it would be so wonderful. And I thank you all for that. 

Now for my next sad thing which I am so sorry to have to post on, don't want to bring any one down for ruin your day. But I must let this out.  Our neighbor lady who lives across the st. from us. well she lost her only daughter yesterday afternoon. She had a very bad cancer in her spin we have only seen the little girl about two times.  Hubby and I came home for our hike and saw all the cars over there and we just knew what happened. She is a single Mom and that was her only child, so we are all praying for her, that Lord will see her through this very hard time. Our neighbors are taking up a collection to pass on to her, she has not been about to work much because of staying home and taking care of her, She is a ER nurse. Ok enough of that.

Now on to the post I was going to do today. It is about our wonderful day yesterday, and it was so wonderful. My camera deiced' ed to stop working. I was so mad at that camera, I did manage to get a few on it before it broke. Bur as usual hubby to the rescue, he used his fancy new phone to take photos for me. And we have taken so many great looking ones. Now we just have to figure out how to get them to my laptop, and his. It is not going well with it, so I have no photos yet, but when I do I am going to post all about our day.  Not tomorrow I am doing a post on the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting at where my Hubby works. It was so great to hob nob with such talented people. Well I won't tell you any more I will save it to tomorrow's post.

I wish to thank you all for such sweet and wonderful comments about my Pink hunt. I had such a fun time hunting them down for Pink Saturday. lol  So thank you all, you my dear friends are the Best....   God Bless

Hugs;

Alaura  

REPOSTING AND OLD PINK POST; ENJOY;

Good morning everyone, and Happy Pink Saturday!!!!

Yes it is that time again, for all to start looking around for the ever elusive Pink. Now for some of you expert Hunters it is not that hard to find. But for a non expert like me, it is hard going at times, the Pink is getting very slippery, but I did find some of them hiding in my garage of all places. They did not think I could see them in the dark, so I just took my time and tip toed up behind them..........   Then in one swift move I dove on them and captured them. You should have seen the Pinkies shiver when I grabbed them. I felt like  the Great Pink Hunter so proud of my stealth and quickness.  ahhhhhhhh    So I whipped out my camera and posed the Pinks and took their photos, when all was done I set them down and they scurried off to a new hiding place. So I will show you all my catch of the day.

 

Please forgive how they look, they were out digging in the yard and playing, and when I found them, I did not have time to clean them up.  Now don't be fooled by them being Pink, they are very hard workers and give 100% of their time. I really do love them.

 

Are these not the cutest little Pinks. Now the ones in the front that have something that kind of looks like a finger shape. when my two grand daughter's stop by for a visit they just love to play with them. And they are so gentle and kind to my grand daughters no matter how ruff they play I don't have to worry about them getting hurt they are also very protective.  As of the ovule shaped ones, they really do some very hard and difficult work. I use them then on my knees when I go out side to do some work, they don't complain at all.  They just do their job and that is it. I am so grateful to them they are so comforting.

 

Okay now this one seems to be the Head Pink of them, see the pouches in the front, kind of like a Kangaroo some of the smaller Pinks live in there, and the bigger ones live in side the big pouch. Once when I took a peek inside of it I saw other things in there that were not Pink. I was so shocked to see such a rare site, that I forgot to take a picture of it. I am hoping that some day I will be able to capture the rare sighting again. Then I shall post it for all to see.

Well that is it dear Friends I hope you have enjoyed all of my Pinks, it was difficult to capture them to get these photos so I could show you what lives in my garage. I bet if some of you take a sneak around your garage you will find some Pinks living there.

I want to Thank our Hostess Beverly of   How Sweet The Sound. If not for Beverly I would not have had the courage to go and look for them, so thank you so much for that Beverly. So please stop on by at How Sweet The Sound for some more Lovely Pinks Pretties.  I also wish to thank every one for the great comments about my Post. I so love hearing how you love reading them. It makes me feel wanted and worth stopping by to see what I have to say.

I hope you did not mind my posting an old Pink Post,, I was just looking back a some old ones,, and I thought I would share one with you again,,, and to some that are new,,, well this one will be new again,,,, have a wonderful weekend Dear Friends;  So until next time;

God Bless;

Pink Hugs;

Alaura

MY GREAT ADVENTURE TOMORROW;

Good evening;  And how are all my Dear Friends doing this evening. First I am posting my Pink Sat. at mid night so I won't forget to post it. lol  I do that some times. I know Silly Nilly me.

Well anyhoooooo   Tomorrow starts my adventure up North.  I am so looking forward to it. I have been all week. Hiking  taking in all the wonderful colors of Autumn. Taking a deep breath of the cool crisp air filled with Autumn's scents........   Ahhhh the beauty and wonder of  God's work.   Just to walk and feel the crunch of the dried leaves under foot. I will have to bring some home with me. Going up North to the big woods is going to be great...okay okay

I will fess up; going up North is just North of where I live and to a State Park. lol   But it is a great and beautiful State Park, they have a nice Nature Center, and assorted fenced in animals. And the hiking trails are so beautiful, you can rent a bicycle to ride around or even Horse Back Ridding. But I prefer to walk slow and take in every single sight.  I am taking my old quilt to set out our lovely picnic on. Sit under a big tree and just relax and talk, oh yea and eat. ha ha  When we get to have some time alone together it is very precious. I will be taking some photos to share with you.  Oh and the name of the Park is Pokagan   State Park, it is about 25min. from my home town of Auburn In.

Now for last night, I and some of my children and Hubby went to the ribbon cutting grand opening of where he works.  The Mayor of  Fort Wayne was there and some Congress men. I really don't know who they were as usual they did not stay too long.  They had a bartender and some very small taste' food. We had a lovely time I met his coworkers and the Owners  who were by the way very nice. I met a very lovely woman named Kathy she works for the Chamber of Commerce we had a wonderful chat. I did take my camera and took a few photos I will post them on Sunday Afternoon. So I will save the rest of the story for then. Sorry.

I hope you all enjoyed this plane and simple post.  God Bless

Hugs;

Alaura   

ROSE WEDNESDAY

Hello there every one, I am so sorry I am late in posting my Rose Wednesday photos. But we had a rain storm and it took out our Internet and could not get on line until now. What a huge bummer. It is my first time at participating. Jan at Jan and Toms Place is our hostess for this invent. So thanks Jan for coming up with such a great idea. It any of you have not been to visit Jan and Toms Place, you are missing out. I love their blog, they are a very wonderful and creative couple. So stop on by pay them a visit and see who else is playing the game.

Well I guess it is better late then never, so here are my Rose's .

This is my sweet tea cup and plate set. I love the pink roses and the green in it is so pretty, the photo doesn't really show how pretty it really is.

Now I know that this Rose is not bloomed all the way yet, but I am showing it because I just loved these Rose bushes. I planted these at our old house years ago, I wish I could have taken them with me. They are called Dream Roses, and the sent is so wonderful. The Yellow color Rose has a citrus sent very sweet and lovely. I am going to have to get some for this house. I just love Roses, and next year I am planning on planting alot of them.

I am sorry for this being late. I hope you all enjoyed my Rose Wednesday . I thank you all for the great comments on my Halloween fence, you all made my day. Such wonderfully kind and encouraging comments.  Thank you all from the bottom of my Heart. Have a great Thursday.  God Bless

Hugs;

Alaura

MY HALLOWEEN FENCE IS DONE!

Good evening every one, I hope you all had a great day. My day was pretty good, it was very cloudy out this morning looked like rain, then the sun came out and boy what a colorful show.  I can't wait to go on our fall picnic this Saturday and then a hike through the woods.  Ok enough of that I will show my fence now.

I am pretty happy about how it turned out, thanks to all of you wonderful ideas. I went to the Dollar Tree and they did not have any fall decorations left, at least what I wanted, and fall leaf ivy. So I am going to have to shop at Walley World this weekend and look for one. I put a white wash on it fixed up the black kitty and painted the slate. I was very nervous about doing the painting, I am really not that good at it. But it did come out ok don't you think?????   I took closer ups too. So hang on here they are.

My little ghost is pretty cute but I did forget his mouth, ha ha it shows up pretty good from the street. I was stepping back to make sure every one could see it. Here are more. squellllllll.

I put clear glass beads for the eyes so they would give a kind of glow and sparkle and I had to put some girly stuff on the kitty, I know it is not scary looking but it is pretty cute. I glued on a green sparkle flower on it too, oh the her scarf is a pink trimmed hankie. 

This is the chair I painted and stressed a little, it is outside my front door. I set a wood bowl of gourds and a sweet little scarecrow wreath. Now all I need to find are my pumpkins to decorate and set out. We have a market called the Log Cabin and they still have some mums so I am off to find some to replace the ones my babies ate. lol   and to set out side by my pretties.

This is just a different shot  of my chair, it looks pretty good where I set it, So what do you all think about my projects?? Did I do good.  I hope you like them. I sound like I am begging , well I guess I am.  wink wink....   Your opinions mean a lot to me.

I was planning on making my scrap book trading cards today, but time ran away from me, so I hope tomorrow I will be able to make some. Oh  Heather stopped by this evening to show me her new jeep, it is so cute. And yes I did get some photos of it , I was out side with my camera taking photos of my fall decorations when she pulled up.

 

She was so excited out getting a new one, which she needed badly her other jeep was such a mess it looked good but ran awful. Does she not look happy, my sweet Baby Girl, that is what we call her. Love the color of it, it is kind of a taupe color very nice love the rims too..   I would love to have some new rims on my Ford truck, I love my truck it is great.....  In the top photo you can see the rear end of it. Poor baby she needs a bath,  my truck not Baby Girl. lol; :}    I also took some of my neighbors trees that are turning so pretty.

This is from my back yard the photo doesn't do it Justus, gosh darn it.

 

Now this one turned out pretty good except for their basketball hoop. oh well. Up and down the street the trees are so beautiful looking. My neighbors were out side when I was taking my photos, they looked at like I was a little off. lol  I have great neighbors they are so friendly and sweet and very helpful. 

Well dear friends I hope you enjoyed my photos and my projects. I had such a great time putting them all together, I will show you all more when I get my pumpkins done.

I want to thank you all for your wonderful comments and for taking the time to visit me and leave one. You are so great I cherish each of you. God Bless

Hugs;

Alaura

MONDAY MONDAY LA LA DA DA

Hello to all my dear friends. Hope you all had a great weekend. Boy was it hot this weekend, tomorrow is going to be a littler cooler in the mid 70's. The leaves sure are turning now. This Saturday hubby and I are going on a fall picnic just the two of us. We have a state park here called Pokagan  State park. It is just so pretty in the fall, they have such great hiking trails. I will make sure I take my camera for all the fall pretties to share.

I had a little visitor on Saturday my grandson Zachary, he is 5yr.

He is such a sweet loving young man,  well sometimes. lol 

 

He is so proud of his drawing. Zach loves to draw and color, so he wanted me to take a picture of him and his drawing.  Love his deep and bright blue eyes, they are just like his Auntie Heather's how weird that is. His daddy has brown eyes and his mommy has green. So go figure the gene pool is pretty cool when you think about it.

Zachary loves to help me out with just about anything, ironing, putting the dirty dishes in the dish washer, dusting. Hope he stays like that when he is all grown up. lol.

Well today I have been working on my slate that I am putting on my fence, it turned out pretty good. I will be putting the finishing touches on it all tomorrow, and then on Wed. I will unveil it all. I am not good at hand painting but this turned out just fine, only used one stencil it was a sunflower.

So is any one out there watching Dancing With the Stars. I just love watching it, the dancers are so good. I was thinking about taking a ball room dance class. lol;  Cloris is so great she is pretty good for 83 may can she pick up her leg. Wouldn't it be great if she won. how cool...

Any hooooo  I am going to be making some scrapbook trading cards when I get a few done I will show them to you. I am getting into scrapbooking again, love it. I really need to get on my sewing machine again too. so many things to do and not enough time to do them. I still have to work on my chair so I can get it outside for Halloween, tomorrow I am making a trip to the Dollar Tree looking for some fall leaf ivy. Hope it is not too late, at Walley World they are getting their Christmas decorations out. I don't no how any of you feel about this but I don't like it when they rush the holidays I mean it is not even Halloween yet. Oh well, guess they want to get some of us shopping early. Well I guess that is all for now, I want to Thank you all for stopping by and leaving your lovely comments. How sweet all of you are. I so love my blog and being apart of this wide and fabulous family. Thank you for letting me in yours. God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura

HALLOWEEN COOKIE DAY

Happy Sunday to all. I hope every one had a very blessed weekend. We have been having some hot weather today it was 85 tomorrow it is going to be 84, boo boo..  I was sure that Autumn was here, guess I was wrong. But the leaves here are starting to turn such beautiful colors.   Now for today; my daughter Heather and her son Lyosha, stopped by this afternoon and we made some Halloween cookies. We had flower all over us. But we had a great time, and lots of  cookies too. I did take pictures to share with all of you. Here is my first one.

Now this is the counter all ready to make some yummy sugar cookie  Halloween cookie cutters. Heather had some real cute ones.  She loves to bake and make festive goodies for her family.

Here she is just rolling away, and patting out the dough, the recipe  was my Grandma's  she made the best cookies.  I made some and entered them in our Fair and I placed 2nd. not too bad. I was very excited, I beat lots of other cookie recipe's. 

This is the pumpkin cookie cutter that Lisa sent me for the Swap. I just had to show her I used it to make a cute cookie.  It worked out great and looked so cute too.  Oh and yes I do have a photo of it. hehe.

This wild eyed child is my Grand daughter Caileigh, she surprised me with a visit. I heard my door bell and there she was. Her dad was just down the street at a friends house. What a wonderful surprise it was. So she helped us frost the cookies.  Even though she does look kind of weird.

Lots of  colorful frosting.

 

What a cute pumpkin,    oh and  her cookie too.  lol;  She is so funny and silly, just like her  papaw..

Cookies before they were frosted.....   Like you couldn't tell. lol

Heather having fun getting her hands in the dough. I am sorry for all the photos, I promise I am almost done.

Don't they look so yummy....  oooooo I can't wait to eat them. 

Heather just had to my a pink girlie pumpkin, is she not the sweetest little pumpkin.....  I bet she taste good too...  :}

And here is the cookie cutter that Lisa sent me for the Halloween Swap. It came out so great. I frosted this one. And I am going to eat it too. Well I have lots more photos but I will spare you. 

OH did I hear a  thank you......  lol    But our day was so fun and full of joy.  We always have had a cookie baking day, we would have a Christmas one every one would bake their favorite cookie and candy, then we would split them up so we all each had some different kinds.  We have the best times on our baking days. My grandkids really get into it. By the time we are all done they have more of the frosting on them then the cookies.  ha ha   Our next baking day is at  Heathers house, we try to take turns. So be on the look out for more cookie photos....   sorry.....  lol

I want to thank all of you for such great ideas for my Halloween fence.  I have a photo of it, I am taking every ones ideas and using them.

I am giving it a white wash just a bit to make it stand out. And that is all I am going to tell you for now. You will have to wait for the next post.   I also want to thank you all for you kind comments and taking the time to visit.   I hope you all have a great week.  Hope you had fun looking.

God Bless;

Hugs;

Alaura